Why is everyone so interested in the muscle pass lately. It's going on like a big craze. By the way, who remembers the hula hoop. Another thing, I have been trying to do it for 2 days and the highest I got was about 1000000000000000000000000000000000000
milimilimilimilimilimilimilimilimilimeters

:dancing:

Its no big craze. People have been interested in the muscle pass for decades. It's just because its one of those very difficult things to do and it is startling (and pretty neato) to see, not to mention the covert stuff you can do with it.

Today, (second day I've tried learning muscle pass)
I managed to make the coin jump 1 inch!
I used a very big coin, and it finally worked. I have small hands, so big coins are easier to flop out. But my hand did suffer a lot though, it hurts a lot.

I was wondering how long will it take me to finally make it to 1 feet?

Hurray!
Sorry to double post but I'm very excited!
I've managed to make the coin jump 2~4 inches now! This is only my second day too!
The percentage of the coin jumping up is 95%

I used a New Zealand 50 (don't know currency)
but It has a ship on the back and Queen Elizabeth II on the front.

I am working like crazy on the muscle pass and every once in awhile I get about 10-12" inches lift. Most of the time it goes 8" inches high or so.

I practice with a casino Dollar coin I got from Casino Royale in Vegas a few years back. It does not have serated edges, and is thick and heavy. So for me, it is a worst case. I had a nice thin dollar sized palming coin with serated edges that was light and would really fire up, but I felt that was making it too easy. (And anyway, I lost it when I fired it up and didn't catch it, and it fell into a sewer grate)

But, having a short attention span, I tired of trying to flourish it straight up, and I decided to start working on actually using the muscle pass for a sleight. I fired it from my right hand towards my left hand. And suddenly I discoverd that it is a whole lot easier going sideways than straight up. I shot it about a foot past my left hand. So from a pratical standpoint, I think all that work I did trying to shoot it straight up, will be well used in muscle passing sideways.

BroDavid

That is something I had tried and tried.
I just can't get it!
Maybe I have a defective hand?
I am envious of anyone who can do it.

Johnny Ace Palmer does a nice job with the muscle pass.

If you do the muscle pass...just wondering how long it took you do master it decently? I can't say for sure since I don't put the time into coin work as I do with cards...but I have a feeling my hands aren't the correct size/shape for this.

Then again...like I say...I never thought I'd be able to do say Daryl's Hot Shot Cut, or Notis Cascade shuffle either.

It took me 2 days to get the idea.
and now I just have to make it shoot higher and higher and higher, by practicing.

Pop quiz.... anyone know where this first showed up in print or who "invented it"? What really kills me is that the originator never intended it to be an "open" visual effect. He used it to transfer a coin from one hand to the other 'without' the audience's awareness. I believe the originator used it like a coin load.

Although the muscle pass pre-dates Arthur Buckley's PRINCIPLES AND DECEPTIONS (1948), I believe it is first found in print therein. It simply states:

"THE MUSCLE PASS WITH ONE SILVER DOLLAR

The success of this coin pass depends on your ability to palm a coin and then exert pressure by the thumb muscle to cause the coin to spring several inches from the palm without any visible movement of the hands that would cause the coin to spring and bridge the distance between the two hands several inches apart.

A coin, seemingly placed in the left hand but palmed in the right (see any of the methods described herein), is vanished, and the left hand shown empty, back and front. The right hand is moved up in front of the left. As the left hand is closed and turned over, the coin palmed in the right hand is sprung and caught by the left hand as it closes and turns over. A moment later the left hand is opened and the coin shown therein.

A very deceptive pass when properly carried out."

The oldest use of it is rumored to be with an English magician from the 1800's named Charles Bertram, though the move apparently pre-dates him.

Present day magician John Cornelius popularized the muscle pass with his routine "The Coin that Falls Up" on Michael Ammar's Classic Renditions #1 tape.

Dan- Wow, you know your muscle pass!

I don't use it as a pass myself but I do like to use it to throw coins "through" glass doors and tables.