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I have found that there are times in magic when you want to pretend that you are doing a 'move', but really all the hard work has already been done. For example, in an ambitious card routine you might use a Marlo tilt to bring the card back to the top, but before revealing the card to the spectators you say that you want to show them a special move. You twitch your hand and then show them that the card has jumped to the top - a classic and useful way of separating the method from the effect.

I was playing around with a deck of cards a while ago and came up with a fake sleight that you may be interested in. The attached video shows it in more detail, but I'll just say here that if it's done well it looks as though you've done something really smooth and quick when in fact you haven't changed anything. I like to use it at the end of Triumph, when I have completed the method and just need to reveal the result to the audience. Before I spread the cards, I do this fake sleight and pretend that in that tiny move I am able to turn all of the cards the right way up again.

As I say, it's something that you might find interesting/useful.

Lovely

Aww, thanks.