Props for Sleight of Hand Magic Tricks

Sleight of hand tricks often form the backbone of a magician's repertoire. Most of them would have you believe that the exceptional hand speed they have developed over years of practice is the basis of their trickery. While this is certainly true to an extent, just as important to these types of tricks is the misdirection achieved by an accomplished magician. They manipulate the audience into looking away from where the hand sleight is taking place with a wave of the wand or a puff of smoke. In this way, they are able to confuse the minds of the audience as to what actually took place. Thus magicians are very much skilled entertainers in addition to master tricksters.

In this series of free magic videos, our professional magician demonstrates basic sleight of hand tricks such as the french drop and false transfer in a clear and easy-to-follow manner. He also performs several tricks using cups and balls and explains these routines in detail. He even shows you how to use a magic wand. Now that you know this magician's secret, make it your own.

"Hey, everybody, so let’s talk about cups and balls magic. Well, this is one of the broadest topic of magic, there have been entire books and courses produced on cups and balls. I just want to talk to you briefly on some, some of the different props you can use, some of the different ideas. Let me show you these, this is a set of plastic, basic plastic cups, these are actually covered in a shiny material so they look kinda like metal, but they’re plastic cups. These are the same kind of cups you get in like a child’s magic set. These are actually made by a company called Fantasma, they look kinda cool. Um, you can check them out at FantasiaMagic.com. There are, you know a set like this you can get at a magic shop for about like five dollars. They’ll come like, red, yellow and blue. This is a set of aluminum cups; these are more of a professional grade cup. They make cups in all kinds of materials. Now, there are cups for cups and balls that go up to thousands of dollars in price. But there’s even versions of the cups and balls you can produce with basic plastic cups like this and some balls made out of tin-foil or paper towel or paper napkins, or whatever. So we’ll uh, we’ll talk about some basic cups and balls ideas."