Audience selection

[Terror]

Have any of you had the problem of someone who just doesn't like not knowing how you did your trick, and they keep pestering you to show them or they try to figure it out to expose the effect to the other spectators?

This has happened to me many times and I was wondering if you guys try to avoid those people when performing or if you have any suggestions when dealing with people like that.

 

[Randomwrath]

Yes, I think everyone's had this at some point. There are already quite a lot of threads on this, though. Try going on the search function and typing 'hecklers' or something like that. You should get quite a lot of threads.

 

[Mental-State]

a good way to see what kind of audience u have is to start introducing a trick, if they shout let me shuffle the cards then they are worst type of audience. u would know to do trick u know u will not be caught out and also if they keep be arward just ask them do they want to see it cuz u dont have to show them, tell them to just enjoy it. that normally works. if they dont ask to see the deck then stop and ask if they want to shuffle if they say yeah then u know that they might want to catch out watch where they concentrate on. some will keep their deck and some will look at ur other hand. try misdirection to see how they react before getting into the trick. u dont want to be stuck trying to get the focus off the deck and they will not so u have to stop the trick or get caught.
if they dont ask the shuffle then things should be fine but never let ur guard down

i hope this helps