Ryan Hayashi

Ryan Hayashi (born May 28, 1973 in Dunnville , Canada ; real name Ryan Lam ) is a Canadian magician . He is known in public as a Japanese because of his stage character.

Life

He came into contact with the art of magic at a young age, and since 1981, at the age of eight, pursued the goal of a magician and mentalist . At nine he began training in martial arts. After graduating from high school, he began studying French and Linguistics in 1992 at Carleton University in Ottawa , where he spent the next five years. There he also took up his traditional Shotokan training . For the following two years (1998 to 2000) he worked in Tokyo , Japan, as an English lecturer and trained among the world's highest-ranking masters at the world headquarters of the Japan Karate Association . In 2000 he moved to Mannheim , Germany for personal reasons , where he still teaches English at the University of Mannheim .

In the meantime he has made a name for himself as a mentalist and magician in Germany and some parts of Europe. He was seen as "Hayashi" in the German, Dutch and Turkish Uri Geller Show . In 2010 he performed his samurai martial arts on Britain's Got Talent and Das Supertalent . He reached the semi-finals, but was not voted into the final by the spectators.

Career

After living in Germany for a year, he took part in his first magic championship in 2001: the preliminary decisions for the German championships. With this he paved the way into the European world of magic. A year later, in 2002, the second competition followed, this time the German Championships . With the fourth place he took a placement, which was not yet sufficient to qualify for the FISM World Championships.

In the following years from 2003 to 2005 he took part in 16 competitions worldwide in five different languages, including the SAM European Championships in Magic, thus winning the unofficial title of “European Champion in Magic”. Furthermore, he was in the program again at the German Championships in 2005. The effort and the gathering of experience had paid off. Because this time he took first place in card magic and second place in micromagic . So there was nothing to prevent a qualification for the FISM World Championships 2006 in Stockholm. There he made it into the top 5 in the salon magic category and top 10 for micromagic. In 2007 he won the audience award at the IBM Gold Cups National Championships USA. In addition to competitions, he also gained experience at various appearances, including at the Magic Circle in London, at the Wizard's Inn in Tokyo, at the 4F Congress in Batavia, New York (US), at the British IBM in Eastbourne and at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. In 2008 he made it to German, Turkish and Dutch television with the Uri Geller Show. He was particularly successful in the Netherlands and missed the title by 0.2 percent. In 2018 he appeared in Penn & Teller: Fool Us and won an appearance in support of their show in Las Vegas.

Awards

In his work as a magician, he has so far participated in 24 major competitions in a total of five languages ​​around the world. Most of his performances ended successfully:

• 1st place in card magic at the Swiss Championships, 2003
• 1st place in card magic at the Austrian Championships, 2003
• 1st place in card magic at the Italian Championships, 2003
• 1st place in the MacMillan International Magic Competition in London, 2003
• 1st place in card magic at the French Championships, 2004
• "Award of Merit" at the MacMillan International Magic Competition in London, 2004
• 1st place in card magic and 2nd place in micromagic at the German Championships, 2005
• 1st place in stage magic at the IBM Cup Germany, 2005
• 1st place in micromagic at the SAM European Championships, 2005
• 4th place in salon magic and 7th place in micromagic at the FISM World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
• "The Peoples' Choice Award", IBM US Championships in Reno, Nevada, 2007
• 1st place in micromagic at the German Championships, 2008

Web links

• Hayashi's homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ryan Hayashi. Retrieved February 10, 2019 .