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Public Speaking Course:
Add Magic to Your Presentations
When taking my public speaking course you will learn about a variety of
fun techniques to put in your presentation including magic tricks.
When you perform a magic trick during your speaking presentation, it never
fails to impress the audience and keep their eyes on what you will do
next.
Don't worry about being held to the high standards
of a professional magician when you perform your magic tricks. You are
simply adding magic
as an extra dimension to key points your making to the audience, while
the professional magician's presentation is primarily just involving
illusion. This is a fun aspect you can learn in a public speaking course.
I do some simple magic tricks that would probably make a real magician laugh
at me, yet I get comments from the audience all the time that they loved my 'illusions.'
Think about some of the points you make during your presentation that
could use a little extra something to make them more memorable.
You can visit your local magic shop and tell the salesperson what you are
looking to accomplish and that you have no magic skills. Most good magic shops have literally
thousands of tricks to pick from and at all skill levels for any type
of audience.
The points you make and the comedy aspect of the magic usually come
from the 'patter' (what the magician says while doing the trick). You
can even buy books that help you with comic patter. Magic tricks are also a fun
way to add some lightheartedness and WOW factor to what you learned
in your public speaking course.
Many magic tricks are now on video which makes it a whole lot easier
to learn than trying to read them from a book. An excellent video tape for rope tricks is 'Daryl's Rope Tricks #7.'
Your local magic shop probably has it and if they don't they can probably
order it.
I really like to learn magic from videos because you can see the trick
in action. Reading them from a book is OK, and very useful, but you
can learn a lot quicker with video training. Two good magic videos for speakers are
by master magician Tom Ogden 'Teaching and Training with Magic' and
'The Magic of Creativity.' I got these two videos from Royal Publishing
& Walters Speakers Services (626) 335-8069.
And of course, in 2004 with the magician Steve Hart, I created a three
DVD set of magic tricks, with a bonus DVD of me doing some magic.
Call me at (757) 431-1366, to order, or order online at antion.com.
When taking a public speaking course, you will learn that magic is but one of many resources
and tools you can use to cleverly communicate your message. Home
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