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Agreed...100%. I got a GoPro camera and use it to film myself. This allows me to focus on performing and not looking at the mirrors. After I practice I can look back and see what I need to work on and what is good to go.

I have asked the same question recently of three professional magicians for my son who wants to learn magic. All three mentioned Mark Wilson's course. We picked it up yesterday and he has had his face buried in it since. It isn't geared toward children it is expertly geared to the beginner.

I show my age (59) when I answer Ricky Jay. There are so many good sleight of hand artist about now a days. However, to watch Ricky Jay do the same several tricks four or five different ways in succession was mesmerizing! I agree with an earlier statement...the keeper of all knowledge Magic...

Present day movies would have to be "Now You See Me". My reasoning is as a school teacher I have heard more students showing interest and talking about the NYSM 1 and 2 movies came out. My 8 year old was hooked in by the movie and is eating up magic at a vigorous rate now. As a 59 year old it...

Card 1: 3 of Hearts Card 2: 6 of Spades Card 1: King of Diamonds Card 2: 7 of Clubs

If you are a card guy..books, books, books....read and learn. The best information given above was PRACTICE. Goodness, the Temptation is to run through something a few times in the first time you think you got it perfect go out and show somebody. Don't! If you can't perform the trick...

I first got into Magic when I was 8 or 9 years old. At that time everything I used was sleight of hand and basic magic tricks per se, Sands of the Desert, color changing scarf, dancing/disappearing cane, Etc. I work really hard at the slide of hand and got fairly accomplished. We then moved and...