I suggest starting over at the beginning of this web.book. (A wildly hyperlinked e.book, online.) :: You can start at the starting line here… :: https://medium.com/@thoughts.../the-overengineered-ebook-e1dfd33ea314
My process is to help the little(er) guy(s). Helping the smaller guys helps even out the commercialism we all suffer from, therefore driving down prices, and increasing passion... (Oh, and less suicides.) :: And by “commercialism” I mean, money creates value, not value designs money. :: I prefer the latter… as money doesn’t serve a purpose outside of itself… :: Value serves every purpose you’ll ever need… Money doesn’t help you eat dinner in a small village in China.
So we’ll start here… :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2zck1TtDCw
Everyone starts off teaching the classic palm with coins… :: Which doesn’t make sense.
It’s pretty hard to comprehend how to grip a coin with the muscles in your palm… but that’s how almost all coin magic tutorial collections start. :: by teaching you to hold coins without using your fingers. (?!?!?!)
Part.one. :: The coins I use aren’t coins.
Galvanized washers… that’s my coin of choice for multiple reasons.
I used to session with Marcus Eddie in Texas. :: And I remember being an .sshole towards his philosophy, one time…
Why?
Marcus Eddies doesn’t (at least he didn’t) like using collector’s coins (50 cent pieces, and silver dollars.) :: Because the audience doesn’t see these items often. :: Magicians use them for novelty reasons. :: Marcus Eddie used, quarters. :: Which seemed anti.climatic. :: I disagree to that concept, but only because the quarters didn’t fit my style. :: And I tried to tell him to be more like me… :: Mainly because I needed him to give me validation on why I was right…
With galvanized washers, everyone’s seen a washer, however most don’t notice if a washer from the past was galvanized or not… :: I then explain the purpose… “Galvanized washers are used in plumbing, the galvanized process reduces the risk of rusting and pitting, so when you drink water, you’re not drinking rust, thanks to the zinc coating on this steel.” :: All this is said to help people learn (show and tell style), while the washers are being passed around for inspection.
In reality the galvanized process actually helps me grip the coins when my hands don’t have a tight (enough) grip. :: Margin of safety.
Tyler Rabbit uses washers for (what seems to be) robust, unpolished situations (like campin’). :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bsEsWIjl2k :: I came up with this idea completely independently from the magic community (aside from Jay Sankey, but his effects and therefore methods are WAY different from mine. :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4jhWTGzPfI :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPp2HNLgGnw ) :: I believe I had the idea in 2014… to literally swap washers for coins, in coin magic tricks.
When learning/designing coin magic tricks, I recommend starting with the finger palm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2zck1TtDCw :: ~5.55) :: My method is sleightly (get it?!) different from the video… :: My version is almost identical, except I don’t “curl the fingers”, I relax the fingers. :: Relaxing the fingers closes the windows, and reduces “tell tale signs” of holding something. :: Most people “hold on to things” they don’t want to lose… :: magicians, use the friction of the object to hold the object’s position. (?!?!?) <<It’s true.
Thumb Palm… same finger palm link.
~7m.47s thumb palm. I recommend learning this move second. :: Also I do have a #modified.thumb.palm. <<Tutorial coming soon.
Then the classic.palm, then the JC wagner palm… << That one is cray.cray. #Performance.Link.coming.soon.
