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Grimshaw wrote:

cc100 wrote:I saw Dynamo perform this trick on Magician Impossible, didn't reckon that much to it to be honest. The change in his body position was pretty obvious.

To you in your position maybe, but not to the guy trying to lift you.

TonyB wrote:Unfortunately I cannot do this effect, as I have yet to meet someone who can lift twenty stone initially.

If only there were 'Like' buttons on forums.

You're probably right, but I think this is one of the tricks where the intelligence of laypeople is underestimated. I might add that I had no idea of how it was done prior to watching the performance. But, as you say, I wasn't the one doing the lifting.

I've only ever known one performer use this in a routine and her presentation was entirely based around the fact that she was barely 5ft tall and incredibly thin, therefore she should have been liftable, particularly by the strapping men she was getting on as volunteers to attempt it.

I think if I were to announce that no one could lift me people would take one look at my portly frame and say "No kidding, industrial machinery couldn't lift you."

-Stacy

C.L.Ward wrote:

The4thCircle wrote:Shrinking illusions!?

Like shrinking of a person? I'd have placed that outside the realms of feasibility...

id have placed someone beding their finger to a 90 degree angle outside the "realms of feasibility"...... the right props n whatnot can make anyhting possible

I can bend my fingers more than 90 degrees... oh, you mean backwards. But I can do that too.

Like others on this thread, I'm afraid I'm pretty well unliftable anyway. Now if someone could devise a method to make yourself suddenly feather-light and capable of being balanced on a fingertip, that would be impressive.

Robbie wrote:

C.L.Ward wrote:

The4thCircle wrote:Shrinking illusions!?

Like shrinking of a person? I'd have placed that outside the realms of feasibility...

id have placed someone beding their finger to a 90 degree angle outside the "realms of feasibility"...... the right props n whatnot can make anyhting possible

I can bend my fingers more than 90 degrees... oh, you mean backwards. But I can do that too.

Like others on this thread, I'm afraid I'm pretty well unliftable anyway. Now if someone could devise a method to make yourself suddenly feather-light and capable of being balanced on a fingertip, that would be impressive.

The Abnormal lift :p , Four people pick up another using just their fingertips. Uri Geller has been seen doing it in his shows, and I've just started working on it as well. You think it would never work, but the reactions are worth giving it a go.

phillipnorthfield wrote:The Abnormal lift :p , Four people pick up another using just their fingertips. Uri Geller has been seen doing it in his shows, and I've just started working on it as well. You think it would never work, but the reactions are worth giving it a go.

The light as a feather stiff as a board lifting someone using fingertips thing I assumed was a 70's thing as that's when I saw it at school.

After reading an article in Fortean Times, it apparently gets a mention in the diary of Samuel Pepys, so signiificantly older than that!

This thread makes me slightly sad. Look into the woman that was the Georgia Magnet (Lulu Hurst). It's a lot older than is being made out.

Well, yes, I know that lift. I was picturing myself delicately poised "on pointe" on one outstretched fingertip...