Tricks for school

Struggling with an effect? Any tips (without giving too much away!) you'd like to share?

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Tricks for school

Postby Jayrd1290 » Sep 15th, '14, 17:26



Hi, I'm looking for tricks with a strong effect that I can do on friends and if they need a gimmick, then it is invisible from pretty much all angles and relatively cheap to buy (I'm 15 with not much money)
So far, I've got: Stuck Up Monte (Mark Mason), Clutch (Oz Pearlman), True Love (Oz Pearlman), Greed (Daniel Garcia), and then some more common ones like ACR, Biddle, Two card transpo etc.
Card tricks are ideal, but I find that when I start doing a trick on a friend, others will want to see and that often leads to some angle problems because it's hard to manage an audience full of teenagers in a classroom or outside- an extreme example was when I had 15+ people were surrounding the person I was doing Clutch on and I'm fairly sure that one of them saw the secret.

Any advice is much appreciated,

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby bmat » Sep 15th, '14, 21:07

Mark Wilson Course in Magic is the book I always recommend.

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby Mandrake » Sep 15th, '14, 22:43

bmat wrote:Mark Wilson Course in Magic is the book I always recommend.

Seconded.

Alternatively, or in addition, Nic Einhorn has released all encompassing books of magic:
Practical Encyclopedia of Magic (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/23132494 ... 108&ff19=0)
The Illustrated Compendium of Magic Tricks (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/36105003 ... 108&ff19=0)
How to Do Magic Tricks (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicholas-Einhor ... r_dp_pel_1)

All excellent quality stuff, mostly using props and materials easily found at home or bought for very low outlay. NB The links above are merely to show the cover and more detail of each book, Google around for lower prices, check out places like The Works and other discount bookshops where you can pick these works up at very reasonable and affordable prices. Dozens of magic items in each book, easy to construct or set up and straight-forward to perform. in fact you could assemble a very watchable act from these books.

If you go online with http://www.theworks.co.uk/p/childrens-i ... 1846811395 you'll see another one of Nic's books on sale for 99p - don't be put off by the references to children's magic, magic is magic and can be presented in ways suitable for many different ages!

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby Lady of Mystery » Sep 16th, '14, 14:43

Mark Wilson is always worth getting hold of. Also I'd really recommend any of Karl Fulves Self Working books, there's some very good stuff in those.

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby magicofthemind » Sep 17th, '14, 09:35

If you get hold of Fulves's SW Rope Magic (a misnomer, of course; no rope magic is self-working) you'll find a chapter devoted to the Hunter Knot. I learnt this when I was at school (from Hugard's Modern Magic Manual) and it has been my party piece for nearly 50 years. You can drive your schoolmates mad with it; it's one of the few effects you can show over and over again.

Also, in the same book, try Miller's Sliding Knots.

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby kartoffelngeist » Sep 19th, '14, 19:31

Jay Sankey has a big following among people looking for the same kind of audience as you. His effects tend to be very visual and good for angles. I'd definitely take a look at his website. He often does back to school offers etc.

Good teacher too, though I know he gets on some people's nerves.

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Re: Tricks for school

Postby Happy Madison » Sep 22nd, '14, 09:37

If you are confident with palming then I'd highly recommend 'Duck & Deal' by Harry Lorayne from his 'Best Of' range of DVD's. Have been performing this effect for years and even now it still utterly stuns people. Very simple effect, one that you can do anywhere at anytime and it really packs a punch. If you're not confident palming then simply start off 'pocketed'. Can't really say much more....

2 DVD's which I think are a must for great effects which are Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks, Volumes 1 & 2......not sure if there's a third.....somebody may know that. Anyway, 2 excellent effects which spring to mind are 'A Shuffling Lesson' which can be done as an opener (that's on volume 1) and there is a fantastic ANAAC routine on the second volume. Well worth the money for those two effects IMO.

Another DVD well worth the money is 'The Spiral Principle and Beyond'. The Spiral Principle is brilliant and there are so many effects and applications that can be used and worked with but IMO Beyond, which is an Out Of This World variation is really, really good. It just leaves people utterly stunned.

A few ideas there for you......

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