About The Amazer . Jeremy Haak learned his first magic trick when he was 13. At age 16, he started performing as “The Amazer”. Since that time, Jeremy’s magic has entertained people from all walks of life including a Miss America, Two Legends of Professional Wrestling, and even other magicians. Jeremy Haak is a certified Doctor of Magic by the International Magicians Society and is the first and only 5 time winner of The Magician of the Year of Ring #11 of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Jeremy has entertained for car shows, boat races, private parties, bars, grand openings & several other places. Jeremy Haak would be an excellent choice for your next event. Why settle for anything less than the 5 time magician of the year? Contact the Amazer today.

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Why The Amazer?

 The Amazer

By Spencer Schein

Jeremy Haak is a man who has a knack for handling cards. During an interview, the man cannot help himself, maybe its an impulsive compulsion, but he cannot seem to talk without shuffling a deck of playing cards between his hands.

“When I don’t have a deck of cards in my hands, I feel naked,” said the Rock Falls magician stand up comic, who would rather tell a self-depreciation joke about himself than ever tell a joke about someone in his audience. Describing himself as a shy guy growing up, he tells his audience of his dating prowess in school this way: “When girls were asked who they were going to prom with, on girl would say she was taking the captain of the basketball team, another girl would say she was taking the captain of the football team, but who would say they were taking the guy doing magic tricks in the hallway in between classes?”

Now entering his 25^th year in magic, Haak, 36, known professionally as “The Amazer,” wants to amaze you, and he is starting to get more notice. There are more than 1,000 tricks in his “bag,” and some of them are in the briefcase he takes with him to all shows. A native of Rock Falls, Illinois, Haak says he has spent a lot of money on magic tricks and has so many he has to store them in a shed. When he does his act and pulls out a deck of playing cards, he said inevitably someone will shout out, “I have seen this one before,” and each time Haak either says or thinks to himself, “Yeah, there are 5 billion card tricks,” and the one he does is the one the “big talker” says he hasn’t seen before.

He can juggle, make hundreds of different balloon animals, and is a master of the Rings trick. Haak is such a master of the ring trick; he mad his own instructional DVD on how you, too, can amaze your friends by either putting the rings together or taking them apart. The DVD was produced by www.magicmakersinc.com “I have copies, but they are not made for the general public. It teaches the linking rings. The video preview is on my site’s video section found at www.amazer1.com,” Haak said. Growing up, Haak explains he didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he wanted to be some kind of entertainer. Making people laugh was something he liked, Haak said as he ate a plate of a ham and cheese omelet, has browns, and a Pepsi, at The Spot Restaurant, in Sterling.

Magic was never in the mix, as Haak says he thought if someone was doing magic, it was a talent, an innate part of an individual that did not come with training, but it was within them. It was only after seeing one of his friends do a couple card magic tricks that he realized he could also do the tricks, and a new passion was born. Acknowledging that magic is mainly run by two rules: misdirection and slight-of-hand, Haak does his full deck of card trick, shuffling the deck as he tells a story and making it look like nothing is out of the ordinary. The rings he wears may amaze you: the one on his right hand is one with the four Aces, and on the left is one with AMAZER on the face. Or the fact he is the only five-time winner of the Magician of the Year from the Quad Cities International Brotherhood of Magicians.

He also uses magic during his day job as a substitute teachers-aide, mainly at Unit 5 schools in Sterling. Haak also makes appearances at area bars and restaurants, and inevitably after one or two tricks, someone buys him a beer. He is a favorite at M & D’s in Sterling, where he sometimes is given a dozen wings before getting to shuffle a deck of cards. And if he has to pay, well, whoever is behind the cash register either gets a jolt or their eyes open real wide, as his wallet becomes engulfed in flames. “I don’t have a problem with people asking for money anymore. Sure, go take it yourself,” he says with a laugh.

The one thing Haak emphasizes in his act is keeping it clean. While some in the business feel swearing is a necessity to their act, Haak said he keeps it out and his audiences tend to appreciate it. Haak has three acts at his behest, one for children, on for children and adults and on for adults only, which has “spicy” language, but nothing too far out of the ordinary.

To book Haak for your private party, your spouse’s birthday party, your child’s birthday party, your corporate outing, or for a public event, go to his website, www.amazer1.com. Prices vary, and he can do a show for 30 minutes up to 90 minutes.