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Oh I ve done that with the coin bend my self. It works a treat also I think you can have an "after effect" they may not feel it at first but after they see the coin bent they will start saying i felt it get hot etc.

Do you think some people wouldnt be able to pull of suggestion at all though?

Markdini wrote:Do you think some people wouldnt be able to pull of suggestion at all though?

I think that suggestion has a lot to do with confidence and people's belief that you can actually do what you claim to do - so certainly there will be people who won't get that right, or just aren't believable. At the same time a lot of that confidence comes from just doing it. There are a couple methods that I find are pretty sure fire - and as you said, a coin bend is a great place to start because no matter what happens - the coin is bent.

With this kind of thing presentation is obviously everything and I don't think that one is going to pull this off after doing sponge rabbits or something. This is one of those examples of the difference between magic and mentalism

To go off on a little bit of a tangent, Dale A. Hilderbrant's 'Risk and Reward' has some excellent ideas for the use of suggestion in a coin effect, well worth a look.