Ok, time to get down to the nitty gritty of this bussiness. does anyone have any good net refrences or book refrences for crowd control and gather techniques or have any experience to share.

Iv noticed a trend, that i can't do more than one trick because people wont stick around for the next one. I do a small build up of kicking a stage ball up and catching it with my head, and i get a good reaction from the trick and a lot of the times if i deliver a hat line before i do it for a small crowd and ask for money after that one trick ill get more money than trying to transision into another trick where people just walk away.

happy to be paying my dues here, but in a while i want to be doing the peir 39 massive crowd, huge hat combo, or else what am i doing?

Im also keen to learn about other bits that i can learn, any good links on info on how to perform good sideshow stuff like the straight jacket escape and other things like that?

also, what about when you can't do fire? its pretty much a no brainer to draw a crowd with fire but when theres no fire its tricky.

any experience to share on how aggressive you can be with the crowd, iv heard a lot of street performers using pretty dirty jokes. any thoughts on kids in the audience and this k,ind of approach.

what a job! don't want another one so now im making a plan to make this my job and make sure i don't have to end up washing dishes or bussing tables.

thanks!
DEvin 'Jingo'