Back Palm Coin Magic Trick

Video Transcript

"My name is Wayne Phelps. What I’m going to teach you guys how to do the back palm. To do the back palm just show your hand empty, reach up and produce a coin. You can take a hat, bring the coin down into the hat and put in the hat, come back up and produce another coin, put that in the hat or the bag and produce another coin; and this can be done over and over again until you are blue in the face. This, guys, takes a little bit of practice. I want you guys to understand that I don’t want you to be frustrated if you can’t back palm a coin right from the get-go. You have to understand what you’re doing is teaching your hands a motor skill, a motor function. You’re going to drop the coin, you’re going to throw the coin, you’re going to get frustrated and you’re going to say you can’t do it. It took me quite a while to learn how to back palm a coin. So just stick with it and practice it but I promise you this is an effect well worth practice. This is how it’s done. I recommend using a silver dollar for this. You’re going to want a larger coin because of what you have to do with the coin. Small coins typically don’t work. You’re going to practice holding the coin clip between the pinky and the first finger in your hand, the palm of your hand just like this. The important thing is you want your hand to look natural and straight, not bent. You’re going to then practice holding the coin clip between your pinky and your first finger on the back of the hand just like this, at the back of the palm as well as the front of the palm. To do the back palm, you’re going to clip it with your thumb, middle and pointer finger, press the coin against the back of your fingers, clip it with your fingers and then now your hand is straighten out. This is probably when you’re going to drop the coin for the first couple of times. So it looks like your hand is empty, reach up, produce the coin and then just move it to the back to vanish it and when we have an empty hat, a paper bag or something, you can put that coin into the hat and just produce another coin. Put it into the hat. Produce another coin. Put that into the hat as well and you can keep doing this as many times as you want, coin, hat, coin. That’s the back palm."