This November, we lost one of our long time members and past President of the Mile High Magicians’ Society, Lindsay Smith. It was a sad time.
In spite of that set back, we also had two enjoyable meetings. The first one was our Three Trick Teach-in and we also had the Bill Wisch lecture. Gene Gordon performed DeLand’s $100 trick Stripper/Marked Deck to demonstrate some of the fun card magic that can be performed with this deck. Chad Wonder demonstrated the nickels to dimes routine, and referenced Tarbell 7 with a coin purse where the coins had a transposition. Next he demonstrated the Hot Rod and Professor’s Nightmare. Dave Neighbors demonstrated his Coins Across routine which we never get tired of seeing. Matt Brandt and Jeff Jenson gave a magic talk on live performance tips that will help your show. Ideas such as; (1) Have a notebook in which to write down ideas and things that worked or didn’t work in the show. (2) Keep up with pop culture, (3) don’t panic if a trick goes wrong, (4) ignore hecklers, (5) scripting is important (as is to know the running time of your act), (6) always have an out, and (7) music will definitely help a show. Gene Gordon suggested having a local mentor, read a lot of magic books, set a regular practice time, and stick to it. Practice and rehearse the moves 25-100 times before you show the trick to family and friends. All of the tricks we learned at our teach-in were available for purchase by members.
Bill Wisch, one of Tony Slydini’s former students, performed and lectured on his Killer Set which consisted of his IACAAN (Impromptu Any Card At Any Number), his Stand-up Helicopter Card trick, and his Xbox card trick. Bill demonstrated his Wisch WEDGE card control system, his Wisch-Craft Overhand Shuffle System, and he also performed a card trick by Claude Rix using an invisible die.
