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Has anyone else watched this show on A&E? The guy's a "street magician" (ala David Blaine) but his stunts, especially levitation, are of a magnitude that pretty much would make the man the most respected illusionist in the world (if, in fact, he's ACTUALLY doing these illusions the way the show portrays...in public, no spottable 'gear' around him).

Having said that, I'm convinced that the "gear" needed to levitate this guy, IN PUBLIC to heights of 3-4 feet above the ground would be so large as to be impossible not to spot by the crowds gathered around him.

I'm convinced the entire show is fake with the "public crowds" being nothing more than paid extras/actors sworn to secrecy.

This isn't a David Blaine "2 inches off the ground" illusion, where the actual mechanics of how it is done are debatable (and, if you look hard enough, are actually available on the net). I have, sorry to say, closed my mind on the remotest possibility that this guy has ever, truly levitated himself in public the way his tv show claims.

However, I respect you all enough to ask if anyone can re-open my mind with a plausable theory. Am I dead-on that this whole show is a fake, or is there a real way you can have a crowd surround you, while you levitate 3 feet into the air without any spottable gear?

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got a photo by any chance of this? i would like to see it myself lol

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Oddly enough, an EXTENSIVE search on the net and I can't find any pictures from his TV show that show the stunts he did there. Not on his official site, not on A&E's site, nothing.

But there is one of him that I found doing *a* levitation (that wasn't on the show):

http://home.comcast.net/~drexxell/mindfreak001.jpg

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that photo is easy enough he is standing at a join on the fene he can be hanging up from anything .. a pipe hanging of the top attecthed to his pants or even a ro coming straight out behind him the has clamps orf some kind surrounding him ..

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Yup...but the ones on the tv show are more startling, with folks standing around, and him not close enough to anything big enough to "hide the gear'. So...my theory: he's got a crane in perfect view for all too see, but since all are paid actors they go "ooooo" and "ahhhhh" and pretend he's really doing magic in front of them.

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I can't really speak to the authenticity, but I can say that after extensive testing and research I have concluded that the guy is really irritating :)


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