See No Evil

After having seen a few Whip crackers perform double stocks blindfolded I felt it was time to give it a go.

First things that came to mind: What's the big deal? You're just moving your arms exactly the same way as you would if you weren't blindfolded.

Once I was experimenting with it, I realized that yes, you are still moving exactly the same but there is something to be said about not being able to visually see where your whips/audience are.

When you are blindfolded, you become much more aware of how the whips feel in your hand. After all, you are no longer able to see if they are tangled or not. So, you listen carefully and feel the pull of your whips. It's definitely an interesting sensation.

Here's how it turned out for me:

As you can see, I rotated slighting too much (or perhaps too little) on my last spinny-do-hickey. So by the end I'm at a sort of diagonal to the camera. That's not so bad. What you might be able to see is I totally thought my whips were tangled at the very end and that I was going to hit myself in the head. (Hence the slight flinch)

This was a lot of fun. And, with the right flashy blindfold, could be very intriguing to an audience. While not entirely complex, there are some challenges to it. I would love to do this while balancing on something to sort of "one up" the "trick". Awesome Sauce!

Until Next Time,

Signed,
Your Scarlett SnapDragon