What's your opinion of this trick?

[loverboy]

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[traumatised-magic]

well to a magician its obvious, u obviously never get shown the cards he just shows the front one and says he has 2 blank cards (covers the cut out with his hand)

he actually has 3 cards obviously, and the one with lods fo cut outs is always on top, but because of the back design of the front card showin thru it basically blends in and u never notice the cut outs are already there

[loverboy]

Too cutesy? I think women might like it

[traumatised-magic]

i dunno, i guess but thats what oriental magicians are all about, they like the sophisticated gentle, smooth and peaceful tricks cause that is what their culture is like. where as pretty much the rest of the world likes fast paced extreme tricks that really shock people out of their pants.

im sure u could adapt teh idea of the trick into somethin else

[Bobofthetram]

I like the Subtlety of this Trick it would be found amusing byt Children and
women yes as it is a bit cutesy. But there is more you could do with this
trick, such as folding the card into an origami bird and then making it "fly"
using invisible thread.

Just a Couple of ideas i guess.

[professor808]

i dunno, i guess but thats what oriental magicians are all about, they like the sophisticated gentle, smooth and peaceful tricks cause that is what their culture is like. where as pretty much the rest of the world likes fast paced extreme tricks that really shock people out of their pants.

I think thats a little raciest, every Asian magician i have ever met ( and i have met many) is into hardcore fast sleight of hand that makes you shit your pants. Not once has any of my Asian friends shown me a trick about doves or bull shit like that.

[traumatised-magic]

I think thats a little raciest, every Asian magician i have ever met ( and i have met many) is into hardcore fast sleight of hand that makes you shit your pants. Not once has any of my Asian friends shown me a trick about doves or bull shit like that.

its not racist at all, i have study many famous magicans books, i have 5x5 japan, among other oriental magicians in my collection and yes they are all for the fast paced and impressive sleight of hand but they are not tricks, the tricks they use those sleights for are usually less extreme than many tricks u would see form magicians in other parts of the world, i'd love to see u prove me wrong i really would but even lookin at chinese and japanese lifestyles u can tell they are much more gentle. i personally havent seen any oriental magicians use doves or things like that, but the chinese and japanese are famous for origami, now thats some hardcore shit right there lol

i'd love to see soem videos of the tricks u have seen

[BlindDodo]

its not racist at all, i have study many famous magicans books, i have 5x5 japan, among other oriental magicians in my collection and yes they are all for the fast paced and impressive sleight of hand but they are not tricks, the tricks they use those sleights for are usually less extreme than many tricks u would see form magicians in other parts of the world, i'd love to see u prove me wrong i really would but even lookin at chinese and japanese lifestyles u can tell they are much more gentle. i personally havent seen any oriental magicians use doves or things like that, but the chinese and japanese are famous for origami, now thats some hardcore shit right there lol

i'd love to see soem videos of the tricks u have seen

Yeh, it's not racist at all.
It's true; oriental magic does typically have an amazing sort of "grace" to it. I think it's beautiful.

Equally I agree with professor808; I know a japanese guy who can do crazy shit with cards.

Tto suggest all asian people fit into either type would be stereotyping, but nobody is doing that.

[Bobofthetram]

I think that the Hardcoreness, If that's a word that you are talking about are
parts of XCM, which often Japanese/Chinese Magicians are good at because
of how much they really practise.

Now XCM isn't really classified as tricks but mostly dealing techniques,
flourishes and more of the like. So Yes you are right they are hardcore
when it comes to cards in a sense, but i saw a japanese magician in
Brisbane once, he didn't speak a word throughout the entire show and was
slowly walking around with his cane but the tricks he did were very similar
to lance burton's but he made them his own.