Kickback TicTac by Lee Smith available for Instant Download at Talkmagic TV - click here for detailsLee Smith is a full-time professional magician and regular poster on this forum. He is also a key part of the monthly London magic/hypno meets and an all round good guy, always willing to show and share ideas and routines. He performs fast entertaining magic and is a master of excellent patter and misdirection. I've seen (or rather not seen) him doing top changes in front of groups of magicians without anyone catching him - he's that good. As part of his approach to sharing information Lee has got some lectures coming up soon and the accompanying lecture notes are available for £10 in the "magicians only" section of his website (
http://www.walkaboutmagic.com).
The lecture notes PDF is 27 pages long and contains a number of routines plus general useful advice on doing walkabout magic (preparation, arrival, approach, etc). It's nicely laid out with photo illustrations where required.
The routines covered are as follows:
The Trick With No Name - An indifferent card magically jumps from the spectator’s hand and is replaced with their chosen card.
The Twirl Revelation - An indifferent card changes into the spectator’s chosen card right before their eyes.
Two Card Transposition - Two cards are lost in the deck then found and then they swap places.
Switch Trick - A stunning trick that uses one of the best glimpses of a card you will ever see.
Crazy Cuffs - A classic of magic explained and a borrowed ring jumps onto the band for a kicker ending.
Key To Amazement - A self-working miracle where a thought of card is
found under seemingly impossible conditions.
Trans-box-ition - A card jumps under the card box not once but twice and even escapes a spectator’s hand.
Just Think - Predict a card that the spectator merely thinks of and repeat the feat for an amazing kicker ending.
Business Lunch - Lee's preferred handling for the Out-to-Lunch principle leaving the spectator with the best memento they could have……your business card
Coming Together - Two signatures end up on the same card.
Bold Business - An amazing feat of mind power, leave the spectator thinking you really can read minds. A miracle using nothing more than a marker pen and some business cards.
There are no tough sleights required here and anything you might not have come across is explained in the notes (e.g. KM move).
All of these routines come from Lee's working repertoire and that means these notes can pick out the key points for maximum effect with the layman. The routines probably won't wow experienced magicians, but for the beginner to intermediate performer there's lots of top-class material that can go straight into your act.
The magic here doesn't require gimmicks and gaffs; just a standard deck, couple of rubber bands, a pen and your business cards. Basically these notes give you a workable walkabout set in one pocket - and all produced by an experienced performer rather than a "bedroom magician".
Well worth checking out.
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