Magic Tricks Revealed - How to Quickly Establish Rapport With Any Audience

This is a great set of skills that can give you a quick and powerful connection with any audience. They are based on simple psychology, but will make it appear as though you have powerful psychic skills. These are easy to learn, and you can go out and put them into practice as soon as you finish reading this article.

Credibility is vastly important when asking people to suspend their disbelief long enough to watch you do magic. One mistake and you're cover is blown, and they'll be watching you with a much closer eye. When people see a magic act, especially if they'd paid money, they want to be dazzled and entertained. They don't have to make believe that you are doing real magic. They want to believe you are magic.

A great way to set yourself up as an authority in their minds is through some seemingly amazing psychic mind reading. But through some basic eye accessing cues, you can usually tell what kinds of thoughts they are thinking. As you match your magician's "patter" to their thoughts, you will develop enormous credibility, and they will enjoy your show much more.

Here are the general rules. When people look up, either up and to the right, or up and to the left, they are generally thinking visually. They are literally seeing pictures in their minds. When people look side to side (without moving their head) they usually are thinking auditory, or sound based thoughts. When people look down, either down and to the right, or down and to the left, they are generally thinking of "feeling" thoughts.

One way you can do this is to pick out a willing participant, and have a mini conversation with him or her. As you pay attention to their eyes, and gain and understanding into their thoughts, you can easily match your words to their type of thinking. Just use picture words (see, look, witness, etc.) when they are looking up, and speak in sound words (hear, listen, music, etc.) when they are looking side to side. People rarely think in terms of feelings when they are out watching a show. It is much more of an auditory and visual experience.

While these tips are very basic, and broad, they will go a great deal in helping you gain a huge amount of rapport in a relatively short amount of time with any audience, or even with a one on one encounter when you are doing street magic. Of course these skills can easily be applied elsewhere, like in a relationship, but I'll leave that to your own discretion.

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Is There Such a Thing As Magic? Make Your Audience Think So

I've seen them both; you've probably seen them, too: one magician who has clearly blown all his wealth at the magic store but leaves his audience cold and another working impromtu in the street with a borrowed coin and leaving his audience in a state of wonder. Both working magicians but only in one case did magic seem to really happen. What has one got that the other hasn't? It's clearly not a lot of expensive gimmicks. What it is, is the biggest secret of all magic. And that's what I'm going to share with you now. If you'd rather be the second than the first magician in the example above, you need to know this. So read on...

Let's get one thing cleared up straightaway: I'm not suggesting that the first magician in my example failed because he had expensive kit, still less that the second one succeeded because he didn't. The point is, that whether you have expensive stage magic or you specialise in impromtu street tricks, you are only going to make the magic seem real if you have understood the biggest, most important, most fundamental secret of all successful magic.

So what is the secret?

Is it technical proficiency? No.

That is very important and you should certainly put a lot of time and effort into acquiring it, but it doesn't bring the magic to life on it's own account.

So is it mastering misdirection, that so many magic teachers talk about, at least if they are any good? No, it's not that.

Although you absolutely must master misdirection if you really want to be in control of your magic and guide your audience's experience so that the magic can happen. But your misdirection techniques won't work (or at least they'll be hard to implement) without this vital ingredient.

Alright, enough already, what is it????

I can explain it in a single word: rapport. Without rapport all your efforts will be in vain. With it, you will make magic seem real to your audience. It is that important. It is essential. So, let's take a closer look at what it really means for the magician.

Rapport is all about communication. It's a deep form of communication that gets your audience to like you and brings them together on the same wavelength.

There are various techniques that we can gather from the most recent psychological research that can help build this experience of rapport. They are well worth studying and thinking about. Ultimately, you need to interiorize these principles so that they become part of your natural behaviour and so are employed honestly: nothing destroys rapport more effectively than attempts to fake it! However, grasping an insight into these principles will help you understand and develop your own natural rapport-building instincts in the magic context.

A key technique in rapport building is called 'mirroring'. Basically, people are happier to accept and trust someone that they perceive as being like them, or belonging to their group. So, the clothes you wear in a given situation should be chosen to help you fit in, mirroring your audience. Equally, your gestures and body language should reflect those of your audience. The style of language that you use and so on, should all match your audience. That way, they will accept you as one of their own and will relax and give you trust.

A word of warning at this point: when an audience trusts you, you must never abuse that trust. When you do magic tricks, don't leave your audience feeling tricked; instead, leave them with the gift of wonder.

Another key technique is to empathise with your audience. Try to pick up on how they are feeling, what kind of day they've had, what they are wanting from the experience of watching your magic. Feel how they are feeling and respond to that.

The third technique is to be kind! Don't mock your audience, don't humiliate them or make them feel stupid. Performing magic isn't about showing how clever you are (although you are!) It's about taking the audience with you on a journey. Inviting them to a magical place that they will enjoy and making it easy and fun for them to get there.

And that's rapport.

Assuming that you are technically proficient and have a good grasp on misdirection: build rapport with your audience and even if you have only a couple of tricks with coins, you will take them with you on a wonderful journey and they will, even if only for a moment, believe that magic is real.

Which is good news especially for beginner magicians because it means you don't need to spend a fortune at the magic store! A few simple tricks and effects that you can easily and cheaply learn through video downloads these days, a little study of good magic principle and the ability to build rapport and you have evrything you need.

Enjoy and share the magic!

Austin Hackney is a performing magician, entertainer, theatre practioner and writer of many years standing, always keen to share his experience and encourage the novice. His website, www.magic-tricks.ws is a great resource for magic tutorials, articles, selected books and more. Why not subscribe and start to learn magic now!

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Learn Card Tricks to Enamor Your Audience

Are you an enthusiast magician? Or have you started your magic career as your profession? Whatever your motive and desire is, while showing magic to people with the strong willingness to create illusion then you must learn card tricks. Doing excellent magic tricks with cards especially ordinary playing cards can highly bring enormous success and fame down your path in the world of magic.

Learning playing card tricks is really worth to a beginner magician as these tricks can easily make people amazed and impressed. Especially when they see something unusual and impossible things are being done with their daily used playing cards by the magician. They start dropping their jaw at the excellence of a magician's sleight of hands.

Start your magic career as a professional or an amateur with the simple and easy to learn tricks. Get smooth dexterity of hands by constant practice as well as concentration on your learning. Give your full commitment in the learning process of magic tricks so that one day you could become renowned magician like your dreamt one. Remember though these tricks are easy but these require extreme level of perfection to conquer spectator's belief.

Learn simple card tricks like bending cards forward as well as backward, pulling cards from thin air, making card's surprising entry into your spectator's wallet, blind folded deck of cards, rising your spectator's chosen card out of the middle of your shuffled deck of cards, make cards vanished in front of audience etc.

After acquiring the simple trick skill properly, gradually move towards advanced card tricks. Always remember unless and until you capture the dexterity of hands efficiently and perfectly, it's better not to perform any advance card tricks in front of your audience. Otherwise a single mistake at show can charge a lot.

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