Magic Sleight Of Hand With Coins
Easy magic vanishing sleights with coins to master and allow you to do lots of magic and coin tricks
French Drop
1. Hold the coin that you want to vanish between your thumb and index finger.
2. Bring your other hand down from above as if you are going to pick up the coin.
3. As you close your hand, drop coin on your lower hand. Keep top hand closed and remove the other hand.
The spectators will think that you actually took the coin with your upper hand.
Classic Palm Vanish
1. Start with a coin in the centre of your palm up hand.
Coin should be in the palm position ( fleshy part at base of thumb should keep secure in hand, pushing it towards centre of palm).
2. Pretend to throw coin into other hand, but retain it in the palm this is called palming.
There's an area at base of your palm thats able to grip and hold a coin in place when hand muscles are flexed.
3. Close hand that now seemingly " holds " the coin and get rid of the actual coin in the other hand somehow by magic( with misdirection ).One of the excellent advantages of coin magic is that you have the opportunity to practice the sleights and full coin tricks at many times thought your day due to the size and portability of coins. The fact that very little other props are usually needed as well as the small size of coins means that you should be able to have a coin on your possession, nearly all the time.
You now have the option to take advantage of little breaks and opportunities throughout your day to take out a coin and practice either single sleights or a full trick routine. This can only help improve your journey to being a very competent coin magician.
Coin magic sleights are something that get better with practice. There are various learning sources online with video instruction material such as Youtiube and Vimeo which are sometimes worth checking out.