Hello guys!
I, just as everyone else, is still trying to figure out ''what I want to be'' in magic. I have been learning different slights and techniques, and right now im learning from ''The royal road to card magic''. I should also say that I don't perform much. At all. I practice alot of techniques and moves, but I just don't perform much. That is because of a lot of reasons I suppose, but probably because I don't know who to perform for. Anyways, to my question. When I do perform, doesn't matter if it is for, say my mom, or a friend, they always try to figure out what im doing. I don't perform unless I feel that I can do the effect ''good enough'', and yet their goal always seems to be to figure out what im doing. I just did a little ''trick'' for my mom, a card transpo if you will, that required a control to the top. I did the control, my mom saw some tiny little thing that indicated something was happening, and immediately said, ''I believe the card is there''. She was wrong, but that didn't feel important at all. This used to happend all the time before, (when I was starting out magic), and that was because I didn't practice enough. But I feel that is not the case now really.
This doesn't happend all the time. Sometimes I prepare a patter and perform scripted. Then I usually end up making a story about the cards. So, is it something im doing that is making the 'audience' want to scream out what they think? Would patter help? Is there something I can work on?
I do feel that people I have performed for earlier, that have seen me fail or similar, usually tend to be a little more eager to ''bust'' me.
Thanks!
William Karlsson
I, just as everyone else, is still trying to figure out ''what I want to be'' in magic. I have been learning different slights and techniques, and right now im learning from ''The royal road to card magic''. I should also say that I don't perform much. At all. I practice alot of techniques and moves, but I just don't perform much. That is because of a lot of reasons I suppose, but probably because I don't know who to perform for. Anyways, to my question. When I do perform, doesn't matter if it is for, say my mom, or a friend, they always try to figure out what im doing. I don't perform unless I feel that I can do the effect ''good enough'', and yet their goal always seems to be to figure out what im doing. I just did a little ''trick'' for my mom, a card transpo if you will, that required a control to the top. I did the control, my mom saw some tiny little thing that indicated something was happening, and immediately said, ''I believe the card is there''. She was wrong, but that didn't feel important at all. This used to happend all the time before, (when I was starting out magic), and that was because I didn't practice enough. But I feel that is not the case now really.
This doesn't happend all the time. Sometimes I prepare a patter and perform scripted. Then I usually end up making a story about the cards. So, is it something im doing that is making the 'audience' want to scream out what they think? Would patter help? Is there something I can work on?
I do feel that people I have performed for earlier, that have seen me fail or similar, usually tend to be a little more eager to ''bust'' me.
Thanks!
William Karlsson