Huge Fan of the "Middle Finger Flick"

I started on thumb studs, it works but only on some knives and not as well as I'd like. Then I got a few spydies and fell in love with it for a good while but now I just love opening my para 2 slowly feeling that buttery smooth action and the sound it makes when it locks open, puts a smile on my face lol.
 
As a lefty, a mff is sometimes the only way I can open a spydie. My favorite knives for this technique are the Des Horn, Centofantre Memory and the Michael Walker.
 
The-Stig said:
It feels perfectly safe and secure when I do the middle finger flick. The knife is gripped by my entire palm when I flick it open. I've never dropped a knife using this method.
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As you explain it and how it has been explained in videos, my hand is too big. As I explained there is no way I can securely grip the knife in my entire palm because the meat of my thumb comes no where close to the other side of my palm to pinch the knife. And I apparently can't get the knife 'vertical' enough to pinch the pivot between thumb and forefinger as the meat of my thumb is then holding the base of the knife by the lanyard hole over so the knife is a little angled across my hand. No resistance and in my hand not secure. Everyone's hands are different and in mine I have issues with it. Not a big deal because from what I see in the videos it isn't nearly as fast, secure, and ready to go as when I thumb flick it.
 
I like it. It's my preferred opening method for some knives (Para 2, Manix 2, Yojimbo 2), but it doesn't work well with others (Vallotton, Centofante 4, Caly 3). Those having problems making it work, you need to flick towards the pivot, not out from the handle. Flick in the direction the blade will be in when open. You have to get a lot of leverage on the hole to spin it all the way around, especially if your pivot is tight.

As for big hands, mine are pretty huge..
 
It is pretty neat -- I did the Spydie flick with my Manix 2 for a while. I don't really open with flicking anymore, though -- a regular, slow thumb opening for me lately.
 
I love this method. I agree it's much faster than the thumb, especially for spydies with larger holes. I never had trouble doing it but my brother still hasn't figured it out. lol
 
I always opened my Para 2 and my Military like that when I had them. Just last night, I did it with a ZT0550, it wasn't that difficult at all thanks to the large thumb studs.
 
I can thumb flick, middle finger flick and reverse ring finger flick all my locking Spydercos including Ladybugs and Dragonflys. On the Manix and Dodo I can use the ball lock to flick open and closed from upright or or upside down. I should make a video.
The trick is to flick your finger up toward the pivot not out away from the pivot.
 
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