

Going up, hovering for a moment, and coming down should only take about 4 seconds total. Then put your hands down by your sides and after a few moments slowly start to rise. Then move away to the approximate correct distance and somewhat turn your back to the 10:30 angle in order to concentrate. It doesn't always work and you've only been able to do it twice before. Tell them you are going to TRY something. Almost as if they don't quite know what they saw.Ħ. If you do that is will make them watch harder. Never, ever tell them that you are about to levitate. about 6 feet is good, up to about 10 feet.ĥ. Don't stand too far away from your audience on the levitation. Then let those few people talk and build rumours. Do a trick when the deck is stacked in your faYour. You have to control which tricks you do and when. Only do the trick for 2 Or 3 people at a time - more than that create a bigger angle for you to deal with. Face the right angle - if your audience is at 6 o'clock and you are in the middle of the clock - face to 10:30 Or 11:00 away from them.ģ. This dramatically helps cover the other foot.Ģ. Wear wide leg pants or slacks that come down just past your ankles.

This film would have been mixed in with the audience clips in the studios later.ġ0 Tips to perform the perfect Balducci Levitationġ. The camera angle would have hidden the props. The end of the pivot would have had a hook which clipped onto a harness attached to his belt and a member of the crew would have pushed down on the other side of the bar lifting David up in the air. The view that shows him rise a good few inches in the air and does not show the audience and would have been done with a bar attached to a pivot like a seesaw. The special did not show the number of times he mucked up the illusion, which is very easy to do.
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This trick is all in the presentation with you appearing to rise slowly, wait for a second or two and then return to the ground quickly so as the audience do not have time to figure the trick out.ĭavid Blame used various camera shots in his TV special with the audience reaction being filmed close up and linked to other clips of him in mid air with some of the angles showing the Balducci Method. You only rise a few inches off the ground but the impression is fantastic. This looks fantastic as your trousers, the nearest foot and the angle they are watching at hide the foot on your tiptoe. The Balducci levitation involves pretending to float off the ground by going on to your tiptoes on just one foot (the one furthest from their view) while the nearest foot is raised a little off the ground. This is a very restrictive angle trick and it is essential that the angles be practised, preferably with a friend or in front of a mirror. You need to keep your audience small so they are within this field of sight. The Balducci method involves positioning your audience about S to 10 feet away at a 45-degree angle from you. The magician raises his arms up by his sides and slowly appears to rise a few inches off the ground for a little while before returning to earth quickly.
