Man
Levitation
Effect: : 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 perfect 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 your pair of shoes and make them rise at the same
time, you hold them with your foot 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 and arm "
blends " in with the left leg. While doing this, put
your stronger hand (the right one in this case ) behind
your back so that it rests on the seat of the chair .
Pushing on the
seat with this hand should cause you to rise a little.
The foot, which is holding the shoes should rise and
hence the shoes will also rise. The left foot is on the
ground also helping you push up. This foot is hidden
from the view of the audience by the shoes and the
sheet.
