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Postby ultimatecreate » May 1st, '06, 10:19



Really not happy with my performance after a few re-watches. Please assist on how to improve. Many thanks - all comments welcome

http://media.putfile.com/Mercury-64

Thanks

Alex

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Postby Delude » May 1st, '06, 10:22

:o very Good!

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Postby dat8962 » May 1st, '06, 10:40

I thought that it was a nice performance and thankfully on on Putfile and no YouTube.

The one point that I will make about the video is that when you swipe your hands over the deck, just before revealing the Kings the footage looks as though it jumps through editing.

Overall, very good. I've had my eye on this one for a while and me thinks that I will buy it.

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Postby ultimatecreate » May 1st, '06, 16:05

Its definately a good trick, but Im not convinced its worth the bucks. At the mo im only going to use this on drunkards :D Little angly at the mo.

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Postby ultimatecreate » May 1st, '06, 16:09

Can anyone who knows this trick give me any feedback? A few specs who have watched this vid thought of the way in which I did it (the worrying thing is they were pretty convinced they were right - which of course they were!) Thanks again,

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Postby Mahoney » May 1st, '06, 16:52

I think it looked good. The only thing is the way you slide the cards aorund on your ascino spread, it looks a bit funny. But its very good.

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Postby grum7n7 » May 1st, '06, 21:55

very good...

i bought this and it should be coming within the next few days...how long did it take you to get where you are now with this trick?

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Postby ultimatecreate » May 2nd, '06, 00:24

Well i spent about 20mins practicing. Ashamed to say I didnt buy the trick - just watched it off Ellusionist, and guessed the 'how to' after playing with cards a few hours later, and so am struggling with it a little, but Ive learnt a lot with guess work. Im sure with good intsructions you'll get it in no time. An awsome trick however its very angly.

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Postby ultimatecreate » May 2nd, '06, 00:25

Mahoney wrote:I think it looked good. The only thing is the way you slide the cards aorund on your ascino spread, it looks a bit funny. But its very good.


Thanks for for comment mahoney - but what did u mean by funny? Was it unsmooth? Unnatural? Please let me know

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Postby grum7n7 » May 2nd, '06, 01:07

yeah im sure if you got it down that good with no instruction than i should be able you get it down pretty good with the instruction...i did the same thing you did...i guessed how to do it but wasnt really getting the effect i wanted and wasnt that smooth so i decided to spend the $13 on it because i think it would be cool to perfect this

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Postby Mahoney » May 2nd, '06, 02:13

ultimatecreate wrote:
Mahoney wrote:I think it looked good. The only thing is the way you slide the cards aorund on your ascino spread, it looks a bit funny. But its very good.


Thanks for for comment mahoney - but what did u mean by funny? Was it unsmooth? Unnatural? Please let me know

Many thanks Alex


No it was done well, it's just the 'pulsing' of the cards. You can do it if you want but it just irritates me a bit ;)

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Postby ultimatecreate » May 2nd, '06, 23:40

grum7n7 wrote:yeah im sure if you got it down that good with no instruction than i should be able you get it down pretty good with the instruction...i did the same thing you did...i guessed how to do it but wasnt really getting the effect i wanted and wasnt that smooth so i decided to spend the $13 on it because i think it would be cool to perfect this


Wicked - let me know how you get on. Thanks for all your comments people - if anyone else has any ideas/improvements please let me know.

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Postby grum7n7 » May 5th, '06, 23:27

yeah this is worth buying...good teaching and several methods taught

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