Hand to Hand

Learn how to perform a magic pen trick in which you appear to make a pen levitate about your hand.

A kong vault involves approaching an object at approximately waist height, placing the hands on the top and throwing the legs forward so that they pass through the arms, the end result being that the athlete lands on their feet on the other side and can continue on their route ...more

Learn how to give the illusion of a credit card leaving your hands and reappearing. Make a credit card disappear and reappear. Click through to watch this video on tricklife.com

Watch this video to learn how to score a thin strip of glass and break it off with a hand tool.

Watch this video to learn how to cut glass along a curvy score line using a hand tool.

Learn tips on this video from Garden Girl on how to shear your urban livestock. Garden Girl is going to shear a pygora goat. They are a mixture of an angora goat and a pygmy goat. Their unique fiber hand spins into a beautiful yarn.

The Chapman stick, or the tapstick, has the strings of a electric guitar and bass on one fretboard so you can play rhythm and melodies at the same time, one with each hand.

Here's the proper way to fire a rubber band like a rifle using just your hand and arm.

English bread - no sugar here and perfect for vegans! This simple, hand-made bread is perfect for beans on toast, or with some nice yeast extract and a good cup of tea. It's so English, you'll be whistling Monty Python and driving small, fuel efficient cars before you finish t ...more

During World War II, GIs in the field built really amazing simple radios to listen to. These were made with materials that they could get their hands on and were small enough to carry around in a big pocket. You can modify this design if you want to set it up so that it's tune ...more

The pataflafla is a unique drum rudiment that is sure to challenge your ability to play flam strokes. It requires that you play back-to-back flams with the same hand. This rudiment is great for drum fills and solo patterns.

The swiss army triplet is a unique one-way rudiment that can be played in both right and left hand leads. Unlike most of the other rudiments, this rudiment isn't designed to alternate. As its name suggests this rudiment has a 'triplet' feel.

After a series of quarte disengage attacks, Bijan takes several counter-ripostes before finishing with a fleche. (For those striving for perfection--He's too close when I'm coming forward/hand is too far back in his sixte parry & he's not fully stretched in the fleche--Aside f ...more

California bar-owner Trader Vic handed this concoction to a Tahitian friend in 1944 who took one sip and proclaimed, "Mai tai, roa ae," or, in English, "Out of this world, the best!"

Coiling a rope in such a way that you can use it for a backpack. The butterfly is a real quick simple method of coiling up your rope so that you can transport it and keep your hands free.

A cordless drill/screwdriver can easily be used as a hand-crank charger for batteries... even alkalines! See for yourself! Recharging alkaline batteries is done at your own risk. Crank charge batteries. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com

Learn a card trick in which you appear to make a card teleport from the middle of the deck into your hand (to replace a card that you are holding).

A technique for auto aligning (registering) two or more images together in Photoshop CS3. This is great tool for hand stitching panoramas together. Auto align panorama images in Photoshop CS3. Click through to watch this video on vtutorial.com

It’s the cold and flu season – and anyone who has been sidelined by fever, achy joints, swollen nasal passages and sore throats knows first hand the value of prevention. Beat a cold. Click through to watch this video on howstuffworks.com

Learn how to utilize this resisted arms drill using hand-weights in order to build up resistance and achieve maximum muscle recruitment.

While there are many different ways to catch a football pass, the general idea is to keep your arms and hands up and out in front of you.

Mike shows you how to do a hand rail with no pegs on a BMX bike.

Selling is about being proactive, not about handing out a business card.

Building a custom Oswald bicycle frame using hand powered tools. This shows you how to lug cut and tube miter. Part 1 of 2 - How to Cut lugs and miter tubes for a bicycle frame. Part 2 of 2 - How to Cut lugs and miter tubes for a bicycle frame.

Master another great left hand technique for playing the banjo - the pull off. These are used a lot as tags (added to the end of the song).

Learn another left hand technique for the banjo - the hammer on, where you pluck the string and then hammer on it with your finger.

Spring is just around the corner, and for you pear growers, here's a thorough step by step demonstration on how to grow pears in a bottle. Ed adds a brandy after he collects his 'pear in a bottle' and hands them out at the holidays to just a handful of friends. Oh to be so lucky!

Brad Davis shows guitar players how to spice up their rhythm playing with a simple right hand pattern called the rhythm pick pattern (RPP).

Learn the first three steps to begin playing the piano. Wash your hands, sit straight, and use proper positioning.

An excellent video explaining the basics in how to remove a splinter from your hand. Some great splinter removal tips from sterilizing the tweezers, encouraging bleeding, and applying the plaster. Remove a splinter. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com

The children of St Cuthbert's School take you through the rules of the playground game 'Hot Potato'. A great hand-eye co-ordination game for kids to learn at an early age. Play hot potato. Click through to watch this video on videojug.com

Dave shows you how to grow amaryllis and paperwhites indoors, so you can have beautiful gifts to bring with you to all your holiday gatherings. This is a great winter project to keep your gardening hands busy until spring.

A cool lipstick and hand trick. You need to misdirect for a moment. Fun trick and easy to do.

You only need oil and your hands. Some soft music helps to relax the client.

Learn how to flip a coin across your hand (between your knuckles!) and amaze your friends.

How to make a coin disappear and the reappear with your hands.

Have a look at something that will allow you to do more with your photos than you are doing today. Rob McDonald will take a photo and make it look hand painted.

Cock beading can add depth to a drawer face and help conceal the gap between the drawer and the drawer box. Steve Latta demonstrates two methods for creating cock beading. One technique uses traditional hand tools, and the other uses a router. Create cock beading. Click throug ...more

The best way to lay out hand-cut dovetails is with a ruler and simple math. This approach works for any dovetail layout, no matter the width of the board or the number of pins and tails. Also, learn how Rogowski quickly sets the dovetail angle with a simple reference guide dra ...more

Another version of the flapping bird. This version is a stop frame animation put to music. At the very end the 'hands' show up to show you how to make the bird flap.

This clip shows the Fujimoto method of folding sheets into equilateral triangles. The result is a sheet of paper that is pre-creased for use as a base in creating tessellations or geometric tiling patterns. There is no audio for this clip, just a closeup of the hands in action.

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

Kris Radlinski, full-back for the Wigan Warriors and Great Britain shows you how to catch a high ball. # Call for the ball # Keep your eyes on it all the time # Form a cradle with your arms, hands and chest # Catch the ball as high as you can # Keep your elbows close together ...more

If disaster strikes, chances are that power will also go out. Kipkay to the rescue! By creating one of these hand-powered chargers from a crank flashlight, your electronic devices will remained charged in emergencies.

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. Click through to watch this video on homeofpoi.com

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 d ...more

Dave J. Castle teaches you how to do the slip force card trick. Using this trick you can force a card at the top of the deck into someone's hand. No matter where they pick from the deck you will always know their card.

For preschoolers a creative activity to make bowling pin and then go bowling! Great use of many small motor skills making the pins, and then large motor skills, counting skills, and hand and eye coordination when bowling.

For pre-schoolers this is a lesson tune about crossing the street. It teaches children to be safe when crossing a street by holding an adults hand and looking both ways. Preschool video lesson tunes are short songs or chants with an educational message done to a familiar tune.

For preschoolers the popular Five Little Pumpkin rhyme is done with hand movements and counting skills are incorporated.

Martyn Coleman teaches his variation of the waving aces trick, also called the two aces card routine, a card trick in which you appear to make any card picked from the deck reappear between two aces held in your hand.

The finger gym exercise (also known as the slurs exercise) is an exercise for technical development on the guitar. It works every possible finger combination and if you do this exercise regularly you will notice that your hand strength will increase at an amazing rate, making ...more

Ade Adepitan who plays for the Great Britain wheelchair basketball team, shows you how to maneuver your way around the court. The most impressive technique involves just hip action, leaving the hands free for dribbling, shooting and defense. Maneuver on the court in a wheelcha ...more

How to make a simple tripod on your camera so that you can take video hands free. Then mount the camera on your head for a weird handy cam like shooting experience. Make a helmet camera. Click through to watch this video on instructables.com

This episode tackles the age old question, what do I do with my meat... why Beef Stew! Alex and Heather try there hand at good ol' fashioned Beef Stew. Pot, Meat, Veggie... what could go wrong. Check it out!

While the victim is in this head hold they should wiggle enough to make sure their windpipe is free. Turn your head into the side of the attacker, hit him in the groin and with the other hand bring it up under his chin. Do more blows as you run away.

Unfortunately not everyone goes through the effort of making form fields on their forms. So rather than print the form out and fill it out by hand, use the Acrobat Typewriter Tool to click right onto the form and type right onto it without the need for form fields. In this vid ...more

Our grip is your only point of contact with the golf club, therefore it's critical you get it right. Watch this tip to get your hands in the correct position on the golf club.

Boost that confidence! If you're a nervous short putter, help is at hand. We have the foolproof method needed to rap those two-footers with confidence into the back of the cup. Scott Cranfield shows you how.

Learn what to play before the first round of betting. Understand how to bet, when to bet, and in what increments to better your position and your hand.