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russellmagic wrote:my fave at the mo is triumph, simple and fantastic!

I second that.

errrrmm.....Ambitious card, then card to mouth......NEVER FAILS 4 A GUD REACTION!

ambitious card routine is done by every magician, i am scared to perfprm it because of the saying "i've seen that before, and know how it's done!"
still i lovely trick tho.

russellmagic wrote:ambitious card routine is done by every magician, i am scared to perfprm it because of the saying "i've seen that before, and know how it's done!"
still i lovely trick tho.

yeh is abit popular.....been doing it 5 years tho and not once have I had sumbody telling me how its done. lol ive cursed myself there sumone soon is goin to figure it out

The thing about ACR is that it uses several different techniques in quick succession and most peoples way of doing it is slightly different.
Just as a spec might think they are onto what you are doing, you invariably switch method which throws them off the scent, and then switch again which dumfounds them. "do it again!", then yet another method and they are left reeling from the signed card hanging out of your mouth.
I have to say though, that if it's card magic, I do still prefer my own take on design for laughter. I get more mileage from it and it's a great laugh to perform.

As for coins, as soon as I have finally perfected it, it has to be hooser's chinese coin routine.

Until then, I shall continue to swallow balloons until my insides go numb.

my favourite at the moment is my own adaptation of the sorcerers apprentice.

Don't know why I like it. I just do.

Although every mag seems to perform the ambitious card, I've never had any spec say to me that they've seen it before and it always goes down very well.

Whilst there are many magicians about, not all of them go out and perform to the public and instead, just perform to friends and family. It's also surprising how many lay people you come across that haven't seen a close up magician perform before.

Does anyone else who performs find this the case?

This is funny because I recently found out that there were only 2 full time workers at the club meeting I attended recently. 2 out of about 30 people.

yeh people always say that they've seen it on telly but not right infront ov there own eyes.....haha u've gotta luv close up magic !!!

'Design For Laughter' from Royal Road is a favourite card trick of mine to perform as it always get a good reaction.

My favourite trick is Grandpa's Ace performed by David Copperfield.

dat8962 wrote:Whilst there are many magicians about ...

Do you think so, I've never come across a single one.

Ambitious card all the way. So many ways to perform it and many different revelations .

Steve

Marvel wrote

Do you think so, I've never come across a single one.

Now that you mention it


Beowulf wrote:

My favourite trick is Grandpa's Ace performed by David Copperfield.

Me too! I love performing the Gary Ouellet version of this one

To watch:

Penn and Teller's Magic Bullets
Teller's "Shadows" Great trick
Teller's "Needles"
A bunch of Derren Brown stuff


To do:

Psychophysiological thought reading (impromptu, and way powerful)
A normal deck variation of Derren Brown's "Extreme Mental Effort"
Coinupthenose (Classic)
A huge mutant freak routine including Apollo Robbin's "Recap", a couple other things with pens along the lines of "Recap" and Paul Harris's Reality Twister