<p>When I lived out in Los Angeles I signed up for magic classes at the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.magiccastle.com/">Magic Castle</a> with a friend of mine (howdy matt if you're reading this). Our instructor was the legendary <a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomogden.com/">Tom Ogden</a> and there was a class of about 10 others. We'd go in once a week and perform things we learned the week prior. We worked on coins, cards, props, and even pyrotechnics and at the end of the three months we would do a show with other professional magicians and for regular audience members themselves. I remember being quite nervous, as was everyone else, of messing up a trick, giving away the cue early, or simply dropping all the cards when shuffling them. Teaching many classes for several years, Tom understood this well and like a good teacher had a cue to help with this. He performed a card trick twice for the class to share the lesson. The first time fast, the second time more naturally. The second was clearly much better and the lesson he told us was: "Don't rush if no one is chasing you."</p>


When I lived out in Los Angeles I signed up for magic classes at the [Magic Castle](http://www.magiccastle.com/) with a friend of mine (howdy matt if you're reading this). Our instructor was the legendary [Tom Ogden](http://www.tomogden.com/) and there was a class of about 10 others. We'd go in once a week and perform things we learned the week prior. We worked on coins, cards, props, and even pyrotechnics and at the end of the three months we would do a show with other professional magicians and for regular audience members themselves. I remember being quite nervous, as was everyone else, of messing up a trick, giving away the cue early, or simply dropping all the cards when shuffling them. Teaching many classes for several years, Tom understood this well and like a good teacher had a cue to help with this. He performed a card trick twice for the class to share the lesson. The first time fast, the second time more naturally. The second was clearly much better and the lesson he told us was: "Don't rush if no one is chasing you."