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Fiddling-Steve Loyal user Danbury, Connecticut 212 Posts |
I was doing some tricks for some of my cousins who are about 5, when a few of my aunts and uncles asked to see a trick. I said okay, but while I was thinking of which one to do, I just forgot a lot of them. I always end up performing the same few tricks because I forget about the others. Do any of you keep a list of tricks so if you every forget you can look at it? Do any of you actually forget? Thanks.
Stick to the classics,
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Pekka Special user Finland 560 Posts |
I think I have forgot most of the tricks I have learned. The thing ii, if you don't do them, you will forget them. It is that simple. One of the best ways is to write down all the good tricks you learn (let's face it, they are in the minority of all of the stuff we try). Then try to combine a few routines out of them. Different kinds of routines you know. And then, do those routines every single day.
With this method you will have several routines that you can pick and choose when performing. 5 min routine for kids, 10 min routine for adults and a 15 min gambing demo for the mens. If you just try to remember tricks you once learned, forget about it. Very few of us have such a memory to remember all of them and even fewer enough skills to perform effects we only trained a cuple of times. |
Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
Pete Kane used to relate each trick he knew with a different card in the deck. After a trick he'd glance at the bottom card of the deck and he would do the trick that card reminded him of.
STAY TOONED... @ www.pete-biro.com
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Partizan Inner circle London UK 1682 Posts |
I was doing some tricks for some of my cousins who are about 5, when a few of my aunts and uncles asked to see a trick.
It strikes me that you were put off by your aunts and uncles. This is a form of distraction sought after by mind men. You must avoid this consternation by learning at least 3 tricks to an automatic level. they must be tricks that you can just jump straight into and do on autopilot. let me break down your quandry. Your mind had a set of tricks to show the 5's your A's and U's come in and prompt your mind to perform another routine. During this redirection of resources, your mind forgets the place it was working at and starts to compensate by throwing a multitute of sub options to take. This deluge is too much and requires much resources used in a way that is inefficient. The result is the place you were left in. A hole and no ladder.
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
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Uli Weigel Inner circle Berlin, Germany 1478 Posts |
The best thing you can probably do is to learn a short act (let's say three tricks) that you can perform anytime anywhere. If you're asked to perform, your mind won't go blank, and you can go straight into the performance of your short act. If you learn a second act of three tricks you're prepared for an encore, if they want to see more.
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Paul Chosse V.I.P. 1955 - 2010 2389 Posts |
Three trick sets - that's the way to go! Or, one "trick" that is like an act unto itself. In "Greater Magic" there is an entire chapter on Ralph Hull's "Tuned Deck". Gene Anderson published a multi-phase effect with the Si Stebbins set-up that is beautiful, and again, an act all by itself. The Nikola System, as described in several books, notably the "Encyclopedia of Card Tricks", is another example. Alex Elmsley offers his "Dazzle" Act in volume two of his material, released thru L&L. I understand that David Williamson has recently released a multi-phase routine that fits the bill, "Aunt Mary's Terrible Secret"... Take a look at these possibilities, they are things you learn as one sequence, but that appear to the audience as a series of effects. If you know two or three sets like this you will always be prepared. Also, much of the material I mentioned is modular, so you can do parts of each if you want...
Best, PSC
"You can't steal a gift..." Dizzy Gillespie
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Krumb Loyal user Vancouver, WA 300 Posts |
This is a good chance to just improv. Maybe have them choose a card, control it to the top, and than take it out of play by palming it.....do a little banter and you have time to decide where to go......card under glass, card to pocket, card to wallet, etc.
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Jaz Inner circle NJ, U.S. 6111 Posts |
I agree with Uli and Partizan about learning a couple of tricks well and there is the possibly that you were slightly intimidated by your relatives.
This forgetting used to happen to me and I too considered a list at one time. Nowadays I only have a couple of effects that I have to practice regularly in order to remember. The other tricks I do are simpler the remember. |
zaki_rafih99 Regular user 164 Posts |
That's an awesome idea there pete. I think I'll start doing that!
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djc89 Regular user 118 Posts |
Heh, a similar thing happened to me today. I had my Stealth Pen in my pocket, waiting for a chance to be used (I just setup the rip gaff so I wanted to test it out). Finally, I was asked to perform a trick. The opportunity was presented to me, but at that moment, I forgot about my Stealth Pen. The first thing I thought of was Recap. So I did Recap, but at the end, I realized that I missed my chance to try my Stealth Pen. =(
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Sam Tabar Inner circle Austin, Texas 1050 Posts |
All you have to do is rehearse a short routine, practice it everyday so it becomes second nature to you so that when the day comes when somebody tells you to do a card trick for him at a drop of a hat, you won't end up brain dead!
"Knowledge comes from finding the answers, but understanding what the answers mean is what brings wisdom." - Anonymous
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Brent McLeod Inner circle 1792 Posts |
Keep a small list in your carry case etc
or only perform 3-4 that you know so well that will get a great reaction your looking for Good luck! |
Pablo Leal Regular user Chile 187 Posts |
What I do, as the same as mention before, is to make short very routines and I just add them one by one while I'm performing. All of them are made in a progressive way, trying to make people's reactions increase over the time. Also, the adding is made in a way that my best routines end up to be the last ones. I almost never forget the tricks in them because if I remember just one trick I can remember the entire routine, and the proper routines that should come along with it. It's not that hard at all in deed.
Cheers, Pablo Leal
"The one that seeks for the truth takes the chance to find it". Isabel Allende
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