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Hi, this is Doug on behalf of expertvillage.com. We're going over the sleight of hand involved
in the French Drop. A manipulation with a coin, an everyday object, but today we're
using a large coin. What we went over is that fact that you'll take your hands and bring
them together. Now the second step, and most important part of this illusion, we'll turn
to the side so you can see, is again the drop. It's very important here. It's called the
drop and steal. You're going to drop it into your hand like this, so there's a landing
pad. The coin should find itself just nicely either against the palm of the fingers or
the palm of the hand itself. So what's going to happen here again is the drop and steal.
You're going to bring your hands, this is from the back mind you. You're going to drop
the coin and steal the coin with this hand. This is a very crucial part of the trick,
is that you almost fool yourself into thinking the coin is in this hand. Because it's a steal,
a drop and steal. Again, what's happening there is the coin is going to under cover
of the hands, drop. And you will steal an imaginary coin, and come apart. Now the hands
coming apart is also a very crucial moment here because your focus must be here, not
where the coin actually is. If you can focus on where you think the coin should be or the
audience should be, they will follow your focus there. It's called misdirection. the
other hand is not important, don't think about it, don't look at it. Don't focus on it and
no one else will.
