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Do you do magic at school?
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I have liked magic since I was a kid but unfortunately didn't start practicing magic til after high school. But, I would of liked performing at school cuz in my opinion its good way to practice performing and the word spreads fast in high school so if u are ready and confident enough to perform, I would say go for it! Like I said the words spreads fast so its a good way to build up your reputation early
Since word spreads fast, and you want to build a solid reputation, DONT SCREW UP. If it's the first time you perform for kids in school and you mess up, your reputation is automatically ruined. Hit em hard with a self working trick or just a card change in the spectator's hands (simple double lift).
I do magic at school for a few reasons. 1) Because I can try new stuff out on my friends that know I do magic and stuff 2) I am currently teaching my Geometry teacher card tricks because he wants to get past the one trick that he knows. Surprisingly it is a pretty decent eardnase color change. I am teaching him the double lift and it is coming along (Not really) and 3) Because I am a teachers assistant for my elective and the teacher wants me to perform for her senior class every day.
School sucks
Magic rocks
Magic makes school much better.
School sucks
Magic rocks
Magic makes school much better.
"School doesn't have to suck"
Perhaps your teachers / staff do not make learning fun. My class is outstanding. We use the smart board daily, we have learning centers, technology everywhere, and kids consider it a safe environment. I know the students' interests and how to motivate them to give me their best effort. I respect them and show them that I care about them.
Perhaps your teachers / staff do not make learning fun. My class is outstanding. We use the smart board daily, we have learning centers, technology everywhere, and kids consider it a safe environment. I know the students' interests and how to motivate them to give me their best effort. I respect them and show them that I care about them.
Casey is 100% right, I remember when I first started performing at school (6th Grade), I was really nervous and I messed up a trick. My reputation as a magician was ruined so I put a lot more work in my tricks and performances and now the whole Freshman class raves about my magic. Kids/Teens can really be brutal to a magician too, they think they know everything and will try to mess up you're tricks until your known as the "best magician they've ever seen" (actual quote from someone) I think this is safe to say because I am a teenager. 
I usually don't do magic during class, just really in my homeroom and lunch but sometimes my teachers let me do magic when there's some extra time left in class. Since word spreads really fast, especially in a high school, there will be people you don't even know coming up to you asking to see a trick. It's really cool it makes me feel like I'm famous.
I usually don't do magic during class, just really in my homeroom and lunch but sometimes my teachers let me do magic when there's some extra time left in class. Since word spreads really fast, especially in a high school, there will be people you don't even know coming up to you asking to see a trick. It's really cool it makes me feel like I'm famous.
Strongly agreed! Only perform if you are confident enough and are comfortable performing the moves/sleights. Like Casey said, if you mess up that can spread quick too.
I wouldn't perform too often at school. You will begin to ruin the experience for all of those around you. Keep it to a trick every now is the best way to do things. It keeps the moment special and has a higher chance of letting your audience get emotionally attached. Though, they do provide a great a practice ground every once in a while.
Disagreed, I perform everyday in my senior year, back in the day. Everyone loved it. I choose audience well; I don't just gamble going to a random person and start performing. Study the audience well before approach.
I love to perform to my classmates in any class, well, whenever we have time in class. I make sure I've at least practiced it for a week or two, then I'll perform it. When I went to my grade 10 camp, I first was performing at a table of 5, then in less than 10 minutes i had something like 20-30 people staring at me!
Back to the topic...: I perform cards stuff but have recently learned some coin stuff. I'll perform almost anything in school, as long as you can judge and audience and control them, you can perform anything for them. I've performed two card monte and here then there, two tricks that could EASILY be screwed up by the spectator if you don't control them properly. I also tried out hollywood coins across and it worked out beautifully.
Reverhart, see the problem here is that our SCHOOL sucks. The teachers themselves are awesome because it's a small school so everyone knows each other really well. Our computer has 5 year old computers, our library has about 7 year old laptops... not the best technology, eh? We have two smartboards but only can use 1 because we don't have enough projectors at our school. Yeah... our school sucks badly. Over half of it is portables. Best thing ever though about it though, BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL IN VANCOUVER!!!
Back to the topic...: I perform cards stuff but have recently learned some coin stuff. I'll perform almost anything in school, as long as you can judge and audience and control them, you can perform anything for them. I've performed two card monte and here then there, two tricks that could EASILY be screwed up by the spectator if you don't control them properly. I also tried out hollywood coins across and it worked out beautifully.
Reverhart, see the problem here is that our SCHOOL sucks. The teachers themselves are awesome because it's a small school so everyone knows each other really well. Our computer has 5 year old computers, our library has about 7 year old laptops... not the best technology, eh? We have two smartboards but only can use 1 because we don't have enough projectors at our school. Yeah... our school sucks badly. Over half of it is portables. Best thing ever though about it though, BEST PUBLIC SCHOOL IN VANCOUVER!!!
To Reverhart, my senior year is the first year since 7th grade I have EVER felt safe in school. 7th grade kids picked on me all the time and tried to trip me down the stairs, 8th grade I got in a fight with a kid twice my size for making fun of me, 9th grade I moved to a new school and was the "new kid," 10th grade some kid picked on me all year, and even twisted my arm when it was broken and in a cast, and last year some kid started making fun of me because I was smaller than him and then after school that day he tried to run me over with his truck and then got out to fight me.
School is a horrible place I hate it. I thank GOD so much that this year magic has made me more known and I havent had any problems
School is a horrible place I hate it. I thank GOD so much that this year magic has made me more known and I havent had any problems
You have the right to disagree. Though I have seen many magicians who have regretted performing as much as they did in high school. I found that a trick every now and then was perfect, and it kept the mystery up for them. I was asked constantly to do things, but I just brushed it off. But almost every time I did do an effect, it blew minds. You lose that with regular performances.
I actually don't agree with Casey. If you mess up it's not really that big of a deal. Sure high school students are a lot tougher than other audiences but if you mess up there not going to say screw you and walk off. I have in my high school what we call the forum where most people hang out. I have performed there where I had about a crowd of almost 40 people and I messed up several times during this performance and no one looked twice at it. A few teachers came to watch too, did a few effects for some. One teacher got mad at us because one of my buddies put down his hat so I could collect money haha, made a few bucks, they thought we were gambling. But I think performing during school is great, as long as it doesn't interfere with learning. I actually am going to be performing at a school presentation for about 200 people in the new year for my teachers, they love it.
School is what you make of it. If you are convinced school sucks, then it will suck, if you think there can be improvements and ways around the problems you face, then there will be ways to make school a better environment for you. Just throwing in the towel and saying "school sucks," is a cheap cop-out and it is a very lazy mentality to have. Now, I am not ignorant to the fact that some environments are just simply too hostile and dangerous to have a fighting chance, but from what people have been saying on this board, no one is in one of those environments. You say people follow you around and pick on you? Avoid them, take a karate class, try to reconcile, switch schools, etc... Or better yet, focus on your studies and realize the simple fact that, "Hey, If I spend time learning and making the best of my high school days, in a few years after I graduate college and get a good job, all of these a$$holes picking on me now will be serving me fries at McDonalds."
All extreme cases aside, the situation you find yourself in each day is only subject to the mentality you bring to the table. A positive and smart attitude that realizes the importance of an education will work more to your benefit than, "school sucks, I'd rather do magic than study."
All extreme cases aside, the situation you find yourself in each day is only subject to the mentality you bring to the table. A positive and smart attitude that realizes the importance of an education will work more to your benefit than, "school sucks, I'd rather do magic than study."
I'm just saying based on my high school. Stuck up brats who find someone who doesn't fit in with them = picked on and shoved around. This happened to me back in 7th grade and 8th grade, and one day I decided to give it one more shot. I did the effect perfectly, no flashes, ect. Still didn't work for me. Now, well, I just don't do magic at school anymore. I sometimes do situational and quick visual magic like GUM by Jeff Prace. That effect went PERFECTLY. I strongly recommend you get GUM if you go to school, seriously. But anyways, I just chose to do what was best for me and not force magic down their throats. Maybe when College rolls around it'll be totally different. More people, more open minds, lot of creativity. Can't wait for my college years. Until then, I'm stuck in 4 years of crap I don't want to be in.
I'm currently in my 4th year of college, and I've been 'seriously' doing magic for a little over a year. When I say 'seriously', I mean actually practicing and studying studiously. I've messed around with simple sleights and simple tricks for a looooong time, until I decided I want to take my magic to the highest level.
So, that being said, I don't perform for ANYONE at school. Not during lunch, class, walking around campus, anything. There are two reasons I don't, number one being I'm ridiculously busy. Number two, I like to surprise people (friends/acquaintances) with my talent (not only magic, but guitar, drums, keyboard, and other random useless talents). We will be hanging out at my apartment and I'll just pick up a deck of cards we've been fooling with earlier and blow their minds. I also do a little bit at random parties around campus.
That's just the way I like to do it though
So, that being said, I don't perform for ANYONE at school. Not during lunch, class, walking around campus, anything. There are two reasons I don't, number one being I'm ridiculously busy. Number two, I like to surprise people (friends/acquaintances) with my talent (not only magic, but guitar, drums, keyboard, and other random useless talents). We will be hanging out at my apartment and I'll just pick up a deck of cards we've been fooling with earlier and blow their minds. I also do a little bit at random parties around campus.
That's just the way I like to do it though
Personally, I think performing magic at school is a great way to build a reputation, practice establishing rapport (essential out in the real world), and the perfect place to test your original effects 
Maybe it's just me, but when I perform for my classmates, I get to see all kinds of different reactions, and I establish a sort of mental library of which kind of people prefer which kind of effects; this all contributes to my future audience management and teaches me how to choose effects for each group of people. It's all about experience I guess. You get those heckler smarta-holes who like to catch you flashing (I don't perform for those people anymore...they never truly enjoy my magic, and ruin it for themselves), and then you get those wonderful people or give you advice on how you can make the trick stronger, tell you when you flashed (in a constructive manner), and generally make magic fun for ME as well.
In a nutshell, I would tell anyone to perform magic in school. If not for the reputation and egotistical pleasure (I had someone say "MAN David is GOOD"...one of the best feelings in the world), at least you can do it for the experience. Once you enter the adult world, it's much harder to find situtations and social circles such as a school campus that allows you to screw up once in a while.
Maybe it's just me, but when I perform for my classmates, I get to see all kinds of different reactions, and I establish a sort of mental library of which kind of people prefer which kind of effects; this all contributes to my future audience management and teaches me how to choose effects for each group of people. It's all about experience I guess. You get those heckler smarta-holes who like to catch you flashing (I don't perform for those people anymore...they never truly enjoy my magic, and ruin it for themselves), and then you get those wonderful people or give you advice on how you can make the trick stronger, tell you when you flashed (in a constructive manner), and generally make magic fun for ME as well.
In a nutshell, I would tell anyone to perform magic in school. If not for the reputation and egotistical pleasure (I had someone say "MAN David is GOOD"...one of the best feelings in the world), at least you can do it for the experience. Once you enter the adult world, it's much harder to find situtations and social circles such as a school campus that allows you to screw up once in a while.
I'm currently in my 4th year of college, and I've been 'seriously' doing magic for a little over a year. When I say 'seriously', I mean actually practicing and studying studiously. I've messed around with simple sleights and simple tricks for a looooong time, until I decided I want to take my magic to the highest level.
So, that being said, I don't perform for ANYONE at school. Not during lunch, class, walking around campus, anything. There are two reasons I don't, number one being I'm ridiculously busy. Number two, I like to surprise people (friends/acquaintances) with my talent (not only magic, but guitar, drums, keyboard, and other random useless talents). We will be hanging out at my apartment and I'll just pick up a deck of cards we've been fooling with earlier and blow their minds. I also do a little bit at random parties around campus.
That's just the way I like to do it though
And that is what I was I referring to earlier =D
the best place to do tricks at the school i do dan and dave tricks from trilogy and andthensome 2 card monte 2 card transpo and chadnelson tricks using the clipshift hope this helps