Best of Magic Roadshow  -  Volume One


Hello Fellow Magicians..

Welcome to the first issue of ' Best of Magic Roadshow - Magic's Premier Newsletter.'

I have included various articles that have appeared in the first ten issues of Magic Roadshow. These are not necessarily the 'best', but they are a good representation of the type articles in Magic Roadshow. If you are not a subscriber... you should be.

Don't wait months for another 'best of..' compilation . Get the jump on your competition NOW!, and receive special bonus tricks and ebooks not found in this journal.

You can subscribe, view complete past issues, and discover an array of tricks and videos by visiting the Magic Roadshow homepage...  Street Magic Bullets... at: StreetMagic.info

Many thanks...

Rick Carruth

Rick(at)MagicRoadshow.com


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7 Necessary Steps You Should Take When Performing  Magic In Streets & Bars


by Gary McCaffrey

If you want to start performing magic tricks to strangers in streets bars and clubs, follow these tips and get the most out of every magic performance.

1. Dress Casually
A lot of people will tell you that to come across as a serious
magician, you have to dress well. While that is true for restaurant
work, when performing in streets and bars, you want to appear casual.
A pair of jeans and a shirt or T-shirt is perfect. This way you
blend in.. Looking like the average person will make people expect
little from you, which elevates your surprise factor when you do
something amazing.

2. Choose Your Spectators
When you start performing regularly in the 'real world', you WILL face
a lot of rejection. By rejection I mean people who have no interest in
watching you perform. However, there are measures you can take to
decrease this 'rejection'. Never approach people who look busy. If
someone is marching through the street, or in a bar in deep
conversation with their partner, its unlikely they want to be
interrupted.
The next thing my experience has taught me, avoid older people and
groups of males, don't ask me why but older people seem to not want to
see magic tricks, and groups of males almost always feel challenged by
the fact you know something they don't, and are prime cadidates for
trying to ruin your magic.

3. Play Yourself Down
When I first approach spectators, I always try to act real casual, and
take everything slow and smoothe. This will make you appear as though
you're not even trying, which will amaze your spectators even more. This
way, they will think, "what could he do if he actually tried".

4. Learn Your Tricks
This one is pretty obvious -- do not perform any trick until you have
practiced it well. Although performing is the best practice you will
get, make sure you have the mechanics down before you start. There is
nothing more embarressing than forgetting what to do next in the middle
of a routine.

5. Structure Your Performance
Make sure your routine is well structured. This means that each trick
builds on the last, has an extra surprise factor or is just simply
more amazing. You don't want to start your routine with your strongest
trick because the rest of your magic will seem mediocre. Build as
you go and leave the best to last!

6. No means NO!
If you approach someone and they say they don't want to see any magic,
do not continue to insist, you don't want to harrass people.
Just politely say 'Ok, that's fine' and move along, they could be having a
bad day and if someone is cheeky to you or insults you it may dent
your confidence for the rest of your performance.

7. Get A Tip
The easiest way I find to get a tip is to finish with a trick using
money. Borrow some cash from a spectator and use it in your final
trick. Often, if you where entertaining, people will tell you to keep
the money, or usually, you can just put it in your pocket and say
nothing, they usually just let you have it. This is the most hassle
free way of getting a tip, because usually, I don't like to ask for it.
Keep in mind, that there is a lot more to performing in the street
than what I have outlined above. But if you follow this advice, you
will be sure to make a success out of most of your street magic
performances.

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Gary McCaffrey, Performing Street Magician. Gary McCaffrey rugularly
performs to both magicians and ordinary people in bars clubs & streets
throughout Ireland and the UK. If you want to learn some of the
strongest simplest magic Gary uses to amaze people in the real world,
you must get 'Extreme Street Magic' Available at:
  learn-magic-tricks. com/street-magic.html


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:: Expert at the Card Table  (Free complete ebook)


"But there is not a single card feat in the whole calendar that will give as good returns for the amount of practice required, or that will mystify as greatly, or cause as much amusement, or bear so much repetition, as this little game; and for these reasons we believe it worthy of unstinted effort to master thoroughly."

S.W. Erdnase wrote the above while referring to three card monte. Erdnase wrote the classic " The Expert at the Card Table " around 1900, and this book is, and has been, so influential that it's been in
continuous publication ever since.

A quick check on Amazon will find "The Expert at the Card Table" on sale for $ 8.95.

Erdnase covered it all: professional secrets, blind shuffles, riffles, and cuts, bottom dealing and second dealing, forcing, palming... you name it, he covered it...

And if you have ever wanted to know the "secret" to three card monte and Mexican monte, Erdnase will teach you... I just paid twenty dollars for a dvd that taught me these very same techniques.

You will also learn fourteen stunning card manipulations that are as great as they are timeless.

You can download Expert at the Card Table free IF you are a subscriber to Magic Roadshow. Each issue  includes a special url where you can download the complete ebook. To subscribe, go to:
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:: Can I Read Your Mind ?


Let me conduct a little test. I want you to pick a number between one and ten...

Got it?

OK. Now, I want you to multiply the number times nine (9).

Your number will be somewhere between nine and ninety. Now, take your two-digit number, if it is a two digit number, and add the two digits together to get a one digit number.

(example...if your number was 43 .... 4 plus 3 equals 7 )

If it's already a one digit number, simply subtract five as below..

Now, subtract five (5) from your number.

This number will be your KEY number, so remember it...

Associate a letter of the english alphabet (abcdefghi.....) with your key number.

Do this by associating the number one with the letter "A", number two with "B", number three with "C" and so forth...

Got your letter ?

Good !

Now, Think of a COUNTRY in Europe that begins with that letter. ( If you want, you can think of a state in the United States that begins with that letter.)

Look at the second letter in your countries name and think of an ANIMAL, ( not a bird or fish ) that begins with this letter..

Now that you have your animal picked... think of a color normally associated with your animal. ( example... if you picked a dog, you can think of the color brown, or black, or white..)

You should have a COUNTRY, ANIMAL, and COLOR picked... I have posted my prediction near the bottom of the page !


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:: Kard Klub


Kard Klub, the rule-breaking underground movie takes learning to a new level with classroom training and street performances by a multitude of unknown performers.

Sleights and moves are deciphered and broken down into flawless training that allows you to virtually control the reactions when on the street.

"Genuine, raw, and sheer brilliance." - Richard J. Basuel, Gardena, CA, USA.

"Kard Klub is the finest, most well crafted, entertaining, informative card magic video I have ever seen. " - Nat, Magician, New York

Folks, this brand new video from Ellusionist is priced at 39 to 42 dollars, and stands as perhaps the BEST teaching video on the market today... No Joke...

"I was absolutely blown away the first time I saw this video" - Rick Carruth, Magic Roadshow

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:: Disappearing Act



Someone asked me recently what was my favorite way of disappearing an object.

Honestly, my favorite way is something I learned in elementary school from a cousin of mine who happened to be a professional magician..

It is tried and true, and so simple anyone can do it...

Take a safety pin ( snap pin, diaper pin, etcs. ), open it and loop a rubber band through it. Close the pin and then do the same with a second safety pin. Now you have one rubber band with two safety pins
on it.

You need a long sleeved shirt or jacket. Roll one of the sleeves up so you can attach one of the safety pins through the fabric at a point about the inside of your elbow.

Roll the sleeve down and reach up your sleeve with your other hand , pulling the second pin down so you can hold it with your thumb, fore finger, and middle finger.

The rubber band will run through your palm so when you turn your hand over the band will be concealed. All your audience will see is the back of your hand and the pen held with your three fingers.

Of course... releasing the safety pin will cause it to shoot up your sleeve!

Experiment with different rubber bands to find the one which suits you best. You don't want too much "snap", as your audience will hear the band and pin going up your sleeve.

You can disappear any number of objects with this simple technique.Drill a small hole in a coin and you can attach one end of the rubber band to the coin.

Magicians have used this method for many, many years... and in this time of hi-tech miracles this STILL remains one of the simplest, most effective and inexpensive ways to disappear an object...


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:: Gamblers Delight


I don't encourage anyone to use tom-foolery to take advantage of fellow human beings.

But...

As someone who has spent most of their life watching, and studying, others, I am constantly amazed at the number of cons and scams that the human mind can concoct...

More importantly, I am intrigued by the psychology behind a good move. Magicians use this psychology all the time, but the con men use it too.

They mis-direct and play with your mind like a master magician... but, they don't have your entertainment in mind !

I learned this little trick, which I call 'Gamblers Delight', years ago. A similar version is actually an old carnival trick..

Take a deck and shuffle the cards a few times.

Holding the deck face down, fan the cards and ask your 'friend' to select any card. He can show it around to others if he wants..

Lay the deck face down on a table after first secretly glimpsing at, and memorizing, the bottom card..

Now, have you friend place his card on top of the deck and cut the deck once. Ask him to complete the cut, but don't allow him to pick both sections of the deck up, as he may be tempted to perform a
multiple cut.

You can put your finger on top of the portion of the deck he just cut off and say ' Put the bottom half of the deck right here....'. This will keep him from being able to pick the top half up.

After he completes the cut, his chosen card will be somewhere in the deck - directly under the card you memorized.

Ask him to perform another simple cut, and then another... This, of course, will not change the position of your and his card in relation to one another..

Tell him that you have been working on a brand new trick, one that will allow you to find his chosen card in the deck. Tell him also that you can make this trick work '...... most of the time.'

Pick the deck up and take the top card off... turning it face up on the table for everyone to see. Continue this move with the second card, and the third, until you see YOUR memorized card.

You know the next card you turn over will be your friends chosen card.

Turn his chosen card over.. BUT, don't let on that you know it is the card...

Slowly, as if you're a little confused, or if you're counting cards, turn another card over on top of the chosen card. Turn a second card over, hesitate, and then announce that you are so sure of your powers
that you will wager ( whatever ) that the 'Next Card I Turn Over' will be the chosen card ..

This is where the psychology and greed comes into play...

Your friend, and his friends, all saw the chosen card pass. They know you made a mistake, and in their moments of greed they do not consider that THEY are about to be conned.

After everyone has fallen all over one another to get their bets down...

And you are patiently sitting there with your fingers on the top card of the deck...

Reach down on the table and slowly push the two cards off the top of the chosen card, pick up the chosen card ... and Turn It Over...

Everyone will protest and scream ' foul '....

But....

You did Exactly what you said you would do..!

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