The Challenge – No Card Tricks

The Challenge

I thought ya’ll might be interested in a challenge I gave myself. I’m putting together a new close up show (non-strolling). The challenge was to do create a complete act with absolutely no playing cards. Obviously, if you know me, I’m not anti-card tricks. I LOVE card tricks. And that’s why I decided to try to do a show without them. I wanted to push myself and challenge myself.

I put together several effects that I felt worked for my style and my requirements. Then I tested out a few of them the other day in a casual setting (Scarnecky and I hanging out at Chili’s). The effects went over well, but as I performed them, I realized that they are all essentially the same effect, namely predictions.

So I went home that night and scrapped about 4 or 5 effects from the set that I really wanted to keep. I cut them, however, because I want the show to be more magic and less “predictions.” Again, I have nothing against predictions, but one cannot do an entire show of predictions now can one. Plus, it’s been a long time since I’ve done “magic” (rather than mentalism).

Anyway, I’ll keep you posted on how it goes. Meanwhile, enjoy the August 2012 issue!