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RobLaughter wrote:

monker59 wrote:...I could think up 30-40 tricks that I know fairly well...

Sheesh... I sat down and exhausted my card repertoire tonight and came up with 8 or so... add two or three coin effects, a sponge routine, and a silk routine and I'm up to 12. You, sir, are a god!

I'm not a god, I just have a good memory. If you have trouble remembering things, I suggest buying Gingko Biloba tablets. I believe you can buy them here:

http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/store/en/b ... o%20biloba

Out of curiosity - how proficiently can you perform these 30-40 effects? Are they completely polished and mastered, or is it more that you know how to do them, but haven't yet mastered them.

If it's the latter, then I too know a large quantity of effects - but I only have around 10 card effects that I can perform with complete confidence.

I know the effects well enough that I can perform them for friends and family. Occasionally I'll have to pause for a moment to remember a certain shuffle to do or to check my angles furtively and quickly before a manuever. Like I said before, I just have a good memory.

I didn't ask how good your memory was, I asked how well you could perform the effects.

I've memorized how to do every effect on the Ammar ETMCM DVD's volumes 1 through 6, to name just one set - but I certainly haven't mastered them to a level where I can perform them flawlessly.

monker59 wrote:I know the effects well enough that I can perform them for friends and family.

Did you not read my entire post? I can perform them pretty well, but not flawlessly and I believe the question from jbauerctu was how many effects we know well.