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Neeeewbie! ... sort of :P

Postby m0ridin » Jun 21st, '07, 21:07



Hello all! Very glad to see a place like this on the net that isn't all about revealing secrets.

I dabbled a bit in card magic when I was younger (10-11), and only really got decent at presentations with a Svengali deck (very newb, i know!)

Recently I've been amazed at the skills and techniques by card experts both well known (blaine, dananddave, elussionist, etc.) and not-so-well known (youtubers etc.) The flourishes especially blow my mind. These performers really re-lit that spark I had when i was younger.

Looking forward to some great discusson here :)

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Postby FRK » Jun 21st, '07, 21:55

cool, hope We/I can help you in your quest

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Postby moonbeam » Jun 21st, '07, 22:06

Hi and welcome to TM :wink:

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Postby MagicalJim » Jun 21st, '07, 22:22

Hi, hopefully people here can help that spark start a fire.....I'm sorry it was cheesy I know, I vow not to do it again in the near foreseeable future....

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Postby Mr Ben » Jun 22nd, '07, 10:26

Welcome to TM! :D

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Postby dat8962 » Jun 22nd, '07, 18:07

Welcome

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Postby I.D » Jun 22nd, '07, 19:19

Welcome... and some advice...

forget youtube, biggest drain on your improvement you will ever find

get

Royal Road to Card Magic book OR/AND DVD set
Mark Wilsons Complete Course in Magic

OR if you can afford it

Card College Volumes 1 - 5

For flourishes.. get xtreme beginnerz & Cradle to Grave by De'vo and Dand and Dave's the system

that should do you for now!!! :D

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Postby m0ridin » Jun 22nd, '07, 20:13

There are a lot of junk video's on youtube that people make just to try to get popular by revealing a trick. The pure flourish video's on there, however, don't seem too bad.

Thanks for the book tips!

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Re: Neeeewbie! ... sort of :P

Postby Matt Charming » Jun 23rd, '07, 11:17

Welcome m0ridin its nice to have you here at TM.

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