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今年FISM冠军Rick Merrill 的获奖感言
I became a hard core magic guy in 10th grade. I had
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always been interested in magic as my dad was a hobbyist
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and had a ton of stuff so I had grown up around it. But in the 10th grade %x ~
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I went to my first magic convention and was hooked from there on out.
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Sleight-of-hand has always held the most interest for me. My dad had every small box trick on the market and I remember thinking that anybody could do that stuff. I wanted to do stuff with normal objects that would destroy people. I started doing paid shows as a freshman in college (1994) and it gave me money all through college. Since that time I went from doing strictly close up to performing a 40 minute stand up comedy magic act as well as close up. I perform more stand up now for my corporate gigs than I do close up. )H%S kE P
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I've performed for groups of from ten and to over a thousand before. In college I was flying on British Airways with my college soccer team from Russia to England. I started doing card tricks for the flight attendants back in the galley and in an act of appreciation, they arranged with the pilots for me to sit in the cockpit for the last 20 minutes of the flight. I was the envy of my team as I sat in the cockpit as we flew into Heathrow at night.
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I've performed in Mexico, Russia, England, Canada and the U.S. I'll be flying to France next year to participate in a magic convention in the French Riveria. :eI ^ms
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I enjoy making people laugh just as much, if not more, than fooling them. There are many magicians out there who aren't very entertaining and there are certainly entertainers out there who aren't magicians. I'm striving to be the complete package, both entertaining and magical. d/I*wy] P"C0FC
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When I'm not performing, I enjoy working on new magic effects and spending time with my wife and young son. I still consider getting my wife to marry me the best magic trick of all.
