how long have you had the balisong bug?

Waktasz

Waktasz

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well?

I've been into balis since about last september when I first saw my roomate's knife. Got my Bear around x-mas, promptly broke it, and wised up and got a bm42 for February.

I can do most of the advanced stuff on balisongxtreme but when I see some videos of you guys messing around I have to drool a little, and get back to practicing!

just wondering...
 
Ever since I saw my first one ever.

It was when I was about 9, and went into an antique shop/pawn shop. There was a FHM 4" with 2'nd cut stag wired open and attached to the wall, not for sale.
I was just about into my Ninja phaze... and this kicked me over the edge. I've been a blade freak ever since, but I'll always remember that one.

It looked a lot like this one. (without the surface rust :mad:

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i've been flipping for 3 mounths know and can do every manipulation on clay's site in my right hand but my left is a whole new story.
 
August last year I got it bad and made it my hobbie. I had interest in them earlier but didn't have the resources to learn new tricks.
 
Been about three years or so...i had collected knives of all kinds through my childhood (making many of them fairly cheap) and allthough i had heard rumors of the bali's that BM had made, i had never actually seen one. One day a BM 30 showed up on ebay and i was absolutely determined to win it...Unfortunately that first bali of mine was stolen, but that of course never hindered my love for 'em and now i have built up a descent little collection!
 
We must have been reading that story at the same time!!! :eek: There seem to be a number of converts that arose from that magazine article. As I've talked to collectors, over the last 20 years, that article and ad in Soldier of Fortune seems to have 'made' PCC and the lore of the balisong as we know it today. By the way, David Steele is the guy that got the balis and Imada into the movies way back when........
 
my first encounter with a balisong was watching Michael Dudikoff in American Ninja. That was about 1985 or so.

He had a brass balisong that he opened up and closed in the beginning of the movie.

Asked mom if I could have one.... and after a few weeks of nagging, got my first.

-j-
 
A friend of mine had one and I picked it up pretty quickly (much faster than he did), he eventually stopped using it and I ended up trading him something for it. The fact that I can't remember what I traded for it tells me it was well worth it!;) It was a brass handled Valor.
 
Well thats easy, about 72 hours, and counting..Yes i picked up a cheap one for about $10.00 and thought it was pretty cool, then i found this site and people directed me to balisongxtreme.com (SWEET SITE)
I was amazed at how fast i learned, just by watching the video over and over.. I think im hooked :)
 
Well..., can I just say a loooooong time! :cool: Saw my first one in the 60's while in the Marine Corps....(the Philippines obviously). I guees it was about '71 when i got my second, third.., etc.


"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
1976, in Subic Bay Philippines while on tour with uncle sams canoe club. The first one was confiscated in a locker search. Still remember it, wood w/mop inlay, 4.5" double edge blade, a real looker. Started back again about 10 yrs ago, got some catching up to do.
 
About a year, now. My first was a Jaguar classic, followed by a black classic, and now a BM-42. I beat the living hell out of those two Jags, but the pins never broke. Got waaaaaaay out of alignment, though. I discovered Clay's site about halfway through the second bali, and started learning his moves. When I started with the 42, the moves were so much smoother and faster. I'll never go back, only forward... :D:D:D
 
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