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Hi all,

I'm fairly new to magic. I got interested about 8 months ago when I managed to amaze a few people at a party with a simple trick. Since then I've bought RRTCM, Card College 1 & 2 and a few DVD's. I'm slowly working my way through them and finding that what started out as just wanting to learn a few tricks, is now turning into a full time hobby. loving it though (not sure my girlfriend is quite as keen - I'm starting to get very strange looks when she walks into a room and I'm sitting there in front of a mirror with a pack of cards:-)

At the minute I'm focusing on practising a few basic sleights so I can hopefully get to the point where I don't think/worry about them when I do them in front of people. I think, like a lot of people, when I first started I was a bit guilty of learning a new trick, then rushing out to show people what I could do. And in many cases, totally messing it up. Back to the drawing board now and I'm trying to make sure I'm 100% confident about a trick before I show anyone.

I have done a couple of "performances" as such. I added the quotes as these were just tricks I did during some presentations for work. I basically came up with a trick where a number is selected at random by an audience member (geniually - no stooges here). I will have placed a pack of the cards (proper pack, not gaffed) at the front of the stage before this and will not touch it again. I then write the number that was chosen onto an envelope and place it on top of the pack. At this point I would do a bit of patter, or even some of my presentation (it was a work presentation) and then come back to the trick later. At the finish an audience member would come up, count out the randomly chosen number of cards - then they would open the envelope and inside was a note saying "the card selected is........ And it would be the card they had counted to!

It worked so well at an internal presentation I did for people within my own company that I got press ganged into doing it at an IT conference in London for HP with about 150 people in it! I was palm-sweatingly nervous - but went v.well. The presentation was about IT best practices so I introduced the magic by talking about how best practices affect many different areas - including magic:-)

I don't imagine I'll be doing to many more like that though (although I do present training courses within my job, so I may slip the occasional trick in now and again).

Anyway, this post has rambled on a bit and I am at work now, so best go,

Cheers

Hi and welcome to TM

ca55idy wrote:
(not sure my girlfriend is quite as keen - I'm starting to get very strange looks when she walks into a room and I'm sitting there in front of a mirror with a pack of cards:-)

I get that quite alot

Hi Ca55idy!

Welcome to TM... The fact you've got into it only 8 months ago and have already come up with an effect speaks volumes! Nice one

Welcome to TM and a great introduction

Sounds like you're going about everything in the right way and well done with the presentation, that's very good going.

hi, welcome.

Magic1Jim wrote:

ca55idy wrote:
(not sure my girlfriend is quite as keen - I'm starting to get very strange looks when she walks into a room and I'm sitting there in front of a mirror with a pack of cards:-)

I get that quite alot

thats at least 3 of us then

Welcome

Welcome!

welcome!

Welcome

It's great that you've achieved an interest in magic. As for the gf, if she can't handle magic, I suggest you cut her loose.

Welcome ca55idy I hope you enjoy your time here at TM.

Hello and welcome to TM