Magic. Probably the finest example of the rope trick.

fretmeister

Damn that's good.

Sporky

That was ace.

Strangefan

That was truly brilliant. 

TheBlueWolf

Wow!

holnrew

he's the devil

TheMarlin

Very very slick performance.  i can really see the years of effort that goes into making that look so effortless. 

Moltisanti

i love that. Even if you have a vague idea of how it's done, the skill and practise needed to get to that level is unimaginable.

Sporky

Moltisanti said:

Even if you have a vague idea of how it's done, the skill and practise needed to get to that level is unimaginable.

Exactly - his jacket looks a bit oversized but I still can't see how you'd get a big enough particle accelerator inside it.

Grunfeld

Superb!

RandallFlagg

Unbelievable! really good

Neil

I loved that, incredible skill.

fretmeister

Mac King is the guy that Penn & Teller go and see.

QED.

guitarfishbay

Amazing

Evilmags

Unreal. 

bingefeller

How does he do it Fret?

vasselmeyer

That was pretty extraordinary.

octatonic

Er... yeah.. but... er... um... what? .... how?

CabbageCat

bingefeller said:

How does he do it Fret?

I think it's mostly by having littler lengths of ropes cleverly concealed in his hands (you can see that he holds the rope in a very unnatural, "magicianny" way) that are looped to make it look like the longer length of rope. And other things...the "it's a loop, see?" bit is pretty obvious, he's just running his hands along it, and the knots are, I guess, some pretty dextrous one-handed tying while folding and cramming.

You can probably google every part of that trick and it will seem less clever, but even if you know how it's done I suspect there is quite a lot of practice getting things in the right place quickly and discreetly.

fretmeister

CabbageCat said:

bingefeller said:

How does he do it Fret?

I think it's mostly by having littler lengths of ropes cleverly concealed in his hands (you can see that he holds the rope in a very unnatural, "magicianny" way) that are looped to make it look like the longer length of rope. And other things...the "it's a loop, see?" bit is pretty obvious, he's just running his hands along it, and the knots are, I guess, some pretty dextrous one-handed tying while folding and cramming.

Teller doesn't know how he does it. It famously (well, amongst magicians anyway) drives him mad.

bingefeller

It's really amazing.  

lloyd

That's ridiculously good