http://www.doublefacers.com/2008/12/dolphin-hands/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 02:01:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.doublefacers.com/2008/12/dolphin-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-1040 IVIrIVIagic Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:46:56 +0000 http://www.doublefacers.com/?p=113#comment-1040 I know this has been up forever, but just went back through the posts. I just have some things to add: I love the idea of conditioning a spectator. What I think is a good idea is to see when the laymen person (or magician) notices you with cards, and when you then approach them, have a "Dolphin Hand" it is important to already have it before you introduce yourself as the entertainment (pretentious). Maybe shake their hand or go into your pocket with a dolphin hand to grab some cards. Basically do something subtle that makes them notice your hand is already in dolphin hand without announcing it, but don't do something like look at your hand ask them to check out your palm, that would be drawing unnecessary attention to your hand. Another thing is to always look at your actions before you go out and perform. By this I mean take the cascade control, look at what your cascade already looks like and sounds like, and try to make your control the same. Also, another thing I notice about controls, is that in practice, a magician is always very focused on the control, and not what's around the control. If you were to do a regular cascade, you wouldn't think twice about it, but if you were to do the cascade control, you might seem more focused or stressed about a simple cascade. We as magicians or whatever you call yourselves have to be aware of our naturalness, I believe casual, natural move is better than a focused move, even if they are both done smoothly. So look at all your moves and try to make them natural. Another thing is that when people learn a move, they are so focused on the move that they don't think of what happens before and after, like Tony Chang always says. After you master a move don't let bad practice habits fester and carry over to when you are refining and performing that move. You can always go back to the source you learned the move from, and take in all the subtleties. I find this helps a lot. - Andre I know this has been up forever, but just went back through the posts. I just have some things to add:
I love the idea of conditioning a spectator. What I think is a good idea is to see when the laymen person (or magician) notices you with cards, and when you then approach them, have a “Dolphin Hand” it is important to already have it before you introduce yourself as the entertainment (pretentious). Maybe shake their hand or go into your pocket with a dolphin hand to grab some cards. Basically do something subtle that makes them notice your hand is already in dolphin hand without announcing it, but don’t do something like look at your hand ask them to check out your palm, that would be drawing unnecessary attention to your hand. Another thing is to always look at your actions before you go out and perform. By this I mean take the cascade control, look at what your cascade already looks like and sounds like, and try to make your control the same. Also, another thing I notice about controls, is that in practice, a magician is always very focused on the control, and not what’s around the control. If you were to do a regular cascade, you wouldn’t think twice about it, but if you were to do the cascade control, you might seem more focused or stressed about a simple cascade. We as magicians or whatever you call yourselves have to be aware of our naturalness, I believe casual, natural move is better than a focused move, even if they are both done smoothly. So look at all your moves and try to make them natural. Another thing is that when people learn a move, they are so focused on the move that they don’t think of what happens before and after, like Tony Chang always says. After you master a move don’t let bad practice habits fester and carry over to when you are refining and performing that move. You can always go back to the source you learned the move from, and take in all the subtleties. I find this helps a lot.
- Andre

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