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TKE Veteran user FL 346 Posts |
How would you go about teaching someone one on one whos interested in magic..
where would you start is what I mean..for close-up |
yfoog New user Springfield, Il 61 Posts |
I'll try and help. Since I am very new to magic, and I would be the student in this case.
First find out what the student is interested in. I found out that close up encompasses a lot of different things, such as cards (Full deck, Partial, Gimmicked). Then there is money magic. Cups and Balls, Sponges etc.. For me it started with cards. What really helped get me going was the fact that a good dealer took the time to teach me one trick, in this case Colored Monte, to a point that I had the basics. This one trick taught me several slights that I could build on when learning more tricks. As with any art start with the basics, then as you master the basics, move into the harder stuff. And remember if you are the teacher be patient, us students can get aggravated quickly when things don't just happen, or we don't get it right off.
The Magic of Jim Percy
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Aus Special user Australia 996 Posts |
TKE here is my take on the situation in a how-to Guide I did some time ago, you may wont to use this approch with your friend. Read it at: http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewt......forum=41
Magically Aus |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Color Monte is indeed a good learning trick for beginners to cards. When Jim Gerrish established the Wiz Kids, Inc. (1980) he outlined in the by-laws the teaching methods that have worked very well for them to this day. Instead of teaching "exercises" like beginning piano students have to go through, he finds a trick that incorporates all the exercises within it (or as many as possible). That way, by the time the student masters that one trick, he has learned many skills, as yfoog pointed out in his post. But better than that, for the beginner, he has a "knock-em-dead" trick he can then perform which encourages him to go forward to the next level. He will also be encouraged (by the clever teacher) to go "sideways" and learn other tricks that use the same skills, and even go "backwards" and learn pre-cursor tricks.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
Jaz Inner circle NJ, U.S. 6111 Posts |
I like Spellbinder's idea about Gerrish's methods.
Here's my thoughts. I've considered teaching the workings of simple tricks like 'Coin thru Hanky', 'Jumping Elastic Bands' and even 'The Bachelors Needle' (w/ shoelace) and making the student create a presentation for them. I haven't done this but feel that if the student is serious they will do these. The next step might be to find a trick, or two, that makes use of some simple sleights, misdirection and requires a presentation to make it entertaining. |
Father Photius Grammar Host El Paso, TX (Formerly Amarillo) 17161 Posts |
I do teach such, I generally try to determine where their main interest lies, cards, coins, something else. If cards, then I start teaching them step by step through Royal Road to Card magic. If coins, then Teach them the basic coin sleights, good sources to get the step by step from are from books and videos by the likes of Roth, or Rubenstein, or Ammar. All good sources for beginning moves to advanced moves. For other types of close-up, you can't beat some of Johnny Thompson's stuff, Micheal Ammar's stuff, and of course, always you can work through Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic, which is what I generally use for younger students. They have to learn step at a time just like we did.
"Now here's the man with the 25 cent hands, that two bit magician..."
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Thoughtreader Inner circle Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1565 Posts |
Harry Lorayne's "The Magic Book" is an excellent guide to teaching someone the basics of close-up magic with sleight of hand, etc.
PSIncerely Yours, Paul Alberstat |
ToasterofDoom Special user 671 Posts |
Cheesy as it may, I would go with one of those "Learn David Blaine Tricks" videos. I thought often that the tricks I saw were never performed, so I wouldn't perform them either. Seeing video evidence that they work, and by a person I already knew, would help the student accept the teaching easier.
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