Saturday, 30 January 2010

Three Magic Tricks Secrets Revealed

By John Jasmino

Professional Magicians won't reveal how they do the magic tricks. It's a sworn to secrecy oath for magicians not to tell anyone how a magic trick is done. Here are three secrets though that they've shared all throughout the years. Here are their three secrets.

The first magic trick secret is that some tricks are done using the sleight of hand technique. This is when they skillfully hide an object and make it re-emerge on another hand. Novice magicians hide things up their sleeves. Those are very old tricks and very few magicians today use that method.

Sleights of hand take a lot of practice to master. Beginners of magic use specially made gimmicks to create the illusion. Professional magicians take advantage of their impressive sleight of hand. It requires a lot of time, patience and hand coordination to fully understand and do.

Another top secret is the art of misdirection. See this blank paper? And as audience looks at the blank paper, he is carefully getting another piece with his other hand. This is misdirection. Another type of misdirection is the kind that doesn't let the audience see what's really causing the tricks. You might have seen that a magician has a lot of assistants who also do incredible stuff, but what you didn't know is that they are helping the magician perform the magic just by being there.

Another kind of misdirection is the use of words. For example, a magician will tell you to look at the 'empty' box. We tend to look at the box as empty just because he said it. This makes our mind to wonder when the magician pulls a rabbit out of it.

Misdirection takes a lot of practice and lots of time in preparation. It involves body coordination (one body doing something while the other is doing another thing) and quick thinking. Misdirection is an art and magicians are self-respecting of it.

Another secret is their patter or a magician's continuous talk. Misdirection is achieved mostly because of patter. The magician will ask you to look at his right hand and as you are looking, you won't notice what his left hand is doing. This is a really clever way to achieve the illusion that what happens next becomes so magical with the wink of an eye.

Patter usually takes the form of a story, where a magician will tell you of something that happened to him in the past. Sometimes it's so amusing that we actually forget to look at what their hands are doing or what their assistants are giving them. These are the three magic tricks revealed. Don't tell anyone!

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