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Pekka is offline Pekka
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She visiting here for couple of weeks, and I managed to freak her out completely .

As some of you might know, she's a pastor. So.. I prepared myself and waited for the right moment for like two days (it happened just a minute ago, it's 8.30 in the morning here).. She was like 'you're up so early?' 'yeah.. I haven't been sleeping'.. and then she was like 'why? What do you do all those nights?'. I saw my moment coming perfectly, 'Read stuff.. Study and learn.. spiritual stuff' and then she was like 'oh that's nice, why didn't you tell me earlier, you could have asked me if you had any questions about stuff' and I looked kind of uncomfortable and said 'well.. you wouldn't like it'. Then she got worried and was like 'what kind of stuff have you been learning then?' and I kept my cool and continued being mysterious 'don't worry, I'm not into worshipping Satan or anything, but I believe there are other powers too, and I've been reading how to control them'.. she was really starting to worry at this point, it was like going to jail or getting caught from using heroin or something simular. I was enjoying this moment and then I was like 'I don't want to talk about this I know this upsets you, I'm going out to get the mail' and she was like 'don't go, tell me I want to know!' and I was putting my shoes on and then I did it.. 'Ok.. I didn't want you to find out this at all.. Ok just look at my feet carefully, I'll demonstrate' and then I was acting kind of nervous and she really started getting nervous too..
Then I hovered in the air, maybe about 10cm from the ground (that's 4 inches?). She totally freaked out! Then I asked her 'did you feel it too?' and I could tell her placebo took into place and she was thinking about saying yes! And to make it perfect I gave her this kind of empty look that I wasn't there, cold dead eyes look and proceeded outside and fetched the mail. Then I got back and she was like almost crying and going nuts and I couldn't continue with it and I just told her that it was a trick .

Inspired by David Blaines street magic show I found out how he did that levitation stunt and learned it. I'm telling you it was like from Exorcist movie she was so freaked out . It was worth it, though she talked some foul language and wasn't acting like she was in work .

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Dude I want to learn that trick!!!

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It's easy actually. But to do it good, that takes skills and lots of practice.. If you don't know how to do it exactly like it supposed to be done, it won't work and you make a fool out of yourself .

And like most magic tricks and illusions, it's all about how you do it.. how you set it up and how you act.
It's actually very cool trick, but to really make it work you need to practice it for a while.

But like every magic trick and illusion, if you know how it's done, it loses the magic and is just anti-climax .

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And the most fun part is that my moms job is what it is and what I did.. I know she was secretly thinking I'm in the hands of the devil or something, and then denying it and then really going nuts about it in a matter of seconds.. well exorcist stuff! I know it was cruel trick but I don't regret it, I got huge kicks out of it .

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thats awesome!

how did you learn the trick?

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One of my buddies showed me after we talked about the show, so he knew how to do it and showed me.

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Shame on you And so close to mother's day. Boy you really are gonna have to make that one up to her. I'd be screaming diamonds if I was her.

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Do they have Mother's Day in other countries?

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Tiamat, Oh I would just kill you with my things! You can thank God, Allah, Jahve, stars etc that I'm not your son .

Imran, No, just like there are no black people in Brazil . Sorry..

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Great practical joke Pekka.

I hope your mom is able to see the humour in it, at least after a little while of being upset about your emotional cruelty.

I'd like to learn that trick as well BTW, but I've a feeling I'm too lazy to practice being good at it.

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...how about electricity?



Pekka, how does the trick work?

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SCOOOOOOOORE! again!

I double teamed with my mom to take it on my dad who woke up 30 minutes ago.. it was sweet!
We agreed that I'd go out for about 5 minutes and then come back supposedly from my friend. This time my mom tells him that she's worried and that I have some weird stuff and that she supposedly discovered some weird books that were mine, needles and a doll. That wouldn't shock my dad, but my mom acted so well that he started going bananaz when she told she swear I levitated.

Then I come into the house, acting weird. Then my mom gives me a signal 'I'm going to make some coffee' and that's my que to come in to the kitchen. I don't talk or anything, just avoid eye contact all the time. My mom signals my dad 'talk to him!' and he starts 'so... what's going on?' he breaks it's gently and goes right at it and I'm like what you mean. 'mom told you are having some troubles'. And I go like 'I swear I didn't kill those rabits, I don't know how they got in, someone is stalking me' and so that he sees I'm lying. Then he goes like wtf and 'you've been worshipping Satan, haven't you!' and I was like no I haven't.. but I have studied some ancient stuff and I have powers. My mom set it up so good that he didn't take it as a joke and was again like wtf. Then I said 'want to see?' and he was hesitating so I did the Twisting Arm, where I put my hand on the floor and twist it over 360
I'm telling you he was going nuts too and my mom was acting at the same time like being 'I told you! What are we going to do I'm afraid!'.. Soon after this I had to expose myself, I just couldn't keep my face straight

HOMERUN!

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I'm not going to tell you how it works, it would ruin it! Don't bother PM:ing me either.. and it's hard to explain.

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And what's that? Grandpa coming over for dinner?

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ROFL!

'I swear I didn't kill those rabbits'

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awww, c'mon! you have to tell us how to do the trick man!

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or at least point us to the info where we can learn it.

Okay, is it an optical illusion or the real deal?

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Search the web for 'balducci levitation'.

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you sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.

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Yes.

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Well maybe not a gentleman

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Awww Stefu you ruined it! But as everyone knows, the real trick is how to do it really good. I'm not very good at it, but I still fooled my mom .

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Twisting Arm is cool too, I can go almost 540 degrees. It seems so impossible when you try to rationalize it. 360 is easy, 540 hurts a bit

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Yes.


Wise-a**.

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And as always, it's not enough just to do it, you have to master it. And also you need to be so good that you don't have to concentrate on doing the trick itself, but master it and concentrate on distracting the people so they won't get it. If you just do it without setting it up, that's when people guess how you did it. But if you really master it and put a little show to it and act a bit.. man it's perfect.

The levitation thingie is very hard to master, you need to have excellent balance and you just can't do it, you need to act too. It works on people you don't know very good better than your friends. Your buddies will figure it out, you need to create the 'it's actually impossible' feeling. Your best buddies figures you out too fast, but strangers or people you don't know that good.. they start thinking too difficult things and end up with 'you're scaring me' . And no, I haven't done it to strangers, and I'm not about to. The best set up would be when people don't expect magic tricks, but see you accidentally. That's when they would freak out completely. But there's high risk of failure on this one, so you end up looking like a fool very easily.

The arm trick works almost always and it's safe. But you have to set up that too. It's easy, so you need to distract people just a bit and act a little too.
It's all about distraction and making people not realize how simple it is, so it feels impossible and they start to be afraid of you which is always cool.

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Links for the lazy....

Levitation:
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/S...8/balducci.html

Twisting Arm:
http://203.120.90.137/~guezs/magic/...rm_illusion.htm

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What is this!? you people are the same people that flashes the lights when you get back home and yell 'Ok party is over, everyone home NOW!'.

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The tricks are always more interesting when you know how they're done.

When I saw David Blaine on TV I assumed it was just a big con and the people on the street were actors - the stuff he was doing seemed just too amazing. I actually have more respect for him now I know how he does some of the tricks.

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Sure. Those are so basic tricks, but he makes them seem so unbelievable and nothing like normal magic tricks. He makes normal tricks seem like super stuff, and that's how good he is.

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Pekka,

that's awesome.



Hmm... maybe I should try to find some good victim.

 
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