My Routine - Please Help

[heavymetalholic]

I know lots of tricks, and I practice A LOT!!!

And I finaly think I have practiced enough to make my own little set

how does this sound.


Saw

Distortion ( I say I have a prediction that I made before the trick started, then change it into there chosen card"

Sinful

Stigmata


and end with flow.

how does this sound?

 

[Eddie]

Looks kinda disorganized... but I honestly wouldn't know since I don't perform all that much myself.

 

[MikeGoyke]

yeah it just doesn't flow well at all


P.S -
knowing a bunch of tricks is not always a good thing

 

[Lamb3rt]

Hummm... as Eddie already point out its seems a bit disorganized. A routine must flow. there is no reason to me why you would take out a pack of cards after having saw your throat. The moment in between your tricks are as importent as the trick itself. Don't loose your audiences in moment like "Wait I have to put my cards aside to get that cola can and that coin........... ok now lets get back to the cards wait a sec ...where is my water bottle..." The effect that you list are all great sigle hard hitting pieces. For my part I prefer to try to build reaction until the last effect. If I were you I would set a good trick at first to grab attention maybe a non card trick like sinful then take out cards and keep with them until you want to finish them with maybe stigmata V1 or distortion.

Hope that helped a little.


I'm not English BTW. My grammar s**k.

 

[heavymetalholic]

o lol well thank you for the info, can someone please help me?

what tricks would be good?

what should I take out, what should I put in?

what order, any help is GRETLY appreciated

 

[Lamb3rt]

Routining isn't easy btw, at least for me. You should read the book maximum entertainement by KEN Weber. This book is packload of info on the subject and on other thing aswell. On what trick you should put in, anyone can realy help because it's realy depend on your own style. Try to find trick that you are interest in. If you do so there is a good chance that your audience will be interested too. If I were you I would look up for some more CLASSIC effect. ;P Classic have done there proof.

 

[AllanLuu]

Routining isn't easy btw, at least for me. You should read the book maximum entertainement by KEN Weber. This book is packload of info on the subject and on other thing aswell. On what trick you should put in, anyone can realy help because it's realy depend on your own style. Try to find trick that you are interest in. If you do so there is a good chance that your audience will be interested too. If I were you I would look up for some more CLASSIC effect. ;P Classic have done there proof.

I wouldn't say it's jam packed with routining, it has a few bits but that is all.

Maximum entertainment is basically the crash course on how to entertain an audience.

If you are interested in making a routine, I suggest watching a professional magicians show and see how they do it and structure it.

 

[adjones]

Your effects not only have to flow between each other, but they also have to build upon each other. Those are all pretty powerful effects, and by the end it will be anti-climatic. Meaning that they're expecting it to get better and better, until eventually you can't top what you just did, and the reactions start to go downward.

You say you know so many tricks, but that's not the thing. Here's an excerpt from Royal Road to Card Magic:

Many years ago David Devant, the great English conjurer, was approached by an acquaintance new to sleight-of-hand with cards. "Mr. Devant," said this young m an, "I know three hundred tricks with cards. How many do you know?" Devant glanced at the youth quizzically. "I should say," the magician responded drily, "that I know about 8."

Devant was making a point with which all professional magicians are familiar. To perform card tricks entertainingly, you must not only know how the tricks are done, but how to do them. There is a vast difference between the two, and if proof were needed, one need only watch the same feat performed by a novice and by an expert card conjurer. The novice knows the mechanics of so many tricks that he cannot do any one feat really well; the professional performs a smaller number of tricks which he knows how to present in such a way as to create the greatest possibly impression upon those who watch.

Just something to think about while thinking about routining and all that. Just make sure your effects flow and build upon each other, but even more important than those, that you perform them well!

Hope I was able to help.

 

[frezzing aces]

i would get my cards out, and perform 2 card transpo THEN distortion, and when somebody says do it again vanish the 4 leaving the 6, start coughing saying the card teleported to your throat, then perform saw (Trying to get it out) then when it doesn't work try and flush it down (perform flow (in your hands)) and when the water wont come out, grab a coke can but say hey i Know this really cool trick (perform sinful) then have a drink and say i think I've digested your card, and the ink is coming out through my skin (perform Stigmata) then soak up the applause.....or people thinking your a freak and running away because saw and stigmata are rather disgusting effects.

best suited on teens-adults

 

[adjones]

i would get my cards out, and perform 2 card transpo THEN distortion, and when somebody says do it again vanish the 4 leaving the 6, start coughing saying the card teleported to your throat, then perform saw (Trying to get it out) then when it doesn't work try and flush it down (perform flow (in your hands)) and when the water wont come out, grab a coke can but say hey i Know this really cool trick (perform sinful) then have a drink and say i think I've digested your card, and the ink is coming out through my skin (perform Stigmata) then soak up the applause.....or people thinking your a freak and running away because saw and stigmata are rather disgusting effects.

best suited on teens-adults

Very creative thinking, there. However, I still don't think the effects build upon each other enough. But that is a pretty awesome routine, I'll give you that.

 

[frezzing aces]

best i could do in 10 miniutes

 

[karloparagas6]

Hummm... as Eddie already point out its seems a bit disorganized. A routine must flow. there is no reason to me why you would take out a pack of cards after having saw your throat. The moment in between your tricks are as importent as the trick itself. Don't loose your audiences in moment like "Wait I have to put my cards aside to get that cola can and that coin........... ok now lets get back to the cards wait a sec ...where is my water bottle..." The effect that you list are all great sigle hard hitting pieces. For my part I prefer to try to build reaction until the last effect. If I were you I would set a good trick at first to grab attention maybe a non card trick like sinful then take out cards and keep with them until you want to finish them with maybe stigmata V1 or distortion.

Hope that helped a little.


I'm not English BTW. My grammar s**k.

i agree completely with lamb3rt...its doesnt have a flow...first you take out a string and saw your throat, then take out a pack of cards, then a soda can, then again a deck of cards, then a watter bottle...making a routine is like making a story, the story has to stick with the main idea and not go off topic because you will loose the reader..the effects listed are "street" type effects and not really good to be put together because these are are all great single hard hitting effects and cant really be followed up with another hard hitting effect....its hard for me to describe why exactly but i hope you get the idea..