how does david blayne levitate?

Question

Two things to be noted -- 1.they dont show his front portion of his legs on TV
in the television
2.and the second thing is he always stands at an angle of 45 degrees with respect to the people standing behind .. guess hes lifting one of his legs and balancing them the other and his pants cover the heels and the toe.

But in some of the videos his feet are actually above the ground does anybody know the trick behind this???

Answer 1

No, this is an actual illusion act, you can find it on the internet but I forget what it's called. Someone else asked that question here once before, you should look up David Blaine in the Yahoo Answers search bar. It has something to do with him lifting up on only one foot (tip toe) so you can only see really one of his legs "levitating" and you only do it for a brief second. For his taped specials, he uses strings to lift him up. He did the fake illusion for the guys on the street to get their reaction, then he retaped himself with the strings so the audience at home would be more freaked out. But yeah, look up David Blaine on here and you'll find what the act is actually called.

Answer 2

He has an extension that pops out of the front of his shoes. Then when he goes up on tiptoe, the extension allows him to go several inches higher than someone could normally do on tiptoe. Have you noticed that he never goes higher than a few inches, and that they never show a ground-level shot of the back of his feet? They have to keep the shot high enough where you can't see the extension.

Answer 3

I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you. Seriously you could proably find the REAL explaination by looking it up on google so why ruin it for everyone?

Answer 4

It's called magic.