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Learn and perform a trick day 3

0 Comments Posted by Steven Blair Thursday 27 February 2014 at 21:06

Hello people of the interwebs its Steven back again with yet another blog post. This post is going to be 100% aimed at magicians so apologies in advance to my non magician readers.

Today's trick is from a book that was published in 2004 and contains one of my favourite stage tricks and some great essays. 

Today's trick is from a book called "Random Acts Of Magic" by David Acer  and it the trick can be found on page 88. The name of the trick is "The Flipwiches of eastwick". 

The trick was rather difficult to learn but that was my own fault once I read it properly it was very easy to learn. This trick involves a move called "Flipwiche" and this is very cool I like it a lot but it is rather difficult to do. 

I performed this trick for a friend who hasn't seen me do much magic and she really liked it. I did this as a middle trick and I think this is where I think it works best. Overall great trick.

Will it stay in my act? Yes, I will keep this in my act but I won't do it all the time.

Well guys that's it from. I will be back tomorrow with day 4 of learning and performing a skipped over trick. Until then see you tomorrow. 

learning and performing a trick I have skipped over day 2

0 Comments Posted by Steven Blair Wednesday 26 February 2014 at 20:23

Hello people of the interwebs its Steven back again with yet another blog post. This post is going to be 100% aimed at magicians so apologies in advance to my non magician readers.

As promised yesterday here is day one of learning and performing a trick I have skipped over.

Today's trick is freon a book that was published way back in 1979 by the man who owns my local magic shop, Mr Roy Walton. Today's trick is from a book called "that certain something" and it can be found on page 13. The name of the trick is "smiling mule". 



Let me start off by saying this trick uses a move that a lot of magicians panic about getting caught on not once but twice. With that being said the scond time you do it you have so much misdirection because of a joke that's incorporated in the routine.  

The trick is a good one and it was very easy to learn. I performed this trick for some people in my college class. When I did the first phase with the joke I got the response of " really? Come on do a real trick". This gave sme so much misdirection to do the stuff that needed done. The trick did get a "oh that's cool" response but I think this would get better reactions from a different audience.   

Will this remain in my act? Well yes and no, I would like to play around with it for a few weeks and see how it plays for different audiences and if it gets the reaction I expect then I will keep it in my act.

Well guys that's it from me for today tune in tomorrow for another post.

Thanks 
Steven.

Learn and perform a trick. Day one

0 Comments Posted by Steven Blair Tuesday 25 February 2014 at 21:22

Hello people of the interwebs its Steven back again with yet another blog post. This post is going to be 100% aimed at magicians so apologies in advance to my non magician readers.

As promised yesterday here is day one of learning and performing a trick I have skipped over.

Today's trick is from a book I have had just over a year called "gold dust the very best of Paul Gordon." 

Let me start off by saying I am a huge fan of Paul's work and I think he has some great stuff some of which I even use while out working. That being said a lot of Paul's stuff is very procedural and I am not a fan of magic where you have to either deal or spell to stuff so as a lot of stuff Paul dose uses these concepts it was hard for me to find a trick I liked. I then found a trick called "strollers delight" which can be found on page 245. 

This is a nice trick and was easy to learn.i spent my morning reding, learning and practicing this trick. I was in town and stopped by a coffee shop that I am a regular in and they know I am a magician so I knew they would expect me to do a little something. When I arrived it was very quiet so Dean who was serving asked for a trick as I started Samantha who was also working stopped so I went into strollers delight as my opener. I changed the end phase a little to fit the situation. The trick was well received and Dean freaked out (like he always does) when he saw his card was in between the aces. 

Over all great trick and good reactions. Will I use this again probably sometime but it won't be a regular feature of my act as I do a trick by another magician that is very similar. 

Well guys that's it from me. I will be back tomorrow with another card trick. This time one from a book that every magician should read. 

Thanks 
Steven.  

Welcome back mr Steven Blair

0 Comments Posted by Steven Blair at 01:19

Hello people of the interwebs its Steven back again with yet another blog post. This post is going to be 100% aimed at magicians so apologies in advance to my non magician readers.

So let me first apologise for being away for a long time life has just be crazy of the past few months with college, magic and personal issues. To see what I have been up to since we last spoke check out my social medias. 

Now this blog post is me issuing a challenge to myself. Let me explain, as a magician I have loads and I mean loads of magic books and DVDs that I have briefly skimmed over and I feel that I have probably missed out on some great tricks. So my plan is to learn a new trick each day for a week and perform it for a stranger. After I have done this I will write a post about the trick, how the performance went and if I will keep doing the trick or not. 

          Just some or my magic collection.

I think this will be a great learning curve for me in magic and will hopefully help expand my arsenal of tricks and also encourage me to practice a lot more. 

Well guys that's it for me but I will see you all tomorrow for my first trick of the week.