The other night, I sat down with my girlfriend and we watched "The Prestige" starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman. For those who don't know, this movie is all about magic tricks and how conjurers - at least the ones in the movie - would stoop to any lows in order to learn the other's secrets. They wanted to be the best magicians, which is something that I'm sure all others in this line of work strive to be. How much more impressive would their acts be if kettlebells were used?
One of the several magic tricks seen in the movie at great length is the water tank escape, which features the person being brought into a filled glass tank with the task of escaping the binds that tie them. It's a suspenseful trick, to be certain, but I'd have to believe that kettlebells could be made useful here as well in order to heighten the act. The added weight would not only force the person to cope with more leverage against them but make them utilize the versatility of the weight in question. Fitness authorities the likes of Lorna endorse these and there are many reasons for doing so.
A lesser used trick yet one that stands to be mentioned is the Chinese linking rings. Metal rings which are attached to one another have to be removed and it's common for the normal person to be stumped as to how it works. There's a method behind it and I believe such a method could apply to kettlebells as well. One has to be able to maneuver the arms in such a way that the trick is made possible with the use of illusions and skilled motions that only magicians seem to understand the secret of.
There is also one other strategy shown in the cinema that I thought was both impressive and suspenseful. Alfred Borden, who is Bale's fictional character, makes use of the bullet catch trick. The trick goes like this: the bullet is stored into the gun but it never reaches the point where firing it off would be terminal, or even painful. Delusion is also used in order to mimic the sound and appearance of a gun going off so that the viewing audience is left impressed. It's a trick that only sensible magicians can pull off.
As someone who was only a little interested in magic at first, "The Prestige" certainly opened my eyes to a world that I knew very little about. Not only did I learn about the secrets of these tricks - at least to some extent - but I saw just how excited these people can become when it comes to their own work. Sometimes they can downright vicious, which is something that I suppose goes for any job where the public eye is present. I still have faith that these free weights could come into play.
One of the several magic tricks seen in the movie at great length is the water tank escape, which features the person being brought into a filled glass tank with the task of escaping the binds that tie them. It's a suspenseful trick, to be certain, but I'd have to believe that kettlebells could be made useful here as well in order to heighten the act. The added weight would not only force the person to cope with more leverage against them but make them utilize the versatility of the weight in question. Fitness authorities the likes of Lorna endorse these and there are many reasons for doing so.
A lesser used trick yet one that stands to be mentioned is the Chinese linking rings. Metal rings which are attached to one another have to be removed and it's common for the normal person to be stumped as to how it works. There's a method behind it and I believe such a method could apply to kettlebells as well. One has to be able to maneuver the arms in such a way that the trick is made possible with the use of illusions and skilled motions that only magicians seem to understand the secret of.
There is also one other strategy shown in the cinema that I thought was both impressive and suspenseful. Alfred Borden, who is Bale's fictional character, makes use of the bullet catch trick. The trick goes like this: the bullet is stored into the gun but it never reaches the point where firing it off would be terminal, or even painful. Delusion is also used in order to mimic the sound and appearance of a gun going off so that the viewing audience is left impressed. It's a trick that only sensible magicians can pull off.
As someone who was only a little interested in magic at first, "The Prestige" certainly opened my eyes to a world that I knew very little about. Not only did I learn about the secrets of these tricks - at least to some extent - but I saw just how excited these people can become when it comes to their own work. Sometimes they can downright vicious, which is something that I suppose goes for any job where the public eye is present. I still have faith that these free weights could come into play.
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