This is called anti-gravity and in magic it's called the muscle pass. The muscle pass is done by getting used to having chips in your hands like this and palming it. This is a technique used in magic, coin magic specifically. This is done by taking a chip, placing it on your middle finger and pivoting it up into your palm. Now the main tissue here and over here, when makes your fingers squeeze together like this, form an area that can hold a coin or a poker chip. It doesn't take a lot of pressure at all. A lot of people squeeze really hard and you get this really distorted hand look. You are going to have that at the beginning, it's going to look little bit like this, but after a while that will start to look really natural. So just practice by placing a chip here and squeezing and just holding it. Just find the spot in your hand that seem hold it the best. This tissue right here is also going to come across and squeeze, now like that. You don't have to squeeze too hard. Now the way the pass, the muscle pass or the anti-gravity move is created is by holding your hand like this for the palm not squeezing really hard. So you hold it there likely to hold the coin, but then, if you squeeze too hard, the coin shoots across.
So in magic I shoot it across to have a coin go from one hand to another without being caught. But the anti-gravity maneuver is the same thing. You are going to hold it here and you are going to squeeze and the coin goes up. Now that you have learned the very basics of the anti-gravity, let me show you the finer points plus a couple of cool variations. One subtle secret to the anti-gravity is when you are holding out like I showed you before, when the chip releases, it absolutely has to release off the top of the chip here. Practice just getting it to pop over like so. Do not let it release from here. You'll never get the chip to go anywhere except on to the table. So release from the thumb, have a pop over and little by little, get it to flip further and further and further.
Now let's go into a couple of cool variations with the anti-gravity. Instead of taking the chip and shooting up, take the chip and shoot it across into the other hand. You can actually go right into this little hole you create if you get the accuracy down to that degree. It's pretty cool to get a chip to fly to other hand and make it exactly into a hole that's the width of a chip. Another thing I like to do is take the chip and shoot it to the fingertips of the awaiting hand and last, this one is pretty cool. When you have a big stack of chips in front of you, you can actually ricochet a chip from one hand off your stack right into your other hand. Depending on how big stack is, just go for your highest stack. That's pretty cool. That's the anti-gravity.
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