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bevbevvybev Inner circle UK 2672 Posts |
Pick a card. You're thinking of the 7 Of Diamonds. Yes! How did you know that?
I read your mind. I can't believe I now spend most of the time performing variations on the first trick I ever learnt over 40 years ago. Same for you? It appears most magicians were a mentalist at some point. |
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WitchDocChris Inner circle York, PA 2614 Posts |
The first trick I learned was Chicago Opener. The second was the Gemini Twins (I think?)
I really don't think the fact that magicians often learn a "mind reading" trick early on makes them a mentalist. It makes them a magician who learned a mind reading trick.
Christopher
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IAIN Eternal Order england 18807 Posts |
The pulse effect in royal road...
I've asked to be banned
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Mark_Chandaue Inner circle Essex UK 4187 Posts |
Coins across, by the time I was 15 I knew about 50 variants. The first none coin effect I learnt was a one ahead routine from a Will Dexter book.
Mark |
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts |
Angel Coins in Magic Tricks by Kajar. My first magic book bought at a magic store. I was five.
Greg
One of my favorite quotes: "A critic is a legless man who teaches running."
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Philemon Vanderbeck Inner circle Seattle, WA 4694 Posts |
"Crazy Cube" was one of the first magic tricks my father bought for me.
Hmmm . . . yeah, that's technically mentalism. Explains so much about me now. (P.S. - I still perform it.)
Professor Philemon Vanderbeck
That Creepy Magician "I use my sixth sense to create the illusion of possessing the other five." |
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Waters. Special user 703 Posts |
Torn and restored tissue was my first performed trick (at Parent Teacher Association meeting). As I recall, the tissue was restored with a tissue confetti kicker. I call that bonus. 😳
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John C Eternal Order I THINK therefore I wrote 12938 Posts |
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On Jan 10, 2017, Philemon Vanderbeck wrote: Yes, mine too. Haha To bring it into the 21st century I've since upgraded to Michael Weber's new version called Crazy. For an added bonus I use ProMystic's RDR. J |
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January Veteran user 390 Posts |
I think simple coin vanishes and things like that were what I tried as a kid, but later on I learned the red hammer f*rce--I can't remember where, or how--but it really interested me. It would still be years before I discovered "mentalism" proper.
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
The first trick I remember was sorta mentalism, but I didn't even realize it was trick until decades later - then had to figure out how grandma did it.
When sewing she would suddenly hold out her fist saying, "I have from one to four buttons. Tell me how many" Regardless of what I said she would open her hand to reveal I was correct. There would lie the exact number of buttons named.
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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bevbevvybev Inner circle UK 2672 Posts |
I love that! How did she do it?
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sbays Inner circle Burbank, CA 1065 Posts |
Scotch and Soda was my first trick. When I experienced that for the first time I felt REAL magic. That is the one that started me down this path now decades later.
"Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
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funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
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On Jan 11, 2017, bevbevvybev wrote: PMed you
"the more one pretends at magic, the more awe and wonder will be found in real life." Arnold Furst
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Mobius New user 100 Posts |
My introduction to magic was receiving Will Dexter's Illustrated Book of Magic Tricks from my father. I had no interest in magic but my father thought I would find it interesting. It was fundamentally useless to a 7 year old as I couldn't read the cursive script it was printed in and some of the effects were impossible to construct with limited skill and resources. I did however learn to make the name of a chosen card appear on my arm by rubbing my skin. I suppose you could have called it a type of mentalism as I would call on mystical spirits to reveal the name of the card - which was always the two of diamonds as forcing a card of a higher value was too painful to prepare!
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mindmagic Inner circle London 1740 Posts |
My introduction to magic as a young child in the Fifties came from simple tricks sold by Ellidons; you could find them in any toyshop or sweetshop. I remember a couple of mentalism ones, Age Cards and "Hindoo Cones" - four small metal hemispheres. Someone hid a coin or cardboard disk under one of them and you found it. I think I may still have a set of those.
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Max Hazy Special user 543 Posts |
Indeed, some of the first effects I've learned was mentalism. I think the very first was a "pick a card, your card is x" but the method was so lame... and yet there were a bit of psychology on it, I must admit. The colored cube in the box, and the marked deck... and a few other mental feats was indeed part of what I learned first.
What you said about variations of the same trick is also very true for me. Now that you mention it, I can't believe I do variations of the very first trick I've ever learned. But the difference of methods and outcomes is abysmal. I guess the 3 best versions I do are these: Card calling location - Card calling with hands off card location. Multiple selection - Several people select cards, performer name of them to each participant. Psychometric test with cards - Selected cards are mixed, performer guess correctly each card to the proper owner. To be honest... I'm still working on these variations. Whenever I believe to have the perfect structure, method, presentation, etc... I figure out a way to make it better, more simple, easier, more deceptive. I just can't get enough. Max Hazy
"Your method is in my opinion the very best way to do Q&A"
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Nat_lawson Regular user 106 Posts |
The first trick I learned was a bar hustle that my dad taught me, it is a simple use of the key card principle but with a few twists on it. He taught it to me when I was six and I won two dollars with it the first time it did it on my twenty year old cousin. I then did it all the time until my mother got me my first magic book. Since then, I have won a total of 548 dollars in six different currencies.
I guess the first magic trick I learned was a hustle. |
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seadog93 Inner circle 3200 Posts |
Nope, I first learned the french drop, sponge balls and professor's nightmare.
My first pick a card trick (possibly learned at the same time as above, I can't specifically recall) was presented as gambling.
"Love is the magician who pulls man out of his own hat" - Ben Hecht
"Love says 'I am everything.' Wisdom says 'I am nothing'. Between the two, my life flows." -Nisargadatta Maharaj Seadog=C-Dawg=C.ou.rtn.ey Kol.b |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
No. The bottom card key, presented as "Is that your card," is not mentalism at all. It is simply a method.
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Godzilla Inner circle Tied & Untied Witches on 5316 Posts |
"Vanishing Cigarette" my first trick or "Severed Finger" in match box.(That, may be considered a gag)
Still, not trying to learn card tricks.
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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