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what do you do ? how to you playit off?

Why would your trick get exposed??

I think the question is "What happens when some one shouts i know how you done that!, then the person tells everyone how you done it?"


Well there are many debates on the forum, the two main things are.

1. Move on with a diffrent handling

2. New trick

3. some clever lines "i know how you did that"
"well so do i"

I think that nearly everyone will have been 'caught' at some time during their performing career and when it happens it's all about recovery.

It depends on what you've been caught at too. Sometimes you can make out that getting caught is part of the effect and move onto something else. However, you don;t want to be getting caught too often.

I try to have a backup trick that I can slip into if something goes wrong. Something that you continue with seamlessly.

It's inevitable that you will get exposed or make a mistake at some point, if you're prepared and have covered all posibilities in practice you should be able to recover pretty much anything.

Sometimes I get caught on my DL's when I haven't warmed up yet (like in the morning) and it does get a bit embarrasing. What I do is to slip out the card to show that it is a single card and while showing it, give the deck a charlier pass (they NEVER notice it) and then the top card isn't the indifferent card before. Then carry on doing whatever you were doing but with a different method .

Steve

I almost got caught doing an erdnase with cold hands a while back. I could tell they caught a glimpse of a few cards being dragged out.. I just dropped the entire deck ( it was on its lastr legs anyways ).. pulled a new one out and started the trick again.. second time made sure i did it perfect.

Well, how I handle the situation is different every time. It depends on who I am performing for and what kind people they are.

I might say. "Oh awesome! Another magician in the group. Care to show us something better?"

And hand them the cards, or just the attention for a moment. I say it with real enthusiasm and without sarcasm. I do this because generally people do this because they have a more alpha personality and want a bit of the spotlight. If they know a trick, they do it. (99% of the time, a pretty simple one.) And get their satisifcation. Then I take back over. If not I follow it with "Well, I can!" and do something from my stronger list of effects.

If it is a trick where I know multiple ways of doing it, and I think he doesn't I will switch methods after saying, "Well can you explain it this way..." (I do this with the riffle force all the time.)

If the guy is being belligerent and I can tell he will be a persistant problem... I might just walk away. In party situations it has happened and the group of people got pi**ed at him and followed me. Not always.

Finally, if I am feeling silly I just use a pattern interrupt. When he says that I look at him and say "Ahh!" Then immediately turn to someone earlier who I was speaking with and say "What was it you said earlier?" If done right, it resparks a conversation from earlier and closes his chances of doing anything. If he is persistant at showing everyone, it just kinda makes him look like a jerk for breaking conversation to expose me.

Those are a few things.