Shin Lim's magic

[@kristophert541]

I really love what Shin has said, the most important thing about magic is not the secret, but how you present your act and make people believe that it is magic.

[@andybungert]

Absolutely! Even if I understood how an trick was done, I could never pull it off so it remains amazing.

[@RechtmanDon]

As a musician, I appreciate that according to that quote, I'm also a magician.

[@rhettzkie]

Fellow magicians of his buy his sets with tutorials on how to do his tricks and just give up because of the difficulty. So yea. The secret isn't important. The notes to sonatas by history's greatest composers are available everywhere on the Internet. That doesn't mean anyone can just play them. Takes a lot of work and dedication.

[@ZagnutBar]

I've studied a bit of magic and you quickly learn the difference between a trick that requires real skill and years of practice, and a trick that works by itself or with very little skill on the part of the magician. The thing is, a regular audience of non-magicians can't tell the difference between a trick that requires tons of skill, and one that doesn't, because the effect is the same. They walk away mystified whether the trick took years of practice or one week. When pro magicians appreciate your work you begin to understand and respect the people who have really put in the time to master what can be an extraordinarily difficult craft. That's why Penn and Teller Fool Us is a really interesting show. They know all the tricks in the book, so the people that fool them are the ones that have written their own books. I once saw a master sleight of hand magician do the cups and balls but with tiny walnut shells and a pea. (Beginner magicians do this trick with foam balls because they're much easier to handle and they compress down so it's easier to slip them under the cups without being seen). When you're working with walnut shells and a tiny pea, your margin for error is much greater. He did the classic routine, and any magician knows the principal. But he did it with such skill that even though I knew what was coming next, I saw just one of the dozens of sleight of hand moves. It didn't matter that I knew how it was done; it's really just a joy to watch a master at work.

[@macl4446]

true!! i was nodding my head in agreement while he was saying it. everybody can know your trick but nobody can do it as smooth and natural as him.

[@ddonlee]

His last statement is the reason why he is truly the master of his craft. That is the reason that makes Shin Lim stand out from the rest. Plus his charming personality.

[@helterskelter4every1]

I absolutely LOVE this guy!!! So glad he’s not trying to say the generic “it’s magic” bs. He has integrity, unlike idiots like Criss Angel- who seriously try to convince his fans that he has “real magic”. Love this guy!

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

Loved his comparison to playing Beethoven. What a cool guy 👍🏼👍🏼

[@eddjaytay11]

Exactly! A man who is so effortlessly charming, honest about his work, and

[@eddjaytay11]

Can describe himself with such simplicity and clarity should NEVER be shy, I became an instant fan within 60 seconds of him talking!

[@MrShinlimmagic]

Yes!

[@softsquishysuga]

100th like :)

[@eddjaytay11]

What a beautiful attitude Shin Lim has about his craft, and so wonderfully self described!... Not a big fan of magic, but definitely a fan of his now, what a charming man!

[@aneesackbarali5149]

Anyone can learn magic but only someone truly special can make it magical 🧚

[@Rhaspun]

He put in lots of practice. Not everyone will have the discipline to practice. I remember back around the late 90s. There was a blind guy who did card tricks. He said he filled up two toilet paper cases of used decks of cards while he was practicing. He said he could even feel the difference in weight of cards from a number card versus a court card.

[@glenm3712]

I have the greatest respect for Shin Lim both as a performer and an illusionist. Surely he is unequalled in our time?

[@wularry1298]

Wow...the closing remarks by Shin Lim is deep. No wonder he is succesful.

[@jiddick]

It's one of the reasons why he is at the top. He understands the essence of close up magic. I don't give two cents for understanding how it's done. How he is presenting the tricks is everything. No matter how many times I rewatch it.

[@g_pazzini]

stage performance is the most important thing

[@Paula_Limberg]

Just saw Shin live in Las Vegas last week. Great show! I'm a fellow classical musician, and this interview explains why I love his magic - he comes at it like a performance art that I'm familiar with. It's about the interpretation! 👍👍

[@DrVVVinK]

How is it seeing his card magic live? Are you in a small theater where you can see everything?

[@Paula_Limberg]

It’s great! You can appreciate the flourishes and get a perspective of everything going on in the stage environment. There are close-up cameras for the tabletop view or handheld view, and Shin is very aware of putting his face in the frame when that is important for the trick. So you have to look back and forth between the screen and the stage. They do great making the live show different, with participation and inviting people up on stage. Recommended!

[@itiszulu]

His last statement is the most magical of all... Wow!!

[@pikanoob]

What a chill dude. He was like genuinely surprised that someone would ask him if he pretended he was doing real magic

[@sooz9433]

Wow... what a great guy! Honest, humble and funny! He looks like magic to me!!❤

[@JohnKExp]

As a guy who also practices magic. It is Somewhat difficult to learn. But super satisfying once you get the techniques, and moves down. Well rewarding hobby.

[@amsav2718]

This young man was to be a concert pianist but got sick and had to leave school. He didn't quit he just keep practicing....... That is magic 🎉,💐

[@jonhohensee3258]

He didn't quite???

[@ddonlee]

* quit, u mean.

[@amsav2718]

@@ddonlee...thank you🤗

[@AprilD943]

Shin Lim is a true artist. Watching him perform is mesmerizing.

[@Spencer0090]

thats how you deal with all the haters and bashers!! Shin Lim totally different Class! "all of a sudden what comes out of the piano sounds like magic" "the point that they believe youre a magician"

[@rhettzkie]

Fellow magicians of his buy his sets with tutorials on how to do his tricks and just give up because of the difficulty. So yea. The secret isn't important. The notes to sonatas by history's greatest composers are available everywhere on the Internet. That doesn't mean anyone can just play them. Takes a lot of work and dedication.

[@jonhohensee3258]

The secret IS important.

[@maximvasilleyvich6060]

well said

[@nashnair498]

What a great answer. The magic is not in the secret. The magic is in the magician.

[@justjoan4010]

Love Shin Kim. So talented and brilliant.

[@BarbaraPauls]

Those last 40 sec on the video Shin Lim shares a live lesson: its not about the secret, its about how you perform it. That means, everybody can do anything, but its how you do it, that makes a difference. Thanks.

[@SlayerofFiction]

He's always maintained it is just tricks and magic is not real. SO wonderful to have people like himself, Penn and Teller to eliminate the hocus pocas and give us reality. What a wonderful performer, all of them. Thank you! Signed a crappy amateur magician :P

[@MikkoRantalainen]

It doesn't matter if you know the method, it's how you perform. Everybody knows there's some kind of trick involved but it *appears* like magic because of the performance.

[@Blondie42]

Always thrilled to see Shin

[@neriashleycabajar1985]

This guy won America's got talent!

[@rocko6439]

Even when you know how a trick is done, when you watch a master magician perform the trick, he pulls you into his world to be entertained. When the trick is over, you realized you forgot to watch his tricky moves.

[@KyleLe]

The general audience doesn’t care about the method. They care about their experience.

[@karlluigi1987]

The real magic is how SHINLIM keeps his hair up

[@corieddings5713]

He is awesome

[@EvanEraTV]

Okay wow, just realized the tutorial video he is watching in this is one of our episodes of How To Magic! ❤️ I’m honored!!

[@AmazingAsian]

Magic is real .....my dad still hasn't returned from his vanishing act

[@glnnchrstphr9717]

Wow! I'll have to check out his videos.

[@revy3458]

Great actor, too cute, intelligent that's Shin Lim..

[@ciachef14]

Some say that he is not from this planet. 😍😍😍

[@rayduenglish]

i love his hair

[@richtofenillingroth641]

Awesome 👏🏻

[@will6176]

Did they seriously just ask him to confirm that it's not real magic. Haha his puzzled look like wait, you actually want me to answer this?

[@Haryanto8899]

actually there are many young magicians/illusionists that much better than shin lim in terms of tricks, and many had appeared on AGT too. BUT, shin lim has this kind of vibe or aura that different from all of them. He is just that special.

[@drakedraven6961]

Yet they're all failed winning the competition. Shin Lim still only the magician that won both AGT, 2x Fool Us and FISM.

[@tomklevenstoussaintilluzto7627]

Just Whaou!

[@alsetalokin88]

i bet he doesn't care if other people recreate his tricks because he keeps innovating. plus, it's a compliment that people wanna copy your moves more than the other guys because it's fresh, hard and beautiful.

[@tysonhuanh4641]

I watched his show in vegas and Shin and Colin makes a great team. the show was great and I also did a meet and greet which was awesome. but hopefully in the future I can do another meet and greet but this time take a picture without the mask.

[@THEVICTORYFAMILY]

Shin lim is amazing

[@brucegelman5582]

No matter how many times people are told its a trick they want to believe it isn't.Strange creatures we are,yes?

[@Pititul]

Well said

[@reyrodriguez9709]

Magical

[@andrewwoan]

shin lim is a BEAST

[@lelandb1410]

3:59 That was a humorous video making fun of people who expose magic like his he did not reveal pretty much anything. RISE MAGIC rules

[@LiquidPaper4273]

Wow, they put a clip from rise magic suggesting that his magic was exposed in that video (for God's sake it was a satirical video 😂).

[@Baribrotzer]

Quite often, the "secret of magic" turns out to be boring and trite - not necessarily with Shin Lim, who is a sleight-of-hand artist of the highest order, but in many magicians' tricks. So there's two ways you can go if you want to still love magic: - You can make a point of staying part of the audience, of not learning how it's done, and continue to be mystified. That's what I decided to do. - Or you can do like Penn and Teller, and know a whole lot about what you're seeing, but appreciate the presentation, and the skill at executing standard techniques.

[@shapowlow]

True. That's why I think Shin Lim is an amazing performer. As an amateur magician, I have ideas on how he does his controls, passes and other sleights but watching how he does them is absolutely freaking mindblowing. It's exactly how he explained it: listening to music as an audience is great but listening to someone perfectly play a difficult piece you have also played before, makes it even more amazing.

[@mriolichalayhtuicha856]

VERY GOOD

[@blcksheepMUSIC101]

Class.

[@shuffleaccount1985]

YOUR SOOOOOO COOL !!!!! LOVE YA MAN !

[@davidkeys12]

thanks to him, I do card tricks.

[@Surferjo]

love it

[@jsmrh1496]

that's smart answer

[@crossoverbunchshow8793]

I remember in 2018 shin lim won americas got talent after he fooled penn and teller

[@screenmilk2381]

Yeaph, He's Mozart of Magician.

[@daniel6451]

Shin Lim is telling lies, that’s obviously MAGIC right?! 😆😂

[@joer8273]

His humility is refreshing bc he’s considered the best at his craft in his generation but he’s very low key about it (ironically fooling the incredibly arrogant vocal half of Penn and Teller.)

[@snake3837]

Wow. You got both things wrong.

[@joer8273]

@@snake3837 no shortage in this world of people pointing out what’s wrong without a shred of detail to back it up.

[@joaonogueira9694]

GOAT

[@rikupajari]

1:03. Damn I hated this part. "There's no real magic on this stage". It's like Shin has to confess that he isn't a demon or something. But the thing is, there IS magic on stage. To me (and many others), magic is not something that is like from Harry Potter books. To me, magic is an experience, a feeling. If you are watching something and it feels "magical", then it is magic. It can be anything, a magician performing a card trick, actor giving a well written monologue, a musician playing your favorite song live, a sun setting down behind the mountains... No, there's no "magic" as it might be understood from books or other media but there is _magic_ in the world. An experience, a moment, something that you experience. That's what magic should be now a days.

[@toletobriant9430]

Wow!

[@EvanDavid93]

Not magic just alien technology, he can do way more than he is showing.

[@samanthab1923]

Johnny Carson would have loved him 🌞

[@dreamsdreams9493]

Shin Lim who?? The card guy whose "illusions" rely on camera angles, edition cuts, magnets, glue, mechanical tables, and black velvet?? I have never seen him performing with and ordinary well-shufled deck. He is mere marketing.

[@markfish1113]

His sleight of hand fundamentals are at a high level even though he rely on gimmicks for his best routines. Many hours of training. The strength lies in manufacturing own gimmicks.

[@tafawaadridge837]

*You are just jealous*

[@ddonlee]

A person who achieves nothing will always belittle others. Talk is cheap. If u are not better than him, just shut the f#×÷ up.

[@JulieGraceImmink]

💎

[@3zlatnalava]

from old Lim son...

[@usingThaForce]

Damn why you got to hate the man

[@swayammishra6624]

I also do Magic on my yt channel.Shin Lim is my inspiration.Legend❤️

[@obedababio1758]

The price for this level of magic is ...your hair will always be messy.

[@dextereng3167]

I once produced something in my toilet bowl out of thin air…..

[@anonakkor9503]

nice :D :D :D did it worked? no hahahahaha :D :D :D and love his philosophy :D :D :D

[@littlekid3561]

WELL i can read his face and tell that he is lying, he is acctually a wizard!!!

[@IA100KPDT]

There will always be some religious freaks who will say this is demonic. 🤣

[@tan3037]

Just fyi, the video they showed exposing secrets was indeed a joke. Wish the editors had put more effort…

[@tomhanxs]

So apparently being able to change the card faces halfway and completely live on screen is just a trick? Definitely there’s more than just a physical tricks.

[@chaolong4246]

Common all his card tricks are already explained, it requires practices but just tricks, all has been revealed

[@rigobertohernandez2524]

I don't care wht anyone says. He made a pact with the devil. 👹👹👹

[@clutchmaster6000]

1:01 sus

[@dorkvader2673]

Shin Lim is a true master his Kung Fu is extremely strong but he should hookup with Dynamo yo.

[@ramonanetto8718]

impossible to do a magic at that close proximity...

[@igloozoo3771]

Yep people tend to prefer Asians that don't speak. Once we speak, the illusion that we are mysterious aliens from out of space is ruined. In entertainment, Asian Men seem to only become stars if they are self-deprecating comedians like Pat Morita, Bobby Lee, Ken Jeong or Karate Stars who don't have much lines to speak.

[@igloozoo3771]

@@KP-by4eu - I prefer Bobby Lee. Bobby isn't pretentious narcissist.

[@dilliardbiggs9980]

it's demon magic because there is No other way to do this..he is not a demon but he had admitted he is into the dark arts which is demon magic. look it up.

[@naymolamin7375]

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[@mike160785]

Honestly shin is grate at card magic but I find him boring

[@chrisratcliff7466]

Demon

[@sharonolsen6579]

I don't believe it.. I think it IS real MAGIC ! ** lol .. kidding... (mostly .. )

[@Aya-u3e4]

They must close the barber shop he cut his hair there or prosecuting him ,awful

[@jonhohensee3258]

I have to disagree with Shin. When you show how a trick is done you take a great deal of the power and appeal away from the performance.

[@ntertainme9615]

It's real magic, he sold his soul to the devil.

[@mikeywestside8509]

Maybe he should work some of his magic on his hair

[@zeus6662]

Jealous?

[@mikeywestside8509]

@@zeus6662 just a little bit 🤏🏼

[@fitnessdicinyourmouth1438]

Pretty dumb interview they’re going for the old school tv style editing. There’s a reason why it died I feel like people nowadays care about the person behind the trick I recommend bad friends episode or any interview with the guy

[@ImaDB69]

The cbs guy is so annoying

[@tafawaadridge837]

*Not to me*