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Magic company – The Skymember Presents

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Skymember Presents is not an old magic company in Malaysia. Skymember Presents founded in 2016. They keep coming out new magic product including playing cards, DVD tutorial and gimmicks.

Their ideas always innovative and creative, therefore Skymember Presents has the new generation of magician in Malaysia to become their fan and I am one of the big fan of them. Besides, they collaborate with high potential magician. Avi Yap is one of the signature magician. Although their customer is main targeted in south east Asia, in fact they still can sell their products to a big number of copies.

Gravitas, their new product of playing cards. Gravitas is designed by Avi Yap, They have printed 500 copies of Gravitas but they save sold 60% of Gravitas during the pre-order sale. From here,you can see their potential of their company. They are not only advance in design at the same time they are advance in commercial video. Smooth editing, nice sound effects to fit the visual of effect of the magic trick and successfully transfer their main m messages to customer.

The link for their new commercial video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F1W6LPPJgI

I purposely write this post for anyone who wants to get advance to magic trick to be a intermediate magician, yes, Skymember Presents is one of your choice. They do provide gimmicks tutorial video and gimmickless tutorial video, kindly have a look to their website. Grab any fantastic lecture video of them, for sure you will evolve to a intermediate magician.

The coin trick – Classic palm

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Before the last post, I gonna share the useful magic coin trick, classic palm. Classic palm is very useful, it can produce ton of magic routine and you only need to prepare is a silver coin. Hereby the question why not the other color of coin?

Classic palm works for any coin but silver coin boost the effects to the best. Silver coin shines and it could attract the spectator concentration. The more concentration you get, you can easily do a misdirection for other tricks. Usually the magician use the America half dollar.

The size of America half dollar is fit to most of the people’s hand. If you have a big hand, you could use America one dollar. For Malaysian, the old 50cents could work for it. So now let’s move on to the tutorial session.

Place the coin to your middle of your palm. Use the muscle between thumb and the piggy to grab the the coin.

The coin will not fall down.This is how magician usually hide the coin. This trick is simple and beginner could handle for this trick. But the advance magician could use this classic palm to create an illusion to spectator that the coin suddenly appear and disappear.

One daily routine you could do to your friends. Firstly, do the classic palm and following that tell your friend there is something on his or her shoulder. Your friend would look to the should and find out nothing is there. Then, you move your hand towards your friend’s shoulder and give a touch, show him or her the coin. I believe your friend will be a surprise when you do this trick.

If you really want to learn more to classic palm, check this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAk4BG1o9FQ

This video is about how to do a coin vanish by using classic palm. Have a good day with surprise your friend.

The art of misdirection

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Misdirection is a technique that magician commonly use in performance in order to hide the gimmicks or to hide the way he did the tricks. In my journey to be a beginner magician, my senior had explained to me that misdirection is useful. In real life, not only magician use misdirection, in fact that theft and some of the martial fighters will use misdirection to achieve their goals.

How is misdirection works?
The spekaer has to attract the audience attention for the fact he is distracting the audience to focus on the other things. Basically, theft is not the master of misdirection so usually there is few peoples participate the criminal. One is getting the attention, the other one is stealing the target.

The famous pickpocket master, Apollo Robins explains the misdirection of his way to pickpocket. This technique is one of the theft common use, so grab a few minutes to watch Apollo Robins’ talk, I strongly believe it boost your awareness of your own belongings’ protection.
Click this link to watch: https://youtu.be/GZGY0wPAnus

  • Apollo Robins shows how misdirection works

It upgrade from technique to arts due to reason that no matter how audience try to focus, still get distract by the speaker. The speaker could use tone of speaking or attracting words to get attention of audience, this act we called it as psychology of persuasion. In the talk of Apollo Robins, he shows us where you focus, yet still misdirect by him, because he guides the audience to be distracted in a way the audience doesn’t realize it.

If you interested in this art, you only need to do is practice, practice and practice!