Fakir rope. Effective trick and its solution

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Focus Description:

The magician shows the audience a rope about one and a half meters long; wrapping it around his hand, he goes to the middle of the stage and invites one of the spectators to his place. Invites him to hold the rope at one end and place it vertically on his hand. Despite the effort, the rope, of course, does not hold straight, but hangs down. After several unsuccessful attempts, the viewer gives up. Then the performer takes the rope in his right hand and ties a knot at one of its ends, which hangs down. Then he takes the second end with his right hand and, supporting the knot with his left, lifts it up.

The rope is held straight and vertical on the right hand (Fig. 61, A).

Focus Rope Fakir
Fig. 61

After the spectators are convinced that the rope is held knotted up unaided, the magician slightly tilts his right hand, in which he holds the rope, and the rope tilts slightly in the same direction, keeping all the time straight, in a state of tension. Then the illusionist makes a subtle pass with his left hand - and the rope again, as at the beginning of the trick, hangs helplessly on his hand with both ends down.

Props:

Prepared rope.

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick is in the prepared rope.

It only looks ordinary outwardly, but in fact it is made of a sheath of a curtain cord and is a little "made up" (tinted to look like a twisted rope). Inside the braid are small turned wooden sleeves with rounded edges. A very strong plastic cord is threaded through the muffs (fishing line with a cross section of 1 mm); one end of the cord is attached with a small metal circle to the upper edge of the muff. About 50 of the same muffs, carved from wood, are put on this lace. As many sleeves are strung on the fishing line as needed along the length of the rope. A small copper circle with a soldered strong eye is tied to the end of the lace.

All muffs strung on a cord are placed inside the braid, from which all internal equity threads are pre-stretched (Fig. 61). B - a sleeve with a drilled hole, shown by a dotted line; B - the top two sleeves, put on a cord, which is firmly tied to a metal mug; G - muffs with a lace threaded through them; on the right - two muffs with a slightly elongated cord, to which a strong metal circle is also attached.

All sleeves, passed inside the sheath, bend freely, creating the complete impression of an ordinary rope. But as soon as you tie a knot at the end of the cord and pull the fishing line tightly over the bottom button, the whole rope immediately becomes stiff and freely held in a vertical position. Let go of the lower circle - and the whole rope immediately becomes "soft". This is the secret of focus. The end at which the knot is tied is all filled with threads drawn from the curtain cord. They are firmly attached to the braid so as not to arouse suspicion in the viewer. The rope should be slightly tinted; from a distance it will look very natural.

It is even better to use not a ready-made sheath from a curtain cord, but to braid with thick cord threads the muffs strung on a fishing cord and fastened with circles. With a little skill, this is not at all difficult to do. Sleeves are made from 25 to 35 mm long, 10-20 mm thick. We must also remember to fill the upper part of the braid with threads, otherwise muffs and circles will be noticeable.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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