
Learn how to perform finger palm sleight of hand in this free sleight of hand magic tricks video.
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"Hey everybody. So if you watched the clip before this on the false transfer explanation, you saw me do a transfer like this that I said use the finger palm. This one actually uses finger palm too, but let me explain to you exactly what a finger palm is. What it is is when you hold the ball in your curled fingers kind of loosely. It's nothing you want to clinch up real tight on. Later on I'm going to show you sleight of hand vanish called the French drop and it's going to utilize this as well. The way I'm going to use it as a vanisher or false transfer is I'm going to create a little ball in my hand. As I turn it, it's going to roll and get stopped by my pinky. My pinky stops it just like that. I'm going to kind of grip the ball as I come over and I'm going to close my hand and keep the ball in this hand. It's going to look like that. If I do it with the back of this hand towards you because you don't see the ball. If I hold this hand the right way, it actually looks like it might have been in there and disappeared. That's using the finger palm to do the false transfer. The finger palm is just a loose hold just like that in your hand. That's a good example of it. There are applications of this for coins as well and for other small objects. I just wanted to show it to you with a ball for now. That's how you utilize a finger palm."
Expert Village: Malik Haddadi
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