How to Learn Street Magic Online
Street magic can be a fun and exciting way to entertain strangers, be the life of a party or hone the slight of hand art. Magicians like David Blaine and Chris Angel have brought street magic to main stream and there are a number of great resources online to learn street magic.
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Finding Resources
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Street magicians are excellent at misdirection and slight of hand. A simple google search of the term "Street Magic" will yield millions of hits. Many magicians are reluctant to publish their illusions as the code of conduct among magicians strictly forbids it. Which means finding the best tricks can be hard to find for free.
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Look at Magic Forums first, these are sites where magicians gather, chat and share knowledge, tips and tricks, ask and answer questions. Sites like the ones listed below are a great place to start:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/index.php
http://www.magicianschool.com/
http://www.freemagicschool.com/magicforum/
http://magictricks.ultimatemagic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7
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Visit the websites of some of the established street magicians like Jim Cellini, who published an excellent book on the subject "Cellini: The Royal Touch" and released DVDs entitles "The Art of Street Performing, volumes 1 - 3". David Groves is another street magician who published an excellent book "Be a Street Magician: A How-To Guide" another street magician to look at would be Cyril Takayama who produced some instructional DVDs as well. These resources might cost a little bit but the content and information is well worth it.
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Check out the torrent sites, another free untapped resource are ebooks related torrents. A simple search of "street magic" and "torrent" on google will produce many links to torrent files on the subject which can then be downloaded for free. There are torrents available on a number of magic related subjects and learning to use them would be invaluable to any would be magician.
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Access Google Video and YouTube for quick instructional videos on specific tricks.
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