The beast impromptu magic

[charleychacko]

First you can learn a lot of impromptu magic from books you can find in any book store under "hobbies" most of the magic books you will find there will be books about party magic (which usually is impromptu in it's nature), My first magic book was a birthday present, it was a big hard cover books called "Magic for all ages" (in Hebrew of course^^), and that’s where I learned my first magic tricks and slights from, and all the tricks there where with things you can find any where, and needed little to no preparation. Also you can look for impromptu magic books in magic shops, but for a lot more money.

Personally I learned most of my impromptu "arsenal" from the Tom Mullica's impromptu magic DVD, you won't find a lot of card tricks there (though the ones that are there are really good), but you will find that at least 80% of the material there, is so simple and practical you couldn't help yourself not doing them the next time you are in a party/bar/restaurant etc.

"On the spot" by Gregory Wilson is also rather good, but I find a lot of the routines there to be too long and more of an "act" then a "show me a fast trick", which does make them less practical in a party situation for example, but rather good if you are asked to put on a short show without you being prepared for it, but on that case I would go to an impromptu card magic act.
I haven't seen Sankey's "Anytime, Anywhere" but it's probably great just like the rest of his material.

Now for card magic, basically everything will do, most card tricks you will find on books and DVDs will only require a simple deck of cards, and maybe a duplicate card at most. But the most important thing is that when you have the knowledge in card magic and slights you will be able to create your own routines and even to improvise routines, if you are a beginner go and buy Royal Road to Card Magic like Katrielalex said. Personally I wouldn't suggest you to buy "born to perform" instead of it unless you find it easier to learn from a video then from reading a book.