What made you pick up a deck of cards?

[cotturj]

I just wanted to know how everyone got into this.

what made you want to do more with a deck of cards?

why step out of bounds and do amazing thing with 52 playing cards?

what is it to you that makes playing cards more than just that, cards to play games with.


for me i was about 13 and a friend showed me how to do a one handed cut. thats it i was done those 52 cards became more than just numbers and symbols on paper. they became an infatuation i just had to have them in my hands at all times. tricks flourishes magic what ever. i found the most amazing thing 52 pieces of paper that you can do whatever you want with.

thats how i got into it, in a nutshell so to speak how about you?

 

[BrianKilledYou]

Yes, you can do a lot With 52 pieces of paper.
Probably what made me pick up a deck of cards and start performing is other magicians, me wanting to know how to do that and amaze people the same way

 

[Tally]

I saw david blaine do the click change on youtube, so that was when i picked up 52 cards, got out 2, and tried to do it for myself =]

 

[f1stzero]

when i was 14 i couldn't even riffle shuffle a deck of cards. i was a nub. SO i bought a deck and went to youtube and started to learn the ONE handed riffle shuffle (genius me). Then i saw that one blackjack commercial with the phones and i started too look up more stuff and eventually running into ellusionist and all the flourishing beasts, Dananddave, Bone etc


and plus, isnt it just plain cool that you can do so many things with 52 pieces of card board with ink

 

[cotturj]

hell yeah

thats what im talking about some of the things i see guys and gals doing with cards these days is amazing and the individuality that comes out of people is great. we all start with the same basic moves and just go out there and make it our own variation thats why this never ceases to amaze people.

 

[UnholyGodn]

I was bored, there was a pack of cards, I was like "I want to shuffle good" now 8 monts alter and $1000 on card supplies, and I'm hooked

 

[Mxtt]

Jeremy Piven throwing the Ace of Spades into a couch in the trailer for "Smokin' Aces".

I always had an interest in magic, the David Blaine specials and whatnot, but that made me actually get into it. =]

 

[zatch]

I was only doing magic for about a month or so when the Black Jack commercial came out with the animated guy doing the five faces of sybil the tornado flourish and etc. and my mom looked over at me and asked me if I could do that. After that I started to learn the hard way by watching videos and learning. I eventually saw the System by DnD and later the Trilogy.

Anyways the Black Jack commercial is what started it all for me.

 

[Krash]

For me, it was seeing Criss Angel on his Supernatural special standing in the middle of a high traffic city street while flicking random cards all over the place boomerang card shot style.

Shane K.

 

[alex65535]

I started out with mental magic. Not mind reading, I mean card magic for my fellow mental patients.

I spent a few weeks in a mental hospital a few years ago. There wasn't much to do there, but I managed to get my hands on a full deck of cards (most were missing some). I thought back to a few years earlier when I had read about the Si Stebbins stack in a beginners magic book at my grandma's house. I played around with the math and eventually figured out the stack. So I went around showing people a simple "pick a card and I'll read your mind and tell you what it is" type trick. Everyone loved it!! People were telling me to perform this trick to everyone else and I built up a reputation with just this stack. Those reactions got me hooked. A few months later I found Penguinmagic and bought a few things. Then I wanted more. And more. And more. I was hooked on magic.

 

[inasadYBFC]

I think I was in 7th grade my freind Andy thought he was hot stuff when he could do a card trick where he eliminated all the posibilities and found my card, whoopdidoo. I then went online and looked up a couple real easy tricks and went out a week later to preform them for my simple minded girlfreind hehe. when I saw her reaction i got obsesed and I havnt stoped yet.

 

[blue shirt]

All I remember is being fascinated by that guy with the hovering card in the magic shop and thinking, "I'm gonna be better than that guy!"

I am now.

 

[Skatzo]

I first got an interest in magic after watching some of derren brown's shows. It wasn't until a schoolmate of mine started doing it that i realised anyone could do magic if they wanted to, and so i got a deck of cards, and off i went.

 

[MitchellStafiej]

I picked up a hot rod...

I would just like to point out, in magic, cards are the most common utility. I don't see how it would be "thinking outside of the box" using a deck of cards.

Mitchell

 

[CDarklock]

For me, it was the promise of cheating at cards for money.

Not that I ever did such a thing. The mechanics of cheating naturally led me into the mechanics of magic, which was much more interesting. Not so much money in it, but not so many broken legs, either. I found it an acceptable tradeoff.

Especially since people don't usually shoot you if they figure out your magic trick.

 

[goodtechs]

I think the same thing happened to me like DnD

The "Commercial" trick make my jaw go UUUUUUUUUHHHHHHHH?????


There i start to wanna know how the hell David does it


yep...

 

[trickyricky]

I was always quiet at school, never was the centre of attention, not very much confidence. I was also always the odd one out. Everybody else liked to watch and play football (soccer to American members), and i preferred to play basketball (not a very big sport in England). So, naturally, i had always had a liking for things like magic and the supernatural! I first started to buy and practice card magic only a couple of years ago, about 3 years after i first got hooked watching magic. Since then its improved my confidence, my personality and my social skills. Im still the odd one out, but i much more prefer it now!

 

[darosa.justin]

For me the reason why I got into magic are.. my friends.

It's actually a pretty funny story:

2 of my good friends got into magic together/same time. They showed me some really, really, really, really cool stuff (at least I thought that at the time). I begged them to tell me how the tricks were done. I seriously kept asking for the whole day. Then (being the cool me) I decided to become an 'apprentice' of one of my friends. HAHA.

He then showed me how to do 1 or 2 tricks...but I wasnt satisfied. In the end he told me about Ellusionist, so picked up Crash Course, and then eventually ALL their DVDs.

For me, it was the feeling of being amazed by by friends that pushed me and make me want to do the same thing for others.









David Blaine too.....

 

[Shanku]

I was bored one day... then it lead to a week. I found a deck of Bee's my dad got from Star City in Auckland in New Zealand before we moved to Australia. So I started playing the ol' Solitaire game. As I played more and more I got better at shuffling. Then I was browsing through the almighty YouTube and I saw Daniel Madison's Lethal trailer. I thought "HELL NO! I could never do that!" Then I went to my library and got a few magic books and it sorta started from there.

I did a few tricks and I felt less bored. Then those 3-packet false cuts came along and that's how I got into flourishing. I remembered about Daniel Madison's DVD and saved up for that... (it's practically double the price here in Australia)... I realised it wasn't the best place to start so then I did a little research and got my hands on Xtreme Beginnerz. It all evolved from there. I sort of drifted away from card magic and got into flourishing. Now I do both. I don't have a fully solid routine but I'm working on it.

Oh, and I forgot to mention: I started the whole card magic thing in March 2007 then the whole flourishing thing in mid-June 2007. I'm still not that good but I have to balance school, friends, guitar, cards, and everything else into my days so I reckon I'm progressing well given my commitments...

Well that's my two cents which turned into about 50 cents...

Cheers,
Shanku.

 

[LingLing]

Me and my friend were at his house and stumbled upon a really great trick and I started performing it. Salt shaker through table and a few simple coin vanishes to my repetoire, and the rest is history.