hi magician rich Ferguson here today I'm
going to teach you how to levitate small
objects now have you ever taken a
balloon and rubbed it on your hair and
it's gained that static charge which
allows you to stick it to your clothing
or maybe to a friend or to the wall
that's the principle behind this
levitation I'm going to teach it to you
in just a moment have you ever taken a
package and unpackaged it and found
those packaging peanuts and notice how
sometimes a few of them kind of float
around you sometimes you put your hand
toward one and they jump onto you or
maybe is repelled from you that's
because one of you has a positive charge
typically you and one has a negative
charge and what's happening is he's the
materials are trying to find a balance
so what you're going to do with the
dollar is use Alliance utilize a trick
that involves a straw I'm going to teach
you the trick with the straw first and
then that's going to allow you to
actually levitate small objects between
your hands so the trick is very simple
you're going to and I have this already
prepared what you're going to do is tear
off the top piece of a straw that's
going to allow this whole bottom sleeve
to slide easily like this it's going to
build up the static charge that's
necessary to charge your hands so I'm
going to show you this when it come in
close and show you exactly what you do
and how this works this is going to be
the test so you can see if you've got
the right moisture in your hand and the
right static charge built up in the
straw so this is very simple just tear
off one small piece of the paper lay it
on your table hold the end that's got
the paper on it so you're not touching
the straw take the long piece slide it
back and forth to build up the static
charge pinch with this hand very firmly
so you can slide off this paper fast now
you've got yourself a rod that attracts
the paper you can see it jumping right
there it jumps up to the straws he needs
standing straight up on its end right
now but watch this if I hold it in my
hand it will literally jump up if I try
to get rid of it just won't go there it
goes sometimes it'll actually jump down
and then jump right back up again
so this is the secret to how you
levitate
something between your hands what you're
going to do is use two straws now a lot
has to come together the exact same time
so what you're going to do is prepare
your two straws with just the ends
separate from the long sleeve that's
going to allow you to bite down on the
ends with your teeth not your lips you
don't want to get this wet then you're
gonna be able to use your free hand to
slide both sleeves back and forth pull
them off sharply and hard to get that
static charge build up then you're going
to have two straws hanging on your mouth
held by your teeth by the paper reach up
with one hand on each grab the straws
pull them away and that you're going to
dissipate that charge into your left and
right hand hold the straws for just
about three beats one two three drop
them and leave your hands exactly the
way they are do not touch them don't
touch the table don't touch yourself
you're going to keep that subtle charge
in your hands you are positively charged
now then you're going to reach down and
you're going to grab your dollar bill in
a very specific way I'm going to zoom in
and show you how you grab it it's
important that you have your bill
sticking over the edge of a table so you
can grab from the center area from the
top and bottom with your fingertips like
this it doesn't matter what's on top of
what's down below you do not want to
grab the table you do not want to grab
the edge of the bills you don't want to
make contact with anything else
so from above and below just pinch the
dollar okay now let's put it all
together hold the ends with your teeth
drop the straws do absolutely nothing
reach over grab your bill from above and
below with just your fingertips and then
slowly let go at the bottom and you're
going to have about five to ten seconds
of static charge you can start to see it
vibrating and now it's dead so you can
do real levitation with just static in
your hand as you move around object key
thing here is make sure you're above and
below the dollar bill if you're using
like packaging peanuts you can get to
the side and kind of move one hand
around and disturb the balance between
the positive and negative charges but
with the dollar bill which is by far the
coolest thing you can do hold it from
above and below like this let go with
the top hand about three to four inches
away and then mirror that with your
bottom hand you don't want to be like
this and like this a fist and open hand
very open very flat I prefer to go
across with my fingertips and slowly
bring up my fingers apart so everything
is mirrored and you can keep that
balance of that static charge once you
figure out the trick share it with your
friends and see if you can fool them too
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