By: Marti
Has anyone here seen a guy just pick up a penny or something and just
go impromptu for like 5 mins and HE WAS GREAT! And got an awsome
reaction! Does anyone just walk around with like just a coin in there
pocket and have a really good presentation for vanishes with it?
By: Dan Watkins
Check out Michael Ammar's Coin Flurry and Jumbo Production from his
Money Miracles Video 2, David Roth's One coin routine from Expert Coin
Magic Video 3, Paul Cummin's Invisible Hand from Up in Smoke Video,
David Stone has a bit of one coin routines using a Pen (Wallet Pen) in
his video #1, and He has a great one coin wiped clean on video #2.
A one coin routine can be any various ways of just vanishing and making a coin appear using various palm vanishes, fake takes, fake puts, etc. with loads.
You can just string together basic sleights out of Bobo's.
By: Michael Sibbernsen
Personally I think *every* magician should be able to do this. The
funny thing is, most magicians already have the technical know how,
but just have never sat down with pen and paper and create their own
routine. Just try, you will be amazed at what springs forward.
For inspiration, a good jumping off point is
"An Imoromptu Coin Routine" Now You See It, Now You Don't! by Bill Tarr
or
"One-Coin Impromptu Routine" The Second Now You See It, Now You Don't! by Bill Tarr
By: Doug Conn
Here's what I've been doing lately:
FYI: These words are (more or less) excerpts from a recent set of lecture notes. (Motor City Notes, Nov 2k)
A one-coin routine
I've found the one-coin flurry to be a very practical close-up effect. Using just one coin (a prop that's always available) you can create the magic sensations of: Vanish, Appearance, Transformation, Transitions and more. 'Juan' contains 8 magical moments in less than one minute. The effect can be seen by large groups and uses little, if any, table space. Here's my take on the one coin flurry:
Props: One coin and a purse frame.
Sleights:
Purse'n'l Production (Tricks of My Trade p.79)
Carney's Fingertip Coin Vanish (Magic of Michael Ammar p.38)
Particle Press (Tricks of My Trade p. 21)
Shuttle Pass vanish (David Roth's Expert Coin Magic)
'Bounce Vanish' (Buckley's Principles and Deceptions)
Neck-tied Dollar (Tricks of My Trade p. 24)
Spider Vanish (Marlo/Skinner)
Purse'n'l Vanish (Tricks of My Trade p. 81)
These sleights will be described briefly (very briefly.) If you are not familiar with these moves, any of the books mentioned would make a nice addition to your library (escpecially 'Tricks of My Trade - The Magic of Doug Conn
Set-up: Begin with the purse frame in the left front pocket and a coin in the right pocket.
Place both hands into their respective pockets (as though you are searching for a prop.) Classic palm the coin in the right pocket as your left hand grasps the purse. Bring your left hand out of the pocket and introduce the purse frame. A moment later, the right hand exits the pocket (with a coin hidden in classic palm.)
Open the purse frame and produce the coin from the frame. I use my: Purse'n'l Production (basically: a jumping shuttle pass through the frame of the purse.) There are other options. Simply pulling the coin from finger palm could suffice.Display the empty frame and set it on the table. Open the frame completely, if you are looking straight down on the frame, you should see something like figure 1:
Figure 1 (ommitted, sorry)
I do a few steeplechase / coin rolls to supposedly "heat up the coin"
I also do the bit where you pretend to bend the coin by holding the coin at the fingertips and flexing at the wrists. Then, I pretend to squeeze the coin into a small ball via Carney's Fingertip Coin Vanish (Magic of Micheal Ammar p.38) I pretend to place the small/invisible coin into the center of the tabled purse frame. (If you're not familiar with the Carney Move, any vanish that leaves the coin in r-hand classic palm will suffice.)
Pause for a moment and then...
Reproduce the coin using the Particle Press move.
(Paul Cummins describes the move in detail in: Tricks of My Trade p. 21.)
"If ya reverse the action, you can make it big again"
As the coin emerges from the fingertips, I let it fall into the
(tabled) open purse frame. (This foreshadows the climax of the
effect.)
"Once you understand the idea, you can do all kinds of neat things..."
Pick up the coin with your left hand and pretend to put it in your
right, executing a shuttle pass vanish instead. (Or any vanish that
leaves the coin in left hand finger palm, a French Drop would work.)
Knead the (imaginary) coin in the right hand. Then pretend to shoot
the coin up the right sleeve. Pause for a moment, then: produce the
coin from your right elbow.
"You can shoot it up the sleeve..."
Transfer the coin to your right hand... I do this with a finger roll
off the left knuckles, dropping the coin into the right hand. (This is
a good way to skirt around an otherwise unmotivated transfer from one
hand to the other.)
"Or, down around the knee..."
Execute the Bounce Vanish (Buckley's "Principles and Deception", also
described in these notes on page ???) Substitute a simple retention
vanish if you have problems with the bounce move. Pretend to shoot the
imaginary coin up the left sleeve. Produce the coin from your right
knee.
"it can even go in my tie"
If I'm wearing a tie, I'll now do a retention vanish & reproduction
into my neck-tie.(Check: Tricks of My Trade p.24)
Perform a 'Spider Vanish' really placing the coin into your hand, but pretending sneak it out... Here's how I handle the spider vanish: Hold the coin in your left hand by the thumb and forefinger. The left fingers are slightly open. Insert the coin directly into a right hand classic palm. Close the left fingers as though you're trying to be sneaky and steal the coin away. Toss your right hand into the air as though you've thrown the coin upward. Hold the left hand in a suspicious fashion. (The coin is hidden in right hand classic palm.)
Side note:
The Spider Vanish is a wonderful addition to a one coin flurry. After
a few coin vanishes, your audience begins to second guess your
moves. (ie- That you're not really putting the coin where you say you
are.) It's at that point; you release the spider on them!
"Sometimes it even goes up YOUR sleeve! ..."
Hold your left hand in a suspicious manner and then reach toward a
spectator, pretending to grab the non-existent coin from their
sleeve. Act as though you've grabbed the coin and are holding it at
your fingertips. While all eyes are on these actions, your right hand
secretly drops the coin into the center of the tabled purse frame.
Pretend to throw the (non-existent) coin into the air and follow the invisible path of the coin... Eventually direct your audience to the purse frame where they should be quite surprised to discover the coin.
To finish, apparently place the coin into the frame using my Purse'n'l Vanish. (Basically: Classic palming the coin as you apparently place it in the frame. Check the Tricks of My Trade book for the details.) I execute this 'nonchalantly' and then pocket the frame/coin.
Performance note(s) As I perform this effect, I never ask my audience to believe that the coin actually vanishes. During the routine, I give semi-plausible explanations as to what is happening. (Shrinking the coin, shooting it up the sleeve, etc.) I like to use this stratagem whenever possible. Rather than asking my audience to believe the impossible, I settle for semi-plausible.
When performing this routine, remember to always move the 'clean' hand first... The eye will follow a moving object. (Especially if your eyes follow it!) This is good basic magic theory; try to apply it as often as you can.
In formal performances I'll often use a jumbo coin production (from the frame) as an additional phase to the routine. This is described in the "Tricks of My Trade" book. (p.84)
I may add or remove parts of this routine as needed (be it due to: bad angles, my attire, table, whether or not I have a purse frame, etc.) Or, I may change it just because I feel like it! There's a certain excitement in 'jazzing it up a bit.' I think an audience can sense these feelings and feed off them.
By: Richard Parker
I've always liked the one-coin Greg Wilson does on his Off the Cuff
video. When I did it, I usually combined it with his "All-Around
Vanish" and then made the coin (actually a duplicate) reappear from
somewhere else either by using the method in Ammar's "Incredible Coins
Across" (the one that fooled Copperfield so badly) or by stealing a
coin I had previously hidden under my collar (and here I did the
standard steal with the left hand while pretending to pluck an
invisible coin with my right hand from my left elbow).
It served me well in impromptu situations.
By: Steve Landavazo
Are any of you aware of coin routines that only use one coin? Any
suggestions, opinions are appreciated!
By: Frank Yuen
David Roth's Flurry and Slydini's One Coin Routine. Ammar teaches a
one coin Flurry type routine on the Easy to Master Money videos
too. Are you looking for routines that only use one coin or routines
the APPEAR to use one coin?
By: Gocko
You can find Syldini's "Flyaway Coin Routine" in Tannen's Stars Of
Magic. The amazing Eric DeCamps did this on me a while ago, teamed up
with another magician as a two man - one coin effect, and blew me
away. Slydini's One Coin Routine is in "The Best Of Syldini And More"
- imp pass. With Syldini's misdirection methods correctly employed,
you can get away with shameless murder.
I hope that someone comes out with videos of this master at work. He was doing things in the 60s and 70s that have never been matched. If he had been born 30 years later, he could have been on the current video-internet-lecture roll and raking in the loot. He was the all-time master of misdirection, and he should not be forgotten. Sadly, he seems to be becoming a quiet footnote in magic's history.
By: JohnK
One Coin routines... When I first returned to magic as an adult after
my childhood fascination, the first book I bought was Bobo's Modern
Coin Magic... Back then I had no money, barely a job, and few
resources, but, after absorbing that book, I could do "real" magic
with a single coin... In my opinion, the best source of information
for singel coin routines is Bobo's book.
By: Ichazod
Hey Steve,
Look in your Carl Cloutier lecture notes, there is a nice one coin routine in them.
By: Kevin Mepham
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Paul Cummins' "Invisible Hand" from
his "Up in Smoke" video. That's a great one when the conditions are
right.
Also, I like Brad Burt's "Quick Routine" from his "Basics of Expert Coin Technique Volume 2" video.
And as someone else mentioned, Ammar's Coin Flurry from one of his Easy-to-Master videos is good too.
By: Anonymous
in Complete Works of Derek Dingle there is "Slow Motin Coin Vanish" -
basically a vanish and a production - by Dingle, Steve Freeman and
John Cornelius.
Judging from the illustrations :) it looks really interesting.
(In the book they say it also appears in The Pallbearers Review, and the book is from 1982 so I guess it's before that).
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