In March 2018, a video purportedly showing a street performer "levitating," one of many, was shared nearly a million times on Facebook.

The Floating and Levitating Man. TRICK REVEALED (step-by-step) ! Seen in LondonThere is a steel plate on the pavement, covered with a grey carpet. In the corner of the plate, there is a rod...

Aug 27, 2014 · For centuries, Indian yogis have claimed to have mastered the powers of levitation. In reality, they’ve simply managed to dupe unsuspecting bystanders by tapping into fundamental design...

Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means. While believed in some religious and New Age communities to occur due to supernatural, miraculous, psychic, or "energetic" phenomena, there is no scientific evidence of levitation ...

Silver man Covent Gardens from start to finish you will see how this trick on the streets of London is done, this video clip will show you step by step the secret of the street artist performing...

Jun 27, 2017 · First the street performer needs to build a kind of mechanism by which they are grounded. Usually when you see them you cannot see the ground under them, they are covering it with boxes or a rug....

See this video and the trick of levitation and floatation will be perfectly clear. Seen at Covent Garden. There is a steel plate on the pavement, covered with a grey carpet. In the corner of...

Levitating performers are essentially a variation of the human statue. The biggest difference between the two is that the levitating performer seems to be in such a deep meditative state that he defies the laws of physics by floating on nothing other than a cane (or staff).

In short, the floating man illusion is accomplished via the strategic placement of steel rods and plates. And though the performers appear to be defying the laws of physics, the structure is remarkably stable and contains only three parts; 1) the seat, 2) the shaft, and 3) the plate.