 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is the rules to magic That's right today in this video. We're gonna look at the rules of magic. You're like there are rules Yes, there are rules because you're a magician and the magician is all about keeping and retaining Secrets and so the rules to magic are to limit exposure now. What is exposure exposure is when? Somebody figures out how a trick is done Okay, when the lay world figures out how a particular magic trick is done and exposure takes all shapes all forms And then so the top three rules the top three Codes of conduct that we live by as magicians are to limit the amount of exposure out there in the world All right, so you're ready for the rules number one never tell how a trick is done That is the first and foremost rule of magic never tell how a trick is done Well, what if my mom asks? What if my sister asks? What if my best friend really wants to know? The number one rule of magic is never tell how a trick is done Okay, never ever. Well, what if there another magician? Never tell how a trick is done. That's how it works That's how it works. Okay, because it ruins the magic experience for you and your audience People say they always want to know how a trick is done, but they really don't and once you tell them how it's done you will let them down and You've just exposed a magic trick to a person who's not a magician Okay, you need to find another way to get around that question when people say oh, tell me how it's done You got to think of another way to get out of that instead of just saying no no no like you just okay You need to find out a way around it You think oh, they'll be just as excited to learn the secret as I was They won't be because they're not magicians or they won't understand it Okay to pull back the curtain and reveal the secret. It doesn't help Magic you're a magician. Your job is to keep secrets Your job is to retain and protect the art that you love So you should do everything in your power to keep those secrets Okay, magic is an art form and it's reserved for the people who have chosen to be magicians and so your first Duty is to protect that. Okay, so never tell how a trick is done Number two never perform the same trick for the same audience That means you show a trick to Billy on the playground and he says come on Let's show it to Sally and the two of you run over and that you show it to Sally But Billy gets to watch again No, you never repeat the same trick for the same audience again, it's exposure Okay, because what you're gonna do is you're gonna do the trick the exact same way The way you did it before with the same pattern the same routines and the people that watched it the first time They're not gonna be looking where you told them to look They're gonna be looking someplace else and they're gonna be watching for you To mess up. They're gonna be watching for those slides. They're not gonna watch your left hand anymore Now they're gonna watch your right and they're gonna pay very careful attention to the things that they missed the first time When you repeat the same trick for the same audience again, you are letting secrets out You are exposing those secrets when somebody says hey, show me that again You need to have another trick ready to go. Okay, most times when you perform magic You should be doing at least three tricks. Okay, you should never just do one trick and that's done And I'm walking the class because you're always gonna leave them wanting more. They're always gonna be excited They're always gonna say hey do that again So you would say well, I won't do that one again, but here. Let me show you something else Okay, that's an easy way to move them off that topic Sometimes you have to perform the same trick for the same person because you're practicing Like I show my wife the same tricks over and over again because I'm practicing but that's different Okay, if this is your audience a good magician uses the same tricks But always finds a new audience if your audience never changes that means you need to find new tricks constantly, okay, and An easy way around that is to buy magic books magic books have hundreds of tricks in them So if you're the kind of magician that has the same audience repeatedly then you need to buy more books and less All right, and the third rule is practice practice practice why practice well because again If you're showing tricks before they're ready if you're showing tricks before they're done, there's the possibility That you'll mess up There's the possibility that you'll screw the trick up and when you do that You expose it never perform a trick that you don't know perfectly Okay, you practice a trick you do it several times without making any mistakes when you're just about Sick of it. That's probably when you're ready to perform it when you can perform it without shaking when you can perform it without making Mistakes when you can perform it without dropping the cards When you can perform it without looking down when you do the slight that's a big one practice in front of a mirror practice until it's perfect, okay, it has to be Perfect if you don't practice then you're gonna end up like these kids Hi All right, that was a joke, but just practice okay, you practice so that you don't expose magic Alongside of that. Let's just put that underneath is you don't steal magic Okay, you don't download free tricks off the internet that again is Exposure, okay, because you didn't pay for the right to have that trick some magician out there has created that trick to make money Of course of course and to broaden all of our magical experiences when you steal that trick You are diminishing the creative process that the inventors have okay Well, what if I trade a trick what if I give him one and he gives me one You're only trading if you no longer have the trick In other words if I have a video download and he has a video download and we swap videos But then you keep the video that you traded you didn't trade You just stole a trick and he just stole a trick that's not trading and even if you really did trade You would have to agree not to perform that trick ever again if I'm gonna give you a trick and I'm giving it to you Then I can't perform it anymore Okay, that would be the right way to do it the right way to do it is to purchase your tricks From a dealer from a magic dealer or from the internet or if you sell those tricks Then you're agreeing that you're not going to do it anymore You shouldn't make money or profit off of another magician, right? And you shouldn't steal money from another magician if you're stealing Daniel Madison's tricks or if you're stealing Jay Sankey's tricks That means you don't like Jay Sankey That means you don't like Daniel Madison if you steal tricks from Penguin Magic or if you steal tricks from illusionist That means you don't like them because you've just stolen from them You've taken money from the industry you've taken money from those creators So don't steal magic. There are also YouTube channels out there that say that they're teaching you magic But a lot of them are actually Exposing magic because they are exposing magic tricks that they didn't invent The only magic tricks that anyone can give away for free are the tricks that they invent themselves Anything else is considered to be unethical. It's not illegal Unethical you shouldn't give away a trick that isn't yours Unless you ask the creator permission, okay, but never tell the secret All right So those are the three rules of magic never tell how a trick is done Never perform the same trick for the same audience and practice practice practice Like I said all of those rules are set up put in place so that we don't expose Magic a magician keeps secrets a magician doesn't tell secrets So think about that think about who you are as a magician and your own character And think about how you are helping to preserve the secrecy of magic