Creating orignial sleights or moves

Kieran Oloughlin · 04-01-2011, 11:02 AM

Hey!
Ever sense I started to create my own tricks I have been trying to create a new sleght. Harder than I thought

. Anway I was mucking around with my cards this morning at the bus stop and I tried something AND IT WORKED

! I created a shift in which you push the card into the deck dribble the cards and it is on the bottom. Am am worried that someone else may have created it and I jsut re thought of some elses idea.

Anyway, how do you guys make new sleights does it just come to you or do you think of your goal and work to achieve it and any tips for creating new ones.

Albert · 04-01-2011, 11:37 AM

Personally, almost all the sleights I came upon just happened by pure coincidence. I was just playing around with some old moves or just got bored and was showing off by myself in front of a mirror and it came to me.

From then on, I would improve on it if I thought it was useful.

But, it really is difficult to come up with new sleights

la0o9 · 04-01-2011, 12:02 PM

Same goes for me( tho i've only made 2 sleights, both of which aren't that hard to figure out if you're a magician imo), i simply played around a bit with the sleights i know( or was trying to perfect an old sleight), and it came to me. Sometimes i'd try and make up a sleight to replicate what another person have done( Mark's OTOTW for example), but they usually aren't that great.

Albert · 04-01-2011, 01:51 PM

The best way to come up with new sleights is to get high and start playing with the deck.

You know, many of the famous painters actually got their ideas by being high on stuff. That's why their stuff is so abstract!

04-01-2011, 11:02 AM	#1
Kieran Oloughlin Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Australia Posts: 414	Creating orignial sleights or moves Hey! Ever sense I started to create my own tricks I have been trying to create a new sleght. Harder than I thought. Anway I was mucking around with my cards this morning at the bus stop and I tried something AND IT WORKED! I created a shift in which you push the card into the deck dribble the cards and it is on the bottom. Am am worried that someone else may have created it and I jsut re thought of some elses idea. Anyway, how do you guys make new sleights does it just come to you or do you think of your goal and work to achieve it and any tips for creating new ones.

04-01-2011, 11:37 AM	#2
Albert DarkSleightZ Artist Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 671 Donor Score: 110	Personally, almost all the sleights I came upon just happened by pure coincidence. I was just playing around with some old moves or just got bored and was showing off by myself in front of a mirror and it came to me. From then on, I would improve on it if I thought it was useful. But, it really is difficult to come up with new sleights __________________ "Bluffing is an important act to all strategies." - Lelouch Lamperouge

04-01-2011, 12:02 PM	#3
la0o9 Move monkey atm Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Not where you'd want to go :P Posts: 747	Same goes for me( tho i've only made 2 sleights, both of which aren't that hard to figure out if you're a magician imo), i simply played around a bit with the sleights i know( or was trying to perfect an old sleight), and it came to me. Sometimes i'd try and make up a sleight to replicate what another person have done( Mark's OTOTW for example), but they usually aren't that great. __________________ "Doubt isn't the same as saying people are bad, it simply means you actually care, 100% trust is nothing more than ignorance"~ Akiyama Shinichi- Liar Game "It's not the destination but the road to it that is worth the trip" "Be careful what you wish for... it might just come true"~ old saying "It's a small world, but only relatively" "Reality is not the world, it is the way humankind depicts the world, thus when you alter a person's way of seeing the world, you alter reality itself"

04-01-2011, 01:51 PM	#4
Albert DarkSleightZ Artist Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 671 Donor Score: 110	The best way to come up with new sleights is to get high and start playing with the deck. You know, many of the famous painters actually got their ideas by being high on stuff. That's why their stuff is so abstract! __________________ "Bluffing is an important act to all strategies." - Lelouch Lamperouge