I assume "magnetic man" would get stabbed by the rods. I haven't played around with that experiment enough to see the effects of emotion changes. I know once I did it to a friend of mine, and she started laughing while I was about 4 feet away and the rods just zipped away from her, the aura is changed by different emotions, I know this. When you are ill your energy level is lower, that can be seen with this. Sometimes when I do the experiment it does just go into them. I don't know the cause, usually it should part, usually from my experiments most people's aura is about 1/2 inch to 4 inches.
I found at a park outside of Nashville, a stick that looks just like a L-rod. It's perfect, I didn't even break any of it to make it the right size. Looks cool, but it doesn't work for dowsing, I tried.