Being a good magicians is complicated, you just don’t have follow these steps, you also have to practice a lot and never give up, these 2 thing are essential in the process of learning this art called magic.
In magic there exits many types of magic like card magic/cardistry, mentalism, close-up magic/street magic, stand-up magic, micro magic, mathemagic, magic with animals/live animals or stage magic. The most popular of these types of magic are: card magic/cardistry (also known as card flourish), mentalism and close-up magic/street magic. These four types of magic can be combined to create one great illusion; all the people know that magic really doesn’t exist that is just an “illusion”. Saying that magicians create illusion means that magicians make people think things that aren’t really happening or making them believe something has vanished even though it hasn’t. (Lebon)
The first type of magic is card magic that has a very close relation with cardistry (another type of magic). The basic purpose of card magic is to create magic effects or card tricks using a deck of playing cards. Card magic is also used in other types of magic like close-up magic and in street magic. Thanks to its versatility card magic has become a very interesting and popular hobby among modern magicians. It goes from finding any card that the spectator selected randomly and has it lost in the middle of the deck to vanishing any card in the spectator’s face. This type of magic can be done for a few people or for a lot of people, for example magicians can perform this magic on a stage with lights, but also just for few people in restaurants, streets, schools, public places. (Lebon)
Many people could say that this type of magic is the hardest one because most of this tricks or these illusions magicians accomplish with a lot of hours or days or even months of hard training (sleights), also there exist a lot of requirements that a magician need to have to be a good performer of card magic like have big hands and be fast with the hands (even though this is accomplished with practice). Well-known card magicians of the past and present include Daniel Garcia, Daniel Madison, The Buck Twins, Darwin Ortiz, Wayne Houchin, Jason England, Juan Tamariz and Michael Ammar. It’s important to mention the most important magicians so people would know from whom to learn. (Lebon)
Even though magicians could perform with any deck of cards, there are cards that are preferred among magicians like Bicycle playing cards, Bee playing cards and Tally-Ho playing cards due to their durability, size and texture. These types of playing card are the standard size of card, there exist other cards that are smaller like santupai playing cards. The most common ways or methods of learning card magic are books and especially instructional videos (also called tutorials or a trick reveal). A lot of tricks are in the market and are released every day. (Lebon)
Also, there exists a type of magic called cardistry or card flourishes. In cardistry the magician has a visual display of skills attempting to impress the spectators with playing cards. Flourishes are primarily intended to be visually impressive and intend to appear difficult to do. For magicians flourishes can be divided in many genres like: one handed cuts, spreads, two handed cuts, fanning, and springs. (Lebon)
Card flourishes are performed both as part of magic performances and on their own. Card flourishes and card magic are in the same category because both are performed with playing cards. In this type of magic also the card that are recommended to use are the same as in card magic. Card Flourishes and card magic are considered to be art forms, and many people all over the world practice them religiously, this is a very interesting hobby. Many famous flourishers include Dan Buck, Dave Buck, Andrei Jikh and Daniel Madison, the most common method of learning the art is through DVDs, books, free tutorials on the internet, privately produced instructional videos. There are many videos on the market from which people can learn but people have to buy them. (Waqas)
Along with the cardistry and the card magic community many websites are available to teach them and help advance the art. Some of the most popular websites are Theory11, Thekardist, Kardistry and ellusionist. (Waqas)
The second most popular type of magic is Mentalism. Mentalism is another great type of magic. It is so great because the magician attempt to read people’s mind.
The principal objective of mentalism is to create an impression in the audience or in the spectators mind. This impression must be interpretated by the people that the magician has “magic powers” to read thoughts, predict events, control other minds, and similar things. It can be presented or performed on a stage, for small groups like close up magic or even for one spectator. Mentalism relates a lot with card magic, a mentalist would make the spectator choose a card and lose it in the middle of the deck, and he could know the card that the spectator choose just by looking at his or her eyes. For example, let’s say that a spectator chooses a card such as the ace of spades; the magician would know their card just by looking to his eyes or similar thing like telling the spectator to repeat in his head the card a lot of times. This technique is called control. (Lebon)
The third and last type of magic is Close up magic, this type of magic has a strong similarity with Street magic. Close up Magic and street magic are in the same category because both are practiced for just a few people, but they are not performed in the same place. Close up magicians usually perform for small audiences that’s why is called close up. Their stuff is usually things that you find in your pockets like cards, card boxes, rubber band, sponge balls or coins. Magicians tend to talk with the spectators and also make jokes during the act; this can make the performance very interesting and funny.
On the other hand, street magic is a form of street performing that needs a stage or surrounded by the audience. Magicians of this type include David Blane and Brad Christian (the creator of ellusionist.com). It’s very important to mention that Brad Christian is the creator of ellusionist because illusionist.com is one of the most important magic companies and he is a greet magician. People could learn from his DVD called: How to do street magic. (Types Of Magic).
The first thing to know about how being a good magician is to know perfectly the types of magic and their feats like card magic, cardistry, mentalism, street magic and close-up magic. All this of magic are performed in the entire world and people can easily learn them in Internet or in books. Now that we have seen the type of magic, is the turn to know about the sleights and their importance on how to be a good magician.
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