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From: Blue Chip
Date: Fri Dec 20, 2002 12:04am
Subject: Re: [Derren Brown] Martial arts scene
The ideas that spring to my mind:
# There is a foot stamp the second time, but I have not watched tooo
closely to see who's foot stamps
# Derren is moving his hand for a second or so before the guy goes
down. Did DB start wiggling his hand and take the punch cue from the student?
# Other peoples' flinching. I always flinch when blokes take a blow to the
groin on TV.
# A twist of the shoulder could cause the sound of friction on his shirt.
# Anything reflective on the other side of the room
but no decisions yet :(
>In one scene, Darren threw a punch in the direction of a Wing Chun
>pracitioner, stopping before contact was made. The practitioner doubled
>up, as if he had acutally been punched. This may well have been merely an
>instinctive reaction to the sight of an incoming punch.
>
>What is harder to explain, however, is why this student went down at
>exactly the moment Darren repeated his 'punch' when he went behind the
>student and repeated the exercise. As Darren was stood behind the student
>when the 'punch' was thown, there is no obvious way the student could have
>known at what precise moment the movement was executed. It seems,
>therefore, that his reaction cannot be explained in terms of it being a
>normal reaction to a feigned punch. Does anyone know how Darren might
>have achieved this effect?
>
>Regards
>
>Jeff
