Levitation Tricks

With the explosion in popularity of such magic acts as street magic, most of us interested in learning magic tricks are more than interested in learning levitation tricks. In fact, even those of us who aren’t interested in learning magic tricks are more than interested in learning how to levitate.

This probably stems from the fact that we can’t seem to figure how out how it is done, or even when we know how it is done, we can’t seem to find a flaw in the magician’s levitation act which will show us that he is indeed using those tricks to levitate that we know about.

This can be incredibly frustrating, but you must first understand that two things go into a magician’s levitation tricks that will make it almost impossible for you to detect how the trick is done.

The first thing is the immense amount of practice and dedication that the magician puts into his act. This ensures that he can do his act smoothly and in such a manner that even those who know how the trick is being performed, can’t detect it.

The second thing which a magician will put into getting all of his tricks right, and not just the levitation tricks, is acting and stage presence. Sometimes the mere presence of the magician, not to mention his/ her distraction methods, will take your eye away from the real goal. This is in fact one of the better methods that magicians use to convince their audience that they are in fact seeing the real deal.

For the amateur magician however, who wishes to learn levitation tricks, outlined below is a very simple method of performing what is known as the Balducci levitation. This is probably the most popular method used by many people today as it is relatively easy to do once you get the hang of it.

To begin with, don’t do this trick on a crowd of people. The secret to this trick is in the angle in which you are facing your audience so the bigger the audience, the less chance you have of pulling it off. No one said levitation tricks were easy!

Stand facing your audience (of preferably one) at angle. If you imagine your audience to be at a twelve o’clock position on an imaginary watch, and yourself in the center of the watch, then you need to be facing towards five o’clock. You will also need about 6 feet or more, away from your audience.

Don’t purposely get into that angle, just do it naturally so that no one suspects anything. Next, stand on the tiptoes of your right foot while lifting your left foot off the ground.

Your left foot needs to be completely parallel with the ground so that it looks like you really are levitating. Hold this pose for about 3-5 seconds and then descend back down to earth gently. There you go, one of the many levitation tricks made easy.