Meeting the Opposite Sex

I ran across this article the other day while perusing through a site I visit periodically for magic related articles for the Magic Roadshow. Thought this might be a little more appropriate for the blog instead...


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Meeting the Opposite Sex with Magic

Performing magic involves tons of audience interaction. What if you could use that to your advantage and effortless impress and attract women by simply performing magic? The bottom line is this: women love magic. Ask 100 women if they want to see a magic trick and I guarantee at least 95 say yes. The other 5 are probably boring and you wouldn’t want to get to know them anyway.

Consider this: if you approach a woman and blurt out a corny pick up line, it’s obvious that you are hitting on her and she will immediately shut herself off to you. However, when you approach her with absolute confidence and ask to show her something amazing, her sense of curiosity is aroused and she is immediately intrigued.

This guide provides some advice and tips that may seem unconventional. However, if you are willing try it, you’ll have a simple and powerful tool for picking up woman. The number one mistake men make when trying to attract women is this: they simply don’t take action. If you really want to succeed, you much go out and try these methods! Have fun! Who cares if you’re a bit shaky at first and your ego shatters a bit? It’s a fascinating learning process, a fun game.

There are four main points to my method:
1. Find
2. Meet
3. Attract
4. Close


Now, lets begin…

Step One: Find

My favorite place to find women is at the local shopping mall. Not surprising at all, right? Women love to shop, so where else would they flock? Traditionally, picking up girls is done at bars and clubs, so it never occurs to guys that the mall is a great place to meet woman.

Night spots are great places too. The girls who go there might even want to be picked up! If you love the night life, this is the best place for you to meet women.

Step Two: Meet

Begin with a hello. Never, and I repeat, never, open with a pick up line you found on the internet. At malls, if you spot a girl resting or waiting, walk up and talk to her. Most likely, she is taking a break from shopping or waiting for her friends and would enjoy seeing some magic. Start with something along the lines of, “Hey, I saw you from over there, and thought I’d show you something cool.” You can tell her that you’re a magician, but personally I don’t, since it make me seem more mysterious. Ask for her name and tell her yours, and now you’re ready for the third step: attract!

Step Three: Attract

Here, you want to go into your magic routine. It is important to perform the appropriate magic tricks. You want tricks that will appeal to her personally. Mental magic works great, since it gives a sense of emotional connection between you two. A great trick to perform is Stigmata by Wayne Houchin. The trick is extremely personal and gets incredible reactions. Another effect I like is the Revolution Coin Vanish. I make her ring vanish and tell her she has to search me to get it back ; ) Just be sure to avoid “shock” magic tricks such as Disjointed, Saw, or Needle Through Arm. These are great tricks, but not ones you want to attract women with.

While performing your magic, you want to come off as an attractive person. Convey your personality through your magic; convince her that that you are funny, deep, intellectual, and adventurous. Speak clearly and project your voice. However, don’t talk too quiet or too loud and keep a relaxed posture.

As you perform and converse, be sure to touch her, in a playful and natural manner. If you cannot do this, then you can forget this whole this. Touching, also known as kino, short for kinesthetic, is one of the most important aspects in attracting women. Kino helps develop a physical connection between you and her and proves that you're a sexual being, meaning that you're boyfriend material.

When you’re done performing, start some conversation. Ask basic questions and get to know her a bit more, while introducing yourself. Then, say that you enjoyed meeting her but have to leave. This sets the impression that you’re a sociable and busy person, not some loser who hangs around the mall all day, doing magic tricks. Make sure you tell her that you have to go, not the other way around.

Step Four: Close

Closing is getting further contact with her. Get her phone number, also her email or screename if you want. Ask if she would like to see some more magic (if you played your cards right, she will most certainly say yes) and set up a small meet up right then. Tell her that you’re free next Thursday and that it would be nice to ‘meet up and have a quick bite.’

That pretty much sums it up. Remember, this is only one simple technique on how to attract women with magic. Check out http://www.learn-street-magic.com for some incredible magic tricks you can learn for free!

Learn Magic Tricks

I ran across this article by Andy Canning, and I think you'll enjoy it. Although the effects are not new, they are truths that you need to be reminded of from time to time.. Read on..

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Few things can impress people as much as seeing a well performed Magic Trick - especially when it is done without apparatus or preparation. Mentalism is one of the more impressive types of Magic Trick and the one I’m about to reveal is so easy to learn that you’ll be performing it tomorrow! Or even tonight!

There are two important rules for learning Magic Tricks -

1. Practice before you perform. Get it right. Work out your patter and learn it off by heart.

2. NEVER tell your audience how it was done!

To learn this Magic Trick you only need to remember a few things and develop a ‘patter’; a way to perform it.

You have an audience of at least six, preferably a dozen - ‘though it could be performed for as many as you like - provided you can give them all paper and pencils. You tell them that you are going to project your thoughts into their minds.

They must write down the thought as soon as you tell them to - write down the first thing that comes into their head, without trying to think about it (transmitted thought is fragile and too much of their own brain activity will wipe it out).

“We’ll start,” you tell them, “with an easy one. Get ready to write it down … a single digit number; a number between 1 and 9 - NOW!”

You write on your piece of paper; the number 7.

“Now we’ll try a word. What I want you to write this time, is the name of … a vegetable - NOW!”
You write on your piece of paper; the word CARROT.

“Another word. This time I want you to write down the name of … an animal that lives in the jungle - NOW!”

You write on your piece of paper; the word LION. (Trust me; I know they don’t live in the jungle, but this works!)

“Let’s go back to numbers. This time it is a 2 digit number with two different digits (i.e. not 11 or 22). I want you to write down an odd number between … 10 and 50 - NOW!”

You write on your piece of paper; the number 37

“OK. One more number. Again a 2 digit number, an even number with 2 different digits. I want you to write down an even number between … 50 and 99 - NOW!”

You write on your piece of paper; the number 68.

When everyone has written their last number, you display your paper and get them to compare their answers. More than half the answers will match your ‘prediction’.

Well, not everyone is receptive to thought transference, and for those that are, it is an intermittent thing and they will not receive every thought accurately. Those that thought too much before writing it down may have scrambled the transmitted thought.

Do not repeat this trick for the same audience - when they find you are using exactly the same numbers and words each time, they will smell a rat!

In fact most people under the given conditions will come up with those numbers and words. Why? Dunno. Must be the way the human mind is wired.

Note. When doing the 2 digit numbers, always pause where I put in the 3 dots … as this helps to clear their minds of any number they were thinking of up to that point; they don’t know what you are going to say next, so it blanks the mind.

If you decide only to use the numbers, I would do the single digit last. When you’ve just written down ‘7′, being told to write a 2 digit number, you are going to avoid using 7 again. Moving the 7 to the last slot means there is 68 between it and 37.

To learn this Magic trick all you have to remember is 3 numbers and 2 words. Easy isn’t it? Your victims - sorry, audience - will be spell-bound with amazement.

There are many Magic Tricks you can learn that are just as easy as this to perform - and just as impressive. My own preference is for Magic tricks that can be performed with borrowed objects so that the audience doesn’t suspect that you are using special gimmicks - even though, often, you are.

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Andy Canning is an amateur magician; an enthusiast. He has created a Website for fellow enthusiasts - amateur or professional - at www.magic.4funandprofit.co.uk where he offers free magic tricks for you to learn.