Knife Tricks: Is There a Place?

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We briefly had a thread going in the FMA forum, but it quickly fizzled as only a couple people were following. Aside from the balisong forum, where would be a suitable place to discuss or teach knife tricks? The balisong forum is of course dedicated to balisongs, and I don't use them. I like to play around with knives that I actually use and carry, but I'm finding instruction to be limited.

I did manage to pick up a couple simple moves online, then ad-libbed a few tosses and twirls. I practice a lot during down time at work, but I'm having a hard time coming up with new things to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rU3X3Oi9z8

Anyone else do this stuff? Where do/did you learn it? Would you be interested in posting videos and is there a sub-forum where this is discussed semi-regularly?
 
I do that all the time, to the point where one of my friends told me to buy a balisong.

I didn't learn it anywhere, I was just fooling around trying to switch grips as fast as I could, and I ended up just sort of twirling the knife around and throwing it the air and catching it.

to be honest I don't thing there's much more you can do than that, and I doubt enough people would want to talk about it to justify a new subforum.
 
Nice vid. I would go ahead and post it on the bali forum, they discuss pen and zippo tricks at times, and this is much more germane.
 
Roger999 said:
I learned not to do that shit after bleeding a new pool in my backyard.
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I've cut myself more than once screwing around with exceptionally sharp knives. And I probably will again.

A knife will never truly be yours until it tastes your blood. Then it will be yours forever.
 
The YouTube video looks like those bar tender tricks.

I think less big movements (tossing behind your back etc), more blade opening and closing, and throw in some wrist actions too (grip change), your tricks would look much better.

A one-handed open and close knife will do the job perfectly. I saw someone did this in a YouTube video showing off this Benchmade 585/580 AO folder. Quite cool.
 
jbombelli said:
I've cut myself more than once screwing around with exceptionally sharp knives. And I probably will again.

A knife will never truly be yours until it tastes your blood. Then it will be yours forever.
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I feel sorry for the guys who own 100s of blades. They might run out of blood before they run out of knife:p.
 
Ultimate Forge said:
I think less big movements (tossing behind your back etc), more blade opening and closing, and throw in some wrist actions too (grip change), your tricks would look much better.
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Hmmm...

I've also been trying to come up with a decent transition into free flow movements, but I don't want to confuse combat application with party tricks. I think the idea of adding more opening and closing will enhance manual dexterity and possibly shorten draw time. Giving it a go. Thanks.
 
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