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Lady of Mystery wrote: if you really want a good indicator of how you're doing, watch the audience reactions. You'll soon see what's good and what's not in their eyes. And after all our job is to entertain them, not ourselves.

Spot on!

Some interesting points made in this post. There are times when I've been practising an effect for ages and after a while it appears that no one will like it. Its just because I've seen it so many times, yet whenever I preform it, I get great reactions. I guess it is all about the reaction.

On a side note I remember the mental image I used to have of myself whenever I was drunk. I then saw myself on video at my mates wedding.......

I haven't tried to dance since. It also appears that I'm not as sensible as I thought either.

I taped myself just practising a basic coins-across thing and was amazed to see that I did a strange foot-shifting thing every time I was 'classicking' a coin. It's surprising what you can not be conscious of doing while you're doing it.