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Glenn Bishop

Here are a few thoughts about putting together a magic routine. I look at routining an act like stringing a handful of beads. Each bead is a routine. The most important part is the string - the string is the performer and the personality of the performer. I make out a list - I want a strong beginnin...

Glenn Bishop

Yes - overlooked Jon and under-used in favor of other shuffle work - IMHO.

Glenn Bishop

The Triumph shuffle.

The shuffle not the trick.

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

This is just my opinion and it is not going to be a popular one. It is better to know one trick without any sleights and be able to perform it well. Then 50 tricks with sleights that a person is not able to do well or not at all. Harry Lorayne's Lazy Man's Card trick and Paul Curry's Out of this wor...

Glenn Bishop

The question is - @Glenn Bishop Just curious, what can a 12 card stock do for magic, other than like spelling tricks? ............ G.B. I don't use the Erdnase 12 card stock technique - however the idea inspired 6 different poker deals that I do use in my own work. The question is - I want to learn ...

Glenn Bishop

I think that only you can answer your question about Erdnase - asdf. Me I like my copy of Revelations that I got in the 80's. This is Erdnase with Dai Vernon's comments. It is a book that I enjoy reading and re-reading. The Erdnase 12 card stock has inspired 6 different routines that I use in my own...

Glenn Bishop

Here is another opinion about presenting gambling magic or card shark demo's for a lay audience. In my opinion many that do this kind of work that I have seen over the years - are in my opinion way, way to technical. I don't consider real card cheating overly complicated. The harder and more technic...

Glenn Bishop

Magic books about 80.
DVD's less than 20.

How many magic books have I written? I have written 8 books and produced 9 DVD's.

I also don't practice magic - I own a magic practice.

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

Jonathan I would put that presentation in the same file as cheating or winning by magic. Rather than winning by skill. In my opinion winning by magic is strongest by having the win as a "magical happening". Giving a member of the audience or a spectator a "good luck charm" is a v...

Glenn Bishop

This is just my opinion - but I have seen some magicians have the technical skill - but they lack the ability to entertain the audience. Jack Pyle told me a story (and his son also talked about this at one time) about how he spent "money" on cheating tools such as hold outs to do a gamblin...

Glenn Bishop

To answer your question - as doing a show. I have found it very good to bridge the gap between the two subjects of magic and gambling. In a formal close up show I do magic first - the show runs sort of like this. Chop dice cup, Magic card tricks, matrix, ring on a stick, the shellgame, poker deals (...

Glenn Bishop

I would say YES! Even when my Mom and my wife married a magician. My three sisters all thought magic was great - but magicians were warped, strange, egotistical and most of them did not make enough money. I would not like my daughter to marry a magician or even date one - however I would not like he...

Glenn Bishop

My dad called it the triple challenge escape. There were a lot of gags he did using the two audience helpers. He used the abbots canvas covered box with a special red canvas cover. He did it in Circus, Night clubs, banquets and in just about every show and venue one can imagine. In my opinion withou...

Glenn Bishop

Thanks Brad - This is a time I am thinking about my own advertising and your posts gave me a lot of food for thought.

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

Sorry I would never be interested - did you not try this before with a triumph shuffle blog? And I said I was not interested then?

Talk about slow.

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

Yes - May you be as happy with your culling and stacking technique as I am with mine mrgoat.

Good Luck With a Book and DVD's On Your culling and stacking technique.

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

Good.

I still love it!

Cheers!

Glenn Bishop

mrgoat wrote:Here you go Glenn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvGWJIIOZI

Just my opinion.

Well then MrGoat - I hope your as happy with your cull stack and video as I am with mine!

Just my opinion!

Glenn Bishop

The thing about my goal - was that there is a difference between culling and stacking in riffle shuffle work. Here is the basic stacking method that is the root of the technique that is on the video that many dont like that is at my web site. Being a Dai Vernon fan for many years I liked his triumph...

Glenn Bishop

For a time, this thread was hilarious to read. It has not been hilarious from my point of view. Now, it has just been going on too long. Glenn, no matter how many different videos you post of this type of material, I don't think it is going to become widely accepted as the sort of thing to do in fr...

Glenn Bishop

And if I may add - The writing up of practical culling and stacking shuffle work is very rare - in my own opinion the work that went into the Triumph shuffle book - Glenn Bishops ace cutting and block transfer triumphs and on the 2 DVDs that followed was very good. Just because it dealt with the pro...

Glenn Bishop

Not at this time If I may add - the punch can be used to cull cards for riffle shuffle work (also sand work). However the end result of most of my experimentation in this is much like using the punch with a strike second. Let me explain my opinion on this. When a punch is used with a second deal (li...

Glenn Bishop

Punched Out (Double duke) Here is an example of how I use the punch cull in action. The situation is that I am performing card magic at a formal close up show. Someone says - I wouldnt gamble with him. That to me is the perfect opportunity to do a gambling routine. I ask someone to take a card - the...

Glenn Bishop

I am going to take a moment to talk about Jack Pyle. When he performed close up he used only a deck of cards. His act was card magic - take a card tricks - he made a running gag out of card to pocket and card to wallet. And he also did poker and bridge deals. When he performed he liked to sit down. ...

Glenn Bishop

Here is a really old video of me demo - of the punch cull stack before I added the kicker. It is after the scissor bottom deal. I think I started to work this out before the troll was born. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.mrhypnotist.org/video/glennbishopbottomdeal.wmv">http://www.mrh...

Glenn Bishop

My dad was a member of a club in Chicago called the three sheeters. Jack Pyle, Jay Marshall, Don Alan, Celeste Evens and many other magicians, vents, comedy acts, agents and other people connected to show business were also members. Like me - John Ivan Palmer - I met him when he was Jack Jr. And we ...

Glenn Bishop

Sorry I do not respond to trolls.

Glenn Bishop

No it isn't.

Glenn Bishop

Speaking about my mentor Jack Pyle - Here is rare footage of Jack Pyle doing his world famous bridge deal using the punch. I think that Jack Pyle as a magician used made more money dealing the punch at shows at that time than any other working magician in Chicago. <a class="postlink" href=...

Glenn Bishop

Speaking of shuffle work many magicians know that the push through shuffle can be used to block off and block transfer - and be used as a cull - as in the Stevens cull that was in the Magic Words copy of Revelations by Vernon and Erdnase. Jack Pyle was the magician that showed me how to do the push ...

Glenn Bishop

What are the three greatest card tricks? I would pick Out of this world - Card Warp - and the ambitious card. A card trick to show a magician? Most of the time when two magicians meet for the first time - a game of dueling magicians starts - each wanting to top the other. Single card trick - Glenn B...

Glenn Bishop

For a five card stud demo using the triumph shuffle as a cull stack I cull and stack from the discards or using the discards to make up a slug and culling and stacking from that. In a 5 card stud demo I use the triumph shuffle cull and stack to do that. Five hands are dealt as an explanation of the ...

Glenn Bishop

Here is another Texas holdem demo that can be done with the triumph cull and stack from a slug. The four aces are about four to six cards from the top. Cull the first ace and as you triumph block transfer it to the top drop one card on it. Then cull the next as and as you block transfer drop 5 cards...

Glenn Bishop

One of the more interesting things in the movie the Cincinnati Kid with Steve McQueen, Joan Blondell and Edward G. Is a segment when Joan Blondell deals a relief dealer in the showdown game. The shot cuts to a close up of what appears to be Joan Blondell (Lady Fingers) and she does some card fans an...

Glenn Bishop

That shoulder holster is a very interesting idea. I use a side bag that hangs over the shoulder for walk around. It holds the props I do not carry in my pockets. For a formal close up show I add a second side bag and they are both connected together with a strap that has snaps on it and they become ...

Glenn Bishop

Hi Michael, I have a LePaul wallet. I don't know if it works the same way but if you are looking for some kind of routine to do with a card to wallet - Many magicians use the card to wallet as a climax to the ambitious card. As a single palm I would suggest using the Marlo Convincing control and the...

Glenn Bishop

Well I still wouldnt do a chair suspension and a broomstick suspension in the same show. Just as I would not do a sword box and a temple and an arrow head or dagger head chest in the same program. Just as I wouldnt do an aga and an asra - even when they may be combined. Getting back to Doug Henning ...

Glenn Bishop

Because Jack Gwynne was a trend setter. In my opinion the same as Doug Henning who was also a trend setter. And yes I agree Don Alan was also a trend setter and many magicians I have known over the years have said that they think that Don Alan was the most copied magician there ever was. But that to...

Glenn Bishop

Hoop with asra - check out the movie A Haunting we will go (Stan and Ollie and Dante) and watch Dante the Great do the asra (if I remember right) with a hoop. However I do respect Henning as a trend setter as a person that did magic in a very young and high energy style. Just as I respect Servais Le...

Glenn Bishop

I saw the Blackstone Jr. Show several times. However the only comment I am going to make at this time is about the levitation of the floating lady or person. I remember Blackstone did the asra. This as I remember was the only levitation illusion (using a person) that as I remember that he did in his...

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