Magic Consultation, Freaking Out Spectators, Dealing With Hecklers & More! | Q&A With Craig Petty

[@1581davis]

Hello Craig, the Q&A's are one of my favourites so much excellent info. Hope you haven't forgotten Aldo Colombini's Oil & Water known as Italian Dressing. I have shown to a few people and they have been very excited. As always thanks for all you do. We support you all the way. Regards

[@KPMagicianATL]

Hey, Craig! Not a question but I just got my Infinity deck in the mail. I was a bit bummed to only find 4.5 hours of tutorial and not 17 hours but it’ll have to do 🤷🏻‍♂️😂 Excited to learn the material and find new ways of using it. Thanks and shout out to Lloyd too!

[@y0uri0]

Hey Craig, how're you doing? I have 3 questions I hoped you could answer for me. 1: do you have any tips or ideas on what to do with old decks that are collecting dust in my drawer aside from practising torn and restored effects? 2: I've been hooked on this podcast lately that you might've heared of before. Its called: "Desert Island Tricks". They constantly invite big names magicians and I was wondering if you'd ever consider joining the podcast for an episode because I'm dying to know what tricks you'd pick! 3: do you know any good sources to learn Pickpocketing and do tricks with pickpocketing? Anyways thank you for all the effort you always give to the community and for the amazing videos every week!

[@Davidblaine18]

Waiting for mental photography performances!

[@stubatman3103]

Not a question more of a video request be great to see a video on how good was tommy cooper at actual magic :)

[@robbymayer5987]

I love that you talked about assisted living and dementia patients. Thabks Craig for all your awesome advice!

[@davidw465]

Hey ! Great advice on the corporate gigs... thank you. A question for this week.... Ive had a residency for the past 3 months. Magic has gone down a storm but the restaurant could be doing more to let people know i am going to be there. They told me at my last gig they want to "take a break" over the summer and bring me back at xmas when busy. They have recently laid off thrir bar manager because they cant afford to pay him, im worried they are wanting to move me on but just being polite!! Ive had great footage, reviews and leads from this residency so would be sad to lose it and also dreading the slog of getting a new one set up ! Maybe a sign of the times?? Any advice would be welcome 🙏

[@michaelworsham2724]

Thanks Craig. If you can remember the second thing that you were going to say about Rubreaks Cube, please let us know. Was it maybe that the Rubreaks cube is stickerless, and does not look like an RD Cube? I did it today for the first time, and the audience member grabbed the cube a little earlier than I wanted, so make sure they don't grab it until you are ready.

[@ianwalton389]

Hi Craig, great video as always - it is what Sundays were made for 🙂 I have the Orphic+, FPS Wallet, FPS purse and a Quiver+ and love them all, but I have a distinct feeling that you combined with Alakazam combined with the Land of Leather could be the recipe for the greatest wallet and purses of all time! Have you ever thought about creating your own (further to the Apparition purse) - I would love to see what your devious and genius mind could come up with! In your video you are always searching for something but not sure what it is - perhaps it is a bit of Craig Petty magic that is missing! Brown leather all the way and you would get my pennies immediately 🙂 !!

[@bkstudio1990]

The bill in lemon you said is Doc Easons is actually Steve Spills. Doc Eason actually credits Steve in video. I like both magicians

[@mbcx9ts2]

Hi Craig What would do if you were unable to read what someone had written on a billet after trying to peak the word using a centre tear, the billet is now torn up to make it look like they aren't part of the method. Tom

[@DillonWilliamsMagic]

Hi Craig, thanks for answering my questions in the last video! For this week what advice would you give when it comes to performing magic for festivals or fairs? Also, if you have to perform outside how do you deal with the humidity and high temperatures? For example, I find it very difficult to perform magic with playing cards because they get very sticky. I found out really quickly that coins, sponge balls, ropes, mentalism, and even rubik’s cubes work great when it comes to high temperatures. Thanks!

[@JamesHigroundMagic]

To elky, about self esteem. - magic is for everyone, but if it were easy everyone would do it. So if you're doing it.. You by definition are not shit. I struggle too with validating myself, or accepting compliments. It helps me to think of what I show to others as my gift to them... Phrase it that way "could I gift you with some magic?" or "share this magic with you? ' and then allow their (most likely) positive reaction and feedback to be focused on - validating you-, instead of that juvenile ego voice in your head trying to convince you to give up. Let the audience inform your skill level, not your critical inner monolog. Just My take on that same situation ❤

[@nicmagic]

Hi Craig! I hope you’re well and recovered from the late-night-QnA at Blackpool!😊 I have 2 questions: 1. In love the solid cup! But TCC only sells the brass cup. And as I got the silver cups last year- do you know a source, where to find a silver solid cup? I seem to be unable to find one at the big dealers (Penguin, Vanishing, Alakazam etc.) 2. You mentioned to do another “how to deal with hecklers”- video. As you already gave your advice, I would like a kind of 5x5 or talk magic of some of your friends/ netrix-instructors, how they deal with hecklers, eg Nemed Phoenix, Wayne Goodman etc. Get them to tell a story or their experience, how they dealt with the issue. Yeah - maybe that’s a lot to be asked, but it would be great a cause you are all awesome!!!! But the issue is: the hecklers get more these days or more pronounced, don’t know why… Thanks for your work as always Cheers from Germany Nic

[@AndyPut94]

Hey Craig Messaged you again on messenger I wont give up! And i saw that last week my name was Jake according to you, i wont blame you because you looked very tired and still did the Q&A, i respect that! Now some musical questions : 1. What do you think is the perfect EDC for in your pockets at a music festival (as a visitor of the festival) to show some organic magic trick? For Example I have an orphic+ but don't want to carry a sharpie with it at a music festival. The festival is working with theyre own square coins if that helps. Do you have a recommandation for a pure EDC trick thats standard to have in your pockets at such an ocassion. 2. Do you know any tricks with music? I know equalizer and like it very much! I also have the book : The Magic of Jonathan Friedman: The Musical What is an amazing book that no one talks about unfortunatly But do you have some more tricks about music? Keep doing the good work Craig! And message me back please. Kind regards, Andy

[@adriansuter3354]

Hi Craig, I am a huge fan of Morgan and West, not only their shows, but also their teaching, especially on character work. They have announced that they will stop touring together and pursue non magical solo careers. So sad! Can you recommend another magician who did a penguin live or something similar focussing on character work?

[@StevenBanksOnlineMarketing]

Hey Craig. As always, keep up the great work. I am a magician from South Africa who has a small kids entertainment agency that I want to expand. Besides being on the waiting list, how can I improve my chances to get a spot in the coveted gold level membership? What you have done with Non-Stop Kids is something I am striving for! Thanks again for all you do.

[@johnrice773]

Any chance you could start doing the Hidden Gems segments again?

[@Ck_magic]

Hey Craig! I am a full time Rubik’s cube magician but I can’t seem to justify a paper bag for my Rubik’s cube acts. I do a nest of boxes and solves with paper bags so how do I justify them? Thanks!

[@grgryl]

Hi Craig, do you do a 'Which hand' effect where you identify which hand the spectator is holding a coin? If so, what is your favorite version of this effect and why?

[@michae1.wan.magician]

Lol that's Sydney, come to Melbourne!!

[@keithrunion]

Could matt use tricolour for his murder mystery routine but just use the red sharpie with a black lid then several other regular black sharpies? Just a thought and super stoked for season 3.

[@Noel-Overlea]

Hey Craig My question is about the effect Triumph. When it comes to the reveal of the spectators card, would you say the effect is stronger when their card appears face up in the face down spread or their card appears face down in a face up spread? Or how bout just after you show the deck in the mess that it is, you give the spectator a choice by asking face up or face down? And proceed with the reveal? Thanks for all that you do for the magic community.

[@mickanderson4274]

Hi Craig, do you use any other coin sets other than your own eg nightshade, mirage ? Have you seen anything with the smoon set by mark Mason ? Is it a one trick coin set ? Thanks again all the best 👍🏻

[@davekaryadi32]

Hey craig thanks for answering my question sometime back on keymaster and coins across structuring and thanks to you now im using some of the ideas you gave me. My question for this week would be how would you explain the finding of words and colours on Chroma such that it is easy to understand because sometimes people dont know what they should do because there is word of the colour and the colour itself which is confusing.

[@StevenBlair]

Been thinking of ways to generate a reaction after you have left a table/group. So essentially a magical moment happens when you aren’t around. Have you came across any tricks like this?

[@jonahberg9280]

Do you have the collected works of Alex elmsley and what do you think of it

[@jonahberg9280]

Do you think the most impressive card tricks you can do is with an ordinary deck of cards ? Because I feel like people can tell when your using a gaff deck because they can’t shuffle the cards or your maybe handling them weirdly

[@jonahberg9280]

Do you have a full set of bascom jones magick ? And why do the collectors workshop charge so much for it ?

[@dvishanmagician]

Have you ever done tricks like silk to egg, 20th century Phatom, too hot to handle ect and someone’s said I’ve seen this before on bgt. If so what was a funny answer you gave

[@jonahberg9280]

Do you think Theo Annemann the jinx magazine will ever be reprinted ?

[@HugovanAmersfoort]

Hi Craig, you're not shit, just honest. We're all shit, some of us just make more effort hiding it. And if I had a magic company I would gladly accept you as the face of the company. And I guess Peter Nardi already does so without actually advertising it.

[@mickanderson4274]

Sorry I ment to ask what you thought of Jack Rhodes on the final of bgt, real shame he didn’t win

[@jonahberg9280]

When are you gonna do the next love and hate review where you talk about what you love and hate in magic at the moment you haven’t done it in a while

[@jonahberg9280]

Since your a friend of penguin magic and they have the right to mind myth and magick by ta waters could you possibly ask them to reprint it

[@dvishanmagician]

Can you do a full review on that escalated quickly by Harpan ong downlaod

[@dvishanmagician]

I have an idea of doing a linking rings matrix where the rings teleport from 4 corners like a coin matrix but they link as they join. Because i havent taught of a method with moving them well withouth exposing the hole and double flat on the table yet but its seems like a really cool idea that i want to somehow make work. So Can you maybe do a creative process trying to make this possible