This was one of the highlights for me that I was looking forward to, an I dont think anyone was disappointed.

Starting by doing the ‘fan clapping’ to build up the crowd, Jeff stated that this lecture would not contain any tricks.

It was a great insight into what Jeff feels is important for all of us to do, to create true magic.

One thinkg he did talk about was how we was ‘always ready for magic’ and how being always ready made a difference between ‘having an act, and being a magician’

Jeff had purposely kept seats in the audience free, to demonstrate a method of being able to create ‘engery’ in the audience, standing on a chair, involving, and going into areas of the audience to keep them interested and ‘alive’. These sections of the lecture were for me extremely interesting, useful, and I believe everyone found it that.

Jeff also worked through his ‘Vortex/revolutions’ Dancing cane, showing how simplfying the methods allowed for him to work more on the entertainment than the method, in fact he mentioned at great length about how pauses could kill a performance, or in actual words ‘Thinking can kill your act’ in that when we perform ‘above our ability’, we risk performance by having pauses and thinking where we struggle to do the effect well (either without enough practise, or skill)

Jeff also went through the idea of ‘gifting magic’ performing very simple effects for anyone you meet, including taxi drivers, or porters, being able to create a simple effect for them to ‘gift’ either money, or an object in a magical way.

When Jeff speaks, its a very very good idea to listen, his experience is huge, and it is clear he’s learned well from every moment of his life in magic.

Jeff finished with his card shooting, spinning and flying cards the length and height of the Spanish Hall (which is a 600 seater room), and then explaining the best methods for spinning, shooting and bouncing cards.

A really special lecture, and as I’ve notice so far today, much more fun, tounge in cheek, and playful than yesterdays lectures. The tone of the lectures today have been much more ‘playful’, and I think really what a convention should be, magicians talking to other magicians, and having fun doing it.