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personally, i cant stand these people. one of which is my little brother. he's always trying to mess with the cards that i lay on the table, or floor, or whatever instead of going on with the trick. also, others dont belive what I'm doing is magic to them, but that i am cheating in their eyes. any tips to get rid of this problem?

check the search engine you will find a few posts by yours truly on this subject.

Cover the cards in petrol and set them on fire. Of course you will be the only one with protective gloves. That should take care of your little brother. For your other problem, I think you just have to really be good. If most the room is amazed then even if you get the odd heckler they will be an outcast and you can easy turn the whole crowd against them and get them thrown out of the place or have them to scared to say anything else as well as scaring others who might think they are smart as well.

You could always try a Roy Chubby Brown tactic and just simply tell the hecklers to suck your balls if they dont like what youre doing I think it's better to just be god damm good though

keep a self working trick in reserve like scotch and soda and do it on the heckler or a do as i do trick usualy shuts them up.
i like to do the cut and restored rope incorporating the daryle get a crafty bite of rope bit then reveal and as he doing the crafty rope bit and feeling smug you slide your knot right off the rope .

As far as your little brother is concerned, or in fact anyone who consistently tries to mess you about - it's easy. Just don't show them anymore of your magic.

I suspect the reason that you are doing magic in the first place is to be entertaining, and it is obvious your brother doesn't want to be entertained - (at least not by the magic, it appears he is entertained by trying to get you to mess up) - so it's easy - stop showing him.

As MagicDiscoMan says though, it is worth doing a search on these forums for heckler - as I remember the topic has come up before...

wot u need is brian tudors the heckler

Firstly take hecklers as a compliment................ nobody would heckle you if you were not any good at magic.

Secondly, I will have a few self-working tricks ready to go, but my personal favourite, is setting the heckler up......I have a few tricks that give me an opportunity to allow the specatator to think they saw something, when in reality they didn't.......for example, do what appears to be a really sloppy second deal, when in reality, nothing has been done. Set them up, so others do the control for you. If they interupt you a few times, and are obviously wrong, the others will usually shut them up for you.

Thirdly, I once saw a magicin that had someone trying to grab his cards.....he then moved into what appeared to be an escape trick, and he showed a pair of handcuffs......he handed them out to the spec (who was originally the heckler) and asked him to inspect that they were real......after, he said put them on, and show others that they are not fake.......he then proceeded to handcuff him to the leg of the table.......and said, "if you know so much, you should be able to get out of those in a jiffy then!" the crowd laughed......at the end of what appeared to be his routine, he removed the handcuffs, and then put them on himself, and finished with an escape effect to finish off his routine!

Lastly, I have had members of my family that do this to me as well.....I have come to expect it, and I find it also prepares me for performing. Nobody could ever heckle as harshly as my family members. It also gets me to think about opproturnities when heckling may arise......I may change a way I do something to help diminish the opportunity for someone to ruin an effect for me......I call it preparation!

Some people take joy out of ruining a trick......I get joy out of performing!

I had this problem with my little brother, but to solve it I told him you are not going to see any of my magic again. When me and my mum and him were in the living room, I performed a one-handed pass to my mum, and I made sure that he was watching. he didn't have a clue, and hasn't bothered me since

thats why i never show it to family

anywho. theres this girl at school who always tries to figure out what i do. she has a really good nack at seeing everything i do. GAH! drives me crazy, plus i didnt practice as much.

if this happens, ignore the person for a little bit (ie. dont show tricks near or to the person) and wait till you get really really good, when ever they say do it again. do anohter trick!

i need to build up my trick libary

Here is my favorite thing to do to hecklers. Some my find this a bit "impish" and doesnt work on EVERY heckler,,,

Thank them for making your job more difficult, and then shake their hand and BAM do a handshake induction and put them into a trance and give them a light lecture of respect. For instance,

"...and notice how that relaxed feeling causes you to understand more how the thing you do to people are alot like the things you do to yourself and when you find yourself doing those things you do to others that you do so well you will do as well to yourself nowwwww..."

Or if you want to be nice....

Just thank them for giving you a hard time. They wont except it.