I think if you want to get into magic, I think
for the first two to three years you have
to do your own research.
Because unlike other art forms, there is this
thing that you're entering a world of secrets.
So people are very secretive about what they
want to teach you because you might learn
things for a year, then get bored of it and
start learning other things.
The first two to three years, go online, Google,
YouTube, look up things...
You'll find a lot of things, you'll find a
plethora of content which you can get to learn
the basics.
Watch other magicians, once you know the basics,
try to replicate what they are doing.
And once you've reached a stage in about
two, two and a half years of doing magic or
learning magic, not performing, get in touch
with me.
Get in touch with any other magician who you
look up to and I'm pretty sure they'll be
willing to help you.
In fact, I've started doing open mics around
the country.
Which are just for magic and mentalism.
So if you're into magic, for two or two and
a half years, get in touch with me, I'll teach
you a few things which you can do on stage,
I'll give you a stage to perform.
That's something that I think is... the initial
steps are something that you have to take
on your own.
Everybody makes mistakes, uh, there was, I
was learning forms of magic which I haven't
done since I learned them, the cutting people
in half, the taking a rabbit out of a hat,
making things disappear... that's never excited
me, but I learned that... but I don't regret
it in any way because it's something that
I learned. I learned that it's not where I
belong.
I learned that my kind of magic has to be
away from all of that, I learned that the
sleight of hand is also not something that
I'm supposed to be doing.
The sleight of mind is something that I'm
more fascinated by.
So the mistakes weren't really mistakes, so
to say, they were experiences that I gained
because of that.
I think it's very important that you make
those mistakes to gain an experience so that
you know what your holding is and what your
place is in the world of magic.
There are a few moves, without giving away
too much, but there's a trick that David Blaine
made really famous, about 20 years ago, where
somebody picks the card, and it keeps jumping
up to the top of the deck.
Even if it goes in the middle, it keeps jumping
to the top of the deck, like with the snap
of a finger.
And he does that about 10 times in two minutes.
That's something that you need to master in
the two years that you're doing magic on your
own.
Where you have no mentor, where you have no
one to look up to, where you're just online,
those two years, you have to master this...
That's one of them, the other one is one of
the simplest ways to make a coin disappear.
Now you might not do these two tricks ever
on stage, I have never ever done those, but
you learn moves which are going to be involved
in pretty much every trick that you do.
Without actually doing that particular trick.
So the basics get solidified just by learning
those two tricks.
The third one is, not exactly related to magic,
it's more about observing things.
Because the kind of magic I do - figuring
out someone's password, figuring out the name
of their first crush, things like that, you
have to look at people more than anything
else.
You have to figure out what they like, what
they enjoy, what their expressions are, and
communicating their expressions - basically
putting a word to their expression so that
the audience knows what you're doing as well,
so the audience can relate to what's happening.
So those three things you really need to pick
up on in the first two, two and a half years
of just doing things on your own.
