A human man just paddleboarded across the Atlantic Ocean alone

[SladeWilson23]

^^A lot of his stunts are fake, but it's still quite amazing on how they do it.

 

[TARS]

^^A lot of his stunts are fake, but it's still quite amazing on how they do it.

I'm not very familiar with most of his stuff. But after watching that Ted Talk, I watched one of his Netflix specials where he stuck a long metal needle thing through his bicep in front of Ricky Gervais, who proceeded to lose his ****. Given how outspoken Ricky Gervais is on atheism, he seemed like a skeptic that could be trusted not to ham it up to create belief in 'magic'.

I looked it up online and it seems Blaine created a fistula through his bicep from repeatedly pushing the needle through until he essentially had a piercing all the way through.

I'm not a huge magic fan or anything, but I'd be interested to hear about which of his stunts were faked, and how. Because from the limited stuff I've seen, since he started on the 'human endurance' stuff, it looks pretty legit.

 

[aleshemsky83]

I'm not very familiar with most of his stuff. But after watching that Ted Talk, I watched one of his Netflix specials where he stuck a long metal needle thing through his bicep in front of Ricky Gervais, who proceeded to lose his ****. Given how outspoken Ricky Gervais is on atheism, he seemed like a skeptic that could be trusted not to ham it up to create belief in 'magic'.

I looked it up online and it seems Blaine created a fistula through his bicep from repeatedly pushing the needle through until he essentially had a piercing all the way through.

I'm not a huge magic fan or anything, but I'd be interested to hear about which of his stunts were faked, and how. Because from the limited stuff I've seen, since he started on the 'human endurance' stuff, it looks pretty legit.

Thats a real thing, but it almost definitely isn't how he did it.

Its faaaaaar easier to fake something like that with rubber cement and makeup. He flexed his arm to make it look more convincing, but its still likely he used that methord and just fought through the painful stretching it would have caused.

He isn't as good a magician as you think, some of his switches are very obvious is you look for it. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQYCf4Uz4Q

He blatantly takes the bill from her at 17:20 and switches it (you can't see the switch, I didn't say he was terrible), and then very obviously blocks her from writing on the trick part of the bill.

 

[TARS]

Thats a real thing, but it almost definitely isn't how he did it.

Its faaaaaar easier to fake something like that with rubber cement and makeup. He flexed his arm to make it look more convincing, but its still likely he used that methord and just fought through the painful stretching it would have caused.

He isn't as good a magician as you think, some of his switches are very obvious is you look for it. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsQYCf4Uz4Q

He blatantly takes the bill from her at 17:20 and switches it (you can't see the switch, I didn't say he was terrible), and then very obviously blocks her from writing on the trick part of the bill.

Yeah, all of his close-up magic that he became famous for I realize is entirely slight of hand and other relatively basic concepts that he spent a lot of time perfecting.

But it seems like the breath holding was legit at least.

With the needle through the arm, I'm open to the idea that it was something simple like rubber cement and make-up. But most of the 'exposing magic' websites that I went to said fistula. I feel like Ricky Gervais gives it more credibility than almost any other celebrity would due to his secular nature, but yeah, that could be intentional if he was in on it. But that seems unlikely to me.

 

[Knave]

Did he really paddle or did he simply drift across most of that distance?

Also typical of a man to do this in March.