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EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 2195 Posts |
How many times would you estimate you have performed the trick that you've done the most throughout your life?
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davidpaul$ Inner circle Georgetown, South Carolina 3086 Posts |
CTW over 20,000
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fonda57 Inner circle chicago 3078 Posts |
I made up a transposition thing so I could end with the Williamson Cards to pocket. done that one for around ten years.
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Poof-Daddy Inner circle Considering Stopping At Exactly 5313 Posts |
Couldn't begin to guess how many times but probably Twisting the Aces, Alex Elmsley's 4 card trick or Red Hot Mama (Chicago Opener). I do and almost always have opened with one of these three every performance for well over 25 years now.
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Churken2 New user 67 Posts |
I have been doing a two person transpo for 20 years. It is my go to card effect. I probably do it 1000 per year.
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jim ferguson Veteran user Ayrshire, Scotland 386 Posts |
I'm not sure how many, but I've been using "There It Is" from Royal Road for just over thirty years now.
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Ferry Gerats Regular user the Netherlands 190 Posts |
Crostwaithe's Think-a-card. With tradeshow work that's the one trick I do all day and I've been doing tradeshow work for 40 years.
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corpmagi Special user New York 725 Posts |
Card to Wallet. Probably more than 25,000 times....with the same wallet!
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4385 Posts |
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On Apr 5, 2018, corpmagi wrote: You mean the same actual wallet, or the same style of wallet? My wallets only last 3-5 years max. Maybe they just don't make wallets like they used to? What wallet do you use? KJ |
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4385 Posts |
I have done an ACAAN routine for 47 years. I've almost got it down.
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corpmagi Special user New York 725 Posts |
Quote: On Apr 6, 2018, 1KJ wrote:
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corpmagi Special user New York 725 Posts |
It’s actually the same wallet. It’s the Kaps Working Performers Card to Wallet from Ken Brooke. It was a gift when I was a teen. The outside held up really well, but the lining on the inside took a beating. I originally used cloth tape to repair, but even that wore out eventually. I recently took the wallet to a leather worker and they repaired it properly and replaced the lining and fixed some stitching. It’s better than the day I got it 43 years ago!
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4385 Posts |
That's amazing.
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EllisJames52 New user Pittsburgh PA 51 Posts |
I do my ACAAN way too often. I worry it’s become a crutch
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Chollet Regular user Don't be fooled by the fact I only have 191 Posts |
Magic has been an on-again, off-again thing for me over the past 30 years (currently on-again). Hard to estimate the total number of performances but Red Hot Mama, my variation of Twisting the Aces, and Card Warp are the ones I have performed the most. 1000's of times.
A friend recently shared with me this piece of advice, "When you feel like the trick is starting to get boring, that is when it is finally getting good!" |
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4385 Posts |
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On Apr 9, 2018, Chollet wrote: I'm being light hearted here, but God, I HATE that advice. I think that if my magic isn't exciting to me, I need to move on. Life is too short to be plodding along doing things that are boring to us. That's just my two cents. KJ |
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts |
I've been PERFORMING for $ for over 70 years. I made a good living for over 5O years,performing, AND, I'VE NEVER BEEN BORED PERFORMING, ANY TRICKS. In those early days, I experimented with many tricks. As I learned, I "polished" PRESENTATIONS, and, cut many tricks from the "act". I am very comfortable with the tricks'/routines, that "survived", but, I've never been bored, performing them.
I can understand what Chollet was saying, but, I think that he could have used a better word than "boring"! A more positive expression, might be "comfortable"! One Christmas season, I went with Jay Marshall to see him do Punch & Judy, at a department store in down town Chicago. It was GREAT! (Jay learned P&J from Al Flosso.) After the first of a "3 show day", we had a quick lunch in the store Caféteria. Jays Punch, had run about 13 minutes. (He hadn't done it since the previous Christmas, and had inadvertently "skipped" a few of the bits. He wanted to do at least 15 minutes. The store executive was most pleased and happy, but Jay wanted to fill the time on the contract. He hadn't brought the magic act prop case, and, we were brainstorming for a 2 minute bit, with none of his standard act. I saw the paper napkin dispenser on the table, and said, "How about the T&R napkins? Jay said, "Well, that's good, but, I would need to THINK!" We finally came up with something suitable. Thinking about it later, I realized that even though he was great at ad libs, he felt that he needed more than an ad lib presentation. I can adlib, too, but I only do that when I NEED to. I much prefer to stick with my "comfortable" material! Now to answer the OP's ???....I learned from the late Roy Shrimplin, one of my early "mentors", Joe Ovette's "Repeat Knots" (a "dollar trick") in 1946. I must have performed it, over 30,000 times, (maybe more!). I am VERY COMFORTABLE with it! It's a funny two minutes, and, it ALWAYS plays strong. (People "talk about it", after the show!) I don't heed to "think" about it", when I do it. It plays for all ages. IT MEETS MY PERFORMING CRITERIA!!!
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Ed Oschmann Inner circle Lake Worth FL 1011 Posts |
My take on The Chicago Opener called Yours Truly in the April 2016 issue of Linking Ring:
https://vimeo.com/158105573 Or http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/7993 Can't even estimate how many times... |
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obrienmagic Special user 752 Posts |
My most performed trixk is prolly ambitipus card simply because it was the first real SOH trick I learned. Have no idea how many times but been perfoming it for over 10 years.
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Mr Salk Special user Tied to 568 Posts |
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On Apr 9, 2018, Chollet wrote: I'm reminded of what a compact little power-house Card Warp is. I'll be mixing it in more.
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