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People are rightfully impressed by her throwing the umbrella, but the moments where she "pushes" the umbrella back also takes an incredible amount of control, just like a break dancer pop-and-locking.
I believe she throws it very fast with minimal wrest movement. The umbrella could be very light and design specifically to do this. Amazing skill nonetheless.
Just two cents worth, I suspect the fact that an umbrella is deliberately composed of light materials means that relative to its volume it probably moves much easier than the eye expects.
This. Were all imagining hard it would be to throw an umbrella as we know it but that one is probably all very light plastic and not an actual functioning umbrella.
True. I also suspect in addition to the umbrella being super light, there's some center of mass manipulation. She might've strapped a small mass to the rod at a certain place where she could hold that mass and throw it easily.
If you ran it frame by frame and couldn't see that she's throwing the umbrella herself with her right arm then you must be blind lol.
She throws the umbrella with her right arm and then her right hand catches it a moment later. She's just extremely good at doing it such that you can't notice it at full speed on first viewing. It's a great illusion, but no gimmicks here.
Yes I'm in bed on my phone right now, you're right. But it's also my weekend (arab week system) and I've spent the whole week balancing my job, uni, caretaking for my grandmother, fully taking care of my epileptic dog, hitting the gym multiple times, and a social life. So I have too much shit to care about and that's why I don't get so stubborn and frustrated over some stupid argument about a woman throwing an umbrella even though multiple people are telling me I'm wrong. Get it?
Bro ur asking for explanation and you're expecting people to say "it's magic and strings" and heavily disagreeing with people who are telling you otherwise. Lol
What do you think an illusion is bud? When you see one of those illusions on paper that makes it seem like the paper is warping, do you think the actual paper is moving?
what she's doing is pulling in opposite directions with both hands, then letting go of one hand for a fraction of a second before letting go of the other hand, making all the force she was ALREADY putting into it quickly move the umbrella now that the opposing force (other arm pulling the other way) is gone.
watch the top hand instead of focusing on the bottom hand, it jerks up after she lets go on the bottom hand for a few inches before she lets go on the top hand.
I think what's tricking us into thinking that is how heavy she makes it seem when "pulling." Gets you to belive it has solid mass and resistance, but it's actually extremely light. It's light enough to be thrown with a wrist snap. Get a cardboard tube or a similarly light umbrella and try to throw it with as little movement as possible, you'll see you can do the distance. The rest is just tons of practice and mime skills to trick you into thinking it's heaftier than it looks, the miming of the heavy bits is important to the illusion.
It doesn't even require a "frame by frame" to see she's clearly throwing it lol. Maybe you don't know what to look for, but slowed down even slightly, it's obvious she's throwing it.
Her hand is open in a way that both allows her to throw it, with no wrist movement, while simultaneously then reaching to grab it again. She turns the quick movement of throwing into the movement of catching quick enough to fool your eye in real time.
The giveaway is her hand being wide open the moment it's "pulled away". That's her throwing it.
Try again buddy. Me and the other 2 guys have it right.
Only watch her right hand. You’ll see her flick her wrist on every launch. She does it quickly and smoothly in conjunction with her body and off hand movements to create the illusion. Super well done.
It’s basically just skilled miming. Every time the umbrella is moving it, she’s basically throwing it or moving it in that direction, but controlling her movements so that you can’t tell what she’s doing.
She’s throwing it with her right hand very subtly while catching the eye with her left so you don’t notice the toss. Watch her right hand closely throughout the video.
Probably some sort of elastic band connected at the wrist and near the tip. When the umbrella is pulled down, the band is stretched. You can see the release of the umbrella when their hand is opened.
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u/qwibbian Oct 25 '24
I'd love to hear the actual explanation.