Blaine attempts to hang upside down for 60 hours

What’s David Blaine up to? Oh, just hanging around.

Blaine attempts to hang upside down for 60 hours

What’s David Blaine up to? Oh, just hanging around.

The magician-daredevil is proclaiming “I’m doin’ all right” after starting his latest endurance challenge on today – 60 hours hanging upside-down, without a net, above Wollman Rink in Manhattan’s Central Park.

Blaine – sounding nasal from sinus pressure – kept smiling while describing the “enormous push of blood” that made it feel like his head was “about to explode.”

As a kid, he was intrigued when Harry Houdini dangled from a crane by his ankles while escaping a straitjacket.

Blaine said: “The legs go pin and needle very fast.” Stretches – kind of an upside-down sit-up – seem to help.

If inquiring minds really must know, Blaine uses a catheter when nature calls.

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