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Here's something I strung together this arvo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTQLzyQCKc

I've been playing about with various moves and trying to get a little one coin routine together as an intro to more coin tricks. What I'm interested in hearing is what y'all think of the routining and what I could add to improve it. And the moves of course.

Cheers.

Great routine buddy!

I couldnt understand you because it was a bit to quiet but it was still real good.

That's really nice, very smoothly done. I've been working on something kind of similar myself, but I'm finding it quite hard to make my performance look as smooth as yours

It's a great start, but you need to watch a few things. Your hands get a bit fidgety at times, which draws attention to it.

Your initial production was nicely done.

Your effect of your first vanish is dampened because your right hand fidgets around as you're making the magic happen. My eyes were immediately drawn to that hand, instead of the hand that's supposed to have the coin in it.

Your reproduction seemed a bit rushed, to me. I think if you just slow yourself down a bit, you'll find that the effect is greatly enhanced. One of the biggest misconceptions about sleight of hand is that most people think it means you're really fast. While that's not always true - feeding into that stereotype by rushing through things doesn't help sell your effect. Take your time (you obviously know what you're doing - the sleights are performed well), and let things sink in a bit, before you crack their skulls.

The coin through the elbows segment was very nicely done. I especially liked the second transposition. Well done, here.

As for the vanish and open-handed production, I'm on the fence. Technically, it was done just as well as you can hope. However, some of the display doesn't look very natural. Granted, this view comes from "behind the curtain" so to speak, but I think you can be a bit more casual in how you display your hands at this point.

All-in-all, you have a great routine here. It's a perfect opener and a great way to transition into other coin routines. Well done!

i liked it.
however, i must say you should slow down a bit.
and i think if you made a story out of the whole routine, it would make it more pleasing and funny.
nice job!

Thanks people, after 3 months of banging my head against a brick wall it seems like the coin stuff is finally starting to come together.

Good input as usual Demitri, I'll take those comments on board. One thing I have in my defence is that the fidgety hand was particularly so because I was loading the coin into position for the muscle pass which I used for the L'Homme Masque style reproduction bit. I still find it hard to cleanly load a coin into muscle pass position from fingertip rest, as it requires a bit more precision that simply putting the coin into cp.

look very cool
good job