Effect: : A magician
sits down in a chair and puts a sheet over him. Suddenly, he rises one foot in
the air. Shoes, everything comes of the ground. The audience is
dumbfounded.
Method:: The secret to
this is very devious and requires lots of practice to perfect it. What is vital
is that the sheet is not see through. Before the start of the trick, make sure
that your shoes are on your feet loosely, but that the looseness is not obvious
to the audience. Once you stand over the chair, throw the sheet over you and
the chair.
When ready to sit down, slip off your
shoes and place your feet behind your shoes so that the shoes are protruding
from the sheet. Now comes the tricky part. OK, think about this. When you want
to pick up your pair of shoes and make them rise at the same time, you hold
them with your foot at the double line formed above the laces when the shoes
are placed together.
Use your big toe and your second toe of your right foot and hold your shoes
with these toes. Put your weaker hand over the left leg so that that hand and
arm " blends " in with the left leg. While doing this, put your stronger hand
(the right one in this case ) behind your back so that it rests on the seat of
the chair .
Pushing on the seat with this hand
should cause you to rise a little. The foot, which is holding the shoes should
rise and hence the shoes will also rise. The left foot is on the ground also
helping you push up. This foot is hidden from the view of the audience by the
shoes and the sheet.
