whats a good way to ask people if they want to see tricks

Gabe872 · **Joined:** 14 May 2007 **Posts:** 22

usally i just say hey wanna c a trick and they look at me like im nuts after i show them a trick they love it but still i was thinking about saying

hey wanna see some magic (and then set off an apearing cane)

what do you guys think

kraynik · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:02 pm

dennskymcfish · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:12 pm

I just touched on that exact sentence in a recent essay.

http://penguinmagic.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=132655

AndrewMan · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:58 pm

Hey guys wanna see a trick?

fallingblood · **Posted:** Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:30 pm

Introduce yourself first. Yeah, if you go up to someone and ask, "Hey guys, wanna see something?" People are going to think you're some weirdo. It's not a good first impression. For introduce yourself. Start chatting, then explain that you are a magician.

Gabe872 · **Joined:** 14 May 2007 **Posts:** 22

thanks

kraynik · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:32 am

Approach them as a person, not a magician.

AndrewMan · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:51 pm

fallingblood wrote:

Introduce yourself first. Yeah, if you go up to someone and ask, "Hey guys, wanna see something?" People are going to think you're some weirdo. It's not a good first impression. For introduce yourself. Start chatting, then explain that you are a magician.

Thats why you don't ask if you wanna see "something" :shock:

jamesjay1 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:58 pm

AndrewMan wrote:

fallingblood wrote:

Introduce yourself first. Yeah, if you go up to someone and ask, "Hey guys, wanna see something?" People are going to think you're some weirdo. It's not a good first impression. For introduce yourself. Start chatting, then explain that you are a magician.

Thats why you don't ask if you wanna see "something" :shock:

Especially if you are wearing a long overcoat and fedora...............

That would be bad.

akirafist · **Posted:** Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:58 pm

Forget you're into magic, put the tricks away.

Now approach people and start conversations. Over and over and over. Learn to say something funny within the first minute, to make them relaxed that you're present.

Mastered that?

Ok now introduce magic after the funny line.

Going in completely raw makes you a weird guy with tricks. This has two huge disadvantages:

- They want to get away after the trick. You had a sole purpose, to show them a trick. They're now bored of tricks, want to return to their normal life and subsequently bored of YOU.

- You've shown ZERO personality, which makes your social value rock bottom

Approaching, saying something funny, expressing your personality makes you a fun and cool guy. Introducing magic makes you a funny, cool guy who happens to know magic.

See the difference?

Gabe872 · **Joined:** 14 May 2007 **Posts:** 22

akirafist wrote:

Forget you're into magic, put the tricks away.

Now approach people and start conversations. Over and over and over. Learn to say something funny within the first minute, to make them relaxed that you're present.

Mastered that?

Ok now introduce magic after the funny line.

Going in completely raw makes you a weird guy with tricks. This has two huge disadvantages:

- They want to get away after the trick. You had a sole purpose, to show them a trick. They're now bored of tricks, want to return to their normal life and subsequently bored of YOU.

- You've shown ZERO personality, which makes your social value rock bottom

Approaching, saying something funny, expressing your personality makes you a fun and cool guy. Introducing magic makes you a funny, cool guy who happens to know magic.

See the difference?

hey thats great and whats your name because i have a cousin who lives in texaas who is a magition

surfh2o311 · **Joined:** 16 Jan 2007 **Posts:** 620

Gabe872 wrote:

akirafist wrote:

Forget you're into magic, put the tricks away.

Now approach people and start conversations. Over and over and over. Learn to say something funny within the first minute, to make them relaxed that you're present.

Mastered that?

Ok now introduce magic after the funny line.

Going in completely raw makes you a weird guy with tricks. This has two huge disadvantages:

- They want to get away after the trick. You had a sole purpose, to show them a trick. They're now bored of tricks, want to return to their normal life and subsequently bored of YOU.

- You've shown ZERO personality, which makes your social value rock bottom

Approaching, saying something funny, expressing your personality makes you a fun and cool guy. Introducing magic makes you a funny, cool guy who happens to know magic.

See the difference?

hey thats great and whats your name because i have a cousin who lives in texaas who is a magition

Hmm, so your cousin is a robot?

handwerker · **Joined:** 01 Aug 2005 **Posts:** 67

If you are going to do three or four tricks for people which is usualy the number the first trick you do should have a way to start without asking if they want to see a trick like with color changing knives you come up and say did anyone loose a white knife and that's you in to starting the trick then you change it to black saying what about a black knife then the other tricks come after.

borntopreform · **Joined:** 26 Aug 2007 **Posts:** 1222

Gabe872 wrote:

akirafist wrote:

Forget you're into magic, put the tricks away.

Now approach people and start conversations. Over and over and over. Learn to say something funny within the first minute, to make them relaxed that you're present.

Mastered that?

Ok now introduce magic after the funny line.

Going in completely raw makes you a weird guy with tricks. This has two huge disadvantages:

- They want to get away after the trick. You had a sole purpose, to show them a trick. They're now bored of tricks, want to return to their normal life and subsequently bored of YOU.

- You've shown ZERO personality, which makes your social value rock bottom

Approaching, saying something funny, expressing your personality makes you a fun and cool guy. Introducing magic makes you a funny, cool guy who happens to know magic.

See the difference?

hey thats great and whats your name because i have a cousin who lives in texaas who is a magition

I have a cousin but he can spell and use grammar.

paddy · **Posted:** Wed Aug 29, 2007 3:11 am

borntopreform wrote:

Gabe872 wrote:

hey thats great and whats your name because i have a cousin who lives in texaas who is a magition

I have a cousin but he can spell and use grammar.

Is that why you spell your name as "borntopreform" instead of BorntoPerform?

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