My first trick was the classic TT vaniching silk it was realy amazing and it look like real magic am still doing it and I always cary a TT with me everywhere.

Ahhh for me it was the 21 card trick- anyone want me to perform it?

Matt Tomasko

For me it was taking off half my thumb and this old fingertrap toy that I had and still wish I had
I can also remember getting a really old library book out and learning the glide and also a false cut that was, I found out 20 or so years later a version of Nate Leipzigs swivel cut. They were the only 2 sleights in the book and I don't remember any of the tricks in them.
What I always find strange is that I haven't seen this cut in any of the magic literiture since, maybe I should still use it and see if I can get away with it. Or maybe not.

Great topic too

My first trick was finding a chosen card using a Enardoe marked, stripper deck. It wasn't easy for my 6 year old hands to grasp the deck but my mind grasped the idea of doing magic and it has never let go.
Steve

My first trick was nickles to dimes and I loved it soo much. I would take my teachers money and then pull out the gimmick and keep her nickles.

The Impossible Knot. I found it in a book about Houdini.

First trick- 21 card trick
first trick as a magician- pick a card, find a card (stripper style)

Some kind of little plastic tube with beads that chaged colour - don't know what it's called.

My first decent trick I learnt as a child was 'do as I do' - an amazing effect, learnt it from the Paul Daniels magic Annual!

I belive that your thinking of a Hotrod.

Rising Card Deck from Disney. Been into magic ever since.

It was either the Do as I do card trick with two decks or the "elevator" card trick.

Cups and Balls

Balducci levi.. Learned it form a friend.. don't use it as much cause I'm into cards now. But when I did I had specs thinking I was posesed.. pre-blaine era..

Svengali deck and TT for the vanishing silk. I loved those two tricks when I first got them!

21 cards in three rows. Don´t know the name of this trick. I rarely use it.

The 1st trick I ever saw, I bought from a pitchman at a county fair in 1945 - the magic mouse (made of clay then). Subsequently went back and bought more when I found I could do the mouse. He sold me Buddha papers, some paddle tricks, but I avoided (what later I discovered was a Svengali deck) as appearing to be difficult sleight of hand (at least to a 9 year old). I have learned to perform - and pitch - the Svengali deck since then. Keith

I don't know it's name but it was shown to me at age 8 by a camp consulor. You run through the deck, saying "tell me when to stop." They say stop and you stop, immediatley telling them what card it is. No trick deck, just a simple move. Still do it for fun every once in a while, even though it isn't that great. The cool part is someone can go into another room and anounce the card instead, which can really blow peoples minds.

Last night was the first time I've shown a trick to anyone who isn't a mirror.

it was topsy turvy cards from rrtcm


cole. x

Scotch -N- Soda, was my first trick and investment in magic.

Nickles to dimes and the stripper deck were my first tricks.