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For those that have come on here to find out how to do effects, the first thing you need is to understand the shorthand expressions magicians use.

TT
stands for any effect created on the Isle Of Man.

DL
This is more on the stance of a magician rather than the effect. Anything with DL on refers to Dog Leg, which is also a golfing term. To get the misdirection you need, you need to twist your favoured leg at an angle to your body.

IT
This is a magic book by Stephen King. It features productions of a bird, scary leper type effects, (bits falling of body) How to hypnotise adults, so they don't see what is happening and uses up to 7 children or adults to create a story type effect.
IT is of extra use if you want to learn clowning for children.

Force
This is for mentalists that have spent years of training. They can not only do mind reading for real, but they also can make objects move using their brainwaves. ( Note, Brainwave deck refers to the type of stage they are using.) This had been THE secret in magic, until a Mr Lucas exposed it years ago. Although he did it in a fictional way, several of the top mentalists in the world are still felt the impact.

Hope this helps for now. More details another time if this has proved useful.

Finally, clear guidance!

since this is already public domain in the book "how to pull your armies from your slevies" by that great childrens magician General panic
ISBN (0-9554533-0-5) avalable from all good retailers and here http://magicdiscopartypeople.co.uk/sponoredbook.aspx

then i don't see it as exposure and i think we should keep this thread active, big up exposure....... not.

Glad you find it useful

A couple more terms for those unsure.

French D**p
A term used when something goes wrong during an effect. French is used because of the old expression, " pardon my French" used by some when they have sworn. D**p stands for damp, the result of sweating over the effect going wrong.

P**m
Several effects that are used can have items hidden in the hair. You misdirect them by showing your sleves empty, then take the item out of your hair while they are looking at your sleeves. P**m, simply stands for perm, though any style of hair that is reasonably long will suit. It can take a while to perm a card well, so I suggest this is one to start learning first. The ideal way is to perm a card in your hair in the evening before you go to the pub.

Once you have completed these tasks, you are ready to learn specific effects.

top p**m, side p**m and tenkie p**m all refer to the postion of the object to be retrieved, please note tenkie p**m involves a slit made into the scalp just under the hairline and as such should only be done by seriouse professionals.

this should not be confused with the classic p**m which is a method of training the hand mussles to open up a pore in the base of the hand in which a coin is hidden, it is a technique that give apsiring magicians a lot of heartache to master, i hope to post a video next week demonstrating this effect.

and a special note about confusion between the tenkie p**m and the tenkie pennys routine, they are completely diferent, tenkie pennys involves training the pores in the fingers for small coin consealment and due to the decrease in sensitivity of the finger pads and the long term liklyhood of arthritis, it is also not recomended for beginers.

http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/go.php?url=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZXRhY2FmZS5jb20vd2F0Y2gvOTU2Mzk4LzIwX2RvbGxhcl9iaWxsX3RyaWNrX2FtYXppbmcv this is a classic example of the classic p**m done badly, the head is not in shot because of the expression of pain on the perfromers face, he hasan't learnt the technique correctly as can be seen were he needs to cut the video as he clips the radial nereve the first time around.
most utubers are unaware of the fiber gel recomended for first time trainers of this usefull sleight.

Thankyou for clarifting that magicdiscoman. I should have made people aware of the different type of perms.

One of the most common questions we have seems to be on levitation.
This does indeed involve the tenkie perm, with the wire coiled under the scalp. It is a simple case of catctching the wire around an object, then holding the end in your hand, just prior to levitating. You will notice that when shown, the arms tend to raise up, or lower to the sides. These two variations depend on where the wire is fed through. If it is fed under the feet, then back up to the hand, you get the more natural lowering of thye arms. The reason you will see that magicians tend to turn their back when doing these street levitations, is that there is a certain amount of pin involved with the wire uncurling from beneath the scalp.

The best levitation technique is the one where you curl your toes inwards and squint whilst clasping your genitals through a hole in your pocket. It hurts but I have managed to raise 12 inches this way.

are yes the ball-duchie levitation always a croud pleaser and one that every magician should practise at least three time a week, a magicians assistant greatly help improve potency and stamina on this one.

most higher levitiations invole a colapsable mirror and stilt arrangment up the trouser leg and is the main reason why so many magicians have a minor limp.

Sorry Freddie, but you left me no choice but to put this in Innuendo Bingo.

Lord Freddie wrote:you curl your toes inwards and squint whilst clasping your genitals through a hole in your pocket. It hurts but I have managed to raise 12 inches this way.

hahhaha

if anyone wanted to know a tenkai palm..
'a trick orginated in china by 10 men, each named kai... meaning tenkai, it was also discovered that if you take the skin off your palm, and stick it onto your arm, you can slide coins under it..'

Darrel wrote:Sorry Freddie, but you left me no choice but to put this in Innuendo Bingo.

Lord Freddie wrote:you curl your toes inwards and squint whilst clasping your genitals through a hole in your pocket. It hurts but I have managed to raise 12 inches this way.

Ha ha!

Darrel wrote:IT
This is a magic book by Stephen King. It features productions of a bird, scary leper type effects, (bits falling of body) How to hypnotise adults, so they don't see what is happening and uses up to 7 children or adults to create a story type effect.
IT is of extra use if you want to learn clowning for children.

This is actually one of the most educational books I've read to date, I would reccomend it to anyone. IT also features some good escapes, if your into that sort of thing.

For those wishing to do childrens shows, there are some great sections dealing with balloons.