Levistick

just found this video on youtube.. ive played with this idea before, but didnt know it was a thing. but they always already are somewhere in the fire universe..

does anyone know anyone who does this? i found a site in sweden that sells them, gonna try make one first if i can get the weight right.

http://www.salza.se/inspiration.php

[image]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMVDsZrxQ7w[/image]

My son has a non-fire one.
Normally they are on elastic so I am interested to see what he used as the wires.

hmmmmm....*calling to son to find his*

these are stolen from magicians normally called a wand non fire ones use invisible thread and fire ones can use a blacked kevlar string or flexible on flammable wire I started learning this 2 years ago at play and have seen a proper magiacain one where the exess string is on a weight in a hollow tube so when the thread is released the weight sucks the string almost al the way in. great fun
I couldn't use one on elastic as the stretch would be weird lol

Mynci, I found my son's last night and it is really weird.
The elastic makes it alot more like a yo-yo than the wand (my magician friend has one as well, and I forgot about it until you mentioned it, no fire for his tho).

Neither one has the chord on both sides like the one in the video seems to.
Have the magic ones you've worked with had two lines going into it?

i think the one in the video may not actually have a string on either side.

A lot of the ones i have seen actually have a big loop that is attached to one point in the middle.

This means you can put both your hands in and slide them appart and it will look like two strings.

We just got a wand..

They're really fun to play with and if you have a poi background and can stall really well, they're pretty easy to control.
They attach to one hand, but the trick is to move two hands around to make it look like it attached to both, then people wonder how it can go around your body etc.

Ours have cotton thread.

No, the video only had one string, you can tell by the fact he always leads with right hand, and can go over his head, but btb, he has to unspin.

Great toy, I only got introduced to it this month.

Our is not fire, it's from the flowtoys shop i think, for UV shows... Silver and shiny with a black invisible thread.

Just playing with it at uni made people stop and stare.

Here, Prisna
It really is the use of the other hand that mades the difference.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ygKnWcWkpTQ

the 3 I had before they were robbed were just a piece of wood a hole just offcentre and thread through the hole and tied in a big loop so you could use both hands.

Magicians oneonly had 1 hole though.

Ours here is what Mynci describes but on elastic. That takes alot of work to get it to do what we want.
The hole is also centered so it stays more horizontal than vertical, but it does some great stalls and retractions.

The stick is flame patterened and the end are "heads"
It's a start

Yup the flow toys on is the one i have and they are so loverly.
It only has one string but you'll find if you take the clear bead thing of the string it can open in to a loop this makes it possible to use bothe hands for a bit or to swap hands.

Any who they are lots of fun and always get a great reaction.

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thanks guys, i tied some string to one of my pixies the other night and had a go, really awkward with two hands. then neon dave showed up which was loverly in itself, but he had a bit of englandshire knowledge to share with me on 'wands'.. ill check out the flowtoys, and try one hand ed, and get back to you

Yup it is def awqkward with two hand but it can be good for switching. Two tips sombody gave me for makeing it look smooth and magic were

1. make sure you don't bump either end. Bumping the end will make it wobble and ruin the illution. (probbaly not going to happen as much if it is on fire any way)

2. move your spare hand as if it is actually the one with the string ,this helps create the illusion of it having no strings.


Also have you checked out the video on flow toys? if not you defenatly should that girl is amazing.

I'm buying one from salza, and a "fire fly" which is their version of the "fire orb."

I was going to buy two wands but I wanted an orb for a while, and two kind of kills the illusion, although it has it's own function as a different kind of toy, so I may get a pair in the future.

I'll give a review of my experience when I receive them.

I visited Salza when I was in Scandinavia in August and purchased several things from them including the levistick.

You will find that the levisticks will have one hole (entry and exit) for the loop.

I've played around with it on and off, and have yet to light it, but it is a lot of fun. the challenge as highlighted in previous posts is keeping the stick vertical while you manipulate it and also using your free hand to give the illusion that both or no hands are required.

I've yet to figure out any smooth entry/exits for the levistick (i.e. going from twirling the levistick like a normal pixie staff to using it like a levistick), but that will come once I'm able to use it well.

I have found that you can transfer from holding the top of the stick right at the tip to levitating it pretty easily but this would probably not work on the fire variety.