- What's up guys?
I'm gonna show you how to push a coin through a table.
Check this out.
I have this dime here, watch, look.
(tapping)
Actually hear it go right through
the table.
(coin dropping)
If you want another way to vanish a coin, watch closely.
This one's pretty cool, too.
So, you got this dime here.
Watch.
(scraping)
Watch.
(coin dropping)
Actually goes right through the table
into that glass.
Yo, what's up, guys?
Chris Ramsay here and welcome back!
On today's episode, we are going to be talking
about coin magic, which is really cool,
because I've not done very many coin things
that I heard a lot of you guys wanna learn
how to vanish a coin, and that type of thing.
So today, we're gonna learn how to push a coin
through a table.
Actually, we're gonna learn multiple methods
on how to push a coin through a table.
All of which are more clever than the next.
Everyone is cleverer.
If you're interested in coin magic as well,
there's a lot of magic you can learn on coins
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This is more the mechanical side of coin magic, okay?
So, don't fixate on the routines and the pattern,
fixate on the moves and then adapt those
to whatever you need.
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Alright, guys, so for this tutorial,
I'm gonna show you multiple ways
that you can push a coin through a table.
Some of them are a little bit more sleight of hand-ish,
and some of them are really simple.
So, the first, first way you can actually do this
is really, probably, the easiest way ever,
is in a recent video,
we talked about coin-lapping,
which is picking up a coin like this
and having it disappear,
when I've actually thrown it onto my lap, okay?
For coin-lapping, again, the idea is
why is there a coin here in the first place?
So, you might have a pocket full of change
that you had to take the change out of your pocket
to get to your phone or something,
and then, that change is there,
and that's how you wanna be set up.
You never wanna just bring out a coin and say,
"I'm gonna disappear this coin.".
It brings too much attention to the coin,
it's inorganic, it seems like something is set up.
So, what you wanna do
is you wanna have coins there already
and be like, "Oh, let's try something here with this one.".
Right, and then have it disappear.
So, that's the first rule.
Second rule is, this is a very easy thing to practice.
All you really need to do to practice this
is practice actually picking up this coin.
So if I go here,
that's what it will look like if I picked it up.
See that?
That's what it would look like.
Don't pick it up like this and then pick it up like this,
'cause that doesn't make sense.
Always pick it up like this
so that the moment you don't,
it fools the eye.
You really wanna get, it's an easy thing to do.
It's kind of ridiculous.
You just pick up a coin, but practice that
and it'll give you a sense of what it should look like
when you're lapping it.
Once you've lapped it, here's the thing.
You can have another coin in your other hand.
So, the same denomination.
So, let's say it's dime, and this is a dime.
Once you do this little subtlety,
you can show it quickly and you can actually just
tap it on the table.
That's a really cool subtlety.
All I'm doing is taking this coin that I had in this hand
and banging it at the exact same time
as I would if I had it in this hand,
and it creates an auditory illusion,
which is really fooling.
I mean, what the ear hears, you know, the mind believes.
Even look, I'm not even touching the table.
(knocking)
It still looks like I have a coin in my hand,
which is really cool.
Another little subtlety I did with this,
which is really cool.
I have a ring.
So, that might've fooled some of you,
and I really like this.
So, if you have a glass off to your right,
what's really is cool is that when you grab this here,
your hand
comes over
the side,
and look where my ring is touching.
So, it kinda looks like I'm banging it over here,
but I'm actually knocking my ring right here.
Now, don't go too hard, just
little quick subtlety, you know?
Let's try it again.
I'm gonna grab this and just, you know what I mean?
That looks so good.
It sounds good, it looks good,
and I've lapped the coin at this point.
To produce the other coin under the table
is a very, very simple thing.
You're just gonna push this coin up against the table,
okay, really hard.
And the moment you wanna push it through,
you just kinda let it flick,
and that'll create a sound like this
(snap)
See that?
So, I'm just holding it here,
and then the second, bang.
That's it, you're just holding it, pinching it here,
and then the pressure
makes it sound like
it's penetrating, okay?
But once again, I'm here.
I have a coin, I had all this change out.
I go here.
(clinking)
(knocking)
Boom, and now, very cleanly, it's in my other hand.
A little subtlety with this coin vanish, as well,
is that when you come here,
try to move away from the edge of the table
to not bring suspicion to the edge of the table.
It's a small thing, and it'll help you out
just a little bit, but try to bring a little bit extra.
Another layer for them to decipher.
The more of these little psychological layers
and subtleties you have,
the harder it's going to be for the spectator
to reconstruct it in their mind.
Now, I'm gonna teach you one of my favorite,
my all-time favorite coin vanishes.
This is a great way to vanish a coin organically,
if you're sitting at a restaurant or a bar,
which I usually sit at.
It's just a great fooling, visual way,
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Alright, so now I'm gonna show you
my very favorite coin vanish.
Now, you can do this if you're sitting at a bar
or a restaurant,
when you have glasses and napkins laying around
or anything like like that.
This is a really, really fooling thing to do,
and I used to perform this when I worked the bars a lot.
All you need is a small coin.
So, I don't suggest nickels or quarters,
they're a little too big for this
if you're just starting off.
Pennies and dimes are absolutely perfect.
So, anything this size is just really, really perfect.
What you're going to wanna do is have a napkin set up, okay?
And if this napkin is right here,
maybe wipe down the table or something before,
and the napkin is already there.
That's the ideal positioning.
You don't wanna be like, I'm gonna show you something,
gonna show you, you know?
That kinda ruins it.
So, just make sure you're in this position
when you start off.
You have one coin, so whatever the coin you're using,
is you have a duplicate of that coin
in your other hand, okay?
So, you're here, and I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna vanish this coin.
I want the attention to be on this coin,
because what I'm going to do in a second
is literally give you no explanation
to where this coin went.
I'm very far from the edge of the table.
So, if you do this, you wanna push everything
away from the edge of the table, not to create suspicion,
because it's not where it's gonna happen.
As I'm here, I'm gonna go like this,
and the coin's already gone.
Which is really cool, and I've just pushed it
under the napkin.
And, so what you're doing here
is you're moving it around in a circle.
When I come close to the edge of the napkin,
my thumb is gonna kick it out just like that.
As it kicks it out, even the keenest eye in the world
won't pick up
because it's happening so swiftly.
I'm here, and it's being pushed under with my thumb,
alright?
And in this case, the bigger motion
covers the smaller motion, okay?
So, you're here.
Bang, and it's gone.
Another thing is, once you do this,
you might wanna move away.
The only problem is,
you have a sound
and now you have no sound.
So to cover that up, your other hand's gonna have that penny
and is going to be under the table.
Now, as you're here.
Right, you're doing this, and as soon as you kick it under,
listen.
I'm under the table scraping the underside of the table
with this coin to replace the sound that's missing here.
So, again, another auditory illusion.
Boom, and I do that snapping thing again.
That's just a great, great way to vanish a coin,
because it leaves them with no,
it's very, very impossible.
The focus can be 100% on the coin
and it just disappears, which is a really cool thing.
You didn't throw it off the table, you didn't ditch it.
Of course, you have it under the napkin.
You gotta be careful that no one grabs it.
If they do, whatever.
Just teach 'em the trick at that point.
Another great little subtlety that I did in the beginning
was I had the coin here in my hand,
and I was just holding the cup like this,
and I was takin' a sip.
Like, oh, let me show you something cool.
If you kinda do this,
you can actually have it go right through.
Now, what's great about that is that first of all,
the coin vanishes and your hand is here
while your other hand is occupied the whole time,
and so, there's no way you could've gotten it
into that cup
until right there.
which makes it really impossible.
Another layer of psychology added.
Now, all I'm doing again, is I'm holding whatever coin
I'm using right here, slapping it up against the glass
and just kinda sitting here casually,
waiting for the trick to happen
I've got this coin, I've got my change out,
and say, oh, you wanna see something cool?
Well, watch this.
If I take it, look,
I can push it right through into the glass.
That's really fooling, and it happens very quickly,
but that's a really, really cool subtlety
that you can add with a glass.
It's just keeping it there,
and all you're doing is under your index.
So, make sure they don't see it,
but if you can see that under my index,
under the table, all I'm doing is this.
(clinking)
Literally just pushing it in there
at the exact same time that I push it through.
But if you're gonna do the napkin vanish, okay?
If you're gonna do this little napkin vanish here,
don't go and rub it around the table,
'cause once you're here, you stop.
You stop movin' around, so that you can come here with this
and push it through.
Alright?
Now, you don't have to do this vanish
with this cup, with this glass if you don't want to.
You can do the same thing we taught before,
which is just like this, you know?
Just push it through like that.
That's also a good way to do it.
So, many, many different denominations
and many different ways of pushing it through the table.
I think the easiest and most simple way, honestly,
is if you false transfer this.
So, you keep this in a finger palm, you go here.
You know?
You can knock it.
(knocking)
And then, slap it up underneath the table.
All I'm doing there is keeping it
in finger palm right here.
Alright, it's a little bit small for my fingers,
and I'm pretending to put it over here.
As my hand comes under the table,
I'm preparing it like this, so I can tap it.
(tapping)
And then I do that flick thing.
Right through
the other side.
I mean, you can play around with
all different types of vanishes.
They don't have to be, they can be vanishes like this.
You go here.
Boom, nickel goes through.
All different types of way to vanish a coin.
Bobo's Coin Magic has, you know,
literally dozens of ways you can get away
with vanishing a coin, add subtleties
to make it more convincing.
The bottom line is, those are some really cool bar tricks
for the unsuspecting spectator.
Especially if they've had a few drinks.
So, that about wraps it up.
So, get your coins, start practicing.
All you need is a napkin, some coins,
a table and a glass, and you're all set.
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed that.
That was a fun little thing to do.
I'm glad that I got to teach that to you.
If you already do coin magic or coin through table
or any of that, I hope that you use
the little subtleties that I added.
Especially the ring thing on the glass, that's like.
So good.
Many, many different references for this effect,
and there are many ways to perform it, as I went through.
You can vanish a coin all sorts of different ways.
I think the most important thing you have to learn
is how to do it organically
and how to know when the situation's right,
when the timing is right to perform this trick.
Because out of the blue and you're just doing it.
People will suspect that it's a puzzle
for them to figure out.
So, in order to not make it a puzzle,
have everything set up organically,
and then just, you know.
Steer the conversation towards magic or something
and then do it there.
You'll get a much greater reaction.
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