Chopping an apple in half in the hands of the viewer. Effective trick and its solution

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Chopping an apple in half in the hands of the viewer. Focus secret

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Focus Description:

There is a bowl of apples on the table. The performer invites one of the spectators and offers him an apple. Taking a blade (saber or sword), he asks his volunteer assistant to hold an apple on his outstretched palm. He straightens the fruit, making it more comfortable, then, stepping back, swings his blade and cuts the apple in one blow, exactly in half.

If the viewer is afraid to hold the apple, then the performer calls another person from the audience and allows both to hold the handkerchief by the ends with outstretched hands, and puts the apple on the stretched handkerchief and cuts it in half, with one stroke of the blade, without damaging the handkerchief. Each spectator is then given half an apple.

Props:

Apple, pre-prepared.

Blade.

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick lies in a pre-prepared apple, which falls apart from any blow. Preparation is carried out as follows. A thin, very strong thread is threaded into a thin steel long needle. The needle is carefully inserted under the skin of the apple, which is carefully incised inside, and the skin remains intact, since the needle is passed under it by only 3-5 cm, and then pulled out. Together with a needle, a thread of 30-40 centimeters is pulled out. The other end of the thread is held with the left hand at the point where the needle entered the apple. Then the needle is again stuck into the apple, exactly in the same place from which it just came out, and carried further under the skin, then again, after 3-5 centimeters, they are brought out.

This is repeated until the thread under the skin of the apple encircles it around. After that, the needle is removed through the first inlet from which the stroke was started.

Now, when the apple is “sewn” around, the needle is removed from the thread, and both ends are held with the index and thumb of the left hand at the inlet of the needle (Fig. 158). Then with the right hand they take both ends of the thread and pull them. The thread cuts the apple in half, leaving the skin intact. The fetus prepared in this way is no different from the whole, and the audience will not have any suspicion.

Focus Chopping an apple in half in the hands of the viewer
Fig. 158

It is better to cut the apple not in length, but across: this way it breaks up more easily, and the seeds will be clearly visible to the audience. Put an apple along the palm.

Now it remains only to explain how to cut it. The blade is led straight in the direction of the cut; without bringing the apple by 20-30 centimeters, the magician makes a 180-degree movement with the blade that is imperceptible to the eyes and hits the fruit with the back of the blade (back). When hitting the "stitched" place, the apple bursts in half. It seems to the audience that it is cut with a blade.

Before showing the trick, it is necessary to carefully practice and rehearse the imperceptible turn of the blade well.

For a change, the same number can be presented in a comic form: "cut", for example, an apple not with a sharp blade, but with a "magic" wand or the edge of the palm.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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