Old deck and card conditions

[D21400]

Allright, I just wanna knwo some thing about you:

Flourishes or Magic?
How long an often do you practice?
How long do you do with one deck?
What is your parameter to know when it's not good enough anymore?
What do you do with them if they are bad?

Please answer all the questions.

D21400

 

[Fieldininio]

Hello,
I am Tom Field and;
I do magic, mainly card magic, though, but a mild sprinkling of others.
I usually will have a deck in my hands for most of the time at home, a.k.a. not at school.
I will usually use bad decks for 1-6 months, the lower end being very bad ones, and the decent ones towards the higher end of the scale, and good decks, well, I have never classed a good deck beyond use, and I've been doing magic for about a year now.
Well I find that if when you push over one card, more than two come over, it's going to the graveyard.

And the graveyard, to answer your final question, is a bag of decks that fit the above criteria, that are of no use anymore, so I use them for card throwing. Because I will half the time use good decks, and half the time bad ones ( and by the way, I class a good deck, bicycle standard upwards ) simply so I know how to use a bad deck well, and when faced with a good deck, can do even better things, but the good decks also used for my sanity to be maintained. And if a bad deck is too bad, it is thrown into the bag.

However, I wash my hands thoroughly before every use of a deck, except bad ones, and I know how to maintain a deck to keep it fine for ages. I have never had a good deck turn even the quality of a new bad deck, and I have had a few decks for a year, and used them rigorously, for all that time. If you want any information about keeping decks' condition good, feel free to PM me, other than that, I hope I've been of some kind of help,
Thanks,
Tom Field

 

[Jot@PS]

-Magic + a litlle bit of Flourishing (I'm a bigginer in that subject)
-I pratice when I can, were I can, how many time I can, but, when I really want to pratice something, and I'm really in on something, I pratice about half to a hour.
- I allways save my decks. The deck that I'm using right now has about 2 years old and it's a standart bicycle deck; I don't know why but i can work preety well whit old decks.
-Well, as we can see above, I never throw away a deck, but I can notice that is old when the edges start to ripp off and card have some big bend (because of the card srpings and that staff).
-I save them or I use them to do to "torn and restored card" tipe effects.

J.

 

[CardMan190]

Flourishes or Magic?
I do almost an equal balance of both really. I've been doing magic for 3 years and flourishing for two. I've bought and figured out several tricks, own several books, and I collaborate with other magicians. I also own, I think it's 5 flourishing DVDs. Many say that flourishing is pretty much pointless. I believe that flourishing is a magician incentive as it gives you one more personal goal and it improves your general card handling during tricks. Makes your hands move much more smoothly.

How long an often do you practice?
I practice whenever I can and where ever I can. I ALWAYS have at least 1 deck of cards on me and I never let a day pass without practicing or handling. I practice at least 2 hours every day.

How long do you do with one deck?
I usually make one deck last me 6-8 months.

What is your parameter to know when it's not good enough anymore?
I go by dirtied edges, permanent full deck or individual card warp, individual and also permanent card crimps/bends, fanning ease/quality, spreading ease/quality.

What do you do with them if they are bad?
I use them for torn and restored card effects, practice varying forms of singed ambitious card, palming of all kinds, and when I feel like it, throwing cards.

 

[emagician]

i have never thrown away a deck. I usually end up practicing throwing cards with the bad cards, doing effects like angle zero, or I like to create so i experiment with gimmicks and new effects.

I also always make sure that cards do not fall on the ground or floor. I always wash my hands before using a deck.

A funny observation is that I know all of this but I am not a flourisher! I know the basic cuts and some show-offy stuff (charlier cuts, card spinning, card shooting) but nothing real complicated.

Need Help? PM me

 

[SplitHeavens]

Wow, a standard Bicycle deck becomes useless to me in a week. XD
I'm pretty new in card magic and I usually have them in my hand at work(I have an office job) and sometimes at home. I'm pretty wasteful with cards, if my fans clump together, I usually get a new deck.

I save them for card throwing and maybe I'll use them someday.