Chris are you feeling lucky today okay
let's try this my brother flip it in the
air here we go heads or tails or the rim
just the rim just the tails no sorry
got that wrong with heads so well look
let's go with the hit okay I'm gonna
give you the coin you take it got a
marker here now as a magician you've
handled Sharpie markers and marked a
bunch of things but if you were to
layperson I said I bet you probably
never mark to say your first initial on
the head side of a coin I bet you've
never done it kind of mentally look take
a sharpie marker go ahead put your
initial that's okay just a capital A now
put your initial on look ahead yeah now
pass it right to me because I don't know
if you know this but if I'm gonna get if
you don't give it time to draw I'm gonna
hold up the camera here if you don't
give it time to dry you can actually rub
off I'm gonna get it off here yeah most
of it off here you can actually rub off
most of the ink on a coin because coins
are covered in stuff that makes them
very hard for stuff to even stain or
stick on them but if I do it again here
you take this take the core again put
your initial on there again buddy okay
yeah on the head just put your initial
on there the vault a napkin now give it
five seconds to dry
blowing yeah okay you'll find now if I
rub the napkin against it yeah it's it's
not coming off it is permanently on
there now hold on the napkin tightly in
your hand
fool of you okay now how long have you
been hiding the name Chris that's weird
huh weird and again because of the
spelling the C is kind of unique and
distinct but watch hold your fists out
like this I the reason I had you mark
this is because I wanted to make sure
that we were and that this was an
absolutely unique item
you got a crumpled napkin in your hand
watch carefully I'm gonna see if I can
actually make the quarter travel from my
hand into your hand go ahead open up the
paper napkin this is my wipe off
principle I first released this or
shared this with a magic fraternity
something like 30 I don't thirty five
years ago whatever one of my early books
I think it might have been in Sankey
panky yes that was the title of early
early book of mine anyway shared this
idea and it really caught the
imagination of a lot of magicians that
are around the world my my early fans
long time ago because this tries to I
mean you basically get to create two of
the only two of the other one of a kind
by doing this now I've used this
principle in other ways I've even had
people sign a card wipe it off their
initial wipe it off with a piece of
flash paper spark the flash paper while
throwing at the deck and their initial
reappears back on a card the one card
they were thinking of that's a very
powerful effective mind I've been using
for many years and it flies every time
you know this is the kind of trick that
requires people to buy into one thing
right and magicians often hesitate I've
shared this at lectures and there's
always at least a few guys ago I'm not
sure do people and laypeople totally
believe this particularly this
when you have the marker coin because a
marker on a card every most people have
done that kids have done that they know
sharpies are pretty permanent okay
you got to really keep you know you got
to be really compelling I think and
really believe in that yourself for
people to buy into the playing card
applications but for on the coin having
somebody marker coins and seconds later
use a paper napkin and they can see the
ink they can see it's gone off the court
and they can see the ink on the paper
napkin that always flies so here you
have a situation and I want to teach you
the most basic trick you could do with
this very strong trick down the let's
great in a bar you riff this in a bar
jaw-dropper very strong but the
applications are unlimited for where you
could have this one of a kind only
marked coin up here it's all about how
much effort you want to put into it but
you can have reappear and you could have
it you know you can bend it you can do
so many different kinds of things
because now you have two of them right
so keep that in mind let's drop in it
and take a look at the principle and the
very simple handling I think you're
gonna like it
so for this you're gonna need two coins
to matching coins and a sharpie marker I
got a jumbo here no surprise of course
think he's got a jumbo and a paper
napkin and what I have is a button here
I just have a button and the reason I
have the button is because I'm gonna any
object that isn't gonna hold the ink
this button has a clear plastic sort of
coating on it so I know I can take a
bunch of ink kind of put it on there
like that take the napkin and if I don't
wait too long here I should be able to
let's see here yeah get a bunch of the
ink to come right off onto the napkin so
that's my prep so this I mean this is
kind of a big napkin this really does
work better with a cocktail napkin
because with a cocktail napkin of course
they're a lot smaller they're pretty
much half the size of this napkin okay
but for now let's use this okay I got a
larger napkin here and what I've been
able to do is get the ink that I need
off this slick surface get rid of that
I'm ready and I'm gonna basically have
this either sitting on a chair nearby if
I'm in a bar I could have that sitting
by the chair nearby and what I want is I
want for it to be head side or will do
tail side up I want it tail side okay I
want the tail side against the ink so I
got the tail size of a
the ink and this can be either sitting
in my lap or can be sitting on a
barstool nearby or probably the best way
and again this works better with a
smaller napkin is to have this folded
have this and the quarter behind it and
this is down my pocket okay and if you
push it you know right the way down the
pocket then it means that the quarter
and then that gonna stay closely
together the next step is borrowing a
quarter and having it marked now you can
use your own coin of course that there's
some real virtue of that because you can
know it's a perfect match right or you
can borrow what I like to do is get a
handful of change out do a few different
coin tricks with a handful of change and
rigged my own coins get a handful of
coins help do some tricks and rig it so
I have a perfect match among the change
that I have right and then say actually
let's try something with this this is
like an ordinary quarter take a look at
it they take a look at make sure it's
ordinary and then I can go you're
feeling lucky heads or tails and go into
it from there and I say go ahead and
mark the coin and they mark the coins
they just put your first initial on okay
and while they're putting the first
initial on I openly put my hand in my
pocket and I take out the napkin okay
and because I have the coin in the
napkin against the ink now I have a
hidden behind that I'm all set to do
spell bat let's say they put the initial
is I okay as in I hate my name okay they
do that and I will still have this in my
hand and I tell them what off the bat if
we don't let it dry and I take it and
now I'm ready to like I said for
spellbound because the visuals of coming
over here rubbing the ink off and
showing it off I mean that is so
convincing this sells the idea that
sells the idea and all I did was a
Vernon's spellbound move which is I have
the mark coin here and I'm gonna let the
coin fall down like this the coin is
gonna fall down I have just moved my
thumb
the coins gonna fall down like that okay
and it's gonna happen when I come over
here and I leave the mark are they're
gonna leave the duplicate coin right
where the other coin was and rub perfect
motivation they see the ink apparently
comes off and but I keep moving I don't
pause there and go whoo like that I say
notice that we don't give it time to
draw I can get most of the inka almost
all day and I always say most are almost
all of it even though there's no ink
left here okay I get most of it almost
all of it off like that that I
immediately put this back down the table
let's say bucks and I want I say if you
put your initial and I try not to say if
you put your initial again or if you
sign it a second time I try to say but
if you put your initial on it
go ahead you'll see and now he puts his
initial back on like this like this he
does his I like that again I say now if
we give it time to dry we count to five
years you blow on it and while
everyone's doing that I just take the
napkin here I'll say now if you blow on
it or you and I can put the napkin
directly on top of the first initial
coin okay put the marker away there
letting that dry like this blowing on it
whatever now I can either open this wrap
it around the coin inside here to really
make it buried or just crumpled around
let's say in this case I wrap it around
crumpled it up I'm done with this this
totally natural action take the coin
from them as they actually here hold on
to this they hold on to this okay and
they'll never feel the coin inside or
you could take this and put it under a
coffee cup or you could take the napkin
and put it inside a wineglass I love
using wine glasses beautiful theater to
isolate but also raised so all can see
okay but let's assume that holding onto
their hand so Wow
am I in a crazy position they're holding
on to their marked coin inside the
napkin and I have it here okay now I
always like to plant a time lapse here
for a few reasons if they've written
this a little more distinctly the second
time or whatever I want to make sure
there's a time delay here so I'll take
the coin here and casually hold it my
hand and gesture with or whatever say
we're gonna try something you could talk
about molecules you could take a lighter
out and heat this up it's gonna make
them all the Q's little softer you could
do a false coin band all that stuff you
can do down here okay false coin band
there you can pretend to heat up with a
layer whatever plant a time lapse and
then finally gonna make it vanish
there's lots of ways to do this you
could even use the old muffled us I'm
going to use some invisible magic dust
and so in this case what you do is you
do a straight vanish you do a false
transfer go to your pocket right you can
bring out the magic marker even saying
look I'm going to try to see if I can
make the ink vanish from it from the
coin
see if I can get the eat to vanish here
even though we gave it time to dry and
wait a second I think I just made the
coin vanish and that's nice and
justifies you going to pocket so Origo
your pocket pretending it invisible dust
whatever that way you get a full vanish
the coin is gone now please as I always
say in this channel if you've been in
magic ten years you think okay coin
vanish let's get to the real magic No
this vanish can be real magic this
vanish deserves to be don't do anything
in this year gonna give it its due so it
vanishes boom like that and then to
finish take your time and really enjoy
this absolutely shocking coin trick
where they've held this I mean they saw
you handling their Marc coin long after
they were holding this in their hand now
they open up and they find any you don't
even open up they open it up and they
find it possibly inside their own marked
coin there's a friend of mine that for
years was always saying I've got to
start exercising I've got to start
exercising he like a lot of us you don't
had a couple extra pounds and he was
always talking about exercise anybody
never got to this and this was many
years ago and the other day I was
talking with them and what's really cool
is a couple of years ago he started you
know he did it
and rather than fading away a week went
by then another week then a month then a
year now it's been a couple of years and
now he's not addicted to it but it's now
integrated into who he is into his life
and I mention that because you know and
you'll find this in a lot of with music
and it was magic and I'm sure with a lot
of other art forms the only way for you
to really really get good really good
and I don't mean really good in
comparison to other people because
that's frankly I mean get
become your version of good you good is
by practicing you need to live
performance magic is a is an interactive
art form but you need to come to love to
practice and some people I mean I'm I
from a very early age I loved it I just
sort of made that connection between the
practice and people's praise and the
responses and for a young guy with a
whole bunch of emotional needs it was a
quick
however my friend is another case in
point about you know it's about sticking
with it in until it becomes if not super
pleasurable just at least a habit you
need to come to love to practice to need
to practice I don't practice as much as
I used to that's for sure
I mean I used to practice for hours
every single day long before I had a
house and kids and all that stuff and I
still keep it up for sure and performing
helps and all that stuff and I warm up
my hands but you need to go through a
period where you love to practice and
the best thing to do is just to start
and stick with it and I promise you some
of you already love to practice but the
others who wish they liked it if you
just you know how do you get there it's
a bit of a paradox because you get there
by doing more of it well how do you push
yourself through more of it if you don't
already like it right but maybe that's
something you can step here a goal in
the new years to practice maybe you know
15 minutes a day I bet you can find 15
not 20 not an hour classic setup ha
could do an hour every day and of course
become too much life comes in 15 minutes
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