Hello everyone. In this video I'm going to teach you magic with coins. And by the
way, if you watch, "like," and "comment" below, you can email me at the address in the
description and I'll forward to you a link to a hidden YouTube video that
teaches a pro-level coin trick. So if you've got your money in hand, let's get started.
Here's how to do a simple vanish of a coin. Now what I'm doing is I'm holding
the coin between my second finger and my thumb here. And what you have to practice
is this. You have to practice releasing your thumb and allowing the coin to drop.
Release the thumb. The coin drops now, The other hand is going to reach in now.
Notice how my thumb goes underneath the coin here. And this is where the vanish
happens. Because my thumb goes underneath, now watch. My thumb releases the coin
into the hand and then my right hand grabs and looks like it took the coin.
One more time. The coin oin is between my second finger and my thumb. I take my
other hand as if I'm gonna grab the coin. Thumb goes underneath. Drop. Grab. At speed,
it looks like this. But the coin isn't here in the right
hand.
For this trick you're going to need two coins that match, a plastic cup or glass
that's clear, and you're going to need a coaster. I happen to have a wood coaster
here. Now what you're going to do this. It's a little tricky but you're going to,
ahead of time, take the coin - one of the two coins, and place it on the bottom of the
coaster. And then you place this on top of the glass and it should just rest
there. And now you're ready to begin the trick. Spectators don't know that there's
a coin under the glass. And then as I showed you earlier, you just do that
vanish and then you drop it on top of the coaster, and the coin vanishes out of
your hand and apparently penetrates the coaster and
goes into the cup. Now you might have to, as you may have noticed, when I put it in
or made it look like it went through the coaste,r I actually wiggled it a little
bit. Just to make it fall in. So let's see if I can do that again for you. So what I
think is the easiest way, make sure you have a sturdy coaster. Cardboard is fine.
I've certainly done this done this with cardboard. This happens to be wood so it is
a little heavier. But you take the coin and rest it on the coaster and then just
kind of balance the coin on the edge of the glass. Now you're ready to perform.
Show the coin, grab it, and then, and the coin appears to go through the coaster
into the glass. And everything can be examined.
Here's the setup. You'll just need a handkerchief, any handkerchief will do.
You take your coin and you place it not in the center here, but a little
off-center. Right about there is good. You just want the coin to be slightly
above a fold when you fold the handkerchief in half. And notice how I
have this in a diamond shape. It's not straight but diagonal for a diamond
shape. Place the coin - again a little off-center slightly up and slightly to
the left. So here's what happens you fold in half, the coin is right here at this
point. Now the next fold is going to happen
here at the center, but the coin is actually a little bit to the side of it.
So let's do that. At this point, the coin is right here. Now you just take this and
loosely roll it up. Now you're ready to perform the trick. You grab the corners -
think of these as rabbit ears. Grab it firmly and then pull. And it appears that
the coin has vanished but what's really happened is the coin is actually in a
fold of this handkerchief right there. Just the way you folded it keeps the
coin in the handkerchief.
Here's how the coin vanish happens with the piece of paper. Now the interesting
thing about this paper is it's folded in an odd sort of way. It looks as if I
folded it here, here and then in, which would seal the coin inside of the paper.
But that is not the case. If you look at the paper, it folds down this way but the
other fold goes the other way, and that's the secret to the trick. So you
pre-fold the paper so it's easier to fold during performance. This folds
down and instead of folding it this way, this one goes underneath and then these
go forward. But what the spectators don't know is that the coin ends up inside of
a little pocket here and can slide into your hand. So now let me show you how
this looks. Coin goes in. This folds down. This folds
up, forward and forward. But the coin is actually right here. To spectators on the
other side it look it looks as if the coin is folded in the envelope, but of course
it is not. And now, the coin can slip into your hand. And then as you reach in for a
pen or something, you can get rid of the coin. What's really great about this is
you'll notice that there's an outline of the coin here from when you folded it in and
of course when you unfold it the coin has vanished.
This really isn't a magic trick but it's called a coin roll. It's a little
flourish that you can do when you're doing coin magic. Now I can pretty much
do this with any size coin but I would suggest this don't use a coin that's too
small. You want a coin that at least is about the width of your finger or bigger.
Now what you're going to do is. It's just going to take a lot of practice. The basics
are: you rest the coin on your thumb and then you rest that on top of
the pointy finger. Watch my second finger. It actually catches the coin
right there on the edge so it can kind of flip it up and over. Now once again,
the ring finger, this one here, will catch the coin and flip it over. And then the pinky
catches it and takes it down and then the thumb catches the coin and then
repeats the process. One more time, so it's a matter of a lot of practice. But
your friends will be quite impressed and all it is is making sure that the bottom
of your fingers can just catch that edge and cause the coin to flip over. So don't
worry if you don't get this the first time or within a day. It's going to take a
lot of practice. But that is a coin roll. Well I hope you had fun performing magic
with coins. Please "like," and "comment" below and then email me and I'll forward to
you that link to a pro level coin trick. Thanks for watching and I'll see you
next time.