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Hey

I was wondering how every one who does routines remeber all their card tricks. I find myself forgeting card tricks when i get goin on a run of like 5 or 6 tricks. Then I start drawing blanks on all my other tricks and I then either have to start repeating tricks or call it quits right when every on is begging for more. Please help me thanks

kemo

Try using a mnemonic.

memonic?

I have this problem alot. I get going then I forget a bunch of tricks and I even have to ask my girlfriend or anyone who is there what other tricks I know. But, what I find helps is to write all your tricks down, make an inventory by type of trick and then put together all the tricks that go together. Then from there just practice all tricks that go together together and then they are kind of mentally linked together so when you do that one you think of the other. Works for me, might for you. Or you could use the principal with a mneumonic system to help you remember more. (That is something like taking the first letter of each trick name and making a word out of it, like roygbiv for the colors of the rainbow.) anyway. Good luck.

Kemo wrote:memonic?

No, a mnemonic.

which means what?

Kemo wrote:which means what?

I'm not being funny, but why not just google for it?

What I mean to say is that there's a potential exposure problem in explaining their use here.

Or you could just practice your routine a few times a day and know it off by heart

that wouldn't work because my routine never stays the same. i always open with the same trick but after that it changes.

kemo

well if you still practice the effects that you can possibly put in the routine like just once a day, you will still find it easier to remember the tricks.

Well if your routine is always different, then why not make it the same??

ie. Open with an Ace trick, Do an Ace Trick, and Another, and another, Then finish with your best ace trick.

Except you don't need to do Ace Tricks

Obviously

the reason my routine isn't the same ever is because i kinda just do what the moment calls for if i feel a good pysic(sp?) trick would fit best next thats what ill do. If i feel that i really need to amaze them then ill pull of a sweet trick. If I don't really care about reactions then i might just do some self working tricks. like I said it all depends on what i feel like, plus I don't really have a tricks that lead into each other nicely.

kemo

Kemo,

I work in a similar way. I just do what feels right at the time and don't have a fixed repertoire.

However, to help your problem, I have a written list of the card effects I like doing. When I'm sat at home watching TV I go through the list. I don't specifically start with the trick at the top of the list, I might just do a few tricks off the top of my head and then when I feel I'm starting to dry up I'll peek at the list and carry on. It helps in getting them all in your head.

I can, and regularly do, go in a pub and do card tricks for a couple of hours non stop without having to stop and think what to do next.

That way suits me

Tenko

I've got a list of my tricks. but I only really practice the tricks that need work. So any trick that I do well but not often some times falls from my mind and I just forget about it.

But you said you can do tricks for "a couple hours"? How many tricks do you know? Me, with all my tricks I might keep goin for a half hour. And near the end the tricks start to become more of jokes then magic.

keom

What I do is split tricks up into routines with 3 to 4 effects per routine.

for example routine one maybe.

1.- ace prodution (any one that you know)
2.- lose the aces into the deck make them come to top/bottom wherever
3.- Dr Jacob Daleys last trick (any version that suits you. in this particular type of routine I normally base mine around daryls trick question version off of his DVD's).