Approaching Coin Magic is designed to bridge the gap in learning coin magic techniques. Coin magic often has a reputation for being challenging, even for seasoned card magicians. While both card and coin magic require skill, many find coin magic more difficult to begin with. However, mastering coin magic can greatly enhance a card magician’s repertoire, offering unique skills like body coordination, communication, and awareness that are beneficial across various magic disciplines, including cups and balls and rope tricks.

This course presents a clear and structured approach to building a solid foundation in coin magic, focusing on technical, theoretical, and aesthetic aspects. Rather than providing an exhaustive encyclopedia of techniques, it offers a curated selection of essential skills to learn, study, and practice, organized by their importance and practicality.

This is Volume I of the series, tailored for beginners as well as those with some experience in coin magic looking to strengthen their fundamentals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction (3 min)

2. Tips for Rehearsal (3.5 min)

3. “Bluff Vanish” (12.5 min): Your first sleight of hand coin magic effect. This complete vanish of a coin is impromptu and requires no palms or secret concealments. An updated classic that includes an application for John Scare’s “The Eagle Speaks,” where a coin finds a freely selected card.

4. The Finger Palm (15 min): Covers positioning, rehearsal tips, advanced false transfer, advanced shuttle pass, and the pivoting production.

5. “Coin & Marker” (4.5 min): A rehearsal routine that integrates several concepts and techniques, including motivating the moves, Ramsey’s subtlety, fiction, and verisimilitude.

6. “Coin Production” (4 min): A streamlined three-coin production that is both sophisticated and simple, suitable for any small objects like dice or biscuits. Ideal as a standalone piece or as an introduction to coins for another routine.