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  • not impressed viagara has the same affect

  • It's all an optical illusion

  • I wonder they used crane in this video. Minutes 1:34 to 2:15 should be enough time to tighten the End of rope to the crane. Someone pull up the hollow yarn that attach to End of rope from the crane. Why after minutes 1:34 onward the cameraman not shoot the END of the rope? Magician hold the rope with left hand to ensure the rope not swing. Lastly, when the magician shout, someone at the crane automatically cut the hollow yarn.

  • The chickens are telling you how it works, just listen to them more closely.

  • nope it is not. when u watch it with ur eyes, public, and the ground is cemented sidewalk where u normally walk. u can tell it is awesome.

    surely it got a trick, but the hole and pole wasn't it.

  • simple guys rope hollow nd in side d rope it has a pipe which is connected in to d air pump nd when he press some hidden button d rope come out ...

  • Cheese people why are your comments so rude!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sala jhota

  • Yes this is a genuine Indian Rope trick. very good.

  • @Paradoxcards do you know how much wires that thin would hurt and pain somebody?

  • so he could rise peoples dick with his music?.......

  • what a theory... and no one just even thought that the rope can be tied with cord? And they are pretty strong ( around 50-60 kg) And its up to u to imagine where the other side of that cord is tied to. I say a tap. Any other suggestions?

  • @sittm7 - I figured this out last night, after watching it on TV. You are exactly correct !!! The flute is to give directions to the person shoving the pole up the rope. The man always places the boy on the rope, because it's difficult to balance. If you watch the rope falling, it "falls from the top", as if a pole was falling out of it. I've never seen a video of the ground being inspected.

  • devils

    

  • poda patti....

  • I somehow find this video sadning and depressing and i started wondering what im doing with a bunch of nerd commenters

  • my theory continued:

    ...would require far more effort than exhibited. ...unless he were attached to a harness.

    special harnesses are made for magicians performing levitations.

    these harnesses use a type of wire nearly invisible in broad daylight. its a good thing there's no live audience who, at the right angle may discover the truth.

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  • my theory:

    you can tell a different audio has been overlaid, there's no way hes actually playing that flute-thing. i think this is because he is covering up the sound of an air pump pumping air into a hollowed out rope. unfortunately, an air pump doesn't provide even close to the amount required to lift that tiny little boy. instead, the magician has to provide the boy witha harness. you can tell at 2:11 when he picks the boy up. even a skinny little boy like that...

  • Unless the pole is hidden down a 20ft deep crevice, I'd say that the device which is slid up within the rope has to be collapsible - perhaps some kind of interlocking mechanism of short pipe sections? That would certainly explain how the rope folds up so quickly after he shakes it - the device is still inside the rope.

  • I think air is pumped into it from a compressed canister in the box, he has to support it at the bottom when the air valve is released so that the bottom doesn't collapse first

  • amazing magician, he makes a flute sound like flute and percussion.

  • Wire hung around a tree or somthing

  • in the real version the kid climbs the rope disapears and starts insulting the magician from nowere then the magician climb with a blade then disapears and you can hear screams then limbs falling from the rope then the magician reapears with a bloody blade then gathers the limbs and buts them in a baskets and then the boy comes out unharmed

  • So interesting, so useful!!

  • The original version of this was gross as when the boy disappears into a misty sky a load of meat lands on the gound and everyone screams.

  • i watched i history dvd on magic and it said this was a fake but i think its a good trick

  • music is fake its added

  • thats not the full trick

  • any videos of this trick with the knife falling kid and reanimation of the kid. done by karachi and his son in 1935 thats the indian rope trick

  • Haha I know

  • Looks like Ron Jeremy's dick.

  • lol

  • Got me!  I said WOW!!!

  • YEAH!!! LOL

  • haha, that string above the rope looked like it was going to snap at 2:14 as the rope was starting to shake

  • fake...

  • what about doin the trick without a basket and on concrete ground.. thank you come again

  • maybe i can explain it..

    what if the rope is closed on the upper side and some person beneath(hidden) just pumps water into it so that it becomes turgid enough to hold the child...and in the end allows water to move out so it falls down like a rope

  • @milohoff88 maybe i thought just too much :D

  • i ca do that

  • knw him very well....the raj kumar magician

  • i knw him very well the raj kumar magician

  • it was where the boy climbs up then the man then screaming then bits of the boy falling the man sliding down then putting the boy in the bag and poping him out perfectly fine

  • this is performed very bad.

    It's clear that there is a pole inside that rope.

    You can see it because the rope gets soft from the top to the bottom, like something is sliding down.

    Some older videos are much better than this one.

    I even found a video where the rope is not inside the basket.

    THAT makes me mad...

  • i agree

  • see how the rope ascends and its bent?

    he probably attached some sort of hook while he placed it inside the basket.

    A lot of videos in YouTube like this one shows that the rope is bending while the boy is climbing up.

  • Well i like how he played on that instrument anyway more than the trick itself

  • It is some one underground with a pole

  • that was a horny ass rope

  • You would think that anyone could climb it but wouldn't it be pretty hard to steady?

    The apparatus would bend easily.

  • Mabey it was attached inside the bucket and was lifted till it was steady?????

  • i can

  • @rameez51

    i can ;)

  • @rameez51

    true true heheh me too

  • he didnt make the boy vanish in thin air

  • @TheMadboy24 chav is a word used in England for the people who can't/don't spell properly or talk properly eg uzing da word u insted ov you.

  • Some of you have the right idea about this trick,

    I'm nearly positive this is how it works,

    The rope is hollow, beneath the basket there is a crevice with a person and a pole, the person slides the pole up into the rope making it firm, that's why the magician has to hold onto the rope/pole in order to steady it,

    this explains why it would be much easier on stage, you simply have the basket on top of a trapdoor

  • obviously.

  • @sittm7 Can you explain how the rope falls at the end then..

  • @sittm7 you really think they dug a hole that deep? dont think so

  • @sittm7 lol so ur saying the person can hold a heavy steel rod up high in the air, straight, and with a kid on it and it doesn't even bed slightly bend

    come on give a better answer

  • @sittm7 watch the penn and teller version of the trick, the magician shows that there is nothing underneath the basket. 

  • @sittm7 Good solution. It's gotta be how it's done.

  • @sittm7 i think youre really close but in other videos of the trick the man lifts up the basket and people search the ground

    who knows?

  • @sittm7 that's not how it's usually done

  • @sittm7 then how to remove the pole so fast from the rope at the end?

  • @sittm7 ishammudin moves his basket in his version

  • @sittm7 hey dumass watch this, watch?v=y0AgvxEx754

  • yeah thats right but noone does it that way.. i think they're afraid...

  • ya d rope wud go so high dat it was out of view n wen d magician called his assistant 2 come down n wen he didnt hear any response he went up wid a sword n den he cut d boy n his real body parts fell........den he packed em n kept it in a box n d boy wud reapperar

  • good trick (?)

  • sorry it was not 20 years ago , 200 years actually :) if you want more information , you can find it in wikipedia as the "indian rope trick"

  • this is not the full trick... can't remember the name , but some indian magician , performed this trick about 20 years ago or something like that, just in the end the kid got up the rope behind the curtains (it was performed on stage) he screamed , and boddy parts began to drop, then magician put them in the same box with the rope , and the kid cameout holding that rope... as far as i know , no one ever figured that trick out.... or it's just a legend :)

  • you can see for a split second at about 3:00 where something rigid, obviously what is keeping the rope stiff and climeable, is pulled from within the rope to somewhere underground. it then becomes flexible again.

  • Where is the trick???

  • hey where is trick homie!!!!!!!!!!

  • lon live hinduism

  • the kids expression is priceless! lol

  • the rope doesnt look real. i think its probably got the ribbing that you get on the chord of a vacuum cleaner where when it is straight it stays strong and rigid but when bent can look flexible. either that or a crane is above the rope holding it up with a wire

  • Its a hollow rope, someone below (underground) put a stick into it. When he gave signal, "Hyaaaaaa," the other guy pulled the stick back

  • in the real trick the boy disappears and aload of meat and blood falls from the top of the rope.........

  • i think the rope is hollow, and someone is hiding underground; that guy slowly insert a stick into the rope while the man is playing the pipe.

  • lol shecutess...ure retarded. This is an ancient "magicuans" trick in India. There is a wire somehere hidden that holds the rope and pulls it up in one of th trees or on the house and someone pulls it accordingly. Always a little boy climbing....this is so common in India. He did execute it the old trick very well though. Quite a performer!

  • yeah, demons, deffo. they made me fail my exams too

  • Awesome!!

  • haha i know its not real, but its awsome ^^

  • LOL...

  • rofl, i second the comment below

  • i think that is Real***iw love to gain powers like this!!!!!!!!!!!!!.please help me

  • i think thhis is real

  • there is nothing in the world called Magic; if people think so i guess they have wake from their sleep and come down on earth cuz there is no such thing as magic ; Every magic trick has some solutions ;

    K

  • nonsense la! u see he puts the rope inside.then another reid rope wich was previously inside rises... its just playing with ur mind. and besides this is not even the true blue rope trick..

  • wow ! what kind magic are you ? .I have added as my favorite . Thank you for sharing .

    nutier

  • a regular rope is put in the box, there is a hole in the ground with a rope in it that has a support beam running up through the center, after the kids climbs then the support beam is removed....we duplicated this at a place called scientific hoaxes and gravity definement

  • @amphaynes : But what abt the trick when it is done over solid ground on the road side by street magicians.....you cant expect them to have dug a hole on the pavement or use props like you guys

  • @amphaynes @sittm7 you do realize how insanely deep the hole would have to be in order for that t be true, right?when was the last time you were able to dig a 20 foot or deeper hole in the ground?

  • @amphaynes @sittm7 not to mention that if you were to pull a support beam from the rope the rope would not fall the way it does no matter how you were to remove the support.

  • @amphaynes do u have the video of it?

  • Why are you still here? Are you still trying to figure the trick out? Why do you keep removing your comments?

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  • Ya im the stupid one. your the one watching indian magic tricks

  • dnt read this(cuz it really wrks). u will gt kissd on the nearest frieday by the love of ur life. 2mara wll b the bst day of ur life hwever if you dnt post ths comment 2 at least 3 vids u will die withn 2 days

  • its still a cool trick, so can your crap talk. why can ppl on here never just enjoy the show?

  • Some people just don't work like that. Active minds I guess :S

  • sounds more like trolling.

  • what instrument is he playing?

  • it looks like a giant boner

  • i can do that too! thats how i got into my treehouse.

  • Its fake. Thats my idea. Just because we dont know how it is done (btw thats how magic works) doesnt mean he really is charming a rope.

    Come on... are you really that gullible?

  • Right. I'm gonna try not to be too hostile here, coz I'm slowly learning that nobody responds well to abuse.

    If you had bothered to read any of my previous posts you'd realise I KNOW its fake. As is ALL magic. I'm trying to work out how its done though. But, fake or not, the fact still remains that these guys can turn a pliable bit of rope into a rigid object strong enough to support the weight of a child.

  • As for the hoax exposed by Dr. Peter Lamont, as mentioned by Viharsarok, it refers to a variation of the rope trick that has not been performed for over a hundred years (if at all), which would involve the boy disappearing at the top of the rope. The Fakir would then become angry and climb the rope with a sword in his belt, also disppearing at the top. At this point dismembered body parts fall from the sky and the Fakir climbs back down with a bloody sword..........

  • .....Only to reveal the same boy who disappeared, and was apparently butchered out of sight of the audience, hiding in a basket in plain view of the audience. It is believed that this version of the trick involved a pair of twins, one of which would actually be murdered as part of the show. Hence why it has not been performed in living memory. There was a phenomenal reward offered to anyone who could perform this trick for the magic circle, but nobody came forward. Hence it is believed a hoax.

  • I've got no interest whatsoever in the TRUE version of the rope trick. I want to know how a man can make a rope stand upright and support a child's weight. Which is what I meant when I said "Anyhow, its the actual ROPE part thats the real mystery". I hope you realise I'm NOT gullible. I simply HAVE to know how things work. Its just the way I am. I never believe anything I see without a scientific explanation. Sorry about the bombardment of posts by the way =)

  • My guess: it seems quite obvious that there are two 'ropes' : the one that he is holding pre-script (notice how he places it around the edges of the box, and another 'rope' which is sheathing (sock) over some kind of flexible (maybe bamboo or fiberglass)pole and is burried in the ground under the box. an off camera assistant feeds the 'pole' through hole and it bends upward. When the magician grabs the sock at the end of the trick, the assistant pulls the pole back through the hole,

  • but because the magician is loosely holding the sock, the pole is able to be pulled back through, allowing the rope to fall to the earth. This all happens on queue: The magician yelling "YAAAA!" It would be funny for someone in the audience to yell "YAAAA!" when the little kid was still at the top of his climb (I'd yell at 2:38) :)

    Notice how the boy doesn't get to the top. the pole would probably flex over and fall.

    Magic is real, however the definition should be "The art of hoax"

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  • i m indian i havent seen indian rope trick anywhere till now. its remain just in british books. in this trick i dont think a string is attached to pull rope. rope looks so straight like bamboo. i want to see real performance now.

  • wow. watch this. /watch?v=HKnfseEmgwE rope is visible trough out.

    search "20 of 50 Greatest Magic Tricks - Indian Rope Trick (Amazing)".

    boy disappearing was last noted buy some british in his book who seen it.

  • I want to see the version when the boy disappears and the guy cuts him up, then he reappears and they're both fine. -_-

  • It doesn't exist. You know that 'maneating chicken' thing they do at carnivals? Where they advertise a man-eating chicken and you get a man, sitting on a stool, eating chicken? Then they tell you to go tell your friends about the amazing man-eating chicken? It's like that.

  • You never see the top of the rope once erected. It is pulled up by an invisible thread which only bears the weight of the rope. An assistant attaches it to something out of sight (tall tree etc) boy climbs half way up or so , then climbs down. Assistants unataches is from out of sight structure. That *IS* how its done.

  • Firstly, note at 1:08, the horizontal top of the rope moves slightly with the axis being the pole, this is an indication that the rope is separated into two segments.

    This immediately rules out the possibility that the rope is made from a semi-uniform material filled to the inside, as normal rope would be.

    Secondly, as the pole sways left to right at 2:38, it matches the tree movements in the background thus ruling out the possibility that the pole is hung up at the top out of the view.

  • Hence, I posit the very likely hypothesis: the rope is hollow, and that a long metal pole is raised from underground through the hollow casing.

    The call at 2:57 will then be a signal to an underground third-party to drop the metal pole inside, and thus the dropping of the rope casing follows the acceleration of gravity starting at 2:59 but the brief part-second before this applies to all parts of the rope casing further supports the theory, as the metal pole itself takes time to fall.

  • FAKE!!!!

  • Well, duh. That's why it's called a magic TRICK.

  • Ther'e a VERY LOUD clicking noise as the rope ascends.... No-one has questioned this.... If it is drums, why do we not see the drummer ???? If it is a pump, well there you are !!!

  • Think how hard a bicycle tyre gets when it's pumped up... especially a high-pressure racing tyre... this might be the secret... an electric pump in that box.

  • OMFG

  • wow!!

  • why doesnt any 1 check in side the box for crying out loud!

  • I have been a magician for over 20 years and know how this is done. This man is an entertainer and is not trying to sham people with a false religion so I will not expose him. What I will say is that you just witnessed a centuries old trick, that has been used by both entertainers and charlatans. This goes to show you that human technology has been alive since the beginning.Think.

  • the top of the rope looks like the head of the cobra....that's why it is supposed to be bent. These "jaadugars" are amazing!

  • That is true the classic indian rope trick was more eloberate and tricky. So much as this magician did is also amazing.

  • i want to learn... can he teach me :) ??

  • Excellent show !! Could it be the rope is being "pumped up" ? with gas or water ? Like God designed a penis ? I'm dead serious !!

  • ohh boy god & penis in the same sentence ...that sounded wierd hahahaha. but seriously i don't think anything that flexible can be "shafted" and be climb even by an unfeed little child ! possibly someone underground filing the interior of the rope with a metal rod and just pull the rod real hard (added with gravity) to slack the rope again (notice how him hands almost squish the ropes ? ) witch tells it might be empty ?

  • with enough pressure it gets pretty hard, compare a firebrigade hose when under pressure. However I wonder how a strong enough contraption fits in the box. And the repetitive claim that this trick (um,. the very same? how can we tell?) has been done for centuries makes one wonder about that. I would like to see a performance in which they MOVE the box.

  • That's why i say it's a metal you push no one has a compressor of any kind a few centuries back so it has to be something else...and does they ever move that damn box around ? if not it means someone is down there (a cavity under the box). Anyway must be something like that ...it seems plausible just like that.

  • Hm, yeah it's just that I am totally not convinced that the way they did it ages ago necessarily has to be the same as the way they do it in current video's.

    What did catch my attention was that the rope in some of the video's seems to deflate at the end. That looks different than a metal rod would look like. And a metal rod, as you mentioned, needs some space, possibly underground, which does seem to be a problem with the outside versions. (The Roman Colosseum did have space under the stage).

  • I admit that with the rod it complicated everything for nothing and yes it's quite possible that they do not use the same trick as the last few centuries and inflating the rope ...i really don't think so there's no flexible material that can be shafted that hard when the kid is hight up it would of (bend/snaped) like when you voluntarely bend a garden hose with your hands. I do not know of any material that small sized that can stay straight when only inflated with whaterver.

  • It's just that the rod would need quite a cavity underground, and needs to go in and out very fast without getting stuck. Whenever I try to fit a stick in a tube for whatever reason, it tends to get stuck. If they had some way for strong hydraulics, compare a firehose at watch?v=GzSVQGarHI0 watch?v=ahnSRKRuOZ8 watch?v=gqdGrOAjKLQ - and digging in a highpressure waterpipe is easier than making the cavity a metal rod needs.

    I would love to inspect the site to see if this makes any sense.

  • i recheck the end of the vid a few times when the ropes drop and i have no choice but to retract my rod theorie simply because as the top drops, the bottom is bending a little to much for the rod to be inside so it's something else though i still doubt the shafting because it's as complicated to get it to shaft underground at very high pressure than to dig a whole in the ground for the rod ?

  • The end of this one might reveal some details? watch?v=dUym18rbEAc

  • Ohh my god i should of seen that one instead of this one and i would never even come up with my rod idea hahahaha . and since there's no pressure air or water or anything (because it make a hell of a noise at that) i'm concluding that it's some kind of blocks that when aligned correctly they hold like legos but if you just swing it up and down the blocks will dealign and fall ...now i know ...thanks

  • The mechanics of this illusion must be quite simple as it has been performed for hundreds of years. Its clearly supported from the bottom though, you can tell me the way the rope bends under the boys weight at 2:32. Another clue that its supported from the bottom is the box. This trick is NEVER performed without a box or basket or something like that. Whats hidden in the box?

    I'd also like to have a look around. I bet if you could physically examine the props and area you could work it out.

  • The rope trick was never actually performed, it was hoax.

    Read:

    skepdic com/indianrope.html

  • Yeah, heard all about it. The ex-president of the magic circle and all that bullshit. If its a hoax, explain the video you just watched? The guy who claimed it to be a hoax, if you ask me, was too proud and in too high a position to put his hands up and say "I dunno how its done... magic?", so instead discredited the performers by claiming it was a hoax. Can't remember his name but, if you read up on him it turns out he was a total dickhead. So his opinion is worthless to me.

  • the rope he takes out and shows to everybody, isnt the rope that goes up, thats obvious. the rope that goes up has a pole inside of it, notice how the man holds the rope as the boy goes up, the pole is very thin so it slides nicely inside of the rope. notice that when he shouts at the end u can see the whole length of the rope shudder as the pole is withdrawn very quickly. how the pole is concealed under ground still thinkin about! the size of a trench to accomodate the rope would be unpracticle

  • pole or no pole....how does it "go up"?

  • Given the diameter of the rope, if it was a metal pole inside, anybody could climb it. Why do we only see very light small kids climb it?

    Probably compressed air/water.

  • there is something inside and behind the box! A car battery(inside to fill up the rope with sand, so it will become hard) and a pole lying behind the box, erected simultaneously with the rope(to cover the pole)

  • Dude. This trick is ancient. Before car battiers, you know?

  • i wonder why the top of the rope is bent as if gravity is pushing it half way down. maybe its attached to something!!!!!!!!! O_O

  • Thats increadibly impressive!

  • The "real" indian ropetrick were never proved existing. You can read about it but no1 has ever found prof of it. This is a very good trick though.

  • What i the "real" indian ropetrick then?

  • The "classic" version, was more detailed: The boy would climb the rope and be lost to view. The magician would call back his boy assistant, and, on hearing no response, become furious. The magician then armed himself with a knife or sword and climbed the rope and disappeared. Then limbs would start falling, cut from the assistant by the magician.

    The magician would climb down the rope. He would collect the limbs and put them in a basket. Soon the boy would appear, restored.

  • Supernatural exists but this isn't,

    there's something mechanical about the rope motion, why the box? obviously he attches the rope onto a thin piece of wire suspended from above,  in another video it's claimed that the rope instantly climbs up when in fact it's reverse filmed!

  • yea, it's a magic trick. That's the beauty of it, it's an amazing trick.

  • well in some of them after the boy jumps off the rope falls down like a normal rope would

  • itz like a bent long growing growing penies