Okay, you have three or four half dollars in classic palm and you want to drop them one by one. ive been working on this for a long time and it seems to be a hit or miss thing, unless I am missing out on some big secret to make this work every time. Any ideas?

Mike... hang on a bit. Reed McClintock will be sharing some work in this stuff very soon.

Cool, Jon. Thanks

Step the coins back towards your wrist. That is, don't have them in a straight up and down stack but set so that the coin closest to the palm has it's back edge closest to your wrist and the coin furthest from the palm has the front edge closese to your fingers. In the beginning if you use only three or four and step them fairly far they will feel like they are individually palmed. Eventually, you can work them a little closer and do more.

Good luck,

Dave

El Rotho once suggested using violin rosen on the edges of the coins. I tried that, and I probably just didn't practice enough, but it seemed to leave a resolution on the coins that most likely would not have been there otherwise. Oh well..

The way I learned how to do this was to just let gravity take over. Classic palm 3 or 4 coins and just hold your opposite hand under the hand holding the coins. All you really have to do is to very slowly relieve pressure on the coins and lets the weight of the coin(s) take over and let them fall. After a while the muscle in your hand will develop so that you will have more control over how many coins you release at any given moment. Also nicely milled coins always help in the control of the coins. Hope this helps.

-Bill

Stepping the coins slightly is the way I've been doing it. Learned it off of a David Roth tape and his books.

Finda57,

It just take muscle control and feel. Hold the coins in your hand classic palmed for a while. Like an hour or 2 a day, let gravity drop 1 coin at a time onto your cupped fingers in the same hand.

You hand will hurt, from practice but it will pay off in the end. I learnd it for Paul Harrisons coins across in only a few weeks.

Also the coin size may be the problem. I find it easier with Silve Dollars then halves. If you are using quarters, forget it. It will take you a long time.

Bill

I've found that stepping works for me. I step in one direction if I want to deliver a coin when my hand is relatively closed, and in the other direction if my hand is relatively open and resting on my close-up pad.

Thanks, guys. Ive found that the firmer the grip on the coins the better. Anybody else feel the same?

Can you do it with 3? How about just 2?

If you haven't already, first learn how to do it with 2 coins. Then 3. Then 4.

John Bannon's spellbound-esque routine where silver changes to copper then silver joins the copper... then silver and copper together change into 2 chinese coins. (Sorry I cannot remember the name of it but it's in Impossibilia)

This effect requires that a coin (1 of 2) is dropped from classic palm.

The effect is extremely simple and that is the only real slight in the whole routine.

In fact, if you flub it and drop both, you could easily recover without exposing your blunder (extra cool way to learn a slight).


A great way to get started.

If you can already do 1 of 2 and you need to try 1 of 3, I don't have a suggested routine. Maybe something from Curtis Kam or Reed M..


My answer to this kind of question is always ... "Find a routine that needs it that you plan on performing and learn the slight as you practice"

The moves seem to come quicker for me when there's a reason to learn it.

I can do it with 1...

Yeah, but with one JUMBO coin, in classic palm? If so, remind me not to get on your bad side.

Lol, Larry. I am getting almost competant at Gary Kurtz' jumbo coin vanish into tenkai palm, in my attempts to learn Flurious. I don't know what is original with him or what's not, but it's fun to practice.

Great suggestions above.

Try the ones that work for you.

This is not an over night thing.

I first learned from a routine called Touch of Midas from Bobo. My take is to start with smaller number of coins.

Then learn it with the other hand.
As I mentioned before some things are easier learned(by this nearly normal guy) with his non dominant hand.

You can then try something I have been playing around with start from the palm out with a dime, then, penny then nickle then quarter then half dollar (US sized coins) Use the coins from your country in similar size of course)

You can also go in reverse with same sized or different and vanish them with coin rolls in between.

Enjoy the journey,

Harris