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Teaching Your Child Magic Tricks
When it comes to fun family entertainment, consider teaching your child old fashioned magic tricks. This is a great way to kill time while waiting for an event to start or to stop those annoying questions of ?are we there yet?? while driving in the car. Consider bringing clever magic tricks with you on vacation or camping trip so you children will have no complaints of being bored. You can find magic tricks at any specialty store or even your child?s favorite toy store. Many magic tricks do not require any additional materials, besides the old standby of a handkerchief or a bright, shiny penny.

One fantastic option for individuals wishing to teach their kids magic tricks are the Klutz series of books. These books teach kids, ?tweens,? and teenagers all sorts of things, from different ways to braid hair to how to perform a variety of tricks using an old fashioned wooden yoyo. In addition to in depth instruction especially for the younger crowd, these books include several accessories that are necessary for performing the task. From their instruction book on magic tricks to their instruction book on card tricks, the Klutz series are perfect for any individual of any age looking to learn magic.

A quick trip to your favorite bookstore or local library will result in a plethora of books that will provide you with step by step instruction when it comes to teaching your child magic tricks. From classic tricks that are sure to elicit a chuckle to in depth slights of hand, magic tricks, and illusions that will wow all audiences, you are sure to find out how to perform each task with in depth step by step instructions that anyone will be able to flawlessly follow.

Consider bringing some necessary tools for teaching the specific magic tricks along on a long plane or train ride so your kids can do something more productive than mindlessly play video games or argue. This is a great idea if you are traveling to a city with a renowned magic shop, museum of magic, or show that features world class magicians. For instance, if you are traveling to Las Vegas to see the fantastic Lance Burton, teach your kids a few magic tricks along the way to make the show hit closer to home.

Magic tricks are great for school or club talent shows in which your child wishes to participate. Quite often, children are left at a loss when it comes to participating in talent shows and may feel left out if they cannot think of a talent that has not been chosen. Everyone sings or dances on stage at a talent show, but few children can don a magic hat and cape and perform astounding tricks of slight of hand or illusions. Learning magic can boost a child?s self esteem, especially when he or she finally gets the gist of the trick and is able to flawlessly perform the trick in front of an audience. Who knows, your child may be the next great magician and they will only have you to thank for showing them basic magic tricks!

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In Your Hand - Close up magic
The Doorway magic trick presents a great close up trick that is perfect for the street. Two cards are taken from the deck and placed in separate locations. One card is placed in the empty box and the magician holds the other. Then in a blink of an eye the two cards switch places. To make it even more impressive the box with one card is held by the spectator. This trick needs a small gimmick and the tutorial explains how to make this. It also explains the set up, the performance and also afterthoughts so you have every option covered. The tutorial quality of Doorway magic productions always meets the Pubtricks.com gold standard.

Shot glass surprise - great vanish
What a great vanish. The glass vanishes and so does the liquid without spilling any! This is a perfect trick for the bar or pub and good be a great way to boost your tips if you work in the trade. The trick needs a gimmick, which can be made at home as with all the tricks on the site, and Lee takes you through in detail how to make the gimmick. It costs only a few dollars to make the gimmick. This really is an impressive vanish and will leave a great impression. If you thought WOW when you watched the video then you should download the solution right now! This trick has a difficulty rating of 3.

The "Four Keys" To Controlling Black Magic Spells Successfully
The four keys of casting successful Black Magic Spellsblack magic spells are extremely important. In fact, if you are missing just one of them, your odds of success will drop drastically.

They take careful training and a lot of explanation, and are out of the scope of this book. I will quickly touch on 2 of them so you get an idea, but will go over all 4 of them in detail in my Witchcraft Academy In-A-Box.

The first is imagination.

Without using your imagination when performing Magick, it is extremely difficult to send out enough energy to get successful results.

You need to be able to create a vivid image of your mind that creates emotion within you while you are casting a spell. You must also make sure that you are emotionally attached to the image in your mind's eye.

Just being able to use this first key properly will instantly take your powers to a completely new level. But unfortunately, imagination is a lost art in this day and age.

Television, video games, cell phones, and other gadgets have created an "ADD" world. People no longer have to use their imagination anymore. That is why most people never develop it properly, and why they are out of touch with Magick energy.

Using your imagination to visualize situations that your are emotionally tied to is one of the major secrets to tapping in to the hidden world of Magick.

The second is your will.

Specifically your will is made up of your focus and intent when casting a spell or performing other Magick. It is the ability to strongly visualize what you want to accomplish with your Magick as you are performing the spell or ritual.

Without a strong will for what you want, you will not get what you want with Magick.

Your Magick lives or dies with your will. Proper meditation is the key to having a strong will, and I will take you through a meditation exercise later in this book.

Meditation for boosting your focus and intent will allow you to control Magick energies any time you need them. And if you can master your ability to focus your will on the goal, you will find that you can perform Magick without even trying - even just walking down the street focusing on your goals. But that's an advanced lesson for another day.

There is much to discover about the 4 secrets of successful Magick. Today, I just wanted to give you a taste of 2 of them quickly in this book so that you have an idea of what it takes to cast successful Magick spells.

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The best trick ever on Pubtricks.com?
Lee Petruccis latest trick is just amazing. This is the first mentalism effect on Pubtricks.com. I watched the video and I knew the trick but I have never known how it was done. I was so pleased to see such a great trick on the site. This trick needs a gimmick, which you can make at home and the cost will be minimal, may be $1 to $2. Lee explains in detail how to make the gimmick and covers how to perform the trick, even down to all the words you should use. The secret is also amazing. Just watch the video over and over again. You will not see how it is done. It is so clean and safe to perform. I am going to make the prediction now that this will one of the top sellers for many months to come. Download this trick right now and impress your friend right away or months to come!

Free Trick Thursday (Apr 16 2008) - The Vault is Open!
If you visit www.pubtricks.com in the next 24 hours you can get a free magic video tutorial. You have to be fast or the vault will be closed. Make sure you join our news feed so you get this warning everytime there is a free trick. Enjoy Free Trick Thursday from the leading download only magic site!

Coke vanish - who stole my coke!
Kems has produced another new trick for you all to enjoy. This is a great trick for beginners to Magic and very visual. It is ideal to show in a restaurant. It would also work very well at lunchtime in school. Impress your friends with this great trick. The effect needs a gimmick but as with all the tricks on the site it can be made at home for almost zero cost. You never have to spend big money to perform any tricks on this site! This trick is at a great price so get hold of it today. Remember if you buy three tricks at the same time via the shopping cart you can select another for free. Kems, the creator is often in the live chat room so if you have any questions he will help you out. This also holds for any of this other great creation! This trick has a difficulty rating of 2.

10 Steps to become a magician
Have you ever thought about becoming a magician? I did, some ten years ago. I had seen this amazing magician on TV which really caught my attention! I just didn’t know anything about where to start. Back then, there was no such thing as internet â€" at least not in any form that I had access to. So I went to the local library, and got “Houdini’s book of magicâ€�. I went back home, thrilled to get started learning magic. I sat down at the kitchen table with my black hat, playing cards, coins, rubber bands and my magic wand. I was ready. I opened the book and skipped pages until I got to the first explanation. To my surprise I realized that the illustrations in the book were pictures of a guy also sitting by a kitchen table! This was not identical to my imaginary picture. I was pretty sure these guys were up on huge stages, putting females into boxes with the intention of sawing them in half. Not sitting in the kitchen, wrapping yesterday’s newspaper around a yellow ball, trying to make it look like he could push it through the table (which he, in my mind, didn’t succeed with). To tell the truth, I was disappointed. The same went for all the other tricks in the entire book. Furthermore, I had the same feeling with every magic book I looked up at the local library or any other library for that sake. Theses book just didn’t do it! I had heard rumors about this guy Houdini and I was sure that he was a fairly cool magician. A least I was sure he was doing more impressive stuff than what I could ever learn from this book! So once again, I was stuck. Then one day I went with my parents to this amusement park where there was a magic shop. They actually sold the tricks I had seen on TV, such as the linking rings etc. I spent all my savings on magic props. I had a thousand questions for the owner of the store, and probably because I was his best customer, he gave me some useful tips. I told him I was going to spend my holiday in London, and I asked if he could recommend any specific places to visit. He told me about this magic store called “International Magicâ€�, which had the exact things I was looking for. About one month later, my family and I went to London. A short while after checking in to our hotel, we were on our way to “International Magicâ€�. This was an amazing experience and I was hooked! A lady working there told me about a magic store in Denmark called “Peganiâ€�. When I got back home, I quickly became a loyal costumer at Pegani. The owner of this store, Steen Pegani, had all the information I needed. I became a member of a magic circle close to my home city Billund. I went to the world congress of magic, FISM, in Dresden. And here I am ten years later, still hooked! However, I found this process convoluted and slow. The Internet sure has made this a lot easier, for everyone seeking to learn magic. Still, if you are new in this area, I have a few tips you might find useful. 1: Read: What is the first thing you do, every time you want to know something about a new topic? The same thing you are doing right now. Read! Read as much about magic as you possible can get your hands on. Not just effects and the following explanation. Read about the history, about different magicians, the different styles of magic, anything. This will make everything afterwards easier and more exciting. 2: Choose your style: Decide if you are more into close-up magic, stage magic, illusions, Mentalism, etc. Why is this important? Well if you care about your money, this is probably the best tip I can give you! See when you get into magic, you will find a dozen of magic tricks, you just feel you really need to know how works. Just like when you see David Copperfield doing a show. How much would you be willing to pay to know the secret? Too much! I have spent too much money on different effects that are actually pretty cool, still I have never used them. Why? Because they just don’t fit my style. Pulling rabbits out of a black hat just doesn’t go along with card tricks. That’s it. 3: Get to know other magicians: This is the best way to keep yourself motivated. Seeing other magicians do magic, showing them your own tricks, getting feedback, learning new tricks, and so on. Socializing with magicians is the best. Besides, they are pretty much the only guys you can practice with! You cannot ask your friends to watch you perform a magic trick and give you feedback the same way you can ask a magician. Unless you are giving a very poor performance, your friends will not and should not have any clue what you really doing. 4: Get a mirror: If you don’t have any magic friends in the house, you’d better get hold of a mirror. This is the only way you can tell if you are doing well or not. This is your silent audience, which can always be trusted. If you are doing stage magic, you’d better get a big one. 5: Watch out when buying magic effects: You are on your way into a world of magic and expensive props! Sooner or later you are going to start shopping magical props. You will see the most amazing ads for different effects, and this stuff is not cheap. But watch out and don’t let yourself get caught by the promising ads. This is the only business I can think of, where the customer can’t be told what he’s buying before he has paid for it. Too often have I tried opening the package only to realize that this isn’t close to what I was hoping for. You will get a disappointing feeling, since you cannot argue that the effect description is incorrect, it just might not work very well in real life. 6: Buy books/DVD’s rather than pre-made effects: One way to learn new effects is to buy a pre-made trick where you typically get some plastic gadget and an explanation. One company known for these kinds of tricks is Tenyo. Most of these effects are somewhat automatic, so the magician can focus on the performance. However these tricks are about as un-magical as they possibly can be. The plastic makes them look and sound cheap. No matter how good a performance you give, it will be difficult to impress people with such a toy-looking peace of magic. However, it is still possible to buy cool packet effects. Recently I bought a trick called hopping half which I have been really pleased with. This is an amazing effect using quality precision made prop. It is expensive though. So my advice is to buy magic books and DVDs instead of these pre-made tricks. Here you will get a lot of cool effects, and often something you can do without spending a fortune on extra props. I plan to start writing reviews of magic books and DVDs which I recommend on my other blog, JakobRecommends. 7: Leans slights and make your own combinations: This advice is for people who are into close-up magic. After some time when you have spent all your money on magic stuff, you are going to wish you knew how to make up your own tricks. Making magical inventions is an interesting subject which I will write more about later. But basically it should not be that difficult. I find it specially easy with card tricks. So where do you start? Get to know as many different slights as possible. Double lift, pinky break, Elmsley count, faro shuffle, passes â€" there are many, so go ahead. If you are a beginner at magic with cards, I would recommend the books Card College written by Roberto Giobbi. These five books will take you through more than you can imagine! You will learn several different slights and tricks. If you are a bit more experienced, I would recommend books and DVDs by Allan Ackerman. This guy is one of my favorite magicians. Anyway, when you have learned a lot of different slights, it should not be too complicated to set up your own trick. 8: Join The Magic Café Forum: This is a must! Go to The Magic Cafe and sign up. This is probably the largest forum for magicians. It contains enough useful information to keep you busy for days! It is also a great place to get different opinions about the books or tricks you are about to buy, and you can get feedback on your own ideas. Get to know other magicians. Often they invite famous magicians in for some hours, and everyone can ask questions. This is a great place! 9: Give a regular visit to All Magic: Go to here and take a look for yourself. There is a lot of information. Among other things, they have a list of magic dealers from all over the world, trick explanations, reviews etc. Go check it out! 10: Go out and perform, to improve your self: So now what? You have learned a few tricks, and you just can’t wait to see people’s reaction! Well then go out and perform your trick! I always start out by showing the tricks to friends or relatives first. Just in case you are going to make a mistake, you won’t feel as bad, as if you showed it for someone you don’t know. Showing your tricks is absolutely the best way to improve yourself! Just thinking about failing makes you sweat - this is why an upcoming performance will make you practice your hands off! So there you have it. It is not the complete guide to becoming a true magician, but you will definitely be on the right way!

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Coin Wipe - could be the best magic coin vanish!
Kems presents a first class coin vanish. This is very special as you can show both hand empty and both sides empty. This makes it very clean. You can also see that the vanish can change objects to other objects and you can bring back the coin. It is very rare to get a vanish that is so complete. The tutorial video explains how to make the gimmick needed and tips for getting the most out of the performance. As normal the gimmick can be made at home for very little cost. This trick is very fast to set up and great for close up magic at school, at work or in the bar. Make sure you add this one to your collection ASAP!

Bite out dollar
A great street magic trick with a dollar or any other bank note. A section is bitten and then spat back to restore the dollar bill. The reaction of people watching will be amazing. You can see there is a whole and then it just gets filled. How is that possible, watch closely and the missing part just flies into place. This is going to be a very popular trick so be one of the first to own the solution tutorial video. As with all Doorway Magic tutorials they are filmed to a high standard and explain everything you need to know. This trick does not need a gimmick and the tutorial explains how you can hand back the dollar bill at the end. This trick is simpler to learn than the bite out card magic trick and will need only 1 or 2 practice attempts to master. The method for this trick is different to the bite out card trick so why not get them both!