Easy Magic Should Be Secret!

When you watch a magician perform a trick, live or on TV, you know (or suspect) that it is not really magic. You know it is some kind of trick, but you can?t for the life of you figure it out.
Often a simple and easy magic trick, performed on the street, can be more amazing that a slick show on TV.
You can check the set-up, there is no chance of anything hidden happen where the camera is not looking.
This makes it possible to impress and astound your friend!. When a street magician makes the impossible seem real, you are close to him. Since you can look at everything, and walk around him, you think you can see there's no hidden trap doors or cabinets, for example.
It seems impossible not to have his magic tricks revealed simply by looking!
You can do the same. The hidden secret to a magical trick is this - it is the magician himself!
The absolute majority of magic tricks have been practised for a very long time, sometimes they are so old no-one knows when they first were done. And when a trick - a card trick, for example, or a coin trick, is analyzed in detail - the trick itself is usually not complicated at all.
The secret lies in how the performer - you! - do it! The presentation of the trick is what makes it baffling.
For example, you can ask the audience to name a number, and you pull out a card from the bottom of the deck, one at a time, until you come to the number that has been said, and then you pull out an ace! And that happens no matter what number is named.
The secret is ever so simple - the ace should be at the bottom of the cards, held by your little finger. You will naturally need to practise this. To have your magic tricks revealed by mistake, because you are clumsy and drop the card, is not very magical ...
Equally important is to distract the attention of the audience slightly -just by talking you can keep their attention off the pack and stop them from trying to analyze your movements.
It appears to work in the same way as when you drive a car and use a mobile phone at the same time. It has been proven that people react slower.
It seems that your brain focuses effectively on one thing at a time, and this is what you can utilise to amaze your friends.
But remember - magic tricks revealed lose their magic! Keep them secret and only ever discuss them with other magicians!