What got you into magic?

[greg]

what got me into magic was a performance in six flags. since i remember my cousin was a magician..my grandmother did some magic to me i got a few magic kits but what really got me into magic was that performance i don't know why.

 

[StormShadow]

To be honest...

I was a huge fan of magic since I was a little kid. I would watch and be amazed by David Copperfield. I was really little and I remember my parents getting me a Harry Blackstone Magic Kit because I was so amazed by Copperfield. My Dad would help me do the tricks in the kit. I performed my very first trick from that magic kit. It was a small vase and a small piece of rope and you would ask a spectator to place the rope inside the plastic vase and turn it upside down. Of coarse the rope would fall out. Then you would place the rope inside the vase and turn it upside down and the rope would stay in the vase.

God how far I have come from that little rope in vase trick!!!

 

[Antney1234]

When i was 8 years old my cousins boyfriend invited my family to his house for dinner.His grandfather was a magician and he had ALL these magic books everywhere on shelfs(I still remember it).His grandfather was showing me magic tricks there were really cool and i still remember when flames came out of his mouth it was really cool.He then showed me a trick where the 4 aces turn facedown each time.At the time i didn't no what the ace trick was called. 2 years later when i was 10.I look on youtube and type in ''magic tricks'' I scroll threw TONS of pages with all these tricks and i start watching them.Suddenly i see this guy's name ''Lee Asher''.I looked at the video of this guy preforming the trick i saw when i was 8!!.The cards turned over the exact same way i was shocked!.Soon after(about a month later).I found out more about Lee Asher and about Dan and Dave Buck Aaron fisher and Wayne Houchin.These people were amazing guys to me and i looked up to them soo much with there tricks and fancy cuts, were amazing to me and i showed everyone i knew how cool they were and how amzing there tricks were.Those 4 magicians were my first favourite magicians and they will always be!.Then thats when i wanted to learn tricks, soo i started preforming simple tricks and i grew to where i am now on Theory11!.

 

[Johnlawl]

There was this TV special on abc family and I thought it was cool. I then started to buy magic kits that were like a dollar.

 

[CDarklock]

Paul Simon used to sing this really pretty Scottish folk song about being "a rambler and a gambler" (it's on recent Simon and Garfunkel CD collections as "Rose of Aberdeen"), and always having to leave town because of some girl's parents. And I thought, that's how I want to live!

So I started teaching myself to cheat at cards. Yes, my ambition at the age of eight was to be a card cheat, constantly dodging the law and running from the parents of the young girls I'd violated. It seemed very romantic and exciting, like something out of a Mark Twain novel.

Trouble is, cheating at cards seemed very difficult and turned out to look awfully dangerous, so I started to get much more interested in doing card tricks - because there was this old guy who used to hang out at the local grocery store, and sometimes he'd buy me candy. (Yes, I agree, this is sort of creepy. I never really thought about it at the time.) Then we'd sit on the curb and he'd show me various tricks with coins and cards while I ate the candy.

So I asked him to help me learn how to do card tricks, and he introduced me to the owner of the local magic shop. That's more or less where it all started.

 

[zatch]

i think i was looking something up on youtube and you know how after you watch a video, it has other videos related to the video that you watched...

well i click one of them and it had a magic trick.. and me being easily sidetracked ended up looking at all the different magic tricks on youtube and tried to find places where i could buy these tricks

 

[GosuTricks]

so I started to get much more interested in doing card tricks - because there was this old guy who used to hang out at the local grocery store, and sometimes he'd buy me candy. (Yes, I agree, this is sort of creepy. I never really thought about it at the time.) Then we'd sit on the curb and he'd show me various tricks with coins and cards while I ate the candy.

Ahhh man, that's sick, what kinda person does that? Was he like a pedophile or something?

 

[Ampersan5340]

1 year ago I decided to watch some david copperfield since he was in town and my friends went to his show.

So I decided to go on youtube and look him up. I watched countless numbers of his videos and am still amazed.

After watching about 20 videos I said to myself "Maybe I should do that"

and I did. I regret that I missed his show though

 

[robotsunshine]

When I was 7 or 8, they used to sell these magic tricks at K-Mart - they were like a popular brand of manufactured tricks for kids. They weren't kits but single tricks that came with instructions. I really can't remember the name. But I used to love buying those and performing them. I also got a kit or two in elementary school and did a few things during recess. Then for a long time, nothing. Then David Blaine came. (Still love magic!) Then Criss Angel. A friend of mine really likes Criss Angel and told me that he went on-line, trying to find custom cards like Angel has, and happened upon this crazy site called Ellusionist. I looked at them, then checked out some free card tricks on-line, and slowly got back into it.

As far as motivation goes: I just genuinely love magic.

 

[addibs]

it was my freshman year in h.s and i was in woodshop and my teacher showed me the backpalm and i was like wtf?!?! every since then ive been into it =]

 

[illusionist14]

I was 6, and my parents got me a magic kit for christmas. Which had top hats, wands, a horrible thumb-tip. I was so amazed my it, thinking I was a god. Half the people I did tricks for were pretending to be fooled. Ever since that kit I was into it.

 

[Snorri]

Doug Henning Specials caught my interest back in the day.
After him and noting my interest in Magic my Mom got me my first magic tricks for Easter in 1974.
The first trick was the paddle tricks in the Reese magic set.
My Grandmother and Grandfather then began getting me books on magic for Birthdays and holidays.
I was hooked and got my first professional lessons in 1976. My first trip to NYC got me my first trip to Tannons where Frank Garcia was hanging out. Talk about seeing magic...wow.
I have been hooked since that first set of magic.
Thanks Mom 34years in magic this year is amazing to me.
Snorri

 

[..:Z:..]

It was when I first learned the Hummer Card... I practiced it so many times, worrying about every little detail. I had that effect down to perfection.

Then, my cousins decided to invite us over for a good time at Wheel's. So I went with them with Hummer Card in-hand.

I was so affraid so I decided to perform for my cousins first while onlookers would watch. Then, I got a real audience after that.

After awhile of performing that effect the same day, I knew I had potential in this field so I decided to take it many steps further.

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