Creating a small street show.

[Maaz Hasan]

Hey guys!
I am making a show roughly 30 min long for a pretty nice public place with a lot of people. However, I have a ton of questions.

Just to help you guys help me, here is a general overview of what it might look like. I plan to add more to this. (These are all with patter). The timings aren't exact, these are the general amount of time I want to spend on them, but will probably end up spending a bit less.

Smaller card tricks to maybe build up a good audience (could you recommend a good size? I'm thinking anywhere from 7 - 12+?) This should go for about 5 min.
Routine A:
Odyssey - 3 or so min.
An in the hands full deck color change - around 5 min.
Angle Z - 3 - 5 min.

Routine B: Sponge ball routine - 5 - 7 min

Routine C: I want to do a ring or a coin routine lasting a few minutes here, but not sure what to do. Suggestions?

Routine D:
A prediction effect using a School ID - 3 min
A little mental card effect - 3 min
An in the hands card transposition (similar to the Biddle trick in effect, not in handling) - 2 min
An in the hands stolen ink effect - Card is signed here - 5 min
A color change utilizing an interactive patter (Same card as above is used) - 3 min
I need a powerful closer. Again, I am unsure what to perform, very open to ideas & suggestions.

So first off, what order should I perform these routines in, and what should I do to make them better? What should I take out or add in? I am thinking the Sponge ball or the Ring/Coin Routine would probably be the one I want to start off with, and then maybe jump into a combination of Routine's A & D with a little break in between for a non card effect?

Next, how many times should I perform the show? How much of a gap should I give in between shows? There are a lot of restaurants and shops in the area, along with a huge public ... "courtyard"?... that people just sort of hang out in, so what time should I perform?

All help & Criticism is greatly appreciated!

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Oh I forgot, there is also a 3 minute fake card to pocket, but actually an in the hands transpo too.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

Before I go into details - is this busking, or are you just wanting to perform and get experience?

Is there other stuff going on in the area, or would you be the one performer in this area drawing a crowd?

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Before I go into details - is this busking, or are you just wanting to perform and get experience?

Is there other stuff going on in the area, or would you be the one performer in this area drawing a crowd?

I am doing this just for performance & experience.

There most likely wont be any other things going on - sometimes if some major game is being played, they put it up on this jumbotron wall thing in the place, but that's not going to be the case when I perform. Oh, and sometimes, some idiot brings a loud box and starts awful karaoke, but no one really likes it, and its like a once every 2 months kinda thing, only lasts for half an hour or so at sunset.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

Ok that does change things a bit.

If you're doing this as a planned performance, I would make up some simply flyers and put them up in the area where people will not be angry about it. Most times shops don't mind you putting a flyer in their window if you ask nicely. Do some social media posts leading up to it. Build some buzz. Look into Amanda Palmer and her "ninja" gigs. She did one in a bathroom. The reason I'm saying build some buzz is because 30 minutes is actually kind of long for a street show. They're usually 20, 25 minutes, maybe. Gazzo's are often 15. People who are not planning to see a show are not super likely to give up half an hour when they don't know ahead of time what they're getting into.

At the actual performance - card tricks are not the best for drawing a crowd. The reason is simple: For a card trick to be interesting, you have to know what's going on. If someone walks up halfway through a card trick, and they don't know what's going on, they're more likely to walk away. You can counteract that by making them short and snappy, but you want to keep that in mind. Visual, poppy things are better for attracting attention. Sponge balls works well because each phase works as its own trick, really, and you can repeat several teleportations, splits, etc. until you've got a bunch of people paying attention and then move into the rest of the routine proper. Ring stuff can work as well, because you can have it bouncing all around your fingers and such, but it's smaller and a larger crowd will have trouble seeing.

What makes a good crowd? For a half hour show I'd say aim for 20 people. Most likely when you start out, you won't be getting those kinds of numbers, though, unless you're a natural which you may be. I know I wasn't - I only got 1-5 people in my first attempts at busking though now regularly pull around 30. Note: I still don't consider myself a good busker. Even though you're not specifically busking at this show, you're basically doing the same thing a busker would do.

Anywhere in that list where you have "Any suggestions?" cut that part out. If you don't already know what to perform, don't try to jam something in. You want a variety of things for sure, but you also want it to be coherent and not seem too much like a pile of tricks. Digging back into memory my old busking show was ... Sponge balls as an opener which was a standard routine, the one taught in Inside Magic. Then I produced four half dollars and put them through the table one by one, then vanished three one by one, then bent the last one and made it vanish as well. Then a short card routine which was a transposition a friend taught me, followed by something else, followed by Chicago opener, followed by an ACR where the deck turns into either a block of glass or a pile of steel plates at the end. Then I went into my chop cup routine, which is very much a mixture of gambling themes and magic. The ending is a triple production where there's two balls under the cup, then one big ball, then a toy elephant, and then a Kinder egg with a signed dollar from earlier in the show.

If I were to redo that, I'd have fewer tricks and more banter. A 25 minute 'street' show now is 3 quick tricks to open, all of which are done in 6-8 minutes, then a smash and stab routine that takes 7 minutes, then my Energy transfer routine which is 7 minutes long. With banter, set up, hat lines, and break down, that's about 27 minutes usually. If you watch the well known buskers, you'll see most of them do about 3 - 5 routines in about 15-25 minutes. The guys I know personally who do busking regularly do 3 routines per 25 minute show. The rest is banter.

Street shows are all about the interaction and bantering with the crowd. If you're literally just wanting to practice a show - which is totally valid, then I recommend sitting down and going through the whole process of writing a show. Come up with a theme, figure out what routines best suit that theme, script it all out, etc. Then advertise that you're going to be doing community shows, for free, and make a thing of it. Put up show times - I like to have at least 30 minutes between shows personally, but I prefer an hour or two. But I'm a pretty severe introvert and I need time to recover after performing. So 30 minutes is what I'd recommend, so that people have time to cycle around and get you a new audience, as well as having time to reset and mentally prep.

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Ok, so after reading what you have said, I think I should probably work more with just performing before I go for a full on 20 - 30 minute street show. Most of my performances had been in a school setting, but I'm trying to work int more of a street setting so I can perform more often, and gain more experience.

There are a ton of people that just sit there and spend time, I'm sure they would enjoy having some thing to do for 10 or so minutes. Maybe just 1 or 2 of the routines I mentioned earlier, or a brand new small set that I can perform for people. That way I could approach a group of 3 - 7 or so people, and perform for a bit, then finish with a closer, and move on to the next group.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

It's better to have 8 minutes of really solid, entertaining material than 15 minutes of mediocre material. So I always advocate starting with a short show to get used to the format and expanding from there.

 

[Maaz Hasan]

So should I just sort of walk up to people who are clearly not in a rush, or just hanging out, and ask them if they want to see magic, stay for 8 - 12 min, then leave?

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

That's guerrilla street magic - not something I'm a fan of personally.

I would say that you can easily set up a show and do it properly. Watch buskers on YouTube and see how they draw crowds, and then work the show.

I'm not saying you have to do 8 minutes only. I'm saying you want to put together a show of your best stuff, and don't fluff it up just to meet an arbitrary time frame of 30 minutes. Take your best stuff, and then time it out. That's how long the show should be. Later you can add to it.

 

[TylerScottIllusionist]

Here is my "alpha testing" of a busking set I'm working on. For each of my shows, I had around 30 people at the height of each of my shows that I performed. I hope this may help you with your question. If you have any more questions, I will do my best to answer them.

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Here is my "alpha testing" of a busking set I'm working on. For each of my shows, I had around 30 people at the height of each of my shows that I performed. I hope this may help you with your question. If you have any more questions, I will do my best to answer them.

Lol I was about to ask you on the post you just posted.
I will definitely hit you up on this, as I have a lot of questions. Expect a PM in a day or so, maybe even later today if I have time. Thx!

Your video will probably also help me get a good understanding.

 

[TylerScottIllusionist]

Lol I was about to ask you on the post you just posted.
I will definitely hit you up on this, as I have a lot of questions. Expect a PM in a day or so, maybe even later today if I have time. Thx!

Your video will probably also help me get a good understanding.

Feel free to ask them here if you can in case other people have your same question and perhaps we can answer it for them in this post. If it's more personal than that, by all means hit up my PM. I'm always happy to help with whatever ways I can.

 

[TylerScottIllusionist]

Alright I finally have some time to address some of the questions you raised earlier. First I'm going to go over what I found to be successful for me and then try to relate my experience to how it may help you.

So you may have noticed when the busking portion of the video starts, we zoom in on the sign outside of a shop called Enchanted Knights that sells swords, fantasy equipment, etc. Their slogan says "Where myth and legend come alive. Adventure in the unusual." This was a strategic location for me because I knew right from the get go I would be performing sword swallowing. Sword swallowing is visual enough to grab people's attention but it can also be slightly disturbing. I chose to perform outside of the fantasy shop in hopes of dissuading people from getting law enforcement involved and also hoping that it would make them think that I was something the shop set up thus being taken more professionally right from the get go.

I use sword swallowing as an eye grabber and an ice breaker. I was not confident enough in the strategy of yelling "Show is about to start in five minutes!" and hoping to gain a crowd by shouting. Mackinaw Crossing is a very busy shopping district of the town and people don't want to be shouted at give up too much of their time since their is so much to do there. What sword swallowing allowed me to do was solve a number of problems. It plays big (stage level big), is hyper visual, and can be done over and over without any dirty work being involved or resetting. The magic is not really in the visual but in the fact that you survive a potentially fatal stunt. What really surprised me about doing this was how comfortable parents were with letting their children approach someone who was putting a sword down his throat. In fact, it seemed to be entertaining for the whole family which is something I've been striving towards.

Once I caught their attention with sword swallowing, I would invite them to see my magic show. Keep in mind at this point the only thing they see me with at this time is a sword I am resting on my blanket. My belief is to resemble magic as close to reality as possible so I try to never start out with objects that feel out of place (in terms of a show so my ice breaker doesn't count) . Even the sword could be argued to be a "natural"object due to being next to the fantasy shop. I try to keep up this persona by asking to borrow an object. I prefer to start off with Ring Flight Revolution if possible. The reason for this is because it's an effect that really gets the spectator involved but also does something much more important. It establishes trust with my audience because a ring is often a very intimate and pricey thing to lend to a complete stranger. By safely returning their ring to them (or promising them my car if I can't thus naturally introducing the car keys ) I have built trust with my audience right from the get go. This is a valuable lesson I learned from Michael Ammar in person which is to treat your audience with as much respect as possible and try to build as much trust with them as possible.

When I had established trust with my newfound audience, you see by my second effect they were already donating dollars into my hat. Some would argue it's because I asked to borrow a dollar bill which in most cases will use to tip the performer and that's a perfectly valid argument and good tip. But I believe my spectators had figured out by this point that I was doing my best to be a professional performer on the street and I was trying to give them a good show. If Ring Flight Revolution isn't an option, I immediately start with Ignition which also establishes that amount of trust since I tell them I will do something odd with their dollar but restore back to normal. I had a girl give me a $20 as long as I promised to give it back in the same condition she gave it to me which is exactly what I did and her family stuck around for the whole show after that. My next effects were all things that could be done parlour style to even stage style magic. The show had to keep building on momentum. That's why by the time I finished French Kiss I had around 30 people observing me.

Finally for the ending you are going to want to perform a miracle. As you can tell from the video, Double Cross is my bread and butter effect. The reason why it is so good is because you can essentially set up the plot of a big stage illusion finally and condense down to just ink on the hand. Plus when the effect is over and the ink is on their hand, it won't rub off unless you use soap and water so they will have something to talk about later on. The effect almost feels like a miracle because to a laymen, it's practically unexplainable when you first encounter it. I do the rope escape as more of a encore for late arrivals to my show.

Smaller card tricks to maybe build up a good audience (could you recommend a good size? I'm thinking anywhere from 7 - 12+?) This should go for about 5 min.

So to start off you are just going to take whatever size crowd you can get. Try not to lose them and don't limit it to a maximum. You want to have as big of a crowd as possible because people attract other people.

I need a powerful closer. Again, I am unsure what to perform, very open to ideas & suggestions.

You are 100% right you need a powerful closer. A lot of people like to close on straight jacket escape or something. Just remember to make it seem miraculous and play huge for everyone in attendance.

So first off, what order should I perform these routines in, and what should I do to make them better?

I agree with what Christopher said and think you should script out this show first. Put some thought into the story you want to tell and how the flow of your show is going to go. Remember as you are selecting effects in your repertoire to make them play for crowds of almost any size that you might encounter but it should also be material you are comfortable with performing in front of others.

Next, how many times should I perform the show? How much of a gap should I give in between shows?

I would perform until you are tired and can't do it anymore or in my case, get a mouth that is too dried out and cut up from sword swallowing.

Best of luck!

 

[Maaz Hasan]

@TylerScottIllusionist
Thanks! That is some great advice!

Do you think smaller card tricks are going to be good enough to attract a crowd? Or maybe I should develop a longer sponge ball routine, and do that. I don't really care too much about the size, since I am doing this for experience, and moving into a newer setting.

Also, how should I start or approach people without going "guerilla"? I mean, even with sword swallowing, you can't just bust out a sword and start swallowing it. Not to mention, I am not really going to do much more besides the genres I have listed in the OP.

Also, how do I end it? After my closer, should I just say "That's the show! Thanks for taking part in it!".

Thanks!

 

[TylerScottIllusionist]

Do you think smaller card tricks are going to be good enough to attract a crowd?

Not right at the get go since card effects are more of a close up sort of setting. French Kiss might be able to draw you some attention however since that can be played up really dramatically. I think two card monte can get some nice spectator involvement as well and get solid reactions. But if you are wanting to attract a crowd, you are going to want to think big. Spongeballs could be a great one for building up a crowd.

Also, how should I start or approach people without going "guerilla"? I mean, even with sword swallowing, you can't just bust out a sword and start swallowing it.

It's funny you say that because that's exactly what I did and that's what caused people to take notice and approach me rather than the other way around. You are going to want something that you can perform all on your own, plays big, hyper visual, quick, and is easy to understand. That is what will get people to want to come over and see you. If you do not have something like that in your repertoire you may have to go guerrilla. I know Christopher personally doesn't like it but may I ask what exactly is wrong with it? I used to do approach strangers all the time to perform just like how David Blaine does. Thanks to Blaine, even laymen are familiar with the concept of guerrilla street magic. Personally, I think you should go for that approach to get the ball rolling.

Also, how do I end it? After my closer, should I just say "That's the show! Thanks for taking part in it!".

I personally thank the audience for giving me their time, tell them I hope they enjoyed the show, and thank them for being such an amazing audience. Something along those lines.

 

[Maaz Hasan]

Thanks! I think I may have to go guerilla, but I don't see too much of a problem with this.
Should I do it just like I do in school? "Hey. Would you like to see some magic?"
If they say yes, "Great! My name is Maaz Hasan, its a pleasure to meet you" a bit of small talk. Then Sponge balls would probably be a great place to start, as would Odyssey.

If they say no, "Alright, no problem! Enjoy the rest of your evening!"

By the way, Go Guerilla is a perfect kids TV show Idea if Power Rangers ever dies out. Its about a ton of street fighting gorillas protecting their city.

 

[TylerScottIllusionist]

Should I do it just like I do in school? "Hey. Would you like to see some magic?"

Yeah that sounds like a good idea if that is what your style is. I personally like to make small talk first then go into something about an object I plan to borrow and do something magical with. It comes off more organic that way but then again Blaine became one of the most successful modern magicians by going up to people and saying "Hey, want to see something cool?"

At the end of the day I'm just happy that you are doing this. It takes guts and a little bit of moxie to pull this kind of stuff off. Just remind yourself that no matter what happens, that your act will get better in time the more you do this. So even if you are unable to get anyone's interest in watching you perform, that is still putting yourself out there and learning how to interact with people. I'm excited to hear how this goes.

 

[ApocalypseHero4]

Maaz Hans, honestly, you are getting quite a bit of good advice here and should really take into account/think about and decipher what is best for you here....make sure not just to sift through this information from these guys but really read it, think of how it pertains too you and then keep what works for you and discard what doesn't. Listen, I have been busking for about 15 years now, I don't claim to be the best or even a good busker but I know how to draw a crowd of around 50-75 people on pretty slow days, sometimes 100-150 on good days and actually I once succeeded in drawing a crowd of 350 (had to have other buskers that were my friends count the people because I couldn't while performing) in a place that I never expected to get over 100. So, while I may not be the best or even very good for that matter, I do have 15 years of experience doing it and I hope that I can be of some service to not only you but this site as a whole since this is my first post/response on here. Let me ask you some questions, so I can give you the best advice possible. So, from everything I have read from this post, it seems like you have settled on starting off with Guerrilla Magic and then slowly progressing into full on street busking or shows in a public place at your school....am I right about that? If so, what makes you think that's the best route and what kinda area where you thinking about doing the show you mentioned in your first post? Like, I need more detail about the area and what it really is since you really didn't explain that. Last question, why are you putting so much pressure on yourself to plan every little single detail before you even begin performing the tricks you know? Not trying to sound rude or anything there, it is a genuine question and I didn't know a better way to word it so I am sorry if it sounds rude. Anyways, look forward to hearing your answers so I can help you out.

 

[ApocalypseHero4]

Maaz, honestly, before you answer my questions I want you to think about something. From what I have read, you have basically no experience performing Magic for Complete and Total Strangers. Which is perfectly fine and there isn't really a lot wrong with that because we all start off in the same position. It sounds like most your experience comes from showing Family members and Friends from school/schoolmates tricks, getting their reactions and now leading into wanting to create your own show.

The problem with this is; family members/friends/schoolmates are people that care about you, want to see you succeed/not fail and don't want to see you get your feelings hurt. So, even if they say they won't lie to you, they will never be completely and totally honest with you. It is very sweet of them cause they care but sadly this will hurt you more than help you. See, if your performing a trick for one of them and accidentally expose an angle, showing them how to do the trick but don't notice that you have done this....chances are, they won't tell you, they'll still act like the trick was great and you'll leave thinking you did it perfectly when really...you've done it in a way that exposes how the trick works thus ruining it. So, from the very beginning you are learning bad habits that if continued become extremely extremely hard to break and this forces you to be stuck/go backwards in the learning of magic instead of progressing forward like you should be. I'm not saying don't perform for friends or family because you definitely should....however, unless you perform that same trick in front of complete and total strangers over and over again until you get consistent mind blown, entertained and happy reactions from people that you have never met in your life before showing them the trick....then don't take anything family or friends say to heart because you don't know what's true or not true.

Out of 15 years of experience being a professional Magician busker, there are a few things I've learned. #1 There are categories that every person falls into as far as magic/busking goes and depending on what category they fall into, depends on certain traits about that person. Such as; the skills you possess, how good you are at establishing connections with COMPLETE STRANGERS just by talking, how good you are at talking COMPLETE STRANGERS into relaxed states so that your actual magic skills can be enjoyed without too much analytical thought from them so they completely are swept up into the magic and truly are amazed and entertained by it, how confident you are performing your skills in front of these COMPLETE STRANGERS and how well you do at not stuttering/fumbling/messing up and ect are just some of the things I am talking about.....the answers to these determine which category your in and which category your in determines which way you would learn best. I like to categorize as four of them with simple category names; Complete Beginner, Beginner, Intermediate and Pro...there is a fifth category called Master but I don't even think I have reach that one and so couldn't help you if you were there.....your not there though. Now RED, BLUE, GREEN or YELLOW is the categories and depending which of them you fall in depends on the best way for you to learn. I don't have to question it with you because your just like me and you're a GREEN.

Now, I won't explain everything about this but I will explain this....no doubt you are identical to me in the way that you learn and the way that you are starting out. All the advice given above my posts is good advice, however it isn't for right now. Best thing you could do is forget everything that everyone else has wrote FOR NOW and let me help you get really good and started. You and I are a lot alike, which happens more than you think, henceforth the term Magician and Apprentice came about and then was used in fictions and now just seems false thanks to said fictions but isn't false. Magicians found that while everyone learns differently, most of us are in a category and each category has a unique way to learn that can really improve your skills quickly. So, those magicians began looking for people who fell in the same category as their self and then began trying to train/help them learn and found out that while there are differences, two people of the same category basically learn exactly and I mean Exactly the same with just very minor differences. Which means, since we both are GREENS....my 15 years of experience of knowing how to learn/the most effective way to learn for a green....can help you with no experience to learn at a faster rate, with more successful results and way less frustration than if you tried by yourself or listened to anyone else.

In fact, here is some advice just to prove it, you're overthinking everything. Stop planning routines and worrying about which trick goes where. Take 4-5 solid card tricks (card tricks cause I know you like them the best) that you are very very good at and have down pretty well and start approaching strangers and trying to get them to let you perform the trick. Pick people you have ABSOLUTELY NEVER MET.

 

[ApocalypseHero4]

If you have even met them one time before then the results can't be used because you will have a different level of comfort with them then you will with a COMPLETE STRANGER. Talk to them, establish a connection, make them comfortable enough they agree to the trick, then begin to perform just one of the 4-5 that you have prepared. Make sure it is a relatively fast and simple trick, has a lot of visual effects, such as; cuts, fancy shuffles, passes or any other favorite sleights of hands you use and then use your speaking/performing ability to build up drama for the trick....build it up too the point you feel the tension (Trust me, you will feel it and see it all over the stranger) and just as the tension is about to go to far and break, reveal the end of the trick.

Two things this will teach you.....#1 Performing in front of Complete and Total strangers is absolutely nothing like performing in front of family/friends and is actually ten times harder because you will put ten times more pressure on yourself to make that first impression and make that flawless trick happen. So, you'll learn why experience with Strangers is the absolute best way to get better at tricks/at performing/at confidence and all around get better as a magician. #2 The second thing you learn is....this will sound mean but I promise its not meant to be mean its just facts....why are you trying to make a routine, script, audience and a live show, when you don't even have any real world magician experience to know how to perform the show, which tricks are your best and most effective tricks to get the best reaction out of audiences or the experience to read an audience and know how to react such as; being more funny or more serious or whatever emotion needed to draw them into the show and make it more entertaining for everyone including you? There is so much more besides these that you can only learn from pure live experience. People can tell you what to expect all day but until you experience it over and over and over again and learn from mistakes, experience and tailoring your act to your own unique skills/ways you will just not be good at it until that experience comes. I know that is harsh but its true because you and I are in the same color and category and its all about the way we learn which I will explain more to you later if you'd like.

I really don't mean this to sound mean or like I am putting you down cause trust me I am not. I'm giving you the best advice I possibly can from 15 years experience. When I first started thinking about live performances, I started exactly how you're starting and an experienced Magician tried to tell me the same things I am telling you and I wouldn't listen and it costed me 3 years of being stuck/frustrated/never progressing and almost giving up before I went back to what he said, tried it his way and from there the next 12 years have been nothing but steady progression/learning and becoming a better performer than I ever thought I would even from the thoughts I had when starting...which I know...the thoughts are that everything will run smooth once its all planned out and go perfectly....I promise that your first fifty to one-hundred performances whether it be one complete stranger or a whole crowd...will never go perfectly and in fact your first ten may even be disastorous but it's alright because those fails/mistakes are the experience you need to progress if you use it correctly.

Most people new to performing, especially Magic, don't realize that it's not just the tricks that are doing the entertaining and that its the entire performers attitude, style, confidence and abilities to use psychology and other tricks on the crowd to make it one big fun entertaining event. In fact, the tricks alone are only maybe 25% of the entertainment, the rest falls on your shoulders as a performer to make entertaining and that's why most new performers fail because they rely too much on procedure, planning and the tricks. Don't get me wrong procedure, planning and trick picks/placement is super important but even if all three of those are horrible; as long as you are a really well rounded performer who knows how to get to the crowd, then even if the procedure, planning and trick pick/placements are crap and fail, the show will still succeed thanks to you.

Listen, you don't have to take my word, try what I said. 4-5 Card tricks that you are super super good at, out in public stopping COMPLETE STRANGERS and performing for them and see how many times you mess up, don't get discouraged just learn from the mistake/tailor it so you fix the mistake and try again. Do this over and over and over and see if I am right. In just one week, you will learn so much about yourself as a performer, about the audiences your looking for/want, how to build connections with them, your confidence will grow talking to strangers and within that week you will already be becoming a better entertainer which is 75% of it and since your fixing those mistakes the 25% part which is tricks....you will find that even your tricks and the crafts/sleights/passes/lifts/etc used for those 4/5 card tricks will have grown so so so much more than all the other times you have practiced them because your under pressure, making mistakes, learning to tailor each individual mistake to your own style so its no longer a mistake and is your own unique trick and thus within that week you will have grown more as a magician then the entire time you been studying magic. If you think a week massively improves you imagine a month or a year of doing it the right way...how much would you improve then?

If I am wrong after you tried this, then tell me and I promise that I will end my 15 year journey right here and stop. That's how confident I am that you will grow very quickly and see I am right. If I am right, after you try this, then why not hit me up and lets talk so that I can help you learn. Like, I said we same category and color and I am willing to help anyone that learns the same as me and is this passionate about magic and willing to learn. You must try my experiment first though, keep in touch while trying it and don't lie because I will ask questions and know if you are or not. So, what do you say Maaz Hans??