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How To: Do the coin great mind magic trick

Great self working Mind Magic Trick. Which hand is holding the coin? Guess right every time!!

How To: Restore the holes in a bill bar trick

Tear a hole in a bill and then magically restore it! All you need is a normal bill and to know this secret!

How To: Win a heads or tails coin toss every time

Become the master of Heads and Tails. With this secret technique you can predict and even produce any outcome you like. This is the secret that will let you win heads or tails any time.

How To: Juggle knives

In this series of expert videos, learn how to juggle knives! Use balls first to get used to the different juggling styles then move onto blades

How To: Spin a pen with your thumb

This video demonstrates how to spin a pen in your hand. To do this, just hold the pencil with your thumb and forefinger, apply pressure with your middle finger and watch the pen spin.

How To: Use a stripper deck for basic tricks

Following the Dalton incident, the stripper deck rapidly fell out of favor with poker cheats, but remains popular to this day with magicians. The deck looks perfectly normal but has tapered edges on all the cards. The goal of the magician in using a stripped deck is to have a person choose a card, then replace it in the deck facing the opposite direction, so that the tapered or stripped edge of the card stands out from the smooth edge of all the other cards.

How To: Use a Stripper Deck for Advanced Tricks

In this second part of our series on stripper or taper decks of trick cards, learn more advanced tricks involving two and even four cards. Our expert reviews how to locate cards within the stripper deck, then demonstrates how you can take your card magic to the next level.

How To: Play hacky sack

This hacky sack expert will show you a variety of different moves and tricks as well as introduce you to a few different games to play in the footbag hobby.

How To: Use Svengali magic cards for pro tricks

With this series of card trick video clips, our expert magician Malik Haddadi wraps up his lessons for using the Svengali deck. By now you know enough about these trick cards to go public with your new set of skills.

How To: Use Svengali magic cards for advanced tricks

In this second installment of our series on the Svengali deck, our expert magician Malik Haddadi demonstrates more great tricks. Learn how to perform the grand maneuver known as the all alike trick, which transforms what appears to the audience as a normal deck of cards into a deck of cards which are all the same.

How To: Use Svengali magic cards for basic tricks

Our popular Expert Village card trick professional Malik Haddadi tells you all you need to know about the Svengali deck in this series of magic videos. He begins with prepping the cards and quickly jumps to tricks sure to impress your audience. Pick a card, any card from one pile, even two or three piles and Malik will always go right to the card, or rather one of twenty six cards the same as the one you picked out.

How To: Put a secret message on a Skittle

Here is a neat little way to manipulate a bag of Skittles to insert a secret message. Shock your friends and bedazzle your family with a neat little trick that will sure to leave them scratching their heads. Insert a message into the Skittles and have fun fooling everyone.

How To: Put an egg in a bottle and retrieve it

Here is an inventive way to retrieve an egg once it has been magically placed into a bottle. Dazzle the audience with two magic tricks in one as you make an egg appear in a bottle and then magically make it appear outside of the bottle. This is a great two for one trick that takes only minutes.

How To: Do rope magic tricks

In this street magic and illusion revealed video series, learn how to do rope magic tricks. Our expert magician will show you how to do the one handed knot trick, the three ropes to one trick, how to cut a rope in half and restore it, the ring and rope trick, and more. Get tips and pointers for executing these simple tricks for friends and strangers alike. Learn to astound and amaze…but first practice, practice, practice.

How To: Balance a quarter on a quarter

Kipkay shows you how to balance a quarter on a quarter which is an advanced magic trick. The secret is you put a hole in the bottom of the top quarter and a pin on the top of the bottom quarter.

How To: Make five dollars doing a trick

Kipkay demonstrates how you can make five dollars by doing a bar trick and you bet your friend that you can lift a half full shot glass up with the palm of your hand. You have to use 100 percent liquor and when the flame goes out the glass will stick to your hand.

How To: Unlock police handcuffs

Kipkay shows you how to escape from a pair of handcuffs with only a bobby pin just like Harry Houdini did. You peel away the plastic protective covering from the bobby pin and you put the end of the bobby pin in the keyhole of the handcuffs.

How To: Perform hyperloop poi spins

If you want to do orbitals and some of the more advanced poi spinning moves, then you'll need to know how to do hyperloops. Check it out in this video.

How To: Do an isolated 3-beat weave poi spin

Nick is here to show you how to do an isolated 3-beat weave when poi spinning. It's a bit different from a normal 3-beat weave or a regular isolation. The most important thing on this one? Practice!

How To: Do Orbitals (AKA Superduperuberloops) with poi

If you know anything about spinning poi, then you've probably heard about orbitals, but you may not have heard about superduperuberloops. Either way, Nick is going to show you how to do them.

How To: Do 5-beat weaves with poi

Nick and the Playpoi guys filmed a poi lesson on 5-beat weaves in Austria, including musings on 7 and 9-beat weaves and the idea of winding and unwinding.

How To: Perform Maori poi dancing

A young Maori woman named Migoto (the name is Japanese takes the time to teach Nick (and you) some traditional Maori poi dancing.

How To: Expand your ability to do poi flower moves

This is a tutorial video about compound circles (aka flowers) and freedom of expression. Hopefully you'll get some great tips on new ways to move your arms in conjunction with your poi. There is a quirky intro you may want to skip to get right to the instructional.

How To: Do an inside UTL butterfly turn around poi spin

In this video you'll see how to do an inside under the leg butterfly turn around poi spinning move. It is very similar to the inside under the leg butterfly move, just a bit more complex. Do an inside UTL butterfly turn around poi spin.

How To: Do the split time swinging Poi spin

This beginning Poi spinning tutorial goes over how to swing Poi in split time so that they are moving in opposite directions. Do the split time swinging Poi spin.

How To: Do a low turn Poi spin

This tutorial goes over how to do a low turn Poi spin. This is a good move for changing direction of the Poi from forward to reverse swinging. Do a low turn Poi spin.

How To: Do a tuck turn Poi spin

As the name of this move implies, you'll be learning how to tuck your arms under as you turn while spinning Poi. Do a tuck turn Poi spin.

How To: Do the "Chasing the Sun" Poi spin

This Poi spinning tutorial goes over how to do the Chasing the Sun move. Your hands should be the same distance apart from each other all the time. Do the "Chasing the Sun" Poi spin.

How To: Do the forward behind the back weave Poi spin

This video demonstrates the forward behind the back weave Poi spinning move. Make sure to check out the side and front view videos to help you learn. Do the forward behind the back weave Poi spin.

How To: Do the 5 beat reverse weave/chase Poi spin

This move is considered an advanced move and is known as the 5 beat reverse weave or chase. This video will demonstrate how to do this Poi spinning move. Do the 5 beat reverse weave/chase Poi spin.

How To: Do an airwrap in wall plane poi spin

This video shows you how to do the Poi spinning move "airwrap in wall plane". Make sure to check out the overhead view to get a full idea of the motions. Do an airwrap in wall plane poi spin.

How To: Do basic hyperloop poi spins

Hyperloops are also known as Tangles and are considered an isolation move. This is not a hard move and here are many different ways to do this so try and learn it forwards and backwards and every which way. Check out the additional movies for different vantage points. Do basic hyperloop poi spins.

How To: Do spiral wraps with poi

In this video Meenik shows you how to do spiral wraps with poi. He shows you how to hold your hands and position your thumbs and gives multiple angles so you can really see what goes on.

How To: Do fire breathing basics

In this series of circus and carnival instructional videos, our expert on party entertainment will tell you everything you need to know about breathing fire. Do fire breathing basics - Part 1 of 14.

How To: Do the double windmill poi spin

The double windmill uses the same technique as the weave except it is being applied on a different plane. Where the forward weave uses an alternation of raising the lower hand back and on top, the double windmill alternates from front to back. This video will show you how to do this poi spin. Do the double windmill poi spin.

How To: Do the behind the back weave with poi

A little poi lesson on behind-the-back weave, shot in beautiful Bali. Even if you aren't in Bali, you can still learn this poi move.

How To: Make poi and hold them

We often get emails asking us about poi, how to make them, how to hold them, etc. We had such a great crew of people gathered in Thailand, we decided to Show our Poi. If you're looking for ideas for practice poi or fire poi, you've come to the right video.