Suggested Guidelines for a Good Magician to follow

PRACTICE: As they say, practice makes perfect, and nowhere is this more important than when you perform magic in front of an audience. Of course, the choice is there to hone your skills in front of friends or family, but a paying audience expects perfection and will boo you if it's any less, or if you perform too slowly so that you reveal your secrets to them.

SECRETS: Never, ever tell the audience how you just did your trick, even if they beg you to do so. When you do magic, all the fun you get is from the surprise you get from your audience. Don't ruin it.

REPEATING: This is not recommended. Never go for an encore presentation for your audience because if you repeat the trick you just did, all the tricks you used to draw the attention away from your audience will be rendered useless and the chance you get busted are multiplied exponentially.

MIRRORS: Before you go ahead and practice in front of a real crowd do all your tricks in front of the mirror. The reason this is suggested is because you will be able to see what the audience sees when they are watching you.

TRICKS: It will be easier for you if you decide to perform the one you like the most because it will give you an edge. Of course you cannot be perfect in every area of magic, nobody is. But as the saying goes, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. This is even truer in magic.

Here is a very interesting trick, finger reading. The secret is the following: You need three people from the audience. Once you have chosen them, ask them to write their names on a piece of paper. Your best option for this particular trick is two select two men and one woman. Next thing is to cut the paper with the names on it and put them in a box designed for this trick. Now the amazing part of the act will be when you choose the paper with the female name on it all of this while you cannot see. All you have to do is to touch the paper for the rough edges. This will wow your crowd.

Here is how to do card tricks:
Before you do your act just choose in advance the three cards you want to use. The most important thing to do is not to show the way your cards are laid out. Next just put the three cards you chose and all you need to do is lay the cards on top of the pack.

Make this trick even more interesting by telling the audience there is a chance you haven't done the trick properly and there is a very good chance it will flop. Of course, now that you've set the bar low, your fans will be delighted when it actually works. The audience also doesn't have to know how many times you practiced this trick.

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