Thread: Ask me about magic/performing

aha..
Probably David Blaines card switch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Tq9l8ZWTc

Or the raven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfzHU_gcvZg

I love his reaction in the raven!!! Priceless! lol

LMAO at raven...

The card switch got good reactions too...

Yeah I use it all the time. When they want me to do it again, I usually will for old people.
But if its teens Ill have them step on it, so they don't turn it over before climax.
Magic, is like strategy you know? Its more than tricks.. Like David Blaine, he uses speech techniques to gain peoples trust and stuff like that.

Hey, Mike!

I was wondering if you could critique my, I dunno, palming?

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

What's your method of palming something from one hand to another to make it disappear?

Thanks!

Nice bottle coin trick

Do you do any passive gimmick stuff?
Like black-widow/raven, loops, even Yigal's electric thingy?

Also, in the case of busking, do you do any bigger circle stuff, or stick to close up?

Hey, Mike!

I was wondering if you could critique my, I dunno, palming?

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

What's your method of palming something from one hand to another to make it disappear?

Thanks!

certainly!
That would be called the French drop. Usually used with coin. After you do a French drop, the object ends up in Finger palm. Only thing you need to do
-Draw the hand that "Has" the coin up and away from the hand that truly is if you catch my drift..
-Drop the hand with it by your side, with your fingers as loose as possible.
Other than that your presentation was great!!! Most people dont even use presentation in magic, We call them Crotch Magicians, Because all you see is there crotch.
If you are getting into magic, you should pick this book up
http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=535
Its a great book by a French Magician J.B. Bobo!

Nice bottle coin trick

Thanks The support is great!

Do you do any passive gimmick stuff?
Like black-widow/raven, loops, even Yigal's electric thingy?

Also, in the case of busking, do you do any bigger circle stuff, or stick to close up?

I dont have a black-Widow, But I sometimes use a raven, and I dont normally use loops, there so expensive! And yeah I do use Yigals Electric touch!

Normally when I go out and busk, I start with close-up effects to draw my edge crowd, I then tell them to clap and cheer for me, and thay get a free show, well let the ones after them pay..
This lets them know that there suppose to pay, and its not really a free show.
You only pay if you like the show, I tell them to.
But yeah after the close-up and I get my edge of about 15-20. I do a Quick head count, But make it into a joke, Ill say something like "Ok ralph we have enough, everyone line up in a single file line, and get int the truck" (if theres a truck near. But I let them know its a joke)
I dont perform to many tricks, I want them leaving wanting more.
I normally hop around saying stuff like "Come here watch this!!! Its great! Trust me I seen it before!!!" "Its ok to come close, I am an American" stuff like that. I get alot of those lines from Gazzos book "read between the lines".