I was 11 years old when I first became interested in magic, and that's been well over 16 years ago. To this day I'm still fascinated by watching some performers perform, and I still love learning new tricks. It hasn't always been easy learning magic tricks. Knowledge had to come from books, or when I could manage to scrape enough cash together, I could be found in a magic shop pondering over what book, dvd, or magic prop to buy next. Magic's an expensive art, and it can make learning it very hard if you're not one that's got a lot of disposable income. At nearly 30 bucks a pop for a dvd of maybe 15 tricks, a few of which you'll only ever use and perform, it makes it very difficult, especially when starting out, to know which tricks and dvd's are worth your hard earned cash, and which ones are full of useless or uncreative and unimaginative material.
As I got a little older and the internet became more and more of a thing, site's like youtube would allow me to watch performs, and I could sometimes backtrack and reverse engineer a magic trick if I thought about it long enough. To this day there's many I can't seem to reverse engineer, but with 16 years under my belt of learning the art, I'm better at it than most.
Still I like learning from dvd's over books because I can see how the trick is supposed to look, and a book isn't going to let you see a performance. A book can also be very hard to understand at times, and it can be very difficult learning, even with a deck of cards in hand and going through the motions of a card trick you're trying to read and learn.
I have found my solution, and I'm happy to share it with all of you that are looking to expand your knowledge in the conjuring arts. There is a website that I like to visit and has free magic trick tutorials and reveals, including my favorite card trick the torn and restored card.
This site has Justin Miller's Aftershock revealed tutorial for free, and it's my favorite torn and restored card to date. Justin has put a lot of thought into this trick and the handling is actually very easy and concise. You don't have to be advanced, even a beginner can pick up this cool little torn and restored effect and learn it and go off and perform it within' only 30 minutes of practice. I think that's very good considering that most TNR effects can take a long time to learn, and even longer to build up the nerve to try and perform for an audience without being nervous and sweating bullets.
Highly recommend http://www.exposedtricks.com as a site worth checking out for learning free tutorials. The site it always growing too. I hope you learn lots and enjoy the arts as much as I have and still do.
As always, thanks for reading, and I'll see you on the next blog post!
