Magic Tricks

I call it the illusive obvious. The concept is so incredibly simple once you learn how this is done, but no one will ever figure it out if you do it properly. It will take some practice to get it down however. I’m all for practicing because that’s what separates those who will blow people away from the mediocre.

The next morning after I received my DVD, I tried it and baffled my father. My handling was somewhat crude, but even with a little practice, you can look half way decent. I wouldn’t recommend showing it to anyone until you have it pretty well mastered because with some tricks—and this is one of them—a half baked trick can do more harm than good.

Yes, this really does work with other objects. I don’t smoke or carry cigarettes so I used two pencils cut to size. You start clean, you end clean with no gimmicks to ditch.

The DVD is a bit different. There’s no speaking but rather captions. Akira shows multiple angles in the DVD which covers more than enough information.

I would say get the DVD and practice, practice, practice. If you can master this, you will definitely stand apart from the crowd and be remembered for a long time. I can see spectators down the road requesting that you “do that thing with the cigarettes again”.