Lock Picking and Lock Bumping News — locksport
Spectacles of Security - LockSport in mid-nineteenth Century Britain.
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LockSport isn't new - competitive lock picking was in fact the highlight of the great exhibition of 1851
Houdini and Victorian Lock Sport.
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Hello people In many blogs, articles, and interviews over the years I have credited Harry Houdini as a major influence as to why I got involved in lock picking. His memory, I mean, because like, he’d dead – you know that right? Harry Houdini was a world famous escapologist performing at the turn of the last century and who died in 1926. I was interested in conjuring, card tricks and the like, and the little illustrated book I had about ‘Magic’ featured a couple of pages and photos about Houdini, which I must have read 1000 times. I loved everything...