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Chriss Angel levitation

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Originally posted by: max2
Its this one right here that I know how to do!

http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/70.html
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To me it looks quite simple. Clearly something is lifting or pushing him upward. Because it was done indoors, and assuming it wasn't all a setup with a winch hooked up, we can safely assume he was pushed upward.

Magnets are a possibility until you observe how magnets repulsing each other tend to add a lot of lateral as well as vertical force which, providing he could sufficiently hide the magnets on the ground in the first place would send him tumbling diagonally through the air.

The other option, and the one that's most plausible, is a compressed air piston powering a rod rigged on one of his legs and travelling down a shoe with a hole cut in the heel. Let's check the theory.

When he levitates is one of his legs always stiff? Yes. Is he wearing large shoes? Yes. Can he go no higher than the length of one of his legs? Yes. Is there some "balancing wobble"? Yes. When landing on the chair and railing does he touch solely with his toes? Yes.

What kind of rod could he use that would have suffient strength and also be transparent? My guess is some kind of clear plastic or something fitted with mirrors or light bending coating. Even a plain clear plastic rod 3/4" in diameter would be strong enough and with the big production he does with his hands, people wouldn't really notice.
 
No to sound rude.... but you guys are stupid.

The video shows how he did it facing away from you.... Soooooo....

dee dee dee!

He simply does the same thing when facing towards you.

Brings his leg out the back and pushes himseld up that way. Notice his back is near something every time.


Also, the whole video is staged. Look at the people in the restaurant in the first clip... they are looking at his leg come out.
 
What about the levitation of the girl in front of the palms, where she lays over backwards and floats with people all around her?

That is more mind-boggling to me then this type of levitation because people are completely surrounding you and there is nothing above you.
 
Originally posted by: TripleAAA
What about the levitation of the girl in front of the palms, where she lays over backwards and floats with people all around her?

That is more mind-boggling to me then this type of levitation because people are completely surrounding you and there is nothing above you.
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solution: everyone is in on it.
 
I've been pretty amazed by some of his tricks in the past, including things like the coffee into change trick. The wood-chipper stunt he did is what did it in for me, right then I knew the crowd was in on it and he wasn't as amazing as I had intially thought.

-Jason
 
Originally posted by: SophalotJack
No to sound rude.... but you guys are stupid.

The video shows how he did it facing away from you.... Soooooo....

dee dee dee!

He simply does the same thing when facing towards you.

Brings his leg out the back and pushes himseld up that way. Notice his back is near something every time.


Also, the whole video is staged. Look at the people in the restaurant in the first clip... they are looking at his leg come out.
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Way to be a pompous dick. Watch http://www.thatvideosite.com/view/70.html and wait until it gets to about 40 seconds in. Dee dee dee there is nothing behind him to step on.
 
did you not understand the fact that the rest of the videos are staged for his "portfolio" footage?

He uses the footage of him climbing the ledge on his revealing video.

The whole levitation video was staged.



Now that japanese footage took some serious acting... at least that guy involved some good actors.
 
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