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"I'm going to show you one more way to put a ball under a cup. Again, it's very basic. This is one that you can use with any kind of cups and balls. Whether they be the kind that are designed to mess together with a ball in between like some are or some that aren't designed to mess together, even if you're using paper cups. This is going to be used more if you don't have a ball on top of the cup and you can't do the tilt thing. What we're going to do is we're going to show the cup empty like this and then as we come back we're going to put the ball down and kind of put the cup over it like that. Let me show you from the side here. Put the ball in your finger palm. We're going to show the cup and show it like this. Show it like that. You're going to show it like this; show it empty. You're going to put it down, drop the ball. What you're trying to do is leave the ball still and put the cup down over it. We're trying to just kind of lay the ball down and put the cup over it. Lay the ball down and put the cup over it like that. That's another way of getting the ball under the cup."
Expert Village: Malik Haddadi
Video Series: Arts & Entertainment
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