Street Magic

[seloifter]

This is kind of a tip, but seeing as the DJ Tips forum is currently full of such great "improve yourself" posts, I didn't want to add this humble little post to it, so I figured it would belong better in this forum

You guys should all be familiar with Street Magic. It's the stuff David Blaine does. It's the new generation of magic. It's no longer about a stage with smokes and mirrors. It's all about walking up to a group of people with just a deck of cards and making their jaws drop.

I highly recommend learning street magic, for many reasons. For one, it makes cold approaches a WHOLE lot easier. You walk up to a HB and you ask her if she wants to see a trick. Easy. Then, watch as her eyes pop out and she screams and asks you how you did whatever trick you did. You're in easy street now.
What has happened? First, you have an easy excuse to make a cold approach. If you're the kind of guy who still hasn't gotten to the poitn where he can codl approach any girl - this will help tons.
Next, you amaze her. This sets you up in her eyes as a total mystery, and also as a very amazing and impressive guy. She'll be begging to know how you did the trick. For some reason, HB's seem to LOVE card tricks they can't explain. It just fascinates them beyond measure. As the person who knows the trick and showed it to her, you hold a great card (pun intended) in your arsenal.

And it's not just for girls. Card tricks amaze anyone and everyone! They also give you a great boost of confidence if you can pull them off well - and put you in the center of attention quickly and easily.

If you're already a true DJ, then street magic will simply be a fun little thing to do in your spare time. but if you're having trouble working your way up, then I think it can truly help you climb faster.

Street magic is fairly easy to learn. You'd be surprised how easy it is to do mind-blowing tricks with a simple deck of cards.
If you're interested in learning, I'd suggest getting "The Royal Road to Card Magic" (the Bible when it comes to card tricks) and goign to www.ellusionist.com (more expensive, but by far the best learning tools for street magic on the market)

 

[italostud]

I don't know man. Not sure if I want to be known as "the card guy" that walks around malls asking chicks if they wanna see a trick. I could see it being used at a party if you found a deck laying around though.

 

[seloifter]

I wouldn't use it too much, of course. It shouldn't be your main opening. It's just something to do to work some guts up.
Only use it once or twice per outing; and the rest of your time, do card tricks at your own leisure.

 

[RawkinKaoticStyle]

card magic is just like DJing in every aspect

if you do card magic youll know what i mean

 

[On_the_Top]

I could see learning it to hustle chumps.

 

[Austin Allegro]

A lot of what Mr Blaine does is staged, so don't expect to have the same reactions he gets. (Anyway here in England when he tried his stuff he got eggs thrown at him, haha.)

I'd say magic is good as a way of 'showing excellence' (See 'Tao of Steve' threads) once you've met someone, but as an initial opener, no - you will just get known as 'that guy that does card tricks to try and pick up chicks'.

 

[chalk]

I do a few elastic band tricks which are pretty visual always get the curiousity going when I show them to a chick. You've gotta be quite subtle in how you bring it up though, you don't wanna seem desperate to impress with your 'little tricks'.

I don't really like going up to random girls and saying 'do you wanna see a magic trick', it just seems a little bit odd. Using a friend and doing it near the group is a good way of getting in there, just show your friend the trick and then when he gets all confused and starts accusing you of all sorts, just grab the nearest person (fit girl) as a witness that it's really magic. She'll probably say WOW and want to show her friends and then your in there. It also works with AFC friends, just get chatting to them (if it's easier than going straight to the girl) and just make sure when you shown him the trick the girls in the group are watching.

Mind reading ones that involve a lot of eye contact are good as well!

 

[sAxyguy83]

Try learning tricks that can be done with items that are common wherever you want to do the pickups. For example, at a bar, you want tricks that can be done with things like coins, napkins, shot glasses, etc. It's a lot more impressive to people if you pick up a random item from your environment and do a trick with it - that way they can't accuse you of having a rigged deck of cards or the like. Also, consider your environment. You want to learn tricks whose secrets aren't revealed if someone sees them from the wrong angle.

 

[iqqi]

i decided to learn street magic this past week. so i am going to stalk david blaine, then seduce him so that he will take me under his, eh...wing.

david, if you are a DJ on this site, iqqi is coming for you!

 

[italostud]

I'm sure he will use his most powerful "magic" to avoid you haha

Originally posted by iqqi
i decided to learn street magic this past week. so i am going to stalk david blaine, then seduce him so that he will take me under his, eh...wing.

david, if you are a DJ on this site, iqqi is coming for you!