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Basic Chip Tricks

Ian describes carefully and in detail a number of beautiful and cool flourishes with chips. You are sitting at a blackjack table and you have won a stack of chips during the last plays. The dealer ran out of cards and has to shuffle his six decks, which

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Ian Kendall

2007-03-10

$14.00

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Ian Kendall
(March 1968 - )

After being inspired by Poz as a five year old, the young and inquisitive Ian learned what he described as "Boy's Own Magic" - the type of self working tricks that appears in the comic annuals in the seventies. Around the age of 17 he discovered sleight-of-hand hiding behind a small rocky outcrop and spent the next decade or so obsessively learning and practicing everything he could find. Thinking nothing of spending six or seven hours at a stretch working on something that would ultimately prove to be perfectly useless - it's the journey not the arrival that's important, dammit - Ian looked up one day to find that he had dropped out of University, joined and been thrown out of two magic circles, qualified as a commercial pilot just as all the airlines were going bust and spent six mind numbing months as an accounts clerk for a Crystal factory. But, he could muscle pass a coin over two feet vertically, so that was okay.

During this period, best described as the lowest, blackest, loneliest, saddest, darkest most depressingly desperate low part of that week salvation came when a friend asked him to fill in for a magician who couldn't make the Graduation Ball that year. Deep joy! And so it began.

Armed with a handful of rubber bands and a burning desire to ask the world about Gravity Ian started his magical journey to the worst cliché so far. It's all the usual stuff, working in restaurants where he honed his close up set, four years as a street performer where he honed (not again) what would become his cabaret set, gigs here there and everywhere and generally living the life.

Ian has racked up thirteen years continuous entry at the Fringe, but parenthood has curtailed his performing somewhat, moving from full time to part time status (and hating every minute of it).