Routine needs some added presentation in order to astound the audience. I present a yardstick, show
the middle stripe to be in the center (which mine
isn't - a manufacturing error) so the
placement of my hand needs to cover the end of the yardstick to hide that the stick isn't exactly at
the end of the wand.
Another reason I do this, is due to another manufacturing error - a cap was
loose and the wand lost a lot of sand in the shipping. Enough sand was present to reach the middle
stripe, but not enough to look as good as the promo video.