Ice Pick Opening

I am still stuck here. Daily, I look at the photos in Jeff's book, and view the vhs tape.

I use my right hand on the unsafe handle to guide it through the motions. I can find NO WAY of opening the knife this way. What am I doing wrong? If I am holding the safe handle with my right hand, and lent the other handle drop, it will only flip up to hit the back of my right hand. Unless, somehow, I completely change the grip I am using with my right hand.

I am just totally lost here. He makes it seem sooooo simple.

I'm the type of guy that goes at things in order. So, I pretty much want to be able to do one move before I move onto the next.

Any advice?



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Lundo
 
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IS this the same as the infamous latch drop? If thats it, you want to be holding the latch of the bite handel, not the handle itself. get the latch between your thumb and the base of your forefinger, and simply pull straight up. the safe handle will flip up, and simply grab it with your open fingers...hope this helped!
 
The latch drop opening and closing I can do, but the latch is not on the safe handle. I was under the impression that you held the safe handle and let the other one swing.

Am I totally confused?



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Lundo
 
Ok,there's two ways of doing this move.One is hold the safe handle,the other the bite handle.
If holding the bite handle,as soon as you let the safe handle fall,you're going to have to change grip quickly.Start off holding out your hand as if you're going to chop something with it (i.e. fingers straight out).Lay the knife so that it leans slightly (the back edge of the bite handle being just in front of the edge of the palm at the index finger,the front edge of the safe handle being just behind the same point at the pinky).Sandwich the knife in position with the edge of the tip section of the thumb.The thumb should be laying in a line with the rest of the fingers.
As soon as you have this position ready,you can begin.You'll need to let the safe handle loose with the tip of the thumb,yet keep good pressure on the bite handle so that it doesn't slip out of your hand.You'll figure this part out soon enough.
Once you let the safe handle fall,you'll need to wrap the main fingers around the bite handle so that they only grab the opposite side...don't get them all the way to the back of it,you'll get fingers pinched.
At the same time,the thumb should go straight up,like you're trying to thumb a ride.This will get the thumb and meaty part of it's base out of the way enough for the safe handle to slide right past.As I mentioned before,it's good to lead the dropping handle with your second hand,so that you can see how your main hand is going to need to move.Do it in slow motion,and after a bit you'll get the move worked out.

The method using the safe handle in hand is almost the same.In this move,the tang area is sitting almost on top of the base pinky knuckle (in the palm).As the bite handle is dropping,your main fingers spread out slightly as the thumb spins the bite handle so that the bite handle lands on the main fingers,and the knife is quickly turned so that the bite handle is in front again.You'll still get the thumb grazed by the bite handle,but you'll get used to it,and after a bit you'll get the move down so that doesn't happen often.At the end of this move,the knife is in the same position you started from,but with the fingers wrapped around the handles.You can close the knife using the same handle in hand this way...instead of switching handles for the previous move.

I hope this helps..it is hard to describe moves in text so that others can understand them.
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*The* Lunatic Puppy
It wasn't me...It was my *good* twin..
My "inner puppy" made me do it..
 
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