Doing magic is great fun. I remember when I was young and started to do music I  just could not get a enough of showing tricks to my teachers and friends. When I was around 16 or so I   started to get more serious about my magic. I had been doing shows since I was about 12 but it was nothing more than a cute  little kid doing magic. When I was 15, 16 years old the cute  kid doing  magic novelty was loner there. This is when I started to seriously work on my magic as a show. Both my close-up and my stage magic. I improved my close-up abilities and got more interested in performing rather than doing tricks as a cute kid.

Once I started to form my real performing style I had to perform it. So I worked hard to book shows and received shows from my other magic friends as well as from my mentor Tony Eng. But the good thing and the reason for this long winded blog is I had to perform the show that I created. After each show I could evaluate and find out what worked and what needed to be changed. I have records from almost every show I have done since I was 16. That has given me a large set of data of routines that I tried and soon scrapped and ones I have kept for almost 20 years. But If I never changed my attitude when I was 16 and created a proper show and went out to perform I would have never become a better magician and have learned to create a good show. So the point of this blog is create your show then go perform it and make sure it is not just a string of random tricks and take notes after that show of what you did and what worked. Be honest to yourself. If a trick you loved totally failed to more than 2 audiences trash it, or leave it out and wait and reworked it for another time in the future.

OK I think I rambled enough today! Any comments let me know!
Aaron