My name is Ben Nemzer and I'm a magician.
One of my specialties is close-up magic, which
is magic with ordinary objects, that's with
cards, ropes, rubber bands.
I do that all over New York City.
I'm going to teach you some of the basics
of magic, that you guys can start performing
right away.
I'm going to show you one way to take a coin
and put it right through the table.
Here's the secret.
Now, this is only one way to do the trick,
but I think you'll have fun with it, if you
give it a try.
What you do, is you reach for the coin and
start pushing it towards yourself, with these
four fingers.
And right when it gets to the end of the table,
you just knock it off the edge.
You can't really see it, but it looks just
like that, with one finger.
When you're using all the fingers, as soon
as you feel it fall off the edge, you pinch
it and you really pretend you're holding a
coin.
And you catch it in the other hand.
Now you bring it to the table, smack it down,
and you see that the coin went right through
the table.
