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Skills for Sleight of Hand Magic
Close Up Versus Stage Magic
Tips for Creating Magic Routine
Importance of Practicing Magic Tricks
Never Do Magic Tricks Twice
Never Reveal Magic Trick Secrets
Exercises for Sleight of Hand Magic
Using Objects in Magic Tricks
French Drop Magic Trick
Preparing Hands for Magic Tricks
Steal & Drop Magic Trick
Tear Something Apart Magic Trick
Delay Magic Trick
How to Make Something Vanish
How to Make a Coin Disappear
French Drop Magic Trick
Vanish & Reappear Magic Tricks
Speeding Up Magic Tricks
Tips for Distracting Magician Audience
How to Do Focus Magic Trick
How to Make a Coin Vanish
How to Do Pinch Magic Trick
Magic to Make Things Reappear
Importance of Entertaining With Magic
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"Hi, this is Doug on behalf of ExpertVillage.com. Now how do you keep your illusions alive? It's the second rule of magic and that is never do the same trick twice. It's never good the second time, never as good I should say, the second time. Why? Because immediately after you perform the illusion, the mind is going to retrace whatever steps you did to find out what it did to fool itself. It's very problematical for the brain to be fooled. So again, it's going to re-track its steps. If you do the trick a second time, it knows what to look for. A key in magic is the element of surprise. Not seeing something that's going to happen or might happen, happen. Now the only bending of this rule is if you do it the second time, that you change the finished result. So again, there's the element of surprise, thus becomes magic. Thus it's entertaining. You're going to be tempted to do it a second time. Maybe somebody new has come into the crowd. Find a way of not doing this a second time, resisting that temptation. People will poke you and pry you about this, but again, second most important rule of magic. Never do the same trick twice."
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on 8/19/2008 very , very , very good