🌎 ENGLISH We just reached 100 members inside Ruiz Magic Academy — and I want this milestone to mark the beginning of something new. ✨ As the Academy continues to grow, I want every member of this community — whether Standard or Premium — to have access to strong educational foundations that can help them grow as magicians and performers. That is why I am beginning a new FREE educational series for all Ruiz Magic Academy members: MAGIC BEYOND TRICKS — FOUNDATIONS This course will be released gradually, one Foundation at a time. The focus will not be on teaching individual tricks or secret methods. Instead, we will study many of the principles that I believe are essential for anyone who wants to move beyond simply knowing magic and begin developing as a complete performer: 🎩 Repertoire 🎭 Show structure ✨ Artistic development 🎥 Practice and rehearsal 👥 Performance experience 🎬 Stage presence 📚 Organization and preparation And today, we begin with: Foundation 01 — Be Ready When Opportunity Comes If the opportunity you have been waiting for arrived tomorrow… would you be ready? ✨ There is a big difference between knowing magic and being truly ready to perform magic. We can study techniques, books, methods and lectures for years and still discover that, when someone suddenly asks us for 15, 30 or 60 minutes of performance material, we do not actually have it prepared. That is where this Foundation begins. 🎩 In this class, we talk about transforming knowledge into real performance material: ✨ Learning while building repertoire 🎭 Turning techniques into complete routines 🎵 Thinking about presentation, music and structure 🎥 Recording and analyzing your work 👥 Testing material in front of real audiences 🔄 Refining it until it becomes something you can truly perform We also explore something I consider extremely important: Question what you learn. That includes what I teach you. Adapt techniques to your own hands, body and character. Experiment. Search for better solutions.

🌎 ENGLISH Today, Ruiz Magic Academy reached its first 100 members. 🎉 For some, 100 may simply be a number. For me, it represents 100 people who decided to become part of this Academy while it is still being built — lesson by lesson, idea by idea, and step by step. 🎩✨ You are not joining a finished library. You are part of a growing international community of magicians who want to study, practice, create, share ideas, and continue evolving together. 🌎🪄 To every person who joined, watched a lesson, asked a question, shared an idea, practiced something I taught, or simply trusted this project: Thank you. 🙏✨ You are The Founding 100 — the first 100 members of Ruiz Magic Academy — and you will always be part of the beginning of this journey. 💯 From Parasol Magic ☂️, stage technique, manipulation and visual magic, to creativity, theory, professional tools and everything still to come — we are building this Academy together. There is still so much to build, teach, learn, practice and create. And we are only getting started. ✨ Study · Practice · Create · Evolve Roger Ruiz ✦ ───────────────── ✦ 🌎 ESPAÑOL Hoy, Ruiz Magic Academy alcanzó sus primeros 100 miembros. 🎉 Para algunos, 100 puede ser simplemente un número. Para mí, representa a 100 personas que decidieron formar parte de esta Academia mientras todavía la estamos construyendo — clase por clase, idea por idea y paso a paso. 🎩✨ No están entrando a una biblioteca terminada. Están formando parte de una comunidad internacional de magos que sigue creciendo, con el deseo de estudiar, practicar, crear, compartir ideas y continuar evolucionando juntos. 🌎🪄 A cada persona que entró, vio una clase, hizo una pregunta, compartió una idea, practicó algo que enseñé o simplemente confió en este proyecto: Gracias. 🙏✨ Ustedes son The Founding 100 — los primeros 100 miembros de Ruiz Magic Academy — y siempre formarán parte del comienzo de esta historia. 💯 Desde Parasol Magic ☂️, técnica escénica, manipulación y magia visual, hasta creatividad, teoría, herramientas profesionales y todo lo que todavía está por venir — estamos construyendo esta Academia juntos.

Questions · Practice · Feedback 🌎 ENGLISH Now that we have expanded Trouser Work & Loops with new photo references, construction details and additional loop refinements, I want to create a dedicated space for your questions and practice. If you are currently working on this section of Lesson 01, tell me: Have you started building your trouser setup? Are you having any difficulty with the loaders, measurements or placement? Have you tested the loops yet? Did you discover any adjustment that works particularly well for you? You are welcome to share photos of your practice, ask questions or simply tell us how the process is going. Some of the new material we just added came directly from questions and ideas shared by students, so please keep participating. Your experience may help another student — and your questions also help me understand what I should explain more clearly. Let’s keep studying and improving the work together. ☂️ Study · Practice · Create · Evolve — Roger Ruiz ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌎 ESPAÑOL Preguntas · Práctica · Feedback Ahora que hemos ampliado Trouser Work & Loops con nuevas fotografías de referencia, detalles de construcción y nuevos refinamientos para las lazadas, quiero dejar un espacio específico para sus preguntas y prácticas. Si están trabajando actualmente esta parte de Lesson 01, cuéntenme: ¿Ya comenzaron a fabricar su pantalón? ¿Están teniendo alguna dificultad con los cargadores, las medidas o su ubicación? ¿Ya probaron las lazadas? ¿Descubrieron algún ajuste que les esté funcionando especialmente bien? Pueden compartir fotografías de su práctica, hacer preguntas o simplemente contarnos cómo les está yendo con el proceso. Parte del nuevo material que acabamos de añadir nació precisamente de preguntas e ideas compartidas por alumnos, así que continúen participando. Su experiencia puede ayudar a otro estudiante, y sus preguntas también me ayudan a entender qué cosas debo explicar con mayor claridad. Sigamos estudiando y mejorando juntos. ☂️

🌎 ENGLISH First of all, I want to thank you. Ruiz Magic Academy is a new project being built from the ground up, and those of you who are here today are literally watching it grow from its earliest stage. You are the first members of this Academy, and that means something very special to me. I appreciate your trust, your patience and your willingness to be part of something that is still being created, organized and improved. I also want to explain more clearly what Premium, The Art of Parasol Magic, and Ruiz Magic Academy as a whole will become. ☂️ The Art of Parasol Magic is not a finished course It is not one video lesson, and it is not a closed course with a fixed number of classes already waiting inside a library. It is a complete training program that will continue growing progressively. I have accumulated many years of material, techniques, methods, ideas and professional experience with parasols. My goal is not simply to upload that material. My goal is to organize it, structure it pedagogically and teach it in a way that allows one principle to prepare you for the next one. That is why we began with the Foundations: Umbrella Vocabulary · Precise Handling · Visual Angles · understanding the parasol as a magical object · preparation · control · awareness. Now Lesson 01 is available, and this is where the deeper technical work begins with loops, trouser work, loading systems, preparation, methods and techniques. I have already begun working toward Lesson 02, and there is still an enormous amount of Parasol Magic material ahead. But Parasol Magic is only one part of what I want this Academy to become. 🎩 What we will study over time There are many areas I want to develop progressively inside Ruiz Magic Academy: 🃏 Card Productions & Manipulation — including original productions, techniques and ideas I have developed over the years. 🕊️ Dove Magic — handling, productions, concealment, practical experience and professional stage work. 🎩 Topit Work & Loading Systems — including Topit techniques, sleeve work and other practical methods of loading and concealment.

🌎 ENGLISH ☂️ COMING IN JUST A FEW DAYS — PARASOL MAGIC · LESSON 01 I’m now in the final stages of editing the first full Lesson of The Art of Parasol Magic — Season One. And this one is becoming much bigger than I originally expected. The first part alone is already around 50 minutes, and I still have the second part to finish, so Lesson 01 is shaping up to be an approximately two-hour—or longer—masterclass. 🎬☂️ This is where we begin moving beyond the Foundations and into the actual technical work of Parasol Magic. Inside Lesson 01, we will study subjects including: ☂️ Trouser Work & Loading Principles 🪢 Loops and preparation ✨ Silk Cane Parasol — Ruiz Trouser Method ✨ Silk Loops to Parasol — Ruiz Trouser Method ✨ Silk Cane Parasol — Ruiz Sleeve Method 🪶 Feather Cane Parasol — Ruiz Sleeve Method ☂️ Silk Cane Parasol — Torres Method ⚡ Ruiz Double Step Technique …and much more. This is not being prepared as a quick explanation of a few tricks. My goal is to break down the handling, preparation, loading, timing and technical details that make these methods practical for real performance. I’m finishing the editing now. 🎬 Only a few more days. The Art of Parasol Magic — Lesson 01 is almost here. ☂️✨ 💬 Which part are you most curious to study first — Trouser Work, Loops, Sleeve Work, or the Double Step Technique? Tell me in the comments. 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌎 ESPAÑOL ☂️ EN SOLO UNOS DÍAS — PARASOL MAGIC · LESSON 01 Ya estoy entrando en la etapa final de edición de la primera Lesson completa de The Art of Parasol Magic — Season One. Y esta clase está terminando siendo mucho más grande de lo que imaginé inicialmente. Solamente la primera parte ya está alrededor de los 50 minutos, y todavía me falta terminar de editar la segunda. Por eso, Lesson 01 está tomando forma como una masterclass de aproximadamente dos horas o incluso más. 🎬☂️ Aquí es donde comenzamos a dejar atrás las Foundations para entrar directamente en el trabajo técnico de Parasol Magic.