Hi I'm Brad Jackson. The full blog you're reading is below, but I created PUMA Skills to teach guys how to use pick up artist magic tricks to break the ice with girls.To discover more about PUMA Skills, Magic and how to end world hunger (well, maybe the first two only)...
This Memorial Day I was at a wedding in Southern California and had some pretty keen inisghts into magic performance. The groom is one of my best friends and knows my penchant for performing. At the rehearsal dinner there were 20 people in a banquet room eating and socializing when the groom asked me to do some magic. He was building up the trick so much that the entire room wanted to see. I was on the spot. My history in performing magic has always been concentrated in performing for a single girl or very small group of people: 4-5 max. I’d never done anything for 20 people before, but I complied.
My heart began pounding in my chest because I was officially out of my comfort zone. This is how I usually feel when trying out an advanced trick that I just learned for even one person. Magic can be nerve-racking sometimes, but you have to push through any anxiety. After all, I was going to perform an effect I’m really good at.
So I did a trick where I cause $1′s to morph into $20′s right before their eyes in a seemingly impossible way. Everybody’s jaws hit the floor. I was a hit. Now of course, they all wanted more tricks. A couple teenage girls pulled out their own dollars and wanted me to do tricks with THEIR money. I had to play it off and get the attention off of that trick. But I didn’t want to act like the professional magician.
So I saw a pack of matches lying around and I grabbed them and said I’ll do a couple more. BUT THE PROBLEM was the angles of the audience. They were gathered around me in a crescent like shape. This trick (and a couple I did after) were somewhat “angle sensitive,” meaning that anyone standing to my side could easily see my method…and a couple of them did.
A magician’s worst fear is someone seeing how the trick is done and ruining it. Since I knew that a couple of them did see the method, once it was over I just looked at them and winked. All of a sudden they were in on the secret too…and fortunately for me, they kept the secret.
That was at the rehearsal dinner. For the rest of the night and at the entire wedding afterwards everybody was talking about my magic. They wanted me to work the tables at the reception and do the same tricks for everyone there. It was tempting because of the attention I received, but I resisted. I did a few more tricks for the pretty bridesmaids and a few others, but I held back repeating the same tricks too many times. It’s good to have an arsenal of PUMA Skills to in times like this.”Once is magic, twice is an education.”
Final point, people were talking about it all night and it only took a few tircks. The girls were asking me if that’s how I met my date that night, if I picked her up with magic (which it did happen to be). The kicker here is none of them know about PUMA Skills or that it’s an active part of my game. They simply found it so intriguing and obviously attractive that they “assumed” that I would use it to pick up girls. Give that statement a little bit of thought for a minute.
I wasn’t there to pick-up…I had a date. But I was the life of the party that night and everyone who saw me remembered me and talked about it. Every trick I did that night is inside PUMA Skills. I can teach anyone to do this.
