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Good evening all.

Hope you are well. My name is chris chambers

Please check out the 11 videos i currently have up on youtube.co.uk

http://www.youtube.com/user/chambers91533?feature=mhsn

Please leave me feedback. positive or negative so that i can improve or change my ways for the better.

Much appreciated,

Thank you all

Chris Chambers

Hi Chris, welcome to TM

Hi Chris.

On the whole, things just need to become a little bit smoother, this will come with practice. But I did notice some areas on certain routines that you could make subtle changes to make them run a little bit cleaner.

I'll start with the Power of Magic video. ELiminate the Sybil style false cut that you do, at least until you can do it more fluidly and smoothly, at the moment it's very easy to follow the top card and spot exactly where it is sitting. Substitute in a much simpler false cut (Luke Jermay teaches one that you will find perfect for this routine, it's on the instant download for his ten card poker deal from Penguin magic.)

Also with the riffle shuffle, try not to square the cards up against your body. Eventually you will be able to do it without needing to square them up at all, again it just comes with practice. In the mean time, as you are performing the shuffle on the table anyway, use the table if you do still need to square them up. It just neatens things up and makes you look less like "our mate Chris knows a couple of card tricks"

I am the dealer. Rather than dealing the cards out and then explaining what's going on, explain the backstory while you are dealing out the five piles. Also, rather than useing that style of getting "cards from the middle" just ask if they want you to cut the cards. It does the same thing, and looks a whole lot neater.

Soul Survivor. Again, needs to be a lot neater, but also it is never a good idea to do a slip cut force with the deck facing end on to your spectator.

OK, this is becoming a little painful to watch.

Royal Flush, if you are going to stack a set of cards, at least stack them so that they come out in a nice order on the reveal. ie 10 J Q K A, not 10 K A Q J.

Presentational note, don't throw cards in the air to celebrate the trick working, especially if you are not able to catch it.

From watching these it is very evident that you are still very early out in your magical pursuit, and sadly heading down entirely tha wrong path. Clearly your only learning tool up until this point has been youtube. This is more evident from the names the effects have been given. Everything you have uploaded has been published many many years ago, and was named then. Professional Convention would have us always refer to these effects by the name given to them by their creators who published them, sadly the teenagers on youtube who think it a brilliant idea to just upload tutorials have no concept of this.

My best advice I can give to you, is to buy a specific book to help you to improve everything that you have presented thus far. It's called the Royal Road to Card Magic, written by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue. This book is widely available all across the world, in fact I picked up a copy from Borders, for no more than ten pounds.

welcome

Hi,

Thank you for the advice that you have given me.I know im not the best in the world and this is why i have joined the forums to get the best constructive critism that i can.I have pretty much learnt everything i know from videos of youtube and a couple of begginers dvd that i have so i didnt think i would have the smoothest moves or the best presentation.Like you say i think im trying to climb a mountain before i can even walk u a hill.

At the moment i have only had comment from friends and a few random people who i have performed tricks for and they have all been in the way of "i like that" and "that was good". It is great to hear that but i know that they are not going to make me better. Its nice to have comments from people like yourself who know the tricks.

I will look for that book you have recommended and work on better presentation and smoother presentation before i upload any new videos.

Once again your comments are highly appreciated and i will take them on board.

Chris

Hi & welcome. You really shouldn't be learning from youtube. For one you'll be learning the secrets that people are unlawfully exposing & secondly you'll be learning from amateurs who haven't given the time to practice. Surely if you want to be as good as you possibly can you'd want to learn from professionals?

Here you will pick up some great advice, the search function will be an endless pool of knowledge for you. Enjoy.

Hi russ,

Thanks to the link to your site.ill have a good look through it when i get home from work tonight.

Yep i definatly would rather learn from a proffesional than amateurs on youtube. Iv contacted a few proffesionals for guidance and advice but never heard anything of them so unfortunatly iv ended up being stuck with.youtube members.

Do you do tuition at all?

Chris