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Gambit Ice New user United States 32 Posts |
Hey everyone. Please check out my video and let me know what you think! If you like it I'd really appreciate it if you comment, rate and/or Subscribe!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVKwOliaa8 |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Very nice. In particular, you did the stripout very well.
(I'm not a fan of the repeated up-the-ladder and other fancy cuts, however. If you were really mixing the cards, why not just shuffle them?) |
vinsmagic Eternal Order sleeping with the fishes... 10957 Posts |
A couple of strip outs with a simple false cut would be much better I agree with 200o lose the up the ladder cuts
all in all well done vinny |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Another point to bear in mind: when people (i.e., nonmagician cardplayers) mix cards, they always shuffle first, then cut, never the other way 'round. You cut (a bazillion times), then shuffled.
Shuffling's supposed to mix the cards; cutting's supposed to bury the top and bottom cards of a shuffled deck (lest the dealer know the most easily controlled cards). If your cutting sequence were intended to mix the cards - that's essentially what you were advertising - then the final shuffle is superfluous. I'd bet that if you cut a deck a bazillion times and then dealt out 5 pat poker hands, a typical layman would reason that none of your cuts changed the order of the cards in the deck. I'd further bet that if you did two or three stripout riffle shuffles with that same deck and then dealt out 5 pat poker hands, that same layman would be floored. Why? Because a typical layman is smart enough to know that it's easy to undo the effect of a cut, but incredibly difficult to undo the effect of a riffle shuffle. Think like a layman: do what they're accustomed to seeing, but in a way that secretly furthers your nefarious purposes; you'll fool 'em every time. |
Gambit Ice New user United States 32 Posts |
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On 2010-08-15 18:24, S2000magician wrote: This is a really good point. I should have thought of this before. Thanks for the feedback! |
S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
My pleasure.
Knock 'em dead! |
lunatik Inner circle 3222 Posts |
I liked it!
"Don't let your Dreams become Fantasies"
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Thomas Wayne Inner circle Alaska 1977 Posts |
I tried watch your entire video, but then I noticed to the immediate right there was a link to another video - "Ricky Jay - Amazing Card Trick/Manipulation". Nothing interesting was going at the moment so I switched over to Ricky instead, since he was able to be - without saying a single word - infinity more entertaining.
What you need to ask yourself is, why would that be? I mean, you obviously have skills, and the manipulation Ricky did was not really any more difficult than yours... but he compels the viewer to want to watch, whereas you do not. Figure out why that is and you may be able to entertain, rather than merely "fool" an audience - unless, of course, your goal does not include being entertaining. As with any highly specialized craft, skills are meant to remain behind the scene while the end results are appreciated. TW
MOST magicians: "Here's a quarter, it's gone, you're an idiot, it's back, you're a jerk, show's over." Jerry Seinfeld
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Chad Sanborn Inner circle my fingers hurt from typing, 2205 Posts |
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On 2010-08-17 12:02, Thomas Wayne wrote: Spot On! |
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