The Rules of Magic Illusions for Beginners

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Hi! This is Dave Foydel with expertvillage.com. In this next clip you will learn the rules of magic. At first I want to say thanks for coming and checking this out, for having a bit of magic interest to learn some of the tricks that I just taught you. Magic is a great hobby; something that you can carry with you the rest of your life. I would like to tell you about a couple of rules with magic. Rule number one of course is never tell your secrets, now you are sitting there probably saying wait a minute, you just taught me about 12 tricks. Well this a little different because you had an interest and came and searched me out and looked for the tricks, so that is why I taught the tricks to you. But your buddy who you showed one of this tricks to, says how did you do it? If you tell him, that is it, that is as far as he will go he will never try and learn the trick to perform it or take the time invest in this trick, he just wants to know the quick solution, and it is just never a good idea to just rattle off how you did tricks. Number two, is never do the same trick twice. There are always exceptions to rules but I kind of live by this one. The first time you do the trick they are watching for enjoyment, they have never seen how it works, are what does, so they are watching and just enjoy but once they have seen the trick, the second time, now they are trying to figure out your trick. They want to know how you did it and they know they are going to catch you the second time, and the chances are they probably will; a lot of tricks really shouldn’t do twice. Rule number three is always practice your tricks. Practice them as much as you can. I always have a basic rule with myself I will try to do a trick at least 10 times in a row perfect before I show it to anyone, that way there I know I will be confident when I do it. Now make sure you are doing the trick right though, because people say practice makes perfect, but I think practice makes permanence, that is what the old magicians told me, so if you practice it wrong enough times it will be wrong forever. As far as getting more into magic, I really encourage you to go visit your local magic shop. There are shops all over the country, they stock full of great materials, books, DVDs, tricks, One of my favorite books, first book I ever had, was the Mark Wilson’s Complete Course of Magic. A lot of those tricks I taught today were from that book, it is an excellent, excellent book. Royal Magic makes a lot of great magic tricks as far as getting into stuff so it is just some really good things you can up there, so have fun and hope you entertain them. Thanks.

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