Magician

Magician

Ed Sumner

15 Years Experience

Staffordshire, UK

Male, 28

I perform close up magic and stand up magic. I also run a children's magic company called Ready Steady Magic. You can find out more about me on YouTube! =P

As a professional magician and Member of the Magic Circle, I work hard to create incredible events.

Feel free to ask me whatever you wish and let me reveal the secrets of what I do (but not those secrets!)

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Last Answer on February 22, 2016

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there is a trick where you give someone a deck of cards in the box and they name any card and somehow the card they named is turned up right in the deck. What is the trick called and how do you do it?

Asked by Magic Sam almost 10 years ago

Sorry, I don't reveal secrets. If you seriously want to learn magic, then I suggest you buy a book and learn it the same way everyone else did. As with anything, it takes time and effort to master it.

How is the revelation mind reading trick done?

Asked by Deanamo almost 10 years ago

Sorry, I don't reveal secrets. If you seriously want to learn magic, then I suggest you buy a book and learn it the same way everyone else did. As with anything, it takes time and effort to master it.

I saw a simple trick in Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige". About 30 minutes in, we see the main character do a sleight of hand trick: He has a ball in one hand, waves his hand over it, and then the ball vanishes. How would one do this?

Asked by Chris over 9 years ago

Sorry, I don't reveal secrets (not even 'simple' ones). If you seriously want to learn magic, then I suggest you buy a book and learn it the same way everyone else did. As with anything, it takes time and effort to master it.

How often do magicians die while performing tricks / illusions, and is it a big deal around the global magic community when that happens?

Asked by COQ over 9 years ago

Good question. I don't have an exact answer. I guess that it's a bigger deal if the magician is famous within the magic community. One trick that does often get publicity, even when it's just set to be performed, is the bullet catch (where the magician tries to catch a fired bullet in their mouth). There are ways to perform the trick, of course, but working around guns and live ammunition is dangerous. 

Legend says that at least 12 magicians have died performing it. One magician had a 'safe' method but died simply because a stage hand used the 'wrong' gun. Another, Chung Ling Soo, is one of the most famous bullet catch deaths. He was an American magician who led everyone to believe he was Chinese. On stage, after being shot he spoke his first and last words, in English in public, ""Oh my God. Something's happened. Lower the curtain."

I am writing a story about the strange world of dreams. One character is a magician. What magic trick he should perform? I am searching for something extraordinary almost impossible, any ideas? Pretty please? I need inspiration!

Asked by Myrto over 8 years ago

As it's your creative output and I don't know anything about the rest of the story, I don't know if I should give an answer but if it's a dream then surely it can be actually impossible. I would go for, magician flips coin on the ground, when the coin lands it turns into a hippopotamus.

I'll take 10% of all royalties forwarded to me once a quarter. Thank you! =P

???? How long until I get a responce to my hole in the head question

Asked by illusion almost 10 years ago

Sorry, but I can't answer questions about specific tricks.

Whats my race?

Asked by Pepe over 8 years ago

Give the 400m hurdles a go.