- these are mini-tricks that enable kids to touch something magical, unknown. They feel themselves becoming little wizards. Meanwhile, the tricks shown to children lie in the chemical and physical components, i.e. easily explained by science. This allows children to slowly but surely learn some of the laws of chemistry and physics that kids will learn in school in a few years.

Many children love magic tricks. Firstly, these are completely simple tricks that do not require any special devices. Secondly, if you teach such tricks to a child, then he will begin to develop spatial thinking.

How to perform tricks with a rope?

In principle, many magicians have a whole arsenal of tricks built on the use of ropes in stock. They can be tied, untied, threaded through planks. Magic tricks can be simple, or they can be quite complex.

Living ropes. The magician needs three strings for this trick. different lengths: 20, 30 and 40 cm. It is necessary to show the children and other spectators ropes with different lengths - long, medium and short. After that, they must be placed on your left palm so that their three ends hang from it. Next, you need to clench your left hand into a fist, and trim all three ends of the hanging ropes with your right hand.

Spectators should see that three identical ropes hang from the fist of the left hand. Then, with your right hand, you need to take hold of the ends of the different three ropes, pulling them out of your fist. In this case, all three ropes should become the same! At the end of the trick, they need to be thrown aside, showing the audience empty hands.

The secret of this trick lies in sleight of hand. It is necessary not only to be able to squeeze different ropes in a fist, but also to arrange them so that two ends of a long rope and one end of a medium one hang down. At the same time, two ends of a small rope and the second end of the middle one should protrude above the fist. It is necessary that the smallest and largest ropes interlock with each other in the middle. If everything is done correctly, then all three ropes will appear the same at the moment when the magician begins to trim their ends.

Magic rope. Spectators need to be convinced that the magician has a magic rope on which no knots hold at all. It needs to be shown to the audience. Several loose knots should already be prepared on the ropes. For reliability, you can tie a few knots in front of the audience. Only the nodes should be at a small distance from each other. After that, the rope must be wrapped around the hand with the words “Alabim-Salabim, Akhalai-Mahalai” and grab the end of the wrapped rope with the other hand, unwinding it. There should be no knots on the rope!

The secret of this trick is as follows. When wrapping the rope around the hand, it is necessary to very carefully and secretly drag each of its upper ends through the existing knots. When the magician begins to remove the rope from his hand, it is necessary to grab the very end that has already passed into the knots. You just have to let go of the rope, as the knots will untie themselves!

Illusions with a rope on "BorYarik"

Other rope tricks

Rope trick - self-untying rope.

In order for the audience to enjoy the trick, you will have to practice well, because even a simple trick with ropes requires dexterity and skill. Learn from simple tricks, gradually move on to complex ones. Take your time and you will succeed. Tricks with knots are considered the simplest, much later tricks with cutting, a trick with a rope and scissors, "reunions" and extensions of ropes appeared.

For this trick you will need a rope.

Announce to your viewers that you have a magic rope that won't hold knots. Show the audience this rope, it should have several ordinary knots that are not tightened. In order for the audience to believe you more, you can tie a few knots in front of them. The only condition is that the nodes must be at a small distance from each other. Wrap the rope around your hand, saying the spell: "Alabim-salabim." Then grab the end of the rope with your other hand and unwind it. Show the rope to the audience - there are no knots on it.

Focus secret.

Sleight of hand and no magic. As you wind the rope around your hand, carefully and discreetly for the audience, pull its upper end through the knots. When you remove the rope wound in this way, grab the end that went into the knots. As soon as you let go of the rope, the knots will untie themselves.

Handkerchief and rope

You will need: a rope 1.5-2 m long, a handkerchief, 2 assistants.

You will need two assistants. Give them a rope. One of the spectators should grab the loop with his hand, the other - the free end of the rope. What should come out as a result resembles the letter "I" if it is placed on a horizontal surface. Take out a large (most importantly clean) handkerchief and wrap a rope around it, tie it with an ordinary knot on top. This knot should not pull the rope too tight. Pass the hanging ends of the handkerchief through the loops and fasten at the bottom into two knots. Now ask the assistants to release the loops from their hands and pull on the free ends. The handkerchief will hang in the middle of the rope. You approach the handkerchief, pronounce the magic word "sorcerer-stupid", easily turn the handkerchief over so that the ends are on top, and with a quick movement of your hand without special efforts take him off the rope in front of an astonished audience.

Focus secret.

The whole trick is how you tie the handkerchief knot - “on yourself”.

Focus - live ropes

You will need: 3 ropes of different lengths (40 cm, 30 cm, 20 cm).

Show the audience ropes of different lengths: the longest, medium and short. Put them on the left palm so that their ends hang down. Then clench your left hand into a fist. Trim the top ends of all ropes with your right hand. The viewer sees that the same ends of three ropes, different in length, protrude from the fist. You need to take these different ends with your right hand, pull them out of your fist, making all three the same. Then throw all the ropes to the side and show the audience empty hands.

Focus secret.

You must first practice dexterity, because, holding the ropes in your fist, you need to imperceptibly arrange them so that two ends of a long rope and one end of a medium rope hang down, and the other end of a medium rope and two ends of a small rope protrude above the fist. The largest rope and the smallest rope must interlock at their midpoints. When you trim the bottom ends of all three ropes, they will all appear the same.

Games for children / Games and riddles

Tricks with cutting and rejoining the rope

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Tricks with ropes

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ROPE PREPARATION

For achievement maximum effect when demonstrating tricks with ropes, you should learn something about preparing the rope

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CORE: For some tricks, it is very important that the core of the rope is extremely flexible - more flexible than standard rope. In this case, you need to be able to prepare the core in many types of rope, especially the soft cotton rope that magicians usually work with.

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If you look at the end of some types of rope, you will find that the rope consists of a braided outer sheath that encloses the "core". The core is a cotton thread that runs along the entire length of the rope.

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To remove the core First of all, cut off a piece of rope and fluff out the braided outer sheath at one end. Firmly grasp the cotton strands that make up the core with your fingers. With your other hand, grasp the outer sheath of the rope at the same end and begin to pull the core out of the sheath. As you pull out the core, the outer shell will begin to fold behind where you hold on to the shell, and at some point you will feel that you cannot pull the core further.

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When this happens, grab the rope further and run the folds further along the rope along the entire length until a piece of empty sheath is formed at the other end and the folds disappear. Continue to draw out the core in stages until it is completely pulled out.

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You no longer need the core. You have the soft, flexible outer sheath of the rope in your hands. But for the audience, the prop rope looks like a regular rope: exactly the same as before the removal of the core.

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ENDS: in order for the rope to have a “decent” appearance, in particular, in the case when it was left without a core, its ends must be sealed.

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You can do this in several ways:

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• 1. It is best to dip the ends of the rope in white glue and let it dry overnight. This will secure the ends of the sheath threads and they will not unwind.
• 2. You can use another substance for these purposes: wax or paraffin. The wax is melted and the ends of the rope are immersed in it, and then allowed to harden. The advantage of this termination material is that you can work with it very quickly, putting the rope in order in just minutes before the start of the performance.
• 3. Seal the ends can be even easier, but no less reliable. Take the thread of the same rope and tie its ends on both sides: the rope will not unwind.
• 4. And the last tip: you can wrap the ends of the rope with transparent office tape. However, such a tape gleams and therefore can attract unnecessary attention of the audience, distracting them from the actual focus. Duct tape is handy when you need to quickly prepare the rope for a rehearsal.

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FOCUS "Cut and Reconnected Rope"

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This trick is considered a classic and every magician should be familiar with it. Most variations of the CUT AND REJOINED ROPE focus are based on the same simple trick. Once you master this trick, you can do all the other variations in this book.

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IMPRESSION

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The magician shows the audience a two-meter rope. Then he folds the central part of the rope into a loop, and cuts the loop, explaining that the rope must first be divided into two equal parts. However, both for the magician and for the audience, it immediately becomes clear that the resulting two pieces of rope are not equal to each other, to the demonstrative chagrin of the performer. Frustrated magician tying two ends of a rope simple knot and wraps the rope around his hand. Having “conjured” over it, he unfolds the rope and shows everyone that the knot has “dissolved” - THE ROPE IS WHOLE AND HAS NO SIGNS OF DAMAGE!

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SECRET AND PREPARATION

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This trick requires only a string, a coin (or other small object), and sharp scissors. Put the coin in your right pants pocket, the scissors on the table and you are ready to start the show.

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1. Show the rope to the audience by holding it with the fingers of your left hand. The center of the rope should hang down as shown. NOTE. There are two key points on the rope that will help us to explain the secret of the trick CUT AND REJOINED ROPE. The first point is about ten centimeters from the end of the rope. Let's call it "point A". The second is the geometric center of the rope - we'll call it "Point B".

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2. Insert the large and index fingers right hand to the center of the loop at point B on the side of the rope that faces the audience, as shown in the figure.

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NOTE. The thumb and forefinger are pointing up and pointing slightly towards you as you insert them into the loop.

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3. With your right hand, lift the loop with point B close to your left hand.

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4. When the hands come together, grasp the rope with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand at point A, as shown in the figure.

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5. THEN YOU DO THE "SECRET MOVEMENT" ON WHICH THE TRICK IS BASED ON. Pull the rope at point A up to form another small loop, sandwiched between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand. At the same time, tilting down the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, drop the loop with point B - the geometric center of the rope - into the resulting rope saddle. STUDY THE PICTURES FOR STEP 4 AND 5.

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NOTE. Performing stages 4 and 5, the audience does not see the scene covered by the left hand.

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6. The moment you raise point A, creating a new loop, thumb the left hand holds the true center of the rope, point B, under the left hand, out of the public eye.

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7. The new loop with point A goes to the position that the geometric center occupied, and the audience takes it for the geometric center of the rope, for point B, since you hid the substitution with your left hand.

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8. Cut the rope with scissors at point A with the words: "I cut the rope in the center: as a result I get two ropes of the same length."

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9. The rope is cut, and the audience sees four ends protruding above your left hand. At point A, two free ends were formed, as shown in the figure.

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10. With your right hand, take the extreme right end away from your left hand and ...

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11. ... release it so that it hangs freely, saying: "Here is one rope" ...

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13. ...take hold of the leftmost end and let it fall next to the first, while continuing to explain: "...and here is the second rope." At this point, the audience will see that the ropes are equal, as you have achieved, did not work out. At this moment of truth, you should look puzzled and surprised: you are upset because of the failure and make excuses: “Something, apparently, did not work out: the parts of the rope should have been equal.”

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NOTE. The two ends of the short piece of rope protruding above the left hand look like the ends of two separate long ropes. The true center of the rope (point B) is on a loop that lies on a short piece of rope.

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14. You can add the following movement to the procedure as an additional argument, proving that there are now two separate ropes derived from the initial one. Cover the intersection of the two loops at point B with your left thumb. Then turn the left hand with the palm towards the audience.

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This will give you the opportunity to easily show the lengths of the rope on both sides, and the thumb of the left hand will cover the evidence that the ends protruding from above are just the ends of a small piece of rope, and not the ends of long ropes at all. Then expand the brush to initial position and proceed to the next step.

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15. Covering two loops with your hands, tie a short piece in the center of a long rope, at point B. Be careful, no one, even in passing, should see that you are actually tying one long rope with one short piece.

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16. Having done this, you can safely show the audience the entire rope, drawing their attention to the knot, which, to your chagrin, turned out to be slightly off-center.

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17. Then, starting at either end, start winding the rope around your left hand. In fact, you are not only winding the rope, but at the same time you are moving the knot along the rope with your right hand. The node must be hidden in right hand.

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18. Having completed the process, remove the knot from the rope. Hide it in the bent fingers of the right hand. Without hesitation, put your right hand into your pocket, explaining that you must now get a magic coin (or a magic wand, or any other "magic" item). Leaving the piece of rope in your pocket, take out the coin. Twist it over the rope, saying a few words about the "Magic Coin" (or spell).

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19. Put the coin back in your pocket and unroll the rope: the knot is gone and the ROPE IS RECOVERED! The rope can then be given to the public for inspection.

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COMMENTARY AND ADDITIONS

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The trick should be carried out with a rope, the length of which lies in the range from a meter to two. You should, of course, start with a long rope, because with each performance it is getting shorter and shorter. When it becomes so short that the trick is no longer spectacular, take the next long rope, and save this one for tricks with a short rope or throw it away.

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Focus "Cut and rejoin the rope"

method two

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IMPRESSION

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The performer stretches a long rope through his hand, asking the viewer to stop him when he decides to choose any point on the rope. The magician cuts the rope at the place where he was told to stop. Showing the audience two pieces of rope, the magician complains that the rope is damaged: a long one would be useful in the household. And as if by magic, the rope instantly reconnects, turning into the old, long, intact rope! The show can end here, or you can use this trick as a prelude to a series of other rope tricks.

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SECRET AND PREPARATION

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As in the first method, the rope in special training does not need. Only scissors and about two meters of soft rope are required.

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METHODOLOGY

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1. Demonstrate the rope, holding it by the opposite ends A and B, as shown in the figure: end A - in the left hand, end B - in the right.

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2. With your right hand, pass end B to your left hand between your index and middle fingers. End B should be positioned as shown, overlapping end A. Hold end B in place with your thumb as shown.

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3. Grab end A with your right hand.

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4. End B is held by the thumb of the left hand, and the right hand stretches end A down towards itself, as shown in the figure. Pulling the rope through your hand, invite the spectator to stop you in the place where he wishes.

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5. As the rope is pulled past end A, the loop of the rope gets smaller and smaller. Such pulling gives the audience the impression that the viewer is given the freedom to choose where the rope will be cut. In fact, as you can see, it does not matter to you which section of the rope he prefers to choose.

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6. When the spectator stops you, release end A and grasp the place of the loop that is closest to end B (point X in the picture). Ask a spectator to cut the rope between your hands (point X). If you carefully examine the drawing, you will see that the VIEWER INEVITABLY CUT ONLY A SMALL PIECE OF THE ROPE ADJACENT TO END B, and not almost in the center of the rope, as it seems to him.

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7. As soon as the viewer cuts the rope, release the right hand from it. As a result, the new end, let's call it X2, will hang near the end of A. Now you are holding in your left hand one short piece and one long rope, the loops of which are criss-crossed in the palm of your left hand.

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8. Adjust the rope so that the end of X is flush with the end of A, and hold them side by side with the fingers of your left hand. Viewers think that left hand holds two separate long ropes.

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9. At this point, draw the attention of the audience to the fact that the ropes are unequal in length, and you are slightly upset by this mistake of the viewer. With these words, grasp the end (not the tip) of X2 with your right hand, as shown in the figure.

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10. Bring the end of X2 close to the end of X1 and take both ends in your right hand, as shown in the figure.

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11. Holding these two ends firmly together with your right hand, release the rope with your left hand, allowing it to open to its full length: the audience will see that it has instantly recovered from two approximately equal sections into one.

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12. Note as you do this, "The trick wasn't all that good" by stretching the recovered rope.

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13. Still hiding the piece in your right hand, coil the rope and put it in your pocket.

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Sometimes even the most ordinary props can become just a fantastic object for spectacular and unusual tricks. This is the same with rope. What is unusual about her? A tightly twisted piece of special fabric.

However, real magicians and wizards are able to work miracles with such an ordinary object. In their hands, it ties and unties itself by itself, burns without burning, hardens to a stone state. It binds tightly, but is untied by the power of thought, it passes through parts of the body. All these tricks with a rope always go with a bang and amaze the audience with their seeming unreality.

At one time, he was fond of tricks with this prop:

• Harry Houdini;
• David Copperfield;
• Indian fakirs.

In general, almost every modern magician knows how to handle ropes and ropes. Most of the secrets of tricks have been revealed, now everyone, even children, can learn them.

Those tricks that were performed by great and famous magicians require careful preparation and the presence of a special rope, and not the usual one. Therefore, do not try to repeat them, it is dangerous for health and life!

Passing through the neck

This trick is quite simple to perform and requires only dexterity and a little training. The effect is as follows: the magician takes the string and demonstrates to everyone present that he is the most ordinary. You can give it to touch and check. Then she throws it around her neck, wraps it for greater effect. A sharp movement behind the hanging ends of the rope and it "passes through" the neck and turns out to be completely safe and sound in the hands of the magician. Spectators are thrilled!

What is the secret of this trick? You can watch the tutorial video here:

For more effect, you can demonstrate this trick with any spectator scarf. So you prove that your props are not prepared, but completely ordinary, and you are really a magician.

The famous trick with the restoration of the rope

Also a very effective trick that requires a little more skill and practice. Its essence is as follows: the magician takes a short piece of ordinary rope, you can lace. Then:

• demonstrates its integrity;
• folds in half and cuts one of the parts, elongated in the form of a loop from the hand;
• the props are torn and in the hands of the magician of his part;
• ties the cut ends together into a knot;
• several magical movements along and across;
• a completely whole rope is pulled out of the trickster's fist without any knots or damage.

Of course, any viewer will have a question: how is this possible? The answer to this trick is better to see in the video tutorial, since it is difficult to describe:

This trick requires skillful use of one's own hands and dexterity in execution. This can only be achieved with careful training.

Out of the box thinking

This focus is more on the ability to think. Its essence is to tie the rope into a knot without taking your hands off the ends. To begin with, you can offer to do this to any person from the audience. No one will cope, because they do not know the main secret. And it is, in fact, very simple.

The secret of the trick: before picking up the props to perform, you should cross your hands with each other. Now, by returning them to their normal position already with the rope, you can easily tie a knot on it.

Rope in a bottle

To perform the trick we need:

• the rope is not too thick;
• ordinary dark glass bottle;
• public.

Effect: The wizard asks those present to check the props to make sure the rope is real and the bottle is empty. Then he takes one end of the rope and lowers it into the bottle. After that, she is turned upside down, and she hangs on a rope. Violating the laws of physics, the bottle does not fall, and the rope does not slip out of it.

The secret of the trick: with a deft and imperceptible movement, before lowering the rope into the bottle, tie a knot on it. It will get stuck in the neck and will not let the props fall.

Obviously it takes practice. After doing it, invite anyone to do the same, they will fail and this will enhance the effect of the focus.

special props

Very beautiful tricks can be performed if the props are prepared in advance. That's what all the famous magicians did. You can order and buy a rope for tricks in special stores. With this, you can perform the most incredible tricks.

See an example here:

The magician frankly says that his props are completely unusual, prepared in advance, based on internal metal inserts with magnets. That is, only outside the rope has a normal appearance. In fact, it does not consist of fabric fibers from the inside, but of special metal threads. Divided into pieces and equipped with magnetic inserts.

stone rope

This trick also belongs to the category of those that require special props. The effect of the trick is as follows: the magician shows the audience a completely ordinary piece of clothesline, which falls freely at both ends. Then he takes one side in one hand, and the other remains free, and begins to pull the entire length of the prop forward piece by piece. Against all common sense, the rope is held up in the air like a stone. It becomes hard, like a stick.

The secret of the trick: this item is not ordinary, but specially made. If you turn the prop to one side, the rope will hang freely and resemble a regular one. If you turn it over to another, it becomes stone, like a stick.

Turn the props over in your hands gradually, making magical movements and passes so that one of the sides remains freely hanging.

You can see this trick in action in this video tutorial:

You can order this rope

The most common item is a rope. And how many amazing and unusual tricks! Practice, perform and strive to improve.