I have been around the forums quite a while now, I used to be pretty active maybe a year or 2 ago, and it was around that time that a section called ¨battlewhatever thing¨was going on. It was a section where you challenged a magician, both of you recorded a trick from what I like to call the CPOV (Crotch point of view) and the other users here voted on who was the best.
I was actually ranked no.1 when that part of the site was brought down, and before you say to yourself ( Jesus, he is boasting) let me say that I am actually happy to see that portion of the site to be eliminated. For one I started to see that us magicians usually have a huge ego (im not saying that everyone here)
I actually want to bring a point to the table, recently I was contacted by several magicians from my town to do a group where all of us could share things and knowledge, it was pretty dissapointing actually that rather than grow all toguether it was all just a big competition of who was the best, who had the best sleights and so on disguised as a ¨friendly group meeting¨
So I began to ponder on the thought of the real reasons of why we do magic, we all as people have the need to actually try to not be another fish in the pond if you get my meaning, some people do this if they have good looks, other actually learn how to play a instrument, some people are really good dancing, others do beatbox etc.
Or in other words, we learn those kind of things as actual ¨Social crutches¨
I believe that in order to be a good performer ( im not talking strictly magician) you have to go to the very roots of why you do the things you do, either you do it as a social crutch, you do it because you actually enjoy performing, or you do it because you simply enjoy the spotlight on you.
I bring this to the table because I have seen countless magicians so much focused on themselves that they actually don´t give attention to what really is important.
The audience and their needs.
If you read all of the above you deserve a cookie :3
I was actually ranked no.1 when that part of the site was brought down, and before you say to yourself ( Jesus, he is boasting) let me say that I am actually happy to see that portion of the site to be eliminated. For one I started to see that us magicians usually have a huge ego (im not saying that everyone here)
I actually want to bring a point to the table, recently I was contacted by several magicians from my town to do a group where all of us could share things and knowledge, it was pretty dissapointing actually that rather than grow all toguether it was all just a big competition of who was the best, who had the best sleights and so on disguised as a ¨friendly group meeting¨
So I began to ponder on the thought of the real reasons of why we do magic, we all as people have the need to actually try to not be another fish in the pond if you get my meaning, some people do this if they have good looks, other actually learn how to play a instrument, some people are really good dancing, others do beatbox etc.
Or in other words, we learn those kind of things as actual ¨Social crutches¨
I believe that in order to be a good performer ( im not talking strictly magician) you have to go to the very roots of why you do the things you do, either you do it as a social crutch, you do it because you actually enjoy performing, or you do it because you simply enjoy the spotlight on you.
I bring this to the table because I have seen countless magicians so much focused on themselves that they actually don´t give attention to what really is important.
The audience and their needs.
If you read all of the above you deserve a cookie :3