Choose a trick or two and learn it well.
Perform for friends and family until you have it down without any flaws.
Once you finish your act, decide if you want to continue performing magic tricks or move on.
Some people are content with doing something just once while others are motivated to learn other magic tricks and pursue this as a long term career.
You can even teach people how to do this so you are able to impart some knowledge to those who are also fascinated.
Be sure to keep eye contact with the audience because you are expected to entertain them.
If ever you make a mistake, just apologize and move on.
Before you start learning magic tricks, you have to learn its history.
Magic has been used for hundreds of years.
Technology has helped make it bigger than it has ever been but in order to understand it, you have to learn how and why it works.
From there, you will learn the various techniques and get an idea what you want to specialize in.
There are seven different methods used for sleight of hand magic tricks.
They usually require lots of practice before a person can be effective enough in using them.
Palming is one of the most common of sleight of hand methods.
It refers to the action of trying to seemingly have an object in an apparently empty hand.
Steal is another sleight of hand method wherein a performer tries to obtain a needed object secretly.
Whenever you practice doing some tricks, be sure to have a friend or a family member watch how you do it.
Their feedback is very important so you will know if what you are doing is right.
A second method is to perform in front of a mirror,this way you can see what the audience would see.
It also wouldn't hurt to record yourself with a video camera then play it back later.
These are all good ways to learn and improve your sleight of hand techniques.
Sleight of hand techniques also bring with them a negative association that is borne out of the use of such skills for doing bad things.
Never play the shell game with someone on the street.
You will lose all the time.
These guys give real performers a bad name.
They use stooges who encourage you to chose a certain shell, the main guy looks away and they show you the object so you think they are helping you.
However they switch it (sleight of hand move) and you choose it and lose..
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The history of magic is fascinating, from Houdini to Chris Angel there are many different types of magic and many different ways to perform.
Start with the easy stuff and see which type of magic you enjoy.
Then practice and if you live in Las Vegas join the local magic club and learn new tricks and techniques from the other members.