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Just started Learning magic about 1 week ago. Already can flawlessly do the elevating card trick. But is there any place/site i can go to learn good professional street magic tricks?

Hi welcome to TalkMagic

I have removed your question about street and show magic as the question has already been raised here. How about adding your thoughts there?

I appreciate that you feel you can already do the elevating card flawlessly, which is good going for someone who has only been doing magic for a week. So well done for that.

Please don't take offence at this though, but I would like to suggest that there is far more to performing magic than the mechanics of it and that performance also plays a huge role (there are several lengthy topics on that one subject alone). So taking this into account, I would Respectively suggest you are not yet flawless.

Now to answer your question. There are many great "street magic" effects out there that can be bought off the shelf, but my advice would be to get a good book or dvd (again - huge discussions exist about which is the best method of learning). If you buy a good book you will be building the foundations for a whole plethora of magic effects whereas if you just buy single effects - then your skills will increase at a slower rate.

The books that you could buy all depend on the type of magic you wish to do. I know you have specified street magic, which often is card tricks, so maybe a good place to start would be "The Royal Road To Card Magic" - some would say the bible of card magic.

Welcome to TM. I like street magic alot but I just saw a magic show today and I like st age magic to. Like banna fish said get books and dvds. Thats what I'm trying to do right now.

Welcome to TM,

I would echo everything that bananafish says, it's so tempting to want to know everything at once but to be a good magician it takes time to learn the skills and be able to put those skills to use in the world of street magic or stage magic or wherever you want to perform.

A good book or DVD on basic skills is a good place to start, and the Royal Road to Card Magic is a great starting point.

To know a trick is not the same as being able to perform it......I get asked all the time by people I perform to if I can show them a trick and when I say I could show you but you still wouldn't know how to do the trick, they look a bit puzzled...

It takes more than knowing the secret of a trick to understand the workings behind the actual performance of that effect.....

Anyone can take a trick and perform it badly...but to take a trick and make it look like real magic is what we all try achieve it is the holly grail of magic... and in some cases it can take a life time of study and practice.

So if you can take slights and learn them to the best of your ability, take an effect and make practice it to the best of your ability and then when you perform it and someone say WOW that was brilliant, you know you are closer to the holly grail than you were when you started.

So good luck and practice, practice and more practice is the name of the game!!

Well put JB. Spot on.

the last post was me, ok I tried to amend my posting and forgot to log on.....again sorry!

But thanks Tenko.....I know you would have said something similar.

I'll not bother with advice it's already been said above