Free Online Magic Tutorials

This is Mystery Mark explaining the main issues of free online magic tutorials. Usually magicians only complain about this kind of magic exposure being morally wrong but hopefully this video clears up it's really not just about the ethics. Hope you appreciate it!

Please realize this video is aimed at those who make those tutorials and those who actually watch them.

Also, this clip is a selection of more than 33 minutes of video footage. We hope we made the right selection because we didn't want to bother you for that long.

Release: L-RoMA (Book, 2007)

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[TheTimmayProductions]

i think some magic can be revealed on u tube but not everything. The amazing trick that u made that is incredibly spectactular shouldn't be revealed but the okay trick that isn't ur favorite might be okay to reveal. I believe that selling magic is even worse than utube tutorials.

[MarkHilkemeijer]

@TheTimmayProductions Thanks for sharing your honest thoughts. Could you please elaborate why exactly you think selling magic is worse than making free online magic tutorials?

[way2fast4u38]

well the books in a library are free, or books in barnes and noble are free! some people such as myself are visual learners, it is much easier for me to watch a video, and learn than read a book and learn......and other magicians sell there tricks, just to become rich, you say don't reveal your tricks but if you want you can buy them, it doesn't make sense, your not fully right, this is just my opinion!

[MarkHilkemeijer]

@way2fast4u38 I stand my point. Like you said, it is easier, but as magic should be an art of true dedication, it should not be easier.

Quality is much more important than quantity. It's the reason why lots of performing magicians don't have all that many sleights and tricks in their repertoires.

I do not agree with commercial magic selling (Theory 11, Ellusionist, etc) either. Yes, they indeed sell magic to become rich, but the true money in the art should be in performances instead.

[mysterymark]

@bakert4 Like I mentioned, there are exceptions. The vast majority of people who learn magic from YouTube exposure and tutorials are not passionate about the art at all though, and I hope you can agree with that. They used to be spectators who did run into those videos accidentally, and now think they can call themselves magicians for being able to do some tricks, without even performing them. It's great that at least you have passion for it.

[bakert4]

So i wont lie i started magic because of youtube but i have also found a true passion for the art and fir collecting cards. I have devoted the last four years to card magic. So for him to say i will go nowhere kinda hurts. U can learn magic from anywhere but u must also have a passion for the art form. Learning magic on youtube isnt always bad. But learning it fir the wrong reasons deff is

[Blueforce707]

This is all so grey, & there's too many exceptions for one consistent answer.

[mysterymark]

@monkeygj Funny enough that's exactly what we do too. All of our tricks are done live first (in real life and in videochat sessions) before they get uploaded here. You would've known if you would have known us longer because we used to have live performances on here.

Reason why we don't have this anymore is because live performances of street magic are watched for the reactions, not for the magic. And for potential live audiences watching our videos it would spoil the experience completely too.

[monkeygj]

Hi mark, you say that talent is set by big crowds and not by family or friends.

I was just wondering why you haven't posted any videos of you performing any of your creations to crowds.

If I knew, and mastered, 'The Phantom' or 'the flash' I would be performing it to anyone I could as they are brilliant tricks.

My point is that you seem to create a lot of effects and perform them on your own in front of a camera. I would say to be a magician the last place you should show them is on the internet

[mysterymark]

@12SaiNt21 Not at all. I just tell how people who didn't want to become magicians end up becoming that (and mostly terrible ones for that matter). Those who make free exposure don't realize the impact they have and have had on the art and its quality.

Before such exposure, there still were magicians... and those who really wanted to become one, did. But nowadays it are mostly laymen who had no intention to do magic themselves, who end up doing it, and that is plain wrong and bad for the art.

[12SaiNt21]

In this video you just show people who want to become magicians, that they can't be magicians, that they shouldn't reveal tricks. It's meanly in my opinion

[SeeEssThree]

It's alot of hard work, so I admire you for your hard work!

[mysterymark]

@fizaanTech I agree on the becoming-an-instant-Vernon statement, but I definitely think that talent exists, simply because some people will have to work a whooole lot harder to get there than others. Those others I call talented.

Either way, free online magic tutorials don't quite stimulate hard work. =(

[fizaanTech]

Personally, I don't think that talent exists. Everything is simply hard work, and everyone has to start somewhere, it's not like you can just start and become and instant Vernon.