If there’s one thing that 98% of all magicians do poorly, it’s practice.
A ton of magical methods require nonchalance, and a carefree handling. And the only way you can get to that degree of casualness is to be casual.
And to be casual means that you’ve done the sleight/move/script so much that you don’t have to talk or think about it.
It just happens.
I personally keep decks of cards laying around the house, and as I walk through a room, I’ll pick up a deck and run through a couple of moves. Moves that I’ve done for years.
But I’m in a no stress, can’t-get-caught environment, so I’m practicing the moves without any worries.
And eventually, this worry-free attitude gets ‘baked’ into the handling of the moves and you can just not think about it.
And if you’re not concentrating…if you’re not thinking about…it you’re not even conscious of doing a move……the audience won’t be either.
So if you think you need to practice a move 100 times to get it perfect, try bumping that by 10. Do it 1,000 times and see if the move isn’t much, much better.
