Retention Vanish Coin Magic Trick

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Part of the video series: How to Do Magic Coin Tricks

Summary: Learn the secrets of how to perform "The Retention Vanish" magic coin trick in this free magic lesson video.

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Wayne Phelps Close-up magician and comic Wayne Phelps has been entertaining audiences around the United States for more than seven years. He is a member of both the Academ... read more

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Retention Vanish Coin Magic Trick

My name is Wayne Phelps. I’m a professional magician. This is expertvillage.com. What I want to teach you guys is how to do a retention vanish. This is a very basic move in magic, and it’s used in a lot of coin effects, it’s how we vanish a coin from one hand to another. This is what a retention vanish looks like. It’s used to vanish a coin once it’s placed in your hand, just like that. The coin is gone. Did you see it move? That’s right, I’ll do it for you one more time and see if you can catch it. The coin was into my hand and it vanishes. This is how it is done. The retention coin works by snapping your fingers. These are the same motions we use. When the coins in your hand move the middle finger down and that moves the coin parallel to your index finger. Index finger hides the coin. When you bring the coin over in your hand it rests against the muscle of the thumb. Your fingers will close like a venus flytrap. When they do that, perform the retention at the same time, pull your left hand away and drop it to your side. At this time you’re free to go ahead and position the coin in your finger palm or in a classic palm position. Let it go limp, let it be natural while you focus all your attention on your left hand, bring your left hand up, look at it, vanish the coin and now you can go into whatever else you’re going to do next. That’s a retention vanish.

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