Stiff Rope

A piece of red rope, taken from around the magicians neck, is brought to the horizontal, a command is uttered and when let go the rope falls down (as it should). Second time round the actions are repeated with a more vigourous command. The rope is let go and stays in the horizontal position, the hand goes below, above and around the rope, no strings attached, a second command releases the rope to it's ordinary form. Stocked in red, I used to have white ones but they tend to "dirty up" pretty quickly!