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From: wayneryder
Date: Mon Nov 4, 2002 2:14pm
Subject: Re: resistant strand
When he successfully lifts her, she's closer to his body. Note that
she's small, which makes you think she'll be a cinch to lift, but in
fact works against you.
The lifting feat is down to the girl as much as Derren's suggestion.
She holds the forearms of the lifter so he's lifting at an awkward
angle. I also think she pushes/leans forward, triangulating the
upward force.
From an article called "The Feats of the Magnetic Girl Explained":
In the experiment with the child, a slightly different procedure
is necessary, for a powerful man would be able to lift the child
where he would utterly fail with a person twice its weight. In the
case of the child, the hold of the lifter will be much lower than in
experiments with an adult, and he must lean over further for the
purpose. He is, of course, kept at the proper distance from the
child, even though leaning over, by the performer's hand on his
shoulder. In this position his lifting effort will not be in a
vertical direction as he imagines, but in the arc of a circle whose
tangent will be but a few degrees from the horizontal. He is,
therefore, unconsciously working at great mechanical disadvantage in
endeavoring to force the child's weight nearly horizontal, and all
that the performer has to do is to counteract this horizontal push,
or rather the resultant of the vertical and horizontal efforts of the
lifter, by the gentle pressure of the other hand which, as before
described, rests between the shoulder blades of the child upon whom
the lifting experiment is being tried.
Well, it's in a similar vein to what Derren was up to.
I studied Aikido, and duplicated my instructor's demonstration at the
power of Chi without having any. It was the one where he puts a hand
on your shoulder and says to press down on his elbow joint with both
your hands. Easy enough, his arm bent down at the elbow as you'd
expect.
Then, he switched on the Chi, and I couldn't bend it.
What he (and I afterwards) was doing was pushing forwards to
counteract the downward force. Of course, he was using Chi as well...
--- In a previous message there2dream wrote:
> hi - I was wondering does Derren ever meet any people he cannot
> influence and or trick? I was watching re-runs of his show the
other
> night (was it E4?! I can't remember) and the part in which he tries
> to prevent these boxing dudes from lifting the magicians assistant
> chick I recalled seeing when it was aired the first time around (2-
3
> years ago?) Anyway, one of these guys (the talles and biggest if I
> recall correctly) seemed unable to comply with Derren's suggestions
> of not being able to lift the girl. Derren kinda looked at him,
broke
> into giggles and that seemed to be that. So - does Derren ever
> explain what happens there, and why some people seem to be
resistant
> to his suggestions?
> thanks
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