Explanation of French Drop Sleight of Hand Tricks

"Alright everybody, let me break the French drop for you. We're actually going to do this in 2 segments because the way I learned it is kind of a 2 part thing. Eventually it's going to become a 1 part thing, but there's 2 different things I want to think about. First is you right hand action. The second is your left hand action. We'll do the left hand action, what it does, after the move shortly. I'm right handed so I'm going to cradle the ball between the middle finger and thumb of my left hand like this. The French drop looks like that. I like to do it with a little squeeze. I think it gives it some nice presentation. The ball ends up in the other hand, which is going to useful on our cups and balls routine because later on we're going to introduce this ball under a cup. The first part of the French drop looks like this. If you're cradling the ball in your hand. This hole right here, you're thumb is going to go in just like that. Now, the fingers are going to come over and they're going to cover the ball like this. As soon as that happens, you're going to drop the ball from your finger and thumb and it's going to fall right into your hand into the finger palm that we talked about earlier. You come in, you close, you drop like this. Then you're going to finish closing this hand and you're going to rotate it away like this. With a little squeeze it's going to look like it disappeared. Now, I'm going to show you some other tips and hints on that in just a minute."