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Thought I had better step out of the shadows and introduce myself.
I have watched the forum for a while now, very useful reference site; great help and ideas, and have decided to speak up and give the royal wave.
I always use the reviews, and the videos are a great source of ideas, so in thanks I’m going to become more involved and throw in my 2 cents.

Magic has been my hobby since tender age, carried a packet of cards in my bib. My main interest was card tricks and related mentalism. I am more of a fan of ungimmicked magic and relying more on patter and sleight.

However, I have decided to branch out into more 'bar' type tricks and I am swinging towards coin tricks. (Magic is in the eye of the beerholder.) I have always had gimmicks lying around but over the past year I have become more interested and starting to involve more commercial magic into my routines.

I still prefer the more skillful manipulation but I have to tip my hat as there are several tricks that are impossible without the gimmicks and do blow the audience out of the water.

So hello to the many visiters of Talk Magic and to all the non-native; ‘hello’ in your own language, fraid you are going to have to google the translation. But saying that I can speak pidgin of several languages, I'm a traveller and just spent over 4 months in Asia.

As for the name Kobra, combination of several influences. But the main factor involves a cobra, a knife and a heart. More information on that later, the rspca would shut down Vietnam, its amazing what they eat.

So that’s a quick hello, I will be popping up and around.

hi and welcome

p.s could you rduce your picture to a smaller size as it tends to clutter the forum.

thanks

welcome

Kobra wrote:So hello to the many visiters of Talk Magic and to all the non-native; ‘hello’ in your own language...

Góðan daginn... and welcome to TM from Iceland!

Kobra wrote:So hello to the many visiters of Talk Magic and to all the non-native; ‘hello’ in your own language

Well, I was going to say "ni hao" but I can't seem to get the chinese characters to display (Mandarin is not my native language, I am studying it and thought I would throw it in). Welcome.

Ni hao ma

Spent 2 months in China, but can't remember much

And all the keyboards in China are Roman characters, you have to press a key combination to type in Mandarin, which I found out accidently. Trying to chat to someone and it went a bit pear shaped.

But all the internet is filtered anyway; bbc, gmail and wiki are all blocked.

I've been studying for about a year now. No real reason, I just wanted the challenge. I usually use Pinyin and an writing software to allow me to write the characters by hand on a graphics tablet.

welcome to TM

I would say hello in russian but my keyboard is sane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol

(don't take russian gcse it's hard)

G'Day Kobra !

hihi welcome nice to meet you