Easy Card Tricks
If you are reading this, then you have probably been impressed David Blaine or some other person doing street magic tricks. You probably want to learn some easy card tricks to impress your friends. This article will help you do just that.
One thing that often discourages potential magicians is that they try to learn difficult tricks right away. Don’t be afraid to learn easy card tricks! Even David Blaine uses easy card tricks! He is just very good at presenting them well.
Presentation is a very big part of card tricks and magic in general. With good presentation skills, an easy trick can be made to look difficult or a difficult trick can be made to look easy. In order to hone your presentation skills, you must first master the trick you want to do. Follow every step of the directions. Practice over and over and over! Keep practicing the trick until you can do it with your eyes closed. Then practice in front of a mirror until you can fool yourself!
Watch other magicians– Actually, don’t watch them. Study them. Study how they present their tricks. See if you can pick out some easy card tricks they do and how they make these tricks appear difficult. Try to implement these methods into your own tricks and routines to make your easy card tricks appear to be more difficult, or even impossible!
After you learn a few card tricks, you will start to recognize certain components that are used a lot in most tricks– double lifts, triple lifts, trick shuffles, and different ways to force a card. Practice each of these components until you can do them effortlessly. You can use these tools to make up your own, original card tricks and routines. Soon, you’ll be out on the street performing card tricks for strangers!
In conclusion, remember even professional magicians use easy card tricks! It all comes down to practice and presentation. If you practice your tricks and present them well, you will become a great magician!
How To Practice Your Card Tricks
First, you should practice your card tricks every single day. Most easy card tricks rely on muscle memory and the best way to build muscle memory is to do the action for a little while each day. You do not have to sacrifice a lot of time to do this. These card tricks can be done while you do other things in your daily routine. Take a deck of cards with you everywhere you go and whenever you have down time, practice. You can practice on the subway to work. You can practice on the toilet! You can even practice while you run on the treadmill!
Second, instead of practicing an entire trick, you can master the building blocks of many easy card tricks. Spend time and energy on mastering how to do a perfect double-lift or faro shuffle and it will pay dividends later. Learning the building blocks of all card tricks will allow you to learn many tricks at a rapid pace because you won’t have to worry about your technical abilities.
Third, practice in front of a mirror. If you cannot fool yourself in front of a mirror, you are not a good enough magician to perform your card tricks on other people. Plus it is a really cool feeling to see yourself do a card trick, know exactly how it is being done, but still be impressed by its magical effects.
Fourth, after you can fool yourself, start showing off to your friends. Not only is this a lot of fun, but it will give you motivation to learn and master new tricks. You can be that nerd who brings out his deck of cards at a party and perform card tricks for all your drunk friends! Seriously, though, by knowing a couple easy card tricks, you can make yourself the center of attention at any party.
Lastly, practice on random strangers. Go up to people on the sidewalk and ask to show them a card trick. It is a lot of fun and you can meet a lot of new people. Also, you can think of yourself as brightening their day a little. And, of course, there is the added benefit that, if you mess up, you never have to see them again!
|
