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Hello all,

Think back to when you first decided to get into magic....this should bring back some memories for a few of you

1 What was the first trick you ever tried? What in particular made you choose this trick?

2. What was the first trick you managed to perfect properly? Who did you perform it to and what was their reaction?

3. Finally what was the first magic book you owned? Was it a present or did you choose it yourself? If so why this particular book?

I'm just interested from a beginners point of view and I'm kind of being nosey at the same time

Cheers guys

I think it was a multiplying sponges trick in my Paul Daniels magic set when I was about 8. Performed to my family on christmas day.

My first book was the Osbourne Book of Magic which I saved up my pocket money for a month to buy

little plastic cups and balls set....I rocked

I got a smarties send off thing, you put the penny in, push it closed, and the penny disappeared. Proper magic wise, it was Gemini Twins from the Card Miracles DVD.

1. Force a card, reveal it by having the deck tell you what the card was.
2. Haven't perfected anything.
3. First book was the Magic of Ascanio Volume 1. First DVD was the 5-DVD RRTCM set. Bought them myself.

Mine was the selfworker that I'm sure everybody's seen. Using the court cards and aces you explain there were four castles, four kings, four queens and four jacks. They all go to a party and all get mixed up, but then a magical spell was cast and they all got back together.

My uncle showed me it loads and I decided to give it a try. It worked. I didn't know how, but it did. I was about 8. So I just remembered the story and did that when ever there was a party.

After that it was the key card Which somebody showed me.

Then many years on, I found YouTube. It hooked me up with some nasty tutorial videos but in a way it's a good thing because it got me in to magic again. Then I found TM, and realised that YouTube exposure is very bad, bought RRTCM (which I didn't like) and that's about it.

Mikey.666 wrote:Mine was the selfworker that I'm sure everybody's seen. Using the court cards and aces you explain there were four castles, four kings, four queens and four jacks. They all go to a party and all get mixed up, but then a magical spell was cast and they all got back together.

I learnt this trick from a book I was given as a kid. The storyline there was an absent minded zookeeper who left the cages open! This was my first performed trick too, but that was years before my recent interest.

First book more recently was Card College, bought by me and it's been CUPS ever since,

So the majority of you who have replied I would imagine started at quite a young age then? I was thinking more people would say tricks from the Paul Daniels Set

Do you still perform any of the tricks you learn't when you first started or do you find you have "grew" out of them?

I'm thinking of trying something with a trick to get my teeth into as well as slowly learning palming a coin and shuffling a pack of cards. Just haven't decided yet and it's interesting to read the variety of what you peeps started out with!

Keep em comming beacuse it may give me some ideas

MartinUK wrote: but that was years before my recent interest.

Me too

Lady of Mystery wrote:I think it was a multiplying sponges trick in my Paul Daniels magic set when I was about 8. Performed to my family on christmas day.

Mine too, exactly. I used to practise it a lot.
The first trick I performed in my present "magic era" was Topsy-Turvy Cards out of Royal Road. It got surprisingly quite a good reaction, and I've been hooked ever since.

My first ever trick was a Marvins magic Svengali deck. Well, my brother got it for his birthday but I used it more than him as he wasn't interested. Then I started getting loads of Marvins magic stuff and along came the 101 easy tricks book. Something like that anyway.

Everyone loved the Svengali deck but kept asking to look at it so I got rid that and hooked up a bit of elastic up my sleeve with a key on the end. People loved that trick. That was the first one I perfected, even though it's not exactly difficult

Mine was the Svengali deck too. I practiced so hard, and my mom was starting to notice she kept picking the three of clubs. then the deck fell, she saw the deck, and I stopped magic for 5 years. Then I got one of those boxes where you guess what color they put the cube in. Then I stopped for a while, then for my birthday this year got some crappy props, but I just kept getting stuff after that, I think it was really the Marvins Magic Card set that got me into it. Then I started using youtube, soon realizing that people sold these effects for money, and I hate exposure now.

Ive perfected so many things now, but my first book on magic was probably some book, I think 99 Impromptu tricks or something... selfworking? I dont know, but it was by Karl Fulves.

1. Something from the Paul Daniels magic set
2. ACR - Friends
3. RRTCM - Bought it myself.

The first trick i learned was when i was 5 (or so) and you went through the deck, and stopped when your subject said stop, then you tell him put it back, while you look at the card above it in the fan. Then just go find the card you looked at and move one down.

First trick performed? Revolver- to friends in a bar.

First book? Some janky thing i got when I was 7-8

My first ever effect was the Coin Bite, 6 years ago.