1000 Top Personal Tips For A Magician

StevenLevitt · Oct 30, 2007

What is the first tip that comes to mind which you would like to share with other magicians? Our aim is to get 1000 tips in this thread.

This will hopefully start up peoples thought of mind, and also get magicians thinking if these tips will suit them. The tips, can be performance styles, presentation styles, helpful ideas, and so on.

Here is mine, for the next person to follow on...

1) Always do the three P's. Practice, practice, and practice.
2) Always smile, unless you are in a role of a certain character.

harapanong · Oct 30, 2007

3) Have fun.
4) Let yourself compliment the art, and not let the art compliment you.
5) There are no rules in magic, except for this one.

- harapan. magic!

dasuprememep · Oct 30, 2007

6) Be yourself
7) Act, Perform
8) It's only a good trick if you think it is.

StevenLevitt · Oct 30, 2007

9) Slow down. Get the move before worrying about speed.

krukev · Oct 30, 2007

10) Only show your tricks when your able to perform them correctly, but also don't keep practising it too much when you already can do it as with the performance you get the experience.

arcangeld · Oct 30, 2007

11) If you believe it, your audiences will too

MaxDeVill · Oct 30, 2007

12. Your patter is more important than your effect.

DawnOfMagic · Oct 30, 2007

13. Go slow so your audience can follow along, and anyways, style is better than speed.

harapanong · Oct 30, 2007

I disagree with tip 12.

The art of magic lies in the tricks and effects, not in the patter. Patter is part of presentation, and presentation is just the way to present the art.

14) The effect is more important than the patter. But you better make sure your patter is good.

Zephil · Oct 30, 2007

15) watch your spectators and base your performance and most importantly, patter, according to their personalities.

16) use friends and / or acquaintance to practice on, use them to help get rid of some of your nerves before you go out and perform.

thetrilogy-corE · Oct 30, 2007

17) If your audience likes you, the audience will like what you do.

chris311 · Oct 30, 2007

18) always remember to keep your hands and nails squeaky clean and polished

edgegrip · Oct 30, 2007

17. Don't repeat an effect in the same audience.

p3ck_gthrice · Oct 30, 2007

20) Practice in front of a mirror. Impress yourself first before others..

Blazingkidz · Oct 30, 2007

18. Always address your audience by name, build rapport, if can, some body contacts will be better

19.Have some pauses in between your routine

cbols23 · Oct 30, 2007

20. Your audience are not (always) kids, do not treat them that way.

coal1987 · Oct 30, 2007

18. Know when to stop. If you find a good audience and u keep on doin trick after trick. After a while you've shown nothin but that you're just a magic freak. Like what Wayne Hounchin said "You want to entertain your audience not scare them"

Rusty · Oct 30, 2007

20. Bad experiences/performances happen. Learn from them, but don't let them discourage you.

mattjones · Oct 30, 2007

21.) Try not to let your nerves control you. Just forget your nervousness for the split second it takes to introduce yourself.

22.) Once you're performing, just roll with the audience and try to interact. If you're comfortable enough, you can change parts of your routine to fit the audience/situation.

sky_lark · Oct 30, 2007

23. Be brave. It doesn't matter if you think they're going to figure out your trick, because once you get going you can't stop. Have confidence.