Magic is all over the place, from the massive spectacle megastar of David Copperfield and Siegfried and Roy to the quirky Penn and Teller to the spooky David Blaine and Criss Angel to the unending fabric on YouTube. yet in the past, studying it hasn't ever been easy―that's all approximately to alter with Magic, a e-book that does for close-up magic what How to Grill does for fish fry. Written by way of charismatic younger magician Joshua Jay, Magic combines services, photos, and step by step instructions exhibiting how one can practice a hundred tricks.

Joshua Jay took domestic the head prize on the international Magic Seminar (the Olympics of magic) whilst he was once simply sixteen years outdated. Ten years later, he keeps to accomplish magic, write approximately magic, consume, sleep, and breathe magic. right here, he brings all his ardour and information to educating magic. each one trick is damaged down into the impact, the key, the Set-up, and, most vital, the functionality, with classes on what to assert, how you can direct the audience's cognizance, the place to maintain your fingers, and so forth. (In different phrases, tips on how to be shrewdpermanent in regards to the issues your viewers is unusually clueless about.)

listed here are the 10 maximum Card methods; tips to dazzle a dinner date; tips to practice for the boss (poke a gap via his blouse, then magically mend it); tips particularly for children; or even tips for an viewers in one other state―with "Australian Self-Help," you will find a participant's selected card over the telephone. it is the Aha! booklet for a topic whose time has come.