Magic (Paige)

Cards, Dice, tricks, Optical illusionists gedazzle their audience! Magic is an amazing profession, it takes years to master.

While I was in summer camp, I got to interview a great magician, Rod Boss, he was teaching a magic camp. He told me that when he was 10 or 11, he performed a magic trick in his class. All his friends kept on asking “Rod, how did you do that?” He decided to keep on going with magic because he loved to the looks on people’s faces after he did a magic trick. When he was 20 years old he thought about becoming a professional magician; and he did become a professional magician! He has been practising magic for 39 years in total.

While I was interviewing some of his students I asked them to perform a magic trick. One girl named Isabelle showed me a magic trick where there were three cups and three pom-poms. She put a pom-pom on top of a cup and put her two other cups on top of the pom-pom. Somehow, she managed to get the pom-pom through the cup! It was so cool. Isabelle did the same trick to every pom-pom and in the end all the pom-poms fell through the cup.

Leah, another girl in the camp, showed me the Jiffy coin trick. It looked really hard.

At the end of the interview, Rod showed me the hardest magic trick of all, Jumping Cards. It was amazing! Rod fanned his playing cards in front of me. He gave me 13 of them. He reorganized his cards, and suddenly I had 16. He reorganized again and then I was holding 19! No wonder they call this camp amazing.

All in all, this camp is awesome, intense, cool, funky, funny and if you become so good at magic you may be able to take on Rod Boss.

More Amazing Magic for eight to 12-year-olds runs from Aug. 9 – 13. If you’re interested in magic camp, visit www.capilanou.ca/summercamps. Or call 604-984-4901 to register. Check it out!