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As you may or may not know I’ve been practising my coin work for the last six months or so and as everything is progressing well on that front I thought I’d expand my repertoire and have recently invested in a shiny new copy of the Royal Road to Card Magic.
At the start the book suggests going through it chapter by chapter and taking the time to learn each section without skipping ahead. From my experiences with learning coin magic from Bobo though, whilst his book is a great resource it didn’t seem to follow much of a logical sequence to me.
So, as I want to get the most out of it, I was wondering for those of you who have read the Royal Road, is this sound advice to work through it page by page or doesn’t it make much of a difference really.
Thanks in advance.

I would say do what ever suits your learning style...

If you know what i mean.

Ben

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I began with Royal Road. Good book and it gave me the good basic knowlege of card handling etc. Answering your question, it is good to follow the book in sequence from start to finish however the 'pass' comes in quickly and that is a hard move to do it right.

Personally I think it would have been better to get a DVD, as it could teach you everything in Royal ROad but using video as a teaching method instead of a few diagrams and alot of text!

Good luck anyway

I bought Royal Road first and working through it, bit by bit, and it worked for me. Granted, I didn't know all the sleights immediately, but after a few months of reading it through, putting it down for a couple weeks then going back to it, it worked.

But, as Gary and others tell us, it might not be the best way - but it was the way I did it.

"...and more, much more than this, I did it my way."