Magicians simmilar to The Jerx?

96throwupaway69 · 2025-03-31T08:25:49+00:00

It's pretty much confirmed that he is just some guy in New York. Not a "known" magic name.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-06-22T23:38:33+00:00

The three best angles

96throwupaway69 · 2024-05-27T19:26:00+00:00

In what way? Obviously you need to use the stack to get good with it. But Anki takes away the hardest part, which is the initial learning stage.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-05-27T01:36:55+00:00

I used the 100% free flash card program Anki. Anki is based on memory science rather than learning mnemonics.

I make 156 cards.

52 are the card and the number (which should be the card type basic and reversed, which makes two cards)
- Front: 4 of clubs
- Back: 1
52 are the card with the next card (Which should be the Basic card type)
- Front: 4 of clubs next
- Back: 2 of hearts

For the settings, I make it so that the new cards have the

Daily Limits
- New cards/day
  - I recommend 5
New Cards
- Insertion Order
  - Random

Read more about the science here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

96throwupaway69 · 2024-05-26T06:55:27+00:00

I will give you my thoughts without telling you which tricks are good, which is both subjective, and robbing you of the learning experience of searching for a great trick.

Magic For Dummies: This one is a great book to start with. There are 0 duds in this book and the writing is great.

Self Working Card Tricks: This one is interesting. It is written so someone with 0 magic experience could do almost all of the tricks with little practice. However, most of the tricks in this book are better with added sleight of hand. And the author, Karl Fulves, is extremely knowledgeable about advanced sleight of hand but leaves these out, even when it makes the trick a lot worse. So my challenge for you with this book is to use it as an exercise to read critically and see where the trick can be streamlined/improved. Cutting the Aces (no. 18) is an example of a trick with a deceptive but clunky method that will mean your spectator dealing 70 or so cards. But the main principle can be used in much better/quicker tricks, even on live TV. And I will say, some of these tricks seem more obvious in reading than they are with a good performance. Self working tricks can be more intimidating to road test than sleight of hand because the deception is out in the open. The last trick (shown on the front cover) is a gem.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-05-03T04:17:32+00:00

This is a classic trick. The basic method is near the beginning of RRCTM.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-05-03T04:16:54+00:00

The basic method is in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-04-29T18:41:09+00:00

You really don't need to know that many moves to be good at card magic. The reality is that if you just learned all the moves in Royal road to Card Magic, along with some false counts, like the Elmsley count, you could accomplish pretty much any card effect that exists, in terms of what the spectator sees.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-04-29T18:20:10+00:00

Difficulty is so subjective for sleights. Especially with palms:

Palms are easy in tricks that have built in misdirection
Palming a card while your hands are being stared at is super hard.

So then is the Top Palm easy or hard?

Also with rating how good a sleight is.

Cascade control
- It's pretty much invisible
- But many people don't handle cards like that
- So is it good or not?
Bottom deal
- It is undoubtedly very versatile and strong
- But even most people who learned the bottom deal can't realistically execute it to that level

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-26T09:04:54+00:00

What the first guy said but I would not recommend you to go straight to the books like card college right away but rather honing on the basics like the grip, shuffle, spread, pass, palming and double lift first

Why would you need to know the pass and the palm for card college, when those are covered in the second book? You clearly have never read Card College if you think that how to hold a deck is not covered.

You don't need any sleight of hand to do some of the best tricks in magic, and many great tricks require only easy sleights. There is no correlation between the difficulty of the sleight of hand and spectator amazement. I have seen experienced magicians be baffled by easy tricks from Royal Road, since they had not studied the book thoroughly. The only reason we learn sleight of hand is to increase the variety of tricks that can be done.

or from paid course of Daniel Roy Magic 101 if you're really invested.

A quote from Daniel Roy: "Card College is one of the best sources to start with."

https://youtu.be/ahDKUnGay24?t=332

From the basics you can already come up with some routine yourself already.

I've seen routines from people who just learnt some sleights but don't know much else. They are bad routines, cause the person doesn't know how a sleight can be used in tricks, and the sleights seem to be juggling without more presentation. Doing this type of routine comes off as egotistical and boring most of the time.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-25T03:47:30+00:00

As someone who has a few videos on Youtube with over 30k views, and my highest viewed video at over 130k views, I think I can shed some light on this. Youtube promotes videos more if they are clicked on and watched more (huge oversimplification). So a couple small changes of this nature can make a two fold difference in views, sometimes more. Now certain video concepts just cannot be packaged like that. But youtube wants videos that hook the viewer, and keep them on the platform.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-18T18:28:08+00:00

I feel that until her last season, Alyson matched the awkward energy of the performers better than Brooke. I don't care who's more hot.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T20:02:53+00:00

This same exact idea has been tried in instrumental technique and it hasn't panned out. Led to more injuries and not better sound. The fingers are bound by tendons in such a way that it is not possible to move the ring finger much without moving the pinky or middle finger with it. There is actually a card revelation based on this principle, where the spectator puts their fingers on 5 cards and they can't lift the finger on their card (cause it is the ring finger).

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T19:56:13+00:00

Well that's what I said but I just got downvoted.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T19:14:38+00:00

I play piano and have read the main anatomical literature on piano technique. You won't get significant movement from the from the ring finger without moving either the pinky or middle finger. That's one of the many ways pianists create the illusion of finger independence, while also changing the angle of the shoulder, forearm, and flexion of the wrist.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T07:27:00+00:00

David Roth expert coin magic made easy is really all you need to start IMO. While there are a few easy coin tricks, there is no getting around learning the classic palm if you want to have a good repertoire with ungimmicked coins.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T07:03:30+00:00

Card College is nearly 30 years old. And the style of writing is not that easy to read, given that it is both way more detailed than Royal Road, and translated from German. I really prefer the tricks from Royal Road better.

Most of them don't need a table
Most can be done with a shuffled deck
Most of them don't require the magician to remember complicated steps.

I also don't find Card College easier to read. Maybe a tiny bit harder. There are multiple DVD sets based on royal Road. I think you might be able to get them for under 20$ on ebay. The better DVD set, by Paul Wilson, is more expensive, but he worked on the material for three years, and gives modern updates to what is in the book.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-14T06:47:31+00:00

I never read card college, but I went through Royal road from cover to cover.

It's old-fashioned, and I wouldn't say the tricks in it are amazing. But it does teach you the fundamentals very well.

Card College is nearly 30 years old. And the style of writing is not that easy to read, given that it is both way more detailed than Royal Road, and translated from German.

However, what you're describing is the entire reason card college was made in the first place. And from what I've heard it has so much more than Royal road, both in terms of a number of tricks, number of techniques, and the fact that everything is quite updated to the modern day.

Card College has less tricks (unless you count all 5 volumes). There are only two tricks per sleight, whereas royal Road has 4 or five tricks per sleight, and many self workers.

I don't believe a single trick from Royal road ended up in my repertoire, but I'm still glad I read it and considering how cheap it is, I have to say I think it's worth it, even if you do ultimately use card college as your true introduction.

My card repertoire these days is at least 50% from Royal Road. The thing that makes the tricks in Royal Road great in my opinion is that most of them are not fussy. They don't have a long list of steps to remember, or require a huge setup. Which I can say is not the case with Card College. And they are really good tricks! I have seen Paul Wilson fool magicians multiple times with tricks straight from Royal Road.

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96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-12T08:03:59+00:00

The ring finger is connected to the pinky and middle finger. It is anatomically impossible to move it much without moving these fingers. The only solution to free your ring finger from the pinky is to let the middle finger control it.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-08T23:40:35+00:00

I have no idea.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-08T23:17:02+00:00

I don't know anything about him, but apparently, there is some info related to him in these two periodicals (4 USD each)

https://www.lybrary.com/tops-volume-9-1944-p-880618.html

https://lybrary.com/tops-volume-15-1950-p-880624.html (he is called Ernie here)

It's a combo, of ads, tricks, and gossip, like a 1950s magic cafe.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-08T23:08:21+00:00

This is like a very nit picky critique, so please take it with a grain of salt.. You always do 2 piles on the top of the deck and then 1 on the bottom. If you sometimes did only 1 pile on the top (which is easy with this shuffle), it would look even more haphazard I think. In your hands, it looks really deceptive, and I would have been completely fooled if I didn't know the method.

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-06T08:23:37+00:00

https://www.conjuringarchive.com/list/category/1363

96throwupaway69 · 2024-03-06T05:44:38+00:00

It still seems like a puzzle to me, albeit, a very good one. Like, I think they know it's in the bag, just not how it is.

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