How to Become A Magician - It's Never Too Late
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Today they are announcing FREE magic! The amazing Paul Wilson is releasing ten free card tricks today.
The side steal may be the most popular sleight of hand trick out because it is right under the nose of the person that is having the card stolen from them. You can find a lot of people that are impressed by card tricks, but they may have never heard of the bottom palm.
You can find a lot of people who understand these different tricks working in casinos for example. Money can be made by casinos because of these tricks.
Key Takeaways:
“For a move like the Classic Pass to be effective, it must be silent, effortless and economical – each secret action must take less than a single moment to complete…without rushing.”
So where do you learn magic tricks with cards? Just about every magician will tell you to start with the Card College series, by Roberto Giobbi – “Card College: A Complete Course in Sleight-of-Hand Card Magic.”
These books will take you from the very beginning – how to hold the cards, what to call the edges of the cards, etc. Giobbi then progresses through five volumes, continually building on everything that came before.
As a matter of fact, there are more than 5 volumes. Giobbi put out “Introduction to Card Magic” as a great place to start. It’s perfect because it’s a pdf – convenient and great for the immediate gratification addicts like me:). It even has video clips in it, which I found super helpful. That’s where I began. You can download it right how here for only about 8 bucks.
You can get book 1 – Card College, Vol. 1: A Complete Course in Sleight-of-Hand Card Magic on Amazon. So many magicians swear by learning magic from books. I understand that things enter the brain a certain way when you try to understand the written description. But I am REALLY visual and like to ALSO get a video demonstration when at all possible.
That’s why I liked volumes 1 and 2 so much. You can get PDF versions of those, each containing videos of the moves. Awesome. Unfortunately, that stopped with volumes 3-5.
You can get the first two volumes in pdf form with the videos below for $45 each:
As the name of the main series implies, it is a course on sleight-of-hand card magic. That means it teaches you handle cards in a magical way, to create the illusions and spectacles that are so cool in card magic.
Because of the numerical and mathematical nature of playing cards, there is a lot of magic possible that doesn’t require “sleights.” So Giobbi also published versions of the Card College that do not require sleight of hand. They are:
Card College Light: Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-Hand
Card College Lighter: More Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-Hand
Card College Lightest: Still More Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-Hand
So no matter what kind of card magician you want to be, you can make a great start with the Card College Series.