Coin Magic Gurus -- I Need Direction

[Tower of Lunatic Meat]

I'm in the process of acquiring the tricks necessary to do a strolling set at a children's hospital. One of the tricks involves taking a flat disk, and then turning this disk into a coin.

What I was thinking for the routine is that I take the flat disk, toss the coin into the air, then catch disk and it is now a coin.

The problem is that I feel like I'm teetering on exposure on asking for help on it (so I feel like I have to ask for help in a rather vague way) with this one AND I have no direction of the best way of how to execute this--I know it's feasible, but I'm not sure where else to turn to on this one.

Any help? direction? Am I able to provide more specific information?

 

[tyendapally@gmail.com]

keep hand in position so thumb is facing up, pinky is down

Keep coin in finger palm

Put disc in hand so it is visible to audience and is holt at the top of your hand by thumb

Pull disc into fist at the same time you drop the coin in your finger palm into the other hand.

The disc is now in finger palm

ILLUSION CREATED: you dropped the disc into your other hand.

Reach into your pocket for a wand (ditching disc if necessary)

SHOW Disc HAS CHANGED

 

[RealityOne]

Get a copy of Bobo's Modern Coin Magic (the answer to all coin questions). Find the explanation for the Bobo switch.

Toss disc in air, catch it in hand which has coin in a palmed, use the Bobo switch to tranfer coin to other hand to show it has changed.

 

[WillHardman]

Bobo's Modern Coin Magic is an exceptional book and a must have for all coin magicians

 

[CrazyClement]

Gregory Wilson's Pitch and Ditch! (Sorry I'm a Gregory Wilson fan)

There are lots of routines in New York Coin Seminar: The Workers...for kids stuff like the Wishing Well by Michael Rubenstein may seem quite interesting...or boring

Michael Ammar ETMCM has a mixture of good and boring effects...for me some are too gimmicky.

Personally the routine I always to for kids is the MISER'S DREAM. They love it when coins come from their ears, elbows, noses, pigtails, sometimes I even make the boys fart a few out.

 

[CrazyClement]

Perhaps you can do a shuttle pass or Sylvester exchange (I think that is what it's called--basically swapping the coins from each hand by drawing two semicircles with each hand--covered in On The Spot Greg Wilson), get the child to blow on it, and show that it has changed...? Just some ideas.

 

[wildwildcat]

This sounds a lot like David Roth's Karate Coin routines. Kaufman's CoinMagic has a few you can try.

For a specific "toss change" effect, check out the toss change in Ponta's Anitya (spellbound routine). I'm not too sure about its availability, but it's probably the most visual one that comes to mind.

For less open versions, any palm change or switch (Bobo's, Latta's, Stone's) would all work.

Actually, back on the Spellbound track, most visual Spellbound changes can probably fit your bill-- a good description to the plot can be found on David Roth's Expert Coin Magic Made Easy tape (volume 2), or Bobo's (under the Protean Coin), or Stars of Magic (where its first debuted, I believe).

I hope these (and those before me) provide a good place to start devising the handling you desire.

Cheers,

 

[Justin.Morris]

Gregory Wilson's Pitch and Ditch!

This. A super easy and so so good method for this. It's a modified Bobo idea, but you need to be standing.