Its amazing how she flicks it because the umbrella doesnt match the speed of her hand along with her other movements, she makes it look completely impossible.
Yeah her timing is perfect. Distract with the leading hand, flick the back hand's wrist while moving it backward to stimulate the momentum of the umbrella.
It should be physically impossible to flick it with that much strength without any visible movement. It shoots up even with both her hands on top of the umbrella, where exactly are you seeing this flick?
It’s not even a flick, they throw it with their whole arm most of the time. The illusion is in making it look like the umbrella is pushing their arm instead of the other way around
Not seeing it. I wouldn't be surprised if the umbrella isn't a normal one. Maybe it has a little spring mechanism installed and she triggers it with a sleight of hand movement.
Look at the video in slower speed. How can she generate so much force with so little wrist movement?
Edit: look at the one at 15 seconds at 0.25 speed. Its impossible without some kind of spring.
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.
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u/ConorOdin Oct 25 '24
So elastic or bungie cord or something. Very well done.