Reddit reviews The Royal Road to Card Magic

Used to do card magic long ago. Having the muscle memory for classic forces is nice, but if you want to incorporate this kind of thing, there are a lot of super simple to do forces that require little to no practice to do effectively.

Edit: If you want to get into doing this, a great place to start is The Royal Road to Card Magic. Its a phenomenal book for beginners and intermediate skill. It was written back in the 40's and covers a lot of the basic foundations of card manipulation.

The Royal Road to Card Magic by Hugard & Braue

If you practice all the things this book has to offer then you will have an amazing foundation in card magic.

Modern Coin Magic by J.B. Bobo

This is a must have if you want to begin learning coin magic.

At some point I would also suggest The Books of Wonder by Tommy Wonder, pricey, but his philosophy on magical thinking is worth it alone. I am a tad biased however because he is my favorite magician after all. :)

I'm weary of suggesting YouTubers but one I will recommend is Jay Sankey

YouTube — Jay Sankey

I hope this helps and welcome back!

Check out Royal Road to Card Magic. I started studying card magic January of this year and just this week someone recommended this to me and I was like “THIS is what I have needed!” It starts you off with beginner’s moves and tricks and gradually builds up as you go, providing a good level of focus to your journey. Before this I was just all over the place watching YouTube tutorials with no real sense of direction.


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learn the double undercut and the overhand shuffle... A good place to start in general is The Royal Road to Card Magic

Learn an Ambitious Card routine for the older kids.

Were you using a French Drop to make the coin disappear? If not, try that. Otherwise, Modern Coin Magic is the classic text.

EDIT: I happen to know how to do an ACR and a lot of other card tricks. Learned it from this book.