wow meganon!

Last january 26,2011 Jeffrey Tam called me and he said if i'm free tomorrow for wow meganon shooting, without hesitation i said yes because it will be another exposure for me and the storycircle.

We did many magic tricks like rizer, coin bag routine, crime card (a sandwich effect), pressure and many more. It was nice to perform some of my favorite card tricks and gain new friends :)

heres some of our wow meganon (one,two,trick) episodes:
Coin bag routine


crime card


rizer


rubber routines


I would like to thank my friend Jeffrey Tam for inviting and trusting me to perform in his show, i really enjoyed being there even for just one night :)

chad long close up magic

I really like his style in performing close up magic, watch this video clip where he performs live the coin two(by homer liwag), 4 (in his dvd) and other effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rJSmcgJ_wA

the video can't be embed, so just go to the link.

roll over aces

I am now concentrating on different kinds of shuffles, especially zarrow and riffle shuffle techniques. And as I was practicing, it came to my thoughts that I am in need to find an effect to utilize this shuffles… and that is when I remember, that derek dingle’s "roll over aces" is exactly what I was looking for.

here is the video, hope you like it :D

essencial magic conference (EMC) review part 1

SESSION 1

The host for the first session is mr. Luis De Matos
where he introduce each participants of the conference
and thank all the sponsors of the event with an
introduction video of the emc by mr. David Berglass

here are the lectures and performers of the first session:

puzzles, tricks and magic on the curious aesthetics of conjuring (Eric Mead) - he talks about different approach of magicians in presentation/magic and also what the audience thinks about our magic from skillfull to magical approach.

I like his lecture about this topic it
made me realize how my trick/effect plays for layman.

Ponta the Smith performed live from his matrix routine, ring on rope to cookie spellbound.

He performed all his act with music, i really like his coin effects
except for his ring on rope routine. the cookie spellbound is fun to
watch with a cookie bite effect :D. there's some flashes in his routine
because of the camera but you will still be fooled

dani da ortiz performed and explained one of my favorite effect in his dvd. he makes borrowed deck look like a marked deck

I like this effect a lot because its impromptu card magic
and it fools layman specially magicians :D

Lastly all the sessions end up with a question and answer
from the subscriber of the event. where you will find funny questions
with funny answers from the lecturers and performers.

SESSION 2

The host for the 2nd session is mr. Topaz

talks about creativity (gaetan bloom) - he talks about how to exercise
your creativity to come up with a different approach to magic and
create your original props.

This is the first time i saw mr gaetan bloom, i just knew him because of his
effect "escalator" where the chosen card rises top visually. All i can say is
he is really genius :)

helder guimaraes performed his variation of reset and invisible palm.

things worth thinking about (stan allan) - He talks about different kinds of FAQ and advices for magicians.

marco tempest performed his digital magic stick man drawing comes to life and even marco tempest
became an animation hehehe fun too watch.

everything weve learned so far (barry and stuart) - how they become successful, how they make new routine/effect. and also

dont do ambitious card routine 14 times LOL

carlos vaquera performs mime + magic = refreshing magic

PANEL DISCUSSION:
max maven
cyril takayama
tempest britland
marco tempest
luis de matos

they discuss about television magic, how they get and succeed getting into television

gazzo performs ambitious card 14 times or more. He made this performance for Barry and Stuart

lastly another question and answer.

SESSION 3
eric mead is the host for the 3rd session.

zigzag girl scandal (mike caveney)- story about illegal copying of magic (the zigzag girl) and some moral lessons about it

about attitude (james freedman) - He talks how you can change everything you want
just by chaging your attitude. Another topic i like.

max maven perform a two card divination to Barry and Stuart under inpossible condition
with a solo video explanation not in this session.

misdirection (apollo robbin) - He talks about theroy of misdirection, pickpocketing
and putpocketing techniques. He even putpocket some of his business card to almost all the magicians in the conference including the staffs like the cameraman.

use your imagination (richard macdougall) - like mr gaetan bloom topic but concentrates
not in your props but in your performances in giving details to make it more
interesting for your audiences

paul kieve performs marauder's map folding in itself like the folding bill. he is the only magician
consultant of the famous movie Harry Potter

lennart green performs master of chaos, with his clumsy style magician you will be
fooled how he shuffles the deck he even teach some of his techniques

again question and answerwith a funny question for
mr max maven "How do you make your hair and beard like that?"

SESSION 4
For the 4th session the host is mr. mike caveney

flypaper (luis de matos) - he talks about how you can improve/monitor your ratings in tv appearances. he talks about strategy to develop a magic content to attract a tv audience

idea society (topas) - He talks about being original with your magic performances. he also performed music using his deck of cards. isnt that original hahaha

miguel angel gea performed a coins a across with a glass then reverse the effect and lastly coin through table with the coin change into a chinese coin. sadly he didnt explained it :(

magic goes public (paulino gil) - history how the magic goes public like festivals, conventions, etc.

radical coin magic (ponta the smith) - teach his other effects not in his dvd.
he taught his other coin effect you see in his youtube channel :D.

anton lopez performed nice elegant performance with elegant music and an assistant frog :P (real frog)

magic and cardsharping (jason england) - He talks about crimps and different applications of it.
im currently studying riffling techniques and this is helpful :D

guess what????? your right Question and answers again hahaha

I will watch the other sessions and give you another review. subscribe hahaha

cups and balls? coin matrix? both :D

have you ever seen a cups and balls routine? how about a coin matrix? well if you've seen it all maybe you will appreciate this trick its a hybrid of the 2 effects, don't believe me? then watch and be amaze how clever the routine is.

the mechanic shift

The Mechanic Shift is created by Jo Sevau and Richard Hucko, if you are like me who likes hard moves then here it is :P. This shift is not like other shifts because it can accomplish many different things like controlling a card to bottom of the deck, to the top, to palm, mutiple shifts, palm to palm transfer and color change....... did i say that you can do this with only one hand :D.

heres what can i say about the contents:

The Basic Mechanics Shift - this is the basis of all the moves you will encounter here so practice this till your fingers ache hahaha

Covering Actions For the Basic Mechanics Shift - there are two covering actions that they taught using both hands and one using only one hand.

Control To The Bottom From Centre (With Covers)- if you know the basic mechanics then this will be easy for you

Two Handed Centre To Top Control - this is like a pass but not a pass, it can also done with one hand and some misdirection

Mechanics Shift To Palm - This is my favorite application of mechanic shift, imagine doing the diagonal palm shift with one hand.

Table Palm - if you can do the mechanics shift to palm then this is much easier with the cover

Palm Transfer - palm to palm transfer clean in the video but i think its hard to execute in real performance and its a little angle sensitive.

Colour Changes - think of it as a cardini change without a clean up :P

The Split - the one and only trick included in the video, a very visual card split that looks like a camera edit when done smoothly

Multiple Control - i dont like this multiple card control because it needs table or someone to hold the packets

the video production isn't the best like the other instant download out there, its like a homemade video from your neighbor but much better, they explain it thoroughly but i wish they add some videos about the common pitfalls of the moves :P

So for the someone who likes hard sleights that are versatile then this is for you, learn it and have fun fooling your spectators and friend magicians

THE MECHANICS SHIFT

c3 Con, Ca, Coimcidencia by Paul Wilson

this is the latest "ondemand" effect by dananddave.com, c3 is the name of the effect which means Con, Cam, Coincidence created by Paul Wilson. this is effect is inspired by the effect of chad long named shuffling lesson. if you saw the performance video of the effect, that is what your audience will remember when they try to decipher the trick. the performance video isn't really everything they omit some parts so that it cant be decipher because it is a selfworking effect (swe) . dont be discourage to try this because of what i have said, it can fool layman and MAGICIANs too with proper presentation.

what i really like about this effect is that it can be done on a shuffled deck which means "impromptu magic" hehehe, also its a do as i do effect not only with 2 persons but 4 persons and they are really into the effect because they all handle the cards.
Paul Wilson also taught an alternative ending method this is also nice.

overall i really like this kind of effect, easy to do but it kills layman and magicians. also this effect isnt reall 100% swe you will still do something but its really easy if you know the method :P.

hurricane change

this color change is created by harry levine and can be found in trapdoor magazine by steve beam issue #42. this is by far my favorite method of color change, not angle sensitive and you start and end clean.



enjoy :D

the strolling cow aces

there are many ace assembly routine out there but this is one of my favorite
its a progressive ace assembly routine which means its not the conventional ace assembly in which all the 3 other aces go to the leader ace one by one, the progressive ace assembly looks more impossible because the first ace travel from his pile to the second pile to join the second ace then the two aces travel to the third pile to join the third ace and lastly the three aces in the third pile travel to the forth pile to join the last ace.

the strolling cow aces is an progressive ace assembly created by dr. hiroshi sawa
which can be found in his book called "sawa's library of magic" written by richard kaufman.



hope you like it enjoy :D

preset, reset

one of my favorite card effect is the reset, the plot is the aces and the kings exchange places one by one then immediately exchange back again all at once.
since it was one of my favorite effect, i tried to do my own variation of it base on
offbeat and to change the traditional handling of the reset.

here is the outcome :D

preset reset

my spellbound routine

last year, tong, andres and i are playing with the spellbound trick plot.
every one of us made our own variation of the effect. we started playing it when we saw ponta the smith spellbound routine.

here is my own variation of the effect with some of my original move. as much as possible, i tried to do the move differently from ponta and here is the outcome :D

spellbound


this spellbound is still in progress and evolving slowly

elegant close up magician

if you are looking for an elegant close up magician also smooth polished sleight of hand effect then look for ponta the smith if your a coin magician and arnaud chevrier if your a card magician. when you watch them perform their effects you will swear that they used gaffed or gimmicked cards/coins but theyre not, they just use pure sleight of hand.

you can learn more from their videos just by watching and understanding their economy of motion, why they did this or that to make their effect smooth as possible

arnaud chevrier:

invisible palm


twisting reset




ponta the smith

winged silver


spellbound

mnemonicosis by juan tamariz

i like this trick a lot, its a magician/layman fooler if performed right.
it looks like an easy effect but believe me its hard not physically but mentally :D

tamariz juan -fism 2009
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push off double lift

the most commonly use sleight in card magic, the double lift.



i first saw this kind of double lift to my friend john™ after that i fell in love with the sleight. this is the most natural DL ive seen so far also the hardest. i asked john if he can tell me who invented this kind of DL and he said he read it somewhere in the book of alex elmsley, i search it but i cant find it, john also forgot where he read it.

then while reading marlo in spades book i saw a very similar method but sleightly different approach to it. the name of ed marlos DL is "best card push off".

so if you know where can i find the reference of the push off double lift i use right now please tell me :D

thats all for now if you have any question just PM me.

elmsley count

ok im back again after 1 year hehehe, starting today my blog will focus on different kinds of sleights, first is the elmsley count :D.

so why elmsley count? well elmsley count is one of the most used sleights in card magic
but even though it is by many magician i still see many magician doing it the wrong way, they think that their elmsley count is correct not noticing what is wrong in their sleight. here ill try to point out the common mistakes magicians do while executing ng elmsley count.

first common mistake is the first and second finger clipping the card and the
second mistake is not squaring the packets

just check the video for reference

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what is the first name of the inventor of elmsley count? (the answer is the password)

also in the video is the different handling of elmsley count (theres a lot more handling of elmsley count but i only put the most common i see).

i wish that this video can help you improve your elmsley count

ok thats all for now. if you have any sleights that you want me to tackle just pm me
and ill do it.

my first cardistry video

last night i was bored so i was thinking what can i do, so i said to my self i'll just
shoot a video about cardistry, i picked my cam and tripod then some lights and viola im ready to shoot. i've video shoot for almost 30mins then proceed to edit in my computer using sony vegas 8.0 this is my first time editing in sony vegas so i tried everything i know to accomplish what i want.

the video consist of my currently favorite flourishes like:
squeeze
ragnarok
anaconda dribble
the werm
sicked and twisted wings of the mockingbird
00.327.000
akira
pandora
curly cue

all of that flourishes are from:
daren yeow and kevin ho of the virtouso
dan and dave buck
bone ho
and mr paul lepaul

ok some info about my cardistry life, i started practising seriously just last june so it would be 2 months of non stop pracitising(ouch my hands hurts)
i liked cardistry for 2 reasons:

*first is because i love hard moves and its such a fullfilment for me when i finished something like the flourishes above

*second is because i like it when i saw someone doing cardistry in any videos



i named this video cardisTRY with the "try" word capitalized because i want to have the word cardistry a meaning with this video with is "trycks(me) is TRYing to do cardistry"

i hope you like it,
-trycks

my favorite flourish :D

right now im into flourishing and i just want to share to you guys whats my favorite flourishes out there, and heres my list and review:


pandora - from DnD's dvd trilogy, i like it because of the crabshack and the tornado its beautiful flourish when done smoothly. practicing for about 1 and a half months now and im getting better at it =D

sick and twisted wings of the mockingbird -this flourish is created by kevin ho, i like it because of its long name (joke) i like it because of its movement and the flow of the flourish, this flourish is inspired by daren yeows mockingbird and sean and scott sicked and twisted and i think because its really different i think they call this kind of flourishing "single card cuts" i still learning it right now i hope i can do it after a month

dalena - heres another favorite of mine from youtube user name "thinhv12" which i think is much better than the sick and twisted wings of the mockingbird (s&%^t long name) that has a card production

oo.327.000 - another flourish from DnD dvd the system i liked it because of the packets movement, rolling twisting packets. if your think i've forgot to add a link nope i just cant find any video of it lol

molecule 4 - DnD dvd trilogy again as usual i like it because of its flow and also its easy :D

anaconda dribble - this is from bone ho, i like it because theres no one doing it in our group not until i did it, also because of the length of this dribble right now i can do it 2 feet................... no link again try to search for yourself LAZY

well that's all the flourishes that i like and prctising right now. i hope you like it also, see you till my next post

clipshift

i first became interested in this move when i've seen the trick "the queens" by dan and dave the last vanish of the queen made me say "putcha pano nya ginawa yun"(wow how did he do that?) then i researched whats the name of that trick which led me to the name clipshift.

clipshift is created by chad nelson, the clipshift is a versatile move that can do vanish, control and i think it depends on your imagination. this move is unpublish but
there will be a dvd named surfaced by chad nelson which will be released this june or july the producer is none other than the buck twins :D. this dvd teach the clipshift and other tricks by chad nelson.

check the last vanish

*my asher twist (modified)

this is my variation of the asher twist, i can't do the original asher twist because i always flash the twisting part so i make my own variation that i think is much better because i can do it slower and almost sorrounded.

hope you enjoy!

*finally i found it (invisible one hand pass)

at first i thought a pass cant be an invisible move, then i saw many videos of pass
that is really invisible, i said to myself... so it can be done but how about a one hand pass? then i research over the internet to find the answer to my question.

i've seen many different kinds of one hand pass like one hand dive shift by richard turner( RICHARD TURNER'S SHIFTS, HOPS AND MAGIC PASSES DVD) but it has a cover of the other hand, the blink shift by tom wolf but the grip is awkward almost like biddle grip but different, The Vernon One Handed Shift from the book Vernon Chronicles vol. 1 page 25, erdnase one handed pass where i saw it in dai vernon revelation don't remember what vol is it and finally the solitary pass by tom stone when i first saw it i said to myself this is what im looking for^_^ i know that this is a hard sleight and nearly impossible for me because of my small hands but i want to do this pass so i search where to learn it, it is in magic magazine june 2006 issue. but cant find a copy of it only after a 1 year i got a scan copy of solitary pass and its only today. after knowing the method it is almost the same as the other one handed pass/shift but with only sleight differents in grip but i like the angle of this, there's a good angle where the move is nearly invisible.

im going to add this to my sleights if i can do it perfectly, for now i'll just keep practicing ^_^

solitary pass