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Lessons For Newbies From a Newbie

These are the things that will be useful for the beginner magician, especially useful because they come from someone who has very recently been there. I started my journey into magic on November 9th, 2014.

How To Tell If You Are Progressing

July 20, 2015 by MagicKen Leave a Comment

Turtle-web-700When practicing your magic skills, it can be sometimes be hard to know if you’re actually getting any better. This is especially true of physical skills involving slight-of-hand. Some moves take hundreds, if not thousands, of hours to finally be able to do them. So you may wonder at hour number 95 if you’ve made much, if any progress at all. Yeah, it can be very frustrating.

But if this were easy, everyone would do it, right!:).

Here is one good way that I have found to know without a doubt that my practice has been paying off. Lots of moves involve just one hand – especially in coin magic. I’ve been practicing the coin roll-down (where the coin rolls/flips down the outside of your fingers between the knuckles. It’s been months and I still can’t do it well or smoothly.

But I’m been practicing almost exclusively in my right hand. It is wise to learn to do things in both directions and with both or either hand in magic. So I decided to switch over and practice the coin roll with my left hand. Wow!

I THOUGHT I wasn’t making much progress with my right hand until I saw how ridiculously bad I was with my left hand. I knew right then that I had made a lot more progress than I had thought with the right hand.

It was encouraging! Try it. You may discover than what you thought was hours of wasted practice getting you nowhere has actually been working all along.

I hope that helps someone.

Good luck!

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My Crimp Change Progress

April 24, 2015 by MagicKen Leave a Comment

This is a move I learned from Marion Boykin (MB, for short). I’ve been practicing it for a about 2 months and it still is not quite there.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/kentheriotmagic/My+crimp+change.mp4

The most noticeable problem is that my hand wave is too large a motion. I need to really make that smaller and less “in your face.” Also, though it doesn’t show in the video, I can’t successfully do it all the time yet. I have to think about it as I’m doing it, too. These are both indications that not all the little moves that make up the Crimp Change have sunk into unconsciousness yet. That’s how you know when you really have a skill down. Think about driving a car or riding a bike. You don’t have to think about all the things your body has to do to turn or stop. You just do it. It is now an unconscious action. Same thing with musical instruments and any skill, really.

The Crimp Change was developed by Marion Boykin and you can learn it in one of his videos on Vinny Marini’s site here: http://www.vinnymarini.com/download/crimpchange.html

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