Ambitious Card Routine

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• caard tricks

[Olewastaken]

a bit messy, too many false shuffles imo

[sightedellusionist]

totally suckish-.-

[Herowhohatesme]

i dont wanna be rude, but i really hate ur dl, work on that and also practice more on the smoothness :)

be more natural!

[magicbibledotcom]

It makes it personal and obviously blows out any possible explination in somebody's head of you somehow using doubles in one way or another. Because lay people seem to think we're much better than we are most of the time :)

[magicbibledotcom]

Even though they're not and we know that, they look so out of the ordinary that normal people will simply think like that.

Also, whenever you do it for somebody and you really want to be taken seriously - Have the card signed. You can do all the proving methods you like of showing that there's no doubles. It doesn't matter. There is something about the pyshical notion of a signature on the card.

[magicbibledotcom]

So you see each phase should cancel out any doubts brought about by the previous. In essence, making it more and more impossible until you hopefully leave them baffled but amazed.

Also. a few tips when you actually do it for real people...

Firstly, I would use a deck like that. Personally I hate those decks, I think they look tacky and modern and blah... But more importantly; To a layman a deck like that just screams 'GIMMICKED'.

[magicbibledotcom]

So for example, one specific routine might go:

Phase 1 - Card placed in middle. Jumps to top.

Phase 2 - Card in middle, spectator shuffles. Jumps to top.

Phase 3 - Place card half way down, spread out cards to prove the card is there. Show top card, have the spectator push in the card. Jumps to top.

Phases 4 - Face up, jumps to top.

Phase 5 - Bend the card, in middle, jumps to top (visual improvement!)

Phase 6 (finally) - Jumps to wallet.

[magicbibledotcom]

The main thing to remember when structuring your Ambitious Card Routine, is that each phase should be more amazing than the last.

The way to achieve that is to apparantly make each phase MORE fair and clean than the last. As if you're trying to reduce the odds on the spot. A lot of magicians just do endless phases of basically the same revelations.

[magicbibledotcom]

Not bad. A bit stiff but you'll naturally become looser as you continue the art.

The first phase though, has to be striking. So I'd advise against doing any sort of cuts or shuffles. To a laymen, they can easily relate it to you controlling the card. It should be a direct - Card in middle - Card on top.

I often think magicians do too many phases in their ACR's. Normal people are only impressed with a card jumping to the top so many times lol, after a while they're looking at their watch.

[BBmagicProductions]

work on your double undercut, other than that, nice vid 4/5