Misanthropy wrote:haven't got as far as to learn any tricks that use it, just was going to learn all the sleights in the book so I wouldn't be at a disadvantage should a routine come up later that uses the edge palm
You should be performing. Your disadvantage is that you are going to know dozens of sleights you really don't need and will have almost no performing experience because you don't have effects to perform, and those that started at the same time who got a few really simple tricks and went out and performed them are going to be miles and miles ahead of you.
Find effects that interest you and learn whatever is needed to perform them and then go out and perform. Do it now! NOW I'm telling you because the amount of successful people who start out with just the sleights and then went on to perform are very few. The majority get so caught up in practicing the sleights and making them perfect so they are there when they need it end up never performing because they have nothing but sleights to perform.
And I hate to be the bearer of bad news. But if you don't perform you are not a magician. Magic is in the mind of the spectator, you create the magic for them. This is not to say you are not good, or you shouldn't do this, it may be you are simply not a performer and like the concept of magic. But one cannot really appreciate knowing what it is to be a magician until you perform.
Now it may be that I'm off base with you and you are out there performing all the time and are in your spare time working through the sleights. And if so, excellent but perhaps there are others reading this and privatly thinking, (OMG that is me!) Doesn't have to be just grab your svengali deck, your TT and your dynamic coins and go out and show the world.
B