routine

Hello all! With kids and work and all sorts of life responsibilities, I've had a really tough time keeping up any serious practice with magic, even though I've been seriously interested in it for 15 years now. I find I always come up against the same mental block: I'm no longer interested in...

Hey all, I've been into magic for a long time, and dabbled seriously off and on for years now. I've caught some spare time the last few months and have started to get back into it. I have an idea for a routine that I want to flesh out, but something just isn't feeling quite right, and I wanted...

Ok i am not completely new to magic, Ive been doing it for about 2 years and practice constantly. What I like to do with my friends who I perform magic too daily is just do a control and then show them that I moved the card(s) without them noticing (thats on a good day). Things like the classic...

Hey guys I’m new to theory 11 and I am really excited to be here! I’ve been recently working on a card magic show and workshop charity event that I am running at my local library for December 15. I’ve been getting more serious in card magic (not as a career though) and am wondering how I should...

Hi everyone, Its been a very long time since ive been on here but glad to be back. Anyway, when i start my ACR I do the tilt. But when I also do the hand sandwich I do the tilt as well. Obviously I use them in seperate routines but would like to have them in the same set. I just dont want to...

Hey everyone, Just joined the forums and am in need of some help. In a weeks time, I am performing at my school in a street magic kind of style and environment. I am needing some advice on how to put tricks together, what type of tricks to put after another, and what kind of things to open and...

Hi, I'm a young magician and I'm starting to do more gigs. I have particularly specialized with card trick, which is good... but I would love to diversify. My style is the walk around, close up magic. Some of my performance favorites include: Play it straight triumph Piece de Resistance 52-1...

I'm putting together a routine built around Astrology, Zodiac, etc. to perform for a couple friends at a small party next month. I am using tricks like Astronomical by Peter Turner, Stellar by Alchemy Insiders, and a couple other zodiac themed card tricks that I came up with. Now I'm just...

Wow where to begin... I recently had a tradegy occur within my family and sadly I had to lose my grandfather. Well long story short I ended up at a local bar and cigar lounge that os owned by my old high school wrestling coach. I was sitting in an oversized arm chair enjoying a Ave Maria and...

I've been in and out of magic several times over the last 10 years. I'll go through 6 month spurts of practice and dedication, followed by a year of not picking up a deck of cards. This is partly because I'm a freelance filmmaker with a wife and two kids, which means that life can get hectic...

this is a link of a rough performance of the routine I am planning on performing for my audition at the magic castle. I know you can see the drop of the cards. my shirt was too big. But please, any help or suggestions on this would be much appreciated. On the patter, moves or magic. Anything...

Hi, I am 17 years old and I am planning on audition for the magic castle in this coming September. I ave read other threads, bu I still have a few questions. 1. When you sign up, do you have to say whether you are going to be a close -up magician or a stage magician? 2. Whats the difference...

Hi, I am 17 years old and I am planning on audition for the magic castle in this coming September. I ave read other threads, bu I still have a few questions. 1. When you sign up, do you have to say whether you are going to be a close -up magician or a stage magician? 2. Whats the difference...

The question is pretty self-explanatory, but to give a few more details: I'm wondering what process you fine folks use to build your routines, from selecting effects, establishing a theme (if there is one), writing patter, etc. I have a couple effects that I like to perform together, and I even...

I've been doing card tricks for years now(it's my main type of magic) and all my tricks are starting to get a bit jumbled haha....out of curiosity, what are everybody's favorite main routines to perform with cards? I've found myself doing the ACR a bit too often:)

Very often I have this situation that someone asks me "show something, please". I can't do anything expect of some coins tricks. I thought to make a ring routine which will be using only ordinary ring always brought with me. I was performing couple times but never with reaction which I want. My...

I recently bought Patrified by Patrick Kun. I made this purchase without too much thought because of how visual most of the routines were. Now that I have learned some of them I am at a loss to how to incorporate patter into the routines. Some of the "moves" that are done don't have proper...

Good morning/afternoon/evening ladies and gentlemen, It has been a long time since I have posted on a magic/cardistry forum board so I look forward to an engaging discussion. Before I go on, I want to pose a question for you: Do you think Cardistry and Magic should go together during...