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I'm starting to regret this.
Yo, yo, yo, guys, what is going on?
Alex Pandrea here, back with
another video and a new look.
Hope you are liking this so far.
I'm regretting it already.
Kind of wish I had a time
machine to be honest.
But that beard was getting out of hand.
So I had to do something about it.
Now in this video, what
are we gonna go over?
Well, in my last video,
I taught the French drop,
which is a basic coin technique.
Today we are going to learn a
more advanced coin technique
so you can have a few
advantages in your arsenal.
So it is called the JW coin vanish.
It was invented by a magician
named Jimmy Wilson back in 1946.
And it's a way of palming a coin,
having your hand like this
and palming a coin in the meantime.
Now of course, this look
a little bit awkward.
Just like that when you do it.
But in the context of the vanish,
you'll see how it makes sense.
And that's basically the
grip that we're gonna learn.
We're gonna learn how
to put it into that grip
and make it look like the coin vanishes.
All right, here is how the vanish looks.
Watch the coin very carefully,
as I just place it into my hand.
All I have to do is just this,
and that coin has completely gone.
If I just shake, that coin
will come back because magic.
So go ahead, grab your coin.
And let's learn this step by step.
The first thing that I like to talk about
is the natural action of how
it looks without doing the sleight.
For any magic sleight of hand effect,
especially in coin magic,
it's important to know
what the natural action is
before going into the sleight
version of making it vanish.
So you know how to mimic
one with the other, right?
How we're going to do it is as follows,
and that is the natural action of
the coin being placed into the hand.
It's very easy.
You just hold it between these two fingers
with the thumb on the back, hello.
And you're gonna place
it into the left hand.
Now the left hand's
thumb is behind the coin,
just like that, okay?
And touching, also.
So you're gonna come down
to up into this position
with the right hand with
the coin at fingertips.
Your left hand is open like this,
ready to close on the coin.
And when that happens, the
left hand grabs the coin.
You're gonna come back with the hand,
and you're gonna go into this grip.
Now this is a JW grip,
without doing the grip,
without the coin being in there.
We'll learn the palm in just a bit.
But your left middle finger is extended
and the thumb is extended
as if you had the coin.
And the first finger is
curled back here, okay?
So that is for later one when
we do have the coin palmed.
That's how it's going to look, okay?
So it's here, fingertips, open hand,
left thumb behind, grab
the coin, come away,
a little bit back, come away,
do that grip, and then grip the coin,
and you have successfully done the motion
of the vanish without doing the vanish.
I think that's an important first step.
All right, to go into the
first part of the palm,
and to getting into JW,
you have to go through another palm first,
which is more of like
a finger-y kind of palm
in between these two fingers, okay?
Now it's pretty easy, all you have to do,
and this is like the
first step of it, okay?
Is get it into the position of as follows.
You're gonna go from here,
and you're just gonna
extend the middle finger.
So the middle finger extends.
And now, you're going to sort of place it
and almost as if your balancing the coin
on the middle finger, okay?
So it's here, you're gonna
extend the middle finger.
And then you're going to
sort of switch the position.
So now the middle finger is going to curl
and the first finger is
going to extend, okay?
From behind, it looks like this.
These three fingers are grabbing the coin.
The first, the middle, and the thumb.
Boom, just like that.
Now you're going to extend
the middle finger just a little bit so
that you can start curling
and getting that coin to curl in,
and then extend the first finger.
So it is now in this position,
clipped between these two fingers.
So first, it's here.
Second, it's here,
extend the middle finger.
Start twirling as the
first finger extends.
And now you can sort of balance this here
and clip it between.
This is the first part of the palm.
And that's the first part of the vanish.
So you're here, extend, almost balance it,
start switching fingers,
first finger extends,
middle finger comes down.
And now you just wanna clip it
sort of in between here, okay?
So you're kind of clipping it like that
so it doesn't fall, all right?
'Cause you're gonna do an action
where you're from here
and you're gonna come up,
and you don't want the coin
to fall in this position.
So just get used to
palming it in this way so
that it's clipped and the
first finger is extended.
Here, here, here, clip, okay?
There, boom.
(coin clangs)
The second palm that we have
to learn is the JW grip,
the essence, the whole
point of this vanish is,
how do we get the coin into
JW grip and out of JW grip?
Now JW grip looks like
this from the front.
From behind, here is what's going on.
You are here.
The first part of the
palm, we know already.
And now all we have to do is,
with the thumb from this position,
the thumb is going to come underneath.
Underneath the coin and
sort of push it up so
that it is now out of the
way of the middle finger.
Pushing up like this.
And now, it has nothing to balance on
so you're gonna need to grip it with
the first finger by curling everything in,
and grabbing it with that
first finger, just like that.
Okay, you can see.
And then extend at the middle
finger and extend the thumb.
Boom, like that, okay?
So here, the first part is here.
And then, how do we
transfer from here to here?
Well, you're gonna take
that thumb, come underneath,
pick up, push up, grab
with the first finger,
curl, middle finger
extends, thumb extends,
and then you're in this position.
So it's here and here.
Here
and here.
(coin clangs)
How many times is that,
dropping this damn coin?
The most important thing
of course about this is
that once you have the coin here,
the distance is the same.
So you wanna play around with that.
The distance being the same from here,
and then also when it is in the palm,
you'll want the same distance
between your third finger
and your middle figure and your thumb.
So as long as you know that,
now we can put it altogether.
Okay, so that we know the natural action
of how it has to look,
we know the two sort of palms
that we have to be into to do this vanish,
let's put it altogether
into the little routine
of the actual vanish, step by step.
So to begin with, you're
holding the coin just like this.
I'm gonna come here and grab the coin.
Now a lot of the times, like I mentioned,
I like to do this vanish
or any type of vanish with a coin,
to do the real move first.
So even if it's a retention
vanish or a French drop,
I do the first real move first
to get them accustomed to it.
And then I do the vanish part, okay?
So in this case, maybe.
And it just depends on
how I feel, all right?
I would come, pick it
up, do this for real.
Take your time with it,
you don't have to rush.
And now you're going to come with the coin
and you're going to go up into the hands.
So this will cover that action
a little bit better, okay?
'Cause this, you have a lot
of motion with the hand.
But if you come from up,
or rather from down to up,
then you could get that little
motion hidden very nicely
and your first step goes
without notice, all right?
So behind the scenes, okay?
'Cause this was not a good
angle, it looks like this.
So you're coming from down to up.
Remember this middle finger
is going to be right there.
So it kind of gives you
a place where to stop.
All right, you're gonna close down
just like we did for the natural action.
You're gonna close down on here.
Give it a little bit of kick up.
Go into that first part of
the sleight, as you come up.
And now as you come back,
you're going to do the
second part of the sleight
to get it into JW grip.
Re-grip, just like that, and vanish.
Come away, vanish, come away here.
Do it like that.
That's going to be up to you after that.
But I like to come here, boom.
Come up, kick.
One, two, three,
four, five.
And then, one more time
to put it altogether.
Here, up into the hands,
come back a little bit
with your right hand,
put it into JW, go.
Place your middle finger
and thumb the right size
as if it had the coin.
Rub it away, come away
with it, make it disappear.
Whatever you wanna do.
Boom, but that's really
just the vanish right there.
And I really like this
moment when you open up
your hand and your thumb
is still there, okay?
'Cause it sort of looks
like it's invisible.
Okay, especially when we're
gonna do a reproduction.
I'll show you that in the next step.
It's really gonna look it's there,
and then it could come back.
Okay, so here, up, come away, come back,
grab, don't move this framing at all.
It's gone, or you can
just take it from here.
It's gone, however else you wanna work it.
From that point on,
it's gonna be up to you.
That's putting it altogether.
Let's take a look at some
reappearances of the coin.
So once you've made the coin disappear,
a lot of people might ask,
hey, Alex, how do I make it reappear?
Fair question, well, there's
two ways that I do it.
The first way is to just shake, okay?
So you might've seen
it in the performance,
or a lot of the times,
when you do have a coin in
JW grip, if I just shake,
then you can get it to reappear, okay?
And that's literally just doing
the exact same motion but backwards.
So you are here, going to
just curl your fingers.
Grab with the middle
finger, grab with the thumb.
So now all that is on the
coin is these two fingers.
Okay, so you're transferring basically
from the first finger
to these two fingers,
and then you're reproducing.
And this first finger is going back into
that position as if the
coin was still there, okay?
'Cause you want to mimic this action.
And when it's produced, to be the same.
Okay, so you're here.
You're gonna shake, or
rather, you're here.
And then, produce.
And then, in fast speed,
it should look like that.
Okay, so that is one way, easy way--
(coin clangs)
To produce a coin.
The second way is what
I like to do sometimes,
is to reverse the procedure
of after the vanish.
Boom, you've done it.
Then you're going to
do the exact same thing
and reproduce it and then
start back here, all right?
So it's almost like you're
playing the video in reverse.
And the way that is works is
that once you have done the actual vanish,
you're gonna stay in this
position just like this.
And then from here,
you're going to come back,
and you're going to reproduce it.
Now what's important is to not have
a lot of finger motion here, all right?
So all you're gonna do
is reproduce the coin,
just like the shaking procedure, right?
So just literally close your fingers
and then open them back up.
But you're gonna try to do that with,
and practice this in the mirror,
try to do that so that this
hand is covering enough
so you don't see this
thumb move, all right?
The thumb is going to be the one
that gives it away the most
when you're doing this.
'Cause this could be
covered really nicely.
But the thumb itself
is the flashing point.
So from here, cover.
Make sure it's covered, the
thumb is gonna come back.
Produce the coin, re-grip,
and then make it appear, okay?
You could even do the vanish that way too.
Boom, and then boom.
And then of course, like I said for
the vanish of going up like this,
that also helps for the reappearance.
So if you're here and
you make it disappear,
just a little up and down motion
will also help the
reappearance of the coin, okay?
Boom and boom.
All right, guys, there you have it.
That was the video.
Hope you enjoyed it and learned something.
Let me know down in the comments below
if you like these sort of
more advanced techniques.
After I put the French drop video up,
a lot of people were asking to do
a little bit more harder stuff
because apparently everybody
knew the French drop.
I'm sorry.
But a lot of the times,
even if I do basic moves,
I always put my own touches on it
and things that I can share with you
that maybe you might not have known.
So it's always good to check out
the basics every once in awhile.
With that being said, just
one more announcement.
We have a new deck of cards
coming very, very soon.
So look out for that.
And the sort of unboxing
and everything about the deck
in the next videos ahead.
And as long as you know that,
thank you so much for
watching, sticking around.
Hope you enjoyed the video
and the little extra tidbits and bonuses,
if you've noticed, in the video.
By the way, let me know down below
what you thought of that, how I did that.
Well, it's pretty obvious
how I did do that.
But regardless, thank you
so much, guys, for watching.
And we will see you on
the next video, peace.
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