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The performer takes the rubber shell of the balloon and inflates it. Having tied the hole with a ribbon, the performer tosses the ball several times. It easily floats in the air and returns to your hands.

From the illusion table, the performer takes a long, thin metal knitting needle, pointed at the end. He pierces the ball with a knitting needle at one point and, having passed through the entire ball inside, brings the end of the knitting needle out at the opposite point of the ball. Thus, the balloon ends up being placed on a knitting needle, like a kebab on a skewer. Spectators were prepared to hear the crack with which balloons usually burst. But this ball turned out to be invulnerable (Fig. 12). The performer held the ball on the knitting needle for a while and then calmly pulled it out. The ball is still intact.

Focus Invulnerable Balloon
Fig. 12

The viewer will certainly think that the ball contains a secret or is made of some special film. But as if to prove that the ball is an ordinary one, the performer lightly touches it with a needle, and it instantly bursts.

Focus secret:

To demonstrate this trick, you need several balls and a knitting needle 50-70 cm long. The end of the needle should be sharpened and carefully sanded so that it is completely smooth. That's all the preparation of the props.

The ball is really the most ordinary one. But let's puff it up and take a closer look at it. We will notice that the entire surface of the ball consists of a thin colored but transparent rubber film and only in two places is it sealed. These places are not only thicker than the rest of the shell of the ball, but also thicker in color. One such seal, about the size of a five-kopeck coin, is located around the hole through which the balloon is inflated, and the other is in the center of the opposite part of the balloon.

Thanks to these two compacted points on the surface of the rubber bag filled with air, the ball becomes invulnerable. You will be convinced of this if you carefully and confidently insert the end of the knitting needle into the center of the thickened shell of the ball. Now you need to accurately and very carefully insert the knitting needle deeper and bring its end out through the opposite thickening at the hole in the sheath, which is tied with braid. This moment is quite important. If the knitting needle swings inside the ball and its sharp end slightly touches the stretched film, the ball will instantly burst.

Be prepared for dozens of balloons to burst during rehearsals. But you shouldn't despair. To avoid accidents when demonstrating a trick, you need to check everything during rehearsals and only then go out with it to the audience.

Having mastered one version of piercing the ball, you can complicate the trick by piercing the ball twice in different places. To do this, you need two more thickened points on the shell of the ball in addition to the existing factory ones. They are created artificially using a rubber mass from which the rubber shells of the balls are made. This rubber mass can be purchased at the factory where the balls are made. You need to take a small amount of rubber mass of a color corresponding to the color of the ball and apply it to the shell in two opposite places. You will get spots the diameter of a penny coin. When they are completely dry and not sticky, you can start rehearsing the ball shell. You need to inflate it and pierce it with a knitting needle, first in places of factory thickenings, and then in places of thickenings specially made by the performer.

If the ball survives the double puncture, it is ready to perform the trick in public. But if the mass does not lie tightly enough on the shell, the ball will burst.

Author: Akopyan A.A.

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