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The first thing
that we think of when we hear the word magic is
simply “Abra Cadabra” and “Shazaam” which is
good by the way. I’m sure many of you guys might
have considered performing a trick or two to
impress your friends or something like that. But
hey, aren’t you supposed to know how to perform
a bit of magic trick for that? So if you’re all
pumped up to learn how to perform a magic trick,
you can take it up as a hobby you know. Besides,
it’s not like everyone who knows magic HAS to
run and join the circus. So yeah, taking up as
magic as a hobby could be quite worth your time,
when you’re not doing anything important that
is. Lets face it, you’ll be a hit at the parties
when you show off some of your skills. And all
that depends how passionate you are about
pursuing this hobby. You should not have any
difficulty in choosing the right kind of trick
to learn because quite frankly, there are
millions of tricks out there you can choose
from. Besides, all you need is some props with
you and voila, you’re all set up as the great
Houdini himself.
This might as well be the best hobby out there
for your kids for the simple reason that they
are easy to learn and the word “tricks” is like
the magic word that will keep your kids and even
adults glued to this marvelous hobby. Lets admit
it, unlike other hobbies that need the person to
be careful and also a lot of practice, magic
isn’t the same now is it? It hardly requires any
practice or any preparation of any sort. Now
when we talk about magic, the first thing that
you have to understand is that this ain’t the
real magic like the one you must have heard in
fables. Lets leave the magic of Merlin aside for
this time and make it clear that what we are
talking about is nothing but simple illusions,
simple tricks, that is all. No black magic
involved in this hobby, although you might want
to make your audience believe that the “truth is
out there”. So what are the different kinds of
magic out there that you can specialize in? Lets
see, there are the three Ps, i.e., Production,
Penetration and Prediction. The 2 Ts,
Transformation and Teleportation and of course,
Vanishing, Restoration and the “Oh so Famous”,
Levitation.
Let us see what each of these categories have to
offer us shall we? In case of the Production
tricks, all the magician has to do is produce
something out of nowhere. This is a trick that
is quite contrary to the Vanishing act. A
well-known example would include pulling a bunny
out of your hat, removing a dime from any of the
participant’s ear, etc. This trick is surely
made to stir some eyes in surprise. In case of
the Vanishing act, all the magician has to do is
take something and poof!!! Simply make it
disappear right from underneath the
participant’s nose without them even being aware
of this. This is a trick that is totally the
opposite of the Production trick. One famous
trick would include presenting an empty box to
your participants and then at the snap of your
fingers, revealing that your assistant was in
there all along. Then of course there is the
trick so that you get to experience the “awe” of
little children, making a dove disappear from
under a cloth.
How can we even forget the Transformation act
that we are so much intrigued by on so many
occasions? In this trick, the magician has to
change something into something totally
different, like changing an object from one part
to another. This is nothing but a combination of
the Vanishing and the Production acts. Changing
a color of your hanker chief is a well known
trick in this respect. Another trick to add on
to the mystery of your performance would include
letting a participant choose a card from an
entire deck which is totally undisclosed to you
and then later presenting the same card that the
participant had chosen in the first place. Oh
yeah, that’s just a bit freaky but hey, that’s
exactly the stuff that magic is all made of.
Then comes the Restoration trick in which the
magician asks for the participation of the
audience. He may call one participant to the
stage and may be destroy his watch or something
like that only to reveal that object in its
undamaged form quite to the surprise of the
participant and to the cheers of the audience.
You can also tear a piece of paper into 4-5
pieces and reveal it in its original form to
your audience. And, then there is the one that
is Oh so popular. By sewing the box with your
assistant in it and reattaching the box only to
reveal your assistant pop out of the box like
nothing ever even happened.
The Levitation trick is one trick that involves
a lot of trickery on your part so that your
audience never sees through it. This is nothing
but creating an illusion so that the object or
even yourself appear to be floating in mid air.
One famous act that quite a few must have
witnessed on television must be the one in which
world renowned magicians David Blaine and Criss
Angel hovered in mid air for several seconds
quite to the astonishment of the onlookers. One
thing that you have to remember is that they are
street magicians and are very good at creating
illusions. This means that it requires a lot of
practice, unlike other tricks that you usually
tend to come across like the common card and
coin tricks. Floating a metal object in between
your hands is perhaps the easiest of all the
levitation tricks out there. The Penetration
trick is one admired and performed by many
magicians. This would involve a magician taking
something like a sword and passing it through a
box with his assistant in it with the assistant
walking away from the act practically untouched.
So there, the different kinds of magic that you
can all be interested in, what more of a hobby
would you like? Who wouldn’t want to see the
audience being captivated by the mysterious
tricks of the magician and leave them asking for
more? If you’re all set on doing that, then
magic tricks is the perfect hobby for you.
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observer. Magic as they say is just an
illusion, complex or simple its all about
diverting attention and the like. 
