The "Brownie Pop" works....

Brownie, my email is ofcourse in my profile. If you could please send the instructions on how to do your opening procedure, id be thankful. I wont release it.
 
It must be just me, but I like to open knives with proper respect

By your post am I to assume you believe "flicking" a knife is abusing it? Brownie is a trainer in self defense with the knife and gun and teaches the difference between life and death can be decided in a fraction of a second, or the difference in slowly opening a knife and "POPing" it open.

My knife is number one a tool for self defense so if I am abusing it by POPing it open than so be it, however I have not noticed any ill effects by training in such a manner.
 
Brownie, I'd love to get in on this as well! Please send me a copy of your instructions at the email address listed in my profile. Thanks.
 
Thanks again for the e-mailed instructions.

I can do it with some knives not so with others. In my hands it feels clumsy but like many movements practice makes perfect and I think if I work at it I'll get it right.
 
The key to flicking open any folder is how you hold the handle.If you put your thumb and 2nd finger in a V and the back of the handle against the palm of your hand.The closed blade is facing opposite the palm and the pivot side is near the thump and forefinger.The pinky is facing toward the butt end of the handle.Wrap your thumb and forefinger around the edge of the handle near the blade side,also wrap the other fingers around the handle.Then flick the blade open by moving your arm and flick your wrist at the same time.With practice you can open allmost any folder with this method even a Buck 110.
 
Just to clarify, for those who have not received the instructions from me, the Brownie Pop is not a wrist flicking technique.

In fact, I developed this as I can not wrist flick knives open due to prior injuries sustained in combative actions which do not allow that motion to work for me very well, if at all.

As it turns out, what I developed over the years out of necessity has a few advantages.

1. It is faster than wrist flicking to point
2. It does not require you to flick the blade open away from your body where it may be dislodged or stopped from opening.

Those who think this is a flicking action are mistaken relative the "pop".

Brownie
 
Wow, color me stupid. I hadn't even thought about it being a move in a self defense situation. Fortunately I have not had the need to see a knife as an instrument for self defense. As I said, to me it is a thing of beauty and good for camping...

Most guys I know who open knives fast do it for show and as I said they have a good chance of getting hurt.

It must be just me, but I like to open knives with proper respect
By your post am I to assume you believe "flicking" a knife is abusing it?

Bruz, my comment on opening a knife with proper respect is more aimed at keeping people from getting hurt than the knife from getting hurt. Steel is stronger than flesh....

:)
 
Hey Brownie!!!!! I Got it, I Got it!

Well kind of.... Works good with my medium to large frame and liner locks.... Can't quite get it on lockbacks that are tight....works vwell on my BM 710.

Thanks again,

Thomas
 
wow...its fast i am impressed. it was very easy to pick up, and the knife just flies out im using an endura to "brownie pop" open. thanks again this is a great technique.

billyp
 
Here's a hint for anyone still waiting for Brownie to look up your address in profiles: That's a PITA for someone who is inundated with requests for this technique. Make it easy on him, follow instuctions, and email him personally for technique. That way all he has to do is hit reply.
 
Just learned the technique last night. Already did a b@stardized version for axis-locked folders and large lockbacks, but the official version, from the man himself, flung my ATR open lightning quick and it was tight and secure in my hand. Used to monkey-grip the clip, push the bar back, and flick it open, but Brownie0486's method was safer and quicker (I've dropped my poor ATR the other way).

The Brownie Pop, whether you end up using it or not, is a must-know.
 
Thank you brownie0486, your technique works like a charm. I have been practicing with my Spyderco Endura FRN P/E VG-10 and I am amazed with the results. I have seen many blade "popping" techniques over the years, but yours is the best, easiest, and least destructive to the knife. Bravo!
 
Thanks Brownie.

This is cool. I'm suprised how quick it it. I wouldn't have though about opening a folder like this, but it definately works.

Jim
 
I'm not sure if I'm correctly performing the "B-Pop" technique but if I am, it's similar to a technique I was doing with some of my heavier "tip up" folders. I used to EDC large matched Cold Steel folders like the Voyagers and Vaqueros (put scavenged clips on my Vaquero Grandes before CS changed the design) IWB appendix and s.o.b. regularly. I could effortlessly draw and open both simutaneously in a blink. The heavy blades, gravity, and simple biopmechanical physics made them the most efficiently deployed folders I've ever owned.

I tried the "B-Pop" on some of my folders with mixed results. My MOD Hornet and Tempest were impossible. My CRKT Model 7 and MT SOCOMs were the easiest. Sub 3.5" blades proved the most difficult. "B-Popping" tip up carry blades seemed most fluid and natural. IMO blade weight, ball detents, lock design, and clip placement were the biggest factors and dictated the ease or difficulty when applying the technique.

Dayuhan
 
If for no other reason, I'd love to read about the "Brownie POP" just to see why the mods here would rather not have it posted again...

mdspencer@comcast.net

(Note the initials "md" -- that's where the handle "MeDoctor" comes from. I'm not a doctor, but if necessary I can do a bit of unauthorized --and probably unwanted-- surgery. ;) )

Shalom,
Mark
 
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