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Follow-Up: Magician Touted as Secret Weapon

 

“You Can Hit the Birdy. Be the Birdy.”

The Herald of London’s Douglas Lowe looks closer into a story we reported last week in an article titled, “Mind magician casts a spell on timid Webster.”

Calling British stage and party magician Jamil Qureshi “The Professor Dumbledore,” the paper claims his powers “transformed the mouse-like, perennial runner-up Webster into believing he is voracious winner Severiano Ballesteros in his prime.”

The 36-year-old non-golfing magician uses NLP, neuro-linguistic programming, both on stage and in his private sessions with athletes like Mr. Webster. On stage he uses NLP to put “‘people into a trance and do amusing things on stage, he also hypnotizes his golfing clients and plants thoughts in the same way. Qureshi describes his work as navigating the gaps between perception and reality and added: ‘The key with Steve was self-belief. He needed to absolutely believe he could do it.'”

Plus, the pay has got to be better helping someone win the European Title versus turning eager college students into chicken and strippers.

The paper notes Mr. Qureshi is not on the same level with most of us blue-collar magicians. He “does nothing crass like cutting people in half. He explained: ‘The magic I do is very similar to what I do with golfers. It is psychological magic. You can entertain with it or try to do some good.'”

Mr. Qureshi gave an example of NLP at work, Muhammad Ali used phrases like “I am the greatest”, he went on, simply reaffirmed that same kind of super confidence that he is trying to instill in his clientele.”

Okey Dokey.

In magic circles, it is considered rude for a magician member of the audience to perform tricks for his or her friends. In the carnival world, we were taught, you never call another man’s con. We’re assuming, though, not many world champion-caliber golfers read Inside Magic. So we feel some liberty to applaud Mr. Qureshi’s discovery of how to make money with magic.

We forgive the dig at those of us who depend on “box tricks” or cut things in half. He needs to make his talent seem unique and worthy of the $1,000 a session we imagine he charges. Plus, think of the tips you pick up when your golfer or athlete wins. This is genius. No more balloon animals, pi?ata remnants in our hair, awkward moments asking for our check. We just remind people they should be confident.

Genius. Look for our new book, DVD, and 8-Track series, “Be the Best Badminton Player You Can Be.” We decided to start small and get our routine perfected before moving up to the higher profile sports.

 

“You Can Hit the Birdy. Be the Birdy.”

The Herald of London’s Douglas Lowe looks closer into a story we reported last week in an article titled, “Mind magician casts a spell on timid Webster.”

Calling British stage and party magician Jamil Qureshi “The Professor Dumbledore,” the paper claims his powers “transformed the mouse-like, perennial runner-up Webster into believing he is voracious winner Severiano Ballesteros in his prime.”

The 36-year-old non-golfing magician uses NLP, neuro-linguistic programming, both on stage and in his private sessions with athletes like Mr. Webster. On stage he uses NLP to put “‘people into a trance and do amusing things on stage, he also hypnotizes his golfing clients and plants thoughts in the same way. Qureshi describes his work as navigating the gaps between perception and reality and added: ‘The key with Steve was self-belief. He needed to absolutely believe he could do it.'”

Plus, the pay has got to be better helping someone win the European Title versus turning eager college students into chicken and strippers.

The paper notes Mr. Qureshi is not on the same level with most of us blue-collar magicians. He “does nothing crass like cutting people in half. He explained: ‘The magic I do is very similar to what I do with golfers. It is psychological magic. You can entertain with it or try to do some good.'”

Mr. Qureshi gave an example of NLP at work, Muhammad Ali used phrases like “I am the greatest”, he went on, simply reaffirmed that same kind of super confidence that he is trying to instill in his clientele.”

Okey Dokey.

In magic circles, it is considered rude for a magician member of the audience to perform tricks for his or her friends. In the carnival world, we were taught, you never call another man’s con. We’re assuming, though, not many world champion-caliber golfers read Inside Magic. So we feel some liberty to applaud Mr. Qureshi’s discovery of how to make money with magic.

We forgive the dig at those of us who depend on “box tricks” or cut things in half. He needs to make his talent seem unique and worthy of the $1,000 a session we imagine he charges. Plus, think of the tips you pick up when your golfer or athlete wins. This is genius. No more balloon animals, pi?ata remnants in our hair, awkward moments asking for our check. We just remind people they should be confident.

Genius. Look for our new book, DVD, and 8-Track series, “Be the Best Badminton Player You Can Be.” We decided to start small and get our routine perfected before moving up to the higher profile sports.

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