Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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OLD SCHOOL MAGIC - is a segment from my weekly Live Chat I do where I feature magicians from back in the day before things like social media etc that you perhaps have never heard of but have been big influences if not on me directly then for sure the art of magic and perhaps even entertainment in general.

This video's feature is Mahka Tendo!
*Unfortunately I couldn't find many details of his career in Japan, wish I had more info to share because as you can see the guy was unreal and amazing!

Tendo was a professional magician since the age of twenty-one. He specialize in performing with Jumbo Cards. He performed on a weekly television segment on NHK-TV.


Tendo died from cancer at the age of 49.


Creations: Card Roll-Down (1983)


Awards and honors:

- 1985 FISM 2nd prize in manipulation
- 1986 Desert Magic Seminar finalist.
- 1992 Grand Prix in Monte Carlo
- 1998 Best Technique Magician Of The Year
- 1999 Foster Baird Prize


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