Fear, or Nerve?

Mark · 01-21-2011, 05:09 PM

I blame it on the nerves, combined with the fact that you had ten effects in mind and probably had to think really hard to see if it would all work out fine once more and more people joined the group. In performance arts, thinking too much often results in failures.

From experience I can tell that a good way to get over it is by having a repertoire of very solid tricks which would all work completely surrounded and basically can't go wrong, just for in such cases.

And don't think too much in advance. It may help to have one big routine with tricks following each other up so you don't have to think what's coming next once you're able to dream it.

Hope that helps! Although it's a bad experience, I'm kind of happy that you had it because it could only turn you into a better magician afterall.

la0o9 · 01-23-2011, 01:14 AM

I think you were nervous, if you think really hard about it, you might even remember yourself shaking a bit while talking( may be), i think you should just have 2 tricks in mind when you go and perform, if the crowd expands, just go with the flow and take something random out of your arsenal or ask if they want to see a particular trick( doubt that someone can actually answer, but a bit of showmanship like that works sometimes i think)

01-21-2011, 05:09 PM	#1
Mark Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 935	I blame it on the nerves, combined with the fact that you had ten effects in mind and probably had to think really hard to see if it would all work out fine once more and more people joined the group. In performance arts, thinking too much often results in failures. From experience I can tell that a good way to get over it is by having a repertoire of very solid tricks which would all work completely surrounded and basically can't go wrong, just for in such cases. And don't think too much in advance. It may help to have one big routine with tricks following each other up so you don't have to think what's coming next once you're able to dream it. Hope that helps! Although it's a bad experience, I'm kind of happy that you had it because it could only turn you into a better magician afterall.

01-23-2011, 01:14 AM	#2
la0o9 Move monkey atm Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Not where you'd want to go :P Posts: 747	I think you were nervous, if you think really hard about it, you might even remember yourself shaking a bit while talking( may be), i think you should just have 2 tricks in mind when you go and perform, if the crowd expands, just go with the flow and take something random out of your arsenal or ask if they want to see a particular trick( doubt that someone can actually answer, but a bit of showmanship like that works sometimes i think)