Introduce yourself

My audience consists of my kids, they aren't that hard to amaze but I really plan on getting my finger out and getting to grips with a few of the basics.

Well its great to have so many experienced people here.

King of Kards wrote: »

About time boards got a magic forum, my fiance told me about it today so i signed up.

iirc my first post was in the thread requesting this forum, so I signed up just for this too .

EDIT: Yep, just checked... First post.

azezil wrote: »

Hi my name is Az, and I'm an alcoholic.

*snigger*

I have been involved in magic for three or four years now. I am based out of Kerry. I am still at the hobby level at the moment, but I am in the process of building up a routine to try and land myself some work.

I have also been sitting on the domain magicireland.com for a few years, and I am still stumped with what to do with it. I would like to put something there that would benifit all magicians in Ireland (It's just a non-updated blog at the moment). So I am open to suggestions with that too (I am a web developer by trade, so I should have few issues implementing any suggestions)

hey guys

Card Magician here the last few years, been doing it since i met a magician in a place i was working, i showed some initiative learning some tricks off the net and he thought me a lot of the basics, im now pretty competant with cards and can regularly be found outside pubs in swords at the end of nights out melting heads for the laugh.

Anyone here attend SIM?

Well its one of those things that everyone knows a magician but the magician never goes around saying he's a magician if you get what i mean.

for most its a hobby and you keep your secrets to yourself etc etc, and i think the idea of talking magic on an open forum never crossed peoples minds

Yeah maths or counting tricks, they work, i suggest learning the very very basics of card control and you will open a pandora's box to yourself

Mechanics grip for a start
Riffling the cards
Confidently shuffling card
Fanning cards
Charlier Cut
Hip Cut
The Pass


They are just the start of learning, basic showy offy stuff

My friend dave is a magician a long time, very small hands, he's not great at palming but can do almost anything else with a deck of cards and coin and object magic he is brilliant at.

so dont overlook it, i'll be honest i rarely palm and most card control is in the fingers so keep learning and keep trying, being good with cards isnt an instant thing, believe me, i've tried teaching fans and cuts to friends to keep them happy and they just cant do it first time out. they need lots of practise before even 1 of them got remotely close

It's more than just small hands, it's got a lot to do with my finger spread and actual finger length.

No I merely said I'm average! My palm of choice is the Tenkai, hand size is no object to that, the classic palms a pain so I avoid it but other than that I'm kind of okay.

My little finger is particularly weak so it makes double lifts a pain but I can just pull them off!

oeb wrote: »

You should take a look at Jay Sankey, he has tiny hands.

Surprised he didn't get a thread of his own when Blaine, Derren and the others did. I love his work with rings (finger kind, not giant stainless steel kind).