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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 11, 2006 7:42pm
I'm posting this to up my posts, but I think many would probaly like to know. Okay so I thought up a method of performing the balducci with both feet going up but put the idea away for awhile because I really only performed mental magic now. Then two years later rumors began to come up that I could levitate just because I used to perform the balducci. So I bought the elevator 2 to show that I could levitate but was kinda dissapointed (if upgraded it would be a very good levitation). I couldn't really make it look like a float unless I did the double height Balducci. I would feel kinda odd performing the E2. So as practising the double height balducci I came back up with my Balducci idea. I decided to give it another shot and was very successful. The new gimmick is much stronger and better made. Friday I took it to school to see how it played and It was a complete success. I had now performed a balducci with both feet showing!! My idea is so much cheaper to make than the zero grvity and a lot easier to perform than Elevator 2 or kings Rising in my opinion. The angles are the only downside and you can only show one person at a time. I just let my 3 friends take turns. I say I don't feel comfortable with 3 people watching and I won't be able to levitate. The height is the same as the Balducci and people will tell others that it was much higher(3-1/2 to 5 inches).
My original idea was to use it with the E2. So as a pip dream my double-foot balducci and E2 can create a levitation that allows the performer to do a double height two footed Balducci levitation! This may only look good in a photo because putting both gimmicks down would be very hard to do in real time and clean up would be equally as hard. And if anyone knows anything about the double-Height Balducci(E2) The person you would be performing to would have to be a few feet away.
Yeah, so I just wanted to share.
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 11, 2006 7:47pm
Also I should have pictures of this on my myspace when I get back on.
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gitty
Special user
Vienna, Austria
534 Posts
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Posted: Mar 13, 2006 5:52pm
Hi,
sounds very interesting!
Please, let me know more about your 2 footed Balducci levitation.
Thanks,
Walther
richter1@teleweb.at
WALTHER
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Matt Malinas
Inner circle
Romania
1305 Posts
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Posted: Mar 17, 2006 7:57am
You got me very interested. could you send us a clip of you performing it?
thanks]
-Matt
Your One Stop Booze Abusing Comedy Magic Show!
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 18, 2006 4:41pm
This week me and a friend is goin to try to record me doing this. I'll tell everybody the link once I have it up.
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Dannydoyle
Eternal Order
10981 Posts
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Posted: Mar 19, 2006 12:08am
So you have created an illusion you can do for only one person provided they are standing at the exact angle and distance from you that is required?
Sounds great!
Danny Doyle
Semper Occultus
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell
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ofrmagic
Regular user
178 Posts
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Posted: Mar 19, 2006 6:18am
Post the video on here so we can all see it. sound good
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 20, 2006 2:53pm
Dannydoyle, yeah that is correct. Eirik is the only other magician that knows this gimmick and he is thinking up some ways on improving the angles and working out the kinks. Although it is very much performable right now. Is there a way of getting the video on the Café? Or will it need to be on another website? I'm going to see if I can get it recorded tomorrow.
Joe
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kdb424
Regular user
Pittsburg PA
120 Posts
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Posted: Mar 22, 2006 2:51pm
Cool I want a clip if you have one! This sounds great!
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Dannydoyle
Eternal Order
10981 Posts
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Posted: Mar 22, 2006 3:04pm
Why in the world would you want to learn a trick with such constraints?
Danny Doyle
Semper Occultus
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell
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Guillaume Vallée
New user
76 Posts
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Posted: Mar 22, 2006 5:10pm
Because in the eyes of the spectator it might be a levitation not a trick.
A one person illusion might still be a miracle.
Please Joe go ahead !!
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 23, 2006 10:53am
I'm thinking on making a larger and stronger gimmick in order to have better angles to show more people. Whenever me and my friend get together I'll be able to record it.
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Fabricem
Elite user
455 Posts
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Posted: Mar 24, 2006 10:06am
I have seen this Version of Balducci on
: http://www.magicvideodepot.com/view.php?a=v&t=4252 , from one asian boy ,
is good but is very very difficult to perform because you must perform the classic Balducci whit one foot and after you must turn your body (very fast) to the other side and you must change the foot in motion very very difficult, but a good version of Classic Balducci.
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magician 336
Special user
862 Posts
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Posted: Mar 25, 2006 8:12pm
It looks cool.
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 26, 2006 12:15pm
A had performed this to another friend a few days ago. And he asked,"Did you really just levitate?" I said yeah and then he said,"because I felt some kind of energy pushing me back." I thought this was really strange and maybe I should suggest this would happen the next time I perform this. Anyways hopefully by the end of this week the video should be up. I apologise for the delay, I'm an honor student and being in honors makes me have to do a lot more projects and much of my time.
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Mar 27, 2006 4:49pm
I tried to record today. It was pretty awful! Both feet could not be seen and thelighting and the floor was working with us. I just took apart the gimmick to enlarge it. This should give the camera really good angles. Sorry but it may be awhile before anyone sees it.
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MattL0295
New user
1 Post
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Posted: Apr 1, 2006 8:08am
Lol
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MagiCol
Loyal user
Dargaville, New Zealand
262 Posts
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Posted: Apr 7, 2006 5:31am
Rome wasn't build in a day. It's great that you are working on improving a levitation. Colin.
The performance makes the magic.
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The Great Simon
New user
Rugby, UK
34 Posts
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Posted: Apr 7, 2006 7:41am
When you've got it, you could put it up on www.magicvideodepot.com and link us to it. That'd be great.
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen
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Scattered Dream
Regular user
127 Posts
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Posted: Apr 20, 2006 5:03pm
I've finished improving the gimmick. The gimmick now does not need a jacket and now has much better angles. Prepartion is much easier with the use of very simple misdirection. My friends camera has been acting up so the Best I can do now is get a photo of the levitation. Would anybody be interested in just the photo? The photo will not be trick photography
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