Successful ambition card routine

[thaiboxerken]

I just did a successful ambitious card routing to some some other bar-patrons sitting here at the bar (wifi is cool). Anyway, I finished the routine but was a bit put off by a guy who looked cynical, like he knew or saw exactly what I was doing. It disturbed me a bit, until he took the deck of cards from my hand after it was over and looked to find that it was a trick deck.. which it was not. It was very much a satisfying feeling. I love doing magic!

 

[firecoins]

I did two effects on stage, one with a gimmicked deck and one with a normal deck in mnemonic order. The guys asked to see the deck in mnemonic order whioch was fine because it was a normal deck with a random appearence. It helped strengthen both effect because there was nothing for him to find.

 

[thaiboxerken]

I confused a guy with the "Invisible Deck" effect in much the same way, I did a deck-switch to prove to him that the deck was not gaffed. That was a fun thing to do as well.

 

[JPK]

Good afternoon.
At the rate I'm going, I will probably be confident enough in my d/l and p*** in about 10 years to actually try it for someone.
It's pretty sad that I just recently decided to start working with cards. Should have started this 35 years ago.
JPK

 

[NeilC]

As an adult you have one big advantage over younger people and that is calmness and organisation. I actually find learning some things easier now I'm older. Unlearning bad habits is WAY harder than learning from scratch. This is one thing magic taught me - the quality of practice is more important than the quantity. No point in doing 1000 DL's badly - all it teaches you is to do it badly. Younger people have a problem grasping this, well I did anyway.

Re: DLs. I gave up bothering trying to do strike or other no-get-ready DLs ages ago. These days I just structure the the handling to provide a get ready. 90% of the time this involves me saying something like "...somewhere in the deck.." and spreading the cards a bit, get a b**** and it's done. No fumbling, no sleight-guilt. Under fire I find the certainty to be worth a lot.

 

[firecoins]

you don't need a p--- to do a good ambitious card routine. I don't do a p--- but have a decent routine. True having a p--- makes it better.

 

[Brown]

Let me recommend trying Larry Jennings's "Ambitious Classic." Basically, you do a couple of ambitious card moves with the full deck, then say something like: "There's too many cards."

So you pull five cards out of the deck (say, the ace through five of spades) and do it with five: You push a card into the middle of the packet (and show it explicitly going into the packet), but then suddenly that card appears on the top of the packet. But there's still too many cards, so you set one card aside and do it again with four cards. And so on. As you eliminate cards, there are some variations in the presentation, and the mystery deepens. When you finally get down to the last card, you turn it over and the spectators see that it isn't one of the five cards you started with.

This is not a "packet trick" in the sense that any of the cards is gaffed. They are authentic cards that can be pulled out of a borrowed deck and the trick can be performed impromptu.

The moves are all pretty easy. The only one that requires quite a bit of practice to perform confidently is the block push-off.