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L E V I T A T I O N – L I B R AR Y

The Balducci Levitation ©

The Balducci Levitation - is an illusion that can be performed almost anywhere,

anytime. It uses no wires, strings, rigs, camera tricks, etc.

This is a highly restrictive, angle-sensitive trick. You have to practice your angles

over and over to get used to them. One bad angle or position and the illusion is

blown!

Stand about 8 to 10 feet away from the audience at a 45° 'backward' angle.

You pause . . . and then slowly start to float. Rise up on the toes of the unseen

foot. Your heel stays level with the rising leg and the appearance is that you are

levitating. You rise 3 to 5 inches off of the ground before you suddenly "crash"

back down to the ground.

The Chameleon ©

TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE:

Magician is seen to levitate inches off the floor from three sides

PREPARATION:

For those of you cheepos - and "I want it now-ers" This is for you. Saw off the

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end of a block of wood smaller than your foot. It should be small enough not to

be seen when you

are standing on it and also small enough to fit up your trouser leg in your sock

(like where you used to hide things when you were young) Paint the sides of the

block the colors of carpets or floors where you will be performing this. i.e. home,

work, Grandmas house etc. Black - white and gray are the best colors.

METHOD:

Keep the block stowed away in your pants leg until you are ready. Bend over and

remove it from your sock feigning that you are tying your shoe. Place the block

(color side towards your audience) and hide it beside your shoe. When you are

ready and have everyone's attention: Hop up on the block on one foot.

COMMENTS:

You might think "flying" forever is a cool thing, but it isn't as with any levitation,

the longer you are up - the longer everyone has to notice how you do things.

Drop down fast and hard like it took a lot of effort and tell them you are

Liberal Levitation ©

TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE: You levitate off the ground and then spin 180

degrees in the air; you spin back and the float to the floor.

PREPARATION : This is the exact instruction on how to make it, I don’t get it

but maybe some of you will.

METHOD: There is a wooden, door wedge hidden inside the bottom/sole of one

of the

shoes. The shoes must have thick rubber soles (I guess wooden soles would

work :). You cut out the shape of the wedge from the sole of the shoe so the

wedge will fit perfect. When you rotate, the friction of the ground keeps the

wedge in place while the rest of the shoe turns. The wedge in the new position

creates a fulcrum to levitation on!

This is the shape of the wedge if you could see through the side-bottom of the

shoe, as it will be during non-performance:

NOTE: The third side I couldn't manage to draw is a "hypotenuse" from point 1

to point 2

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"drained" and cannot do it again right now.

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Front of shoe 2 ______/

back of shoe

Bottom: wedge is disguised as part of bottom because the very bottom of the

cutout is glued to the bottom of the wedge. In the exact center of the

"hypotenuse" protrudes the end of a screw that goes through the wedge. This

screw should protrude perpendicularly to the "hypotenuse" and should screw into

the center of a small strip of wood glued to

the rubber in the cutout where the "hypotenuse" fits.

If you have the wedge disguised as part of the shoe like this (read the

instructions carefully, it's the best I could do without an image) If you stand and

turn 180 degrees, when you have put enough toil into the shoe, the wedge will

rotate so it looks like

from the bottom of your shoe that you have a triangular fulcrum to balance on.

Rotate back 180 degrees and you are set to walk comfortably and normally, and

even show the

bottoms of the shoes from a short distance if you constructed the shoe with

care. This takes some work, but is definitely worth the time when you perfect

your shoe!!!

Raven's Flight ©

Effect: A magician stands facing the spectators he suddenly levitates right off the

ground.

The spectators can even look under his feet to see there is no support

Apparatus : To perform this levitation there is preparation needed. You need to

get a pole stretching the length of your leg. Saw the pole in half. Get a hinge{you

can buy in any D.I.Y shop}and connect the two poles together. Then at the end of

the pole you have another hinge and connected to that you have a block of wood

5 inches high.

Performance: Place this pole down the trouser leg of your strongest leg. The

hinge in the middle enables you to be able to walk with the pole down your

trousers.

You can have the pole held up by a belt or just keep your hands on your hip you

stand facing the spectators and try to levitate.

You just go up on your tippy toes. They say "Your not levitating your just on your

tippy toes!".

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Go back down and say I'll try it again and this time when your going up on

your tippy toes put your hands on your hips and slide the pole down towards your

foot, the block at the end bends on the hinge and lies flat on the ground.

You’re now up on your tippy toes, rest your foot on the block of wood.

They say the same thing as before but then you say "Watch this." and you are able

to lift your foot up fully.

They can’t believe it. If you perform this levitation in the same place all the time

you can paint the front of the block the color of the wall behind you.

But if want to do it out on the street or somewhere else they cant look under.

To come back down first go into a position that your on your tippy toes.

Use your hands on your hips to slide the pole back up and then put your feet flat

on the ground.

All Man Levitation ©

TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE: A magician sits down in a chair and puts a sheet

over him. Suddenly, he rises one foot in the air. Shoes, everything comes of the

ground. The audience is dumbfounded.

METHOD : The secret to this is very devious and requires lots of practice to

prefect it. What is vital is that the sheet is not see through.

Before the start of the trick, make sure that your shoes are on your feet loosely,

but that the looseness is not obvious to the audience.

Once you stand over the chair, throw the sheet over you and the chair. When

ready to sit down, slip off your shoes and place your feet behind your shoes so

that the shoes are protruding from the sheet.

Now comes the tricky part. Ok think about this when you want to pick up you're

pair of shoes at them same time you hold them at the double-line formed above

the laces when the shoes are placed together. Use your big toe and your second

toe of your right foot and hold your shoes with these toes.

Put your weaker hand over the left leg so that that hand 'blends' in the left leg.

While doing this, put your stronger hand (right in this case) behind your back so

that it rests on the seat of the chair and raises the hand which blends in with you

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foot so that it is always in line with the other foot. The foot, which is holding the

shoes should rise and hence the shoes will also rise.

The foot, which the hand blended in with, this is on the ground also helping you

push up. This foot is hidden though by the shoes and the sheet somewhat.

TRICK EFFECT & ROUTINE:

The assistant is brought up to center stage. She is placed in a reclining position

on a couch. Then covered with a large cloth. She is commanded to rise. Once

she has risen to a height of one foot above the couch, the couch is taken away

and the performer walks all around the floating woman. She continues to rise

until she is well over the head of the performer. Then she slowly descends until

she is level with the performer's head. Again she begins to rise. This time, the

performer takes hold of the cloth and while she is

rising, the cloth is whisked away. The woman is gone, vanished right in front of

the audience.

PREPARATION:

One of the most startling effects in magic has always been the levitation.

Whether you levitate an assistant, a horse or a car, getting something to float

has always pleased the crowd. I will explain the illusion in terms of floating a

woman, but the principle will work with any object, big or small, male or female.

The secret:

The secret is in the couch (remember the couch from the above trick

description?) and the rest of the effect depends on a mesh-like screen, which is

shaped like the assistant's body. As soon as the assistant lies down on the couch,

the performer picks up the cloth, which will be used to cover her. While this is

taking place, the body mesh or screen is lowered over the assistant. Since the

body mesh is clear, members of the audience do not see it. This movement is

done by someone behind or off in the stage wings. The body mesh is molded to

resemble a woman; it is attached by four strings of invisible thread to a location

controlled by another assistant. When the performer covers the woman with the

cloth, it is the screen, which is really being covered.

As soon as the woman is fully covered, she secretly slips into a hidden

compartment in the couch. After the couch is removed to a backstage area, the

woman gets out of the couch. Because the couch has played such a small role in

the effect, most people forget about it.

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