Misdirection is the fine art of distracting the audience while you execute your 'secret move' without being spotted. Some think it is more than of import to acquire 100% right than your patter. After all, if you can misdirect well enough, your fast one can travel completely incorrect and the audience will never know!

It is indispensable to 'control' your audience's ideas and eyes - you should not give them the chance to believe "how makes he make that" or to see your elusive move.

This is easily accomplished on phase with careful usage of lighting, props, helpers and pyrotechnics. However, for the bulk of us, we necessitate to utilize misdirection when standing less than a meter away from the audience.

You can command the audience with a broad scope of techniques. Start by placement them in a suitable place. This is especially of import in fast ones where angles are important, such as as the Balducci Levitation. Once they are in a suitable position, you can start concentrating on the more than elusive word forms of misdirection.

Eye contact is indispensable - you should always supervise your audience - prolong oculus contact while you are doing 'your move' (so you can carry your move with perfect timing, knowing that they are looking at your eyes). If you believe person may see your move, do a bigger move with another portion of your organic structure - you may cough, scabies your face, moving ridge your magic wand, set something on the table... the listing is endless.

You can also misdirect the audience by allowing time from the 'secret move' to the point where the audience is made aware that something have happened. This is perfectly demonstrated in the Cross Cut Force

It is possible to develop your routine to include the necessary distractions. Try to believe of what would naturally be done at the time when you necessitate to misdirect. It would be stupid to flip a coin when doing a card manoeuvre, but tossing a coin would be natural if you are in the center of a coin routine. Once mastered, your routine should go forth the audience entertained by the magic you have got just performed, and the fact that they don’t cognize how it is done leaves of absence them mystified, thinking about your performance, and possibly, your adjacent performance!