Harry Houdini made it famous- the straight-jacket escape! But you don’t have to be Houdini to perform this great task. Every magician who delivers stage shows should learn how to escape from a straightjacket.
And it’s really pretty easy. It takes a little practice but in a short period of time you will be able to wriggle out of this restraining device faster than your audience can wrap their mind around it!
Here’s the key:
First, make sure the straight-jacket you are using is the kind where your arms wrap around you and where your arms can be lifted above the head. There are kinds where the arms are restrained by straps attached to the front of the jacket. This won’t work.
As your assistant is placing the straight-jacket on you, do two things. First, take in a deep breath and puff out your chest, making your upper body as large as possible. Also, make sure that the arm that ends up on top of the other one is your stronger arm. Such as your right arm, if you are right handed. Once the jacket is completely fastened, exhale and you will find that it loosens up creating some slack (creating slack is the whole key) so that you have some movement ability.
Now, raise your top arm up over your head, and now your arms are free. All that’s left to do is to unbuckle the arm straps with your teeth, and then unbuckle the top and bottom buckles with your free hands. Step on one of the long sleeves and pull your body out! Now you’re free. Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to dislocate a shoulder to make this stunt happen.
Once you have this down to a science, you can do it out in the open (if you do make sure you appear to really struggle) or the skies is the limit to the ways you can do this while hidden from the audience.
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hi! this is a great article hope you don’t mind but I posted this on my blog and provided link to your site of course.
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Woooooooooooooooooow This stuff actually works thanks man