Quote Originally Posted by Hardcore Newbie
Judo's pretty cool, I'm into mixed martial arts, but I've trained in JiuJitsu and a small stint in muay thai

Cool, Those are a couple of my favorite martial arts. I definately would have taken Jiu Jitsu were it available, but I suppose Aikido and Judo are 2 offshoots of it anyway.

But Chris Angel apparantly uses a lot of camera tricks. That and he steals everyone else's tricks. My Roommate's a magician and I know a few decent tricks. But yeah, Chris Angel is an ass. Some magician created a convincing illusion of walking on water, with an audience in the pool. He didn't want to tell anyone, but CA convinced him to tell, but if CA used it or profited from it in any way shape or form, the magician would sue him for 6 million dollars. lo and behold, a few months later the trick is on his show, the magician calls him up and asks what's going on, and CA responds (paraphrased) "I do mine differently, and in order to prove that mine's different you'd have to show your trick to the courts, and everyone would know your secret. See you in court"

Pretty assholish eh?

But yeah it's hard to believe some of the stuff that he does, and there's obviously a way that he does it, but I'm a sceptic by nature. I highly doubt it's because he's training himself to such a high level that he can do these things, and more than likely due to them being "tricks". Highly sophisticated tricks, yes, but tricks nonetheless.

Wow, I had no idea angel could be such an asshole, he seems like a nice guy on his show! I won't jump to any judgements right off the bat though, we can't know all the details.
Honestly I think for his walking over the pool trick he just got some glass put on top, just under the surface, so people could still swim over him. For the camera tricks I don't know what's real and what's not, it's hard to tell. What particularily annoys me though is so many of his tricks where we have to assume that the people he's working with genuinly aren't working with him in secret. Like when that woman wrote down any item in the store, and he picked out that one item. I mean come on, I'm not impressed because I'm supposed to take his word for it that she's not in on it!

He does do some pretty cool physical stuff though. I know stuff that's supernatural, like walking down a building, are tricks of course. I was only referring to things that are more about physical strength and stamina.


I wish I could find some of those tai chi videos for you, but nothing's coming up. Have you ever watched the Shaolin Monks though? Now THAT is some amazing stuff! I'm pretty sure you can find them on youtube, google video, that sort of thing. What I wouldn't give to go to one of their shows!