How do you handle:

1. People who purposely not listen to instruction and do different things, in another words they want to make your magic fail.

2. People who make request like can they do this instead of what I have said. I know i can just say no but this sound "unpro"

3. People who don't respond to your performance well even though there are others who give positive respond to it.

It could be that you did not phrase your instructions carefully. Always leave no doubt in your instructions. If possible, guide them from the start to always obey you. For example, you could get your volunteer to 'step to the side', 'cross your arm like this', etc, before doing anything related to the effect.

If the guy is doing it on purpose, i.e. heckling you, then just politely stop, smile, and walk away. There is no reason to continue if a particular person is not keen on deriving entertainment from your performance.

Also with any luck, any other spectators will appreciate that you had handled the situation in a confident and professional manner, and realize that this guy is being an ass.

There are people who do not enjoy magic for various reasons. It is a fact. I would spend time performing for those who are genuinely interested.

ChiaWK probably answered all your questions, and thats simply all it is to it.

Just choose your audience wisely. There're 3 types of people in magic.
One, those who loves and enjoy watching magic.
Two, people who loves and learns magic, like us.
Third, people who thinks magic is bullshit, its a arrogant art and they kinda feel inferior about it.

You should also not overdo your magic. An example would be showing your magic to every single person that you know every single day the moment you get the slightest chance, or exhausting every single trick you know until you run out.

Hi!

If they want to shuffle but instead you shuffle, you can say or do these things

1) "Wait a moment..." And just continue your routine and the subject will be forgotten.

2) Put the deck down and do another piece of magic the turn back to the deck and continue and they'll forget everything.

Hope this helps.

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In my opinion,

1. You need to build repport with your volunteer.

2. If u are able to do (1) then establish 'control' and naturally your volunteer will not ask question and follow exactly as instructed.

3. These people probably had not/ not been able to follow through your performance. Try simplifying your patter

Hi!

I agree with Bryan. By establishing a control over your audience, you can do your tricks smoothly. Oh! And

you might want to do some tricks that does not involve audience to impress them and they will most likely

follow your instructions.

Thanks!

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well what you mention is very true.

Anyway back to the point, for people who don't listen with instructions, they have a face of not interested or their way of speech will give it off. After awhile performing you will get what we mean; its written all over their face.

For these people, there 2 ways for me personally, one when i get volunteers I don't get them or people standing near them. (hence i usually get ladies or kids)
Or like mention in crash course 1, instead of asking the person to hold the chosen card and insert into the deck, you can ask him to hold the deck instead. Or something along that line.

Next are those who starting asking for more, like mention in another tread, about why we should not do effect that not in our usual routine, as we tend to mess up do it with not enough setup. So personally I will say stuff like I would love to do it then just next reach out for my phone, pretend to answer a call then make a excuse like I am late for a event or such then walk off.

Lastly for those with no respond, let them be I would say, although they show no sign of been amaze, deep down in their heart, they are totally amaze and was already thrown out the window.

So take care :g:

hi

thanks for the post.
however under the category of people that do not response, there are people that are genuinely surprise and there are those that simply wants to figure out the trick, like once you have done an effect, they just kept on suggesting to everyone how it might have been done, even though they did not see anything or just attribute your trick to your "quick hand movements" and is not something very wonderful to begin with.

So how should you deal with these people

Be nice.
Be very nice.
Be very very nice.
Be ultimately nice.

I was recently with my friend and his friends at the school canteen. This girl heard I did magic and started ranting about how she hates magic and magic is lie and my hand is quicker than the eye.
I was hurt but I just kept quiet.
In the end her friend told her off saying I wasn't bothering about her haha.
She apologises that she was too straight forward.

Towards the end, I showed them a trick still and blew some minds.


There is nothing much you can do.
You don't deal with them, you let the others deal with them or you simply move on.

It's hard but just part of learning.