What kind of tricks are used by performers who can swallow frogs and free themselves?

There are performers surprising people with tricks such as small animals such as frogs, swallowing goldfish and a mouse from their mouths and spit out again as if nothing happened. A movie "How David Blaine barfs frogs" has been released that explains the techniques of performers who do not have the creativity to those who do not know how to do it, with a history.

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It is the magician · magicians who appears in the movie created by the Internet media "Vox"David BlaineMr. In addition to magic using cards etc., it is a repertoire of the magic of the frog spitting magic and the mystery that even if you pierce the wire with a wire.


One of Mr. Blain 's magical things is to spit out a frog swallowed from the mouth. Although I think that I will never come back again if swallowed, there are people who can swallow things freely and spit like him.


Keiron Johnson, a British magician, will tell you the clues for that technique. He is also a performer with a repertoire of tricks that spit freely.


They are good at what is called "reverse flow trick" which freely puts out objects from esophagus and stomach. It is a magical skill that only persons who carried out special training can do.


Mr. Johnson is good at using a coin backflow trick. It is a trick to swallow several coins and to get out of the mouth again, but the great thing is that you can pick out the coin's back and front by the touch and extract it as you want.


The history of the backflow trick is old, and it is recorded that there was a magical thing to swallow a lot of water in the 1600 's and to spit like a fountain.



Particularly famous is Mr. Haji Ali, a performer who was active around 1930. He said that he was doing a reverse flow trick using water and a magical thing going on further.


It swallows two kinds of liquids and spits out separately. Ali swallowed flammable liquid · kerosene in addition to ordinary water ... ...


I spit out kerosene like a fountain first and put a fire on my house model.


After that, I breathed out water and extinguished. This seems to be a possible trick by separating kerosene and water with a low specific gravity in the stomach.


In the early 1900s, there was Mr. Mac Norton, a performer called "Human Aquarium".


Illustration showing Mr. Norton well. You can see that goldfish and frogs are swimming around the stomach.


His advantage is that it swallows multiple living things and spits out one after another.


Therefore, it seems there were times when it was sometimes impossible to grasp how many swallowed it was, and it seems that there was a scare of "You still remain in the stomach ... ..." after returning to the dressing room.


On the other hand, Mr. Johnson talks about Mr. Blaine "I do not know scary things."


Mr. Blaine known for his performance is showing performance in penetrating the wire ......


Showing a trick to stop breathing and dive for 17 minutes


Meanwhile, the TV program that was broadcasted in 2010IconoclastsMr. Blain shows interest in a certain performance.


That is Mr. Ali 's repertoire, a trick that splits water with kerosin.


Three years later, Mr. Blain showed off the skills learned in the TV program "Jimmy Kimmel Live." First fire the garbage can with kerosene ......


I extinguished it with water.


However, swallowing frogs rather than liquids like water requires another technique. Mr. Blain repeats training with small potatoes to freely put in and out solids.


For the human body, if you swallow something that is too big, you have a reaction that the body is about to spit out. It is a training to manipulate this reaction at will.


The training method using this potato is said to be also familiar to Mr. Great Waldo, a famous reflux performer.


After Mr. Waldo swallowed the mouse ......


He has a technique to blow cigarettes and spit out the mouse again.


In that training, it was said that a small potato with threads was used. In that state, repeat the training to manipulate the muscles of the stomach and esophagus freely in and out.


Especially important is the "upper esophageal sphincter" which is located at the upper part of the esophagus and is switching from the respiratory tract connected to the lungs. Thanks to this muscles, healthy people can prevent food from flowing back from the esophagus to the mouth, and at the same time the aspirated air can direct air to the lungs rather than the stomach.


Furthermore, he must also acquire the ability to deflate the muscles around the stomach and push objects such as frogs.


In the case of Mr. Blaine, it is thought that it is possible to keep a frog in the esophagus ... ...


Either you can think of either putting a frog in the stomach. At this time, it is thought that it is drinking a lot of water so that stomach acid and high temperature do not damage the frog.


In this way, everyone who wore backflow tricks with training training. Even if you get wrong,Do not think that an amateur without any knowledge would "do it"be careful.