Youtube warning:
We all use it: “How to cook an artichoke”, “how to play the guitar”, or many other searches. But trying to learn magic with youtube is like trying to be an actor by watching youtube videos or learning how to skate, swim or play tennis. It’s a great starting point, but if you don’t get in the water, there will be no way of learning! Also, you don’t get any feedback from a video!
Lastly, be careful who your teacher is. There are a lot of ‘Youtube influencers’, and most of them are not professionals or they don’t have real experience. So a big word of caution if you want to learn from Youtube, you might need to unlearn many bad habits in the future!
Magic Sets:
Probably you have been to Hamleys in Oxford Circus, and you found a few dealers showing magic, they are great, right??
Magic sets are great if you have a kid aged 6 to 8 years old. But the main problem with a magic set is that the ‘magic is in the toy’. Let’s be honest, most of those tricks are not very deceiving, and even if they are, they look like trick boxes with a “secret compartment”. There is a reason that magic sets are sold in a toy shop, right?
What is the fastest way of learning magic?
Back in the day, the only way of learning Magic was with teachers and mentors (and a few rare books). And still is the best, easiest and fastest way of learning. Watching and learning from someone who has experience working and performing in the real world but also has experience teaching and giving feedback to their students, is the fastest and easiest way of learning magic!
Or taking a step-by-step course like the one I created: