It does sound fun-- I'd like to learn dagger throwing myself sometime. But I find that I can't learn hand crafts like that from tutorials or videos or whatever. I have to be taught in person, and I don't know anyone who can do it.
I think most people find it easier to learn something with a personal teacher, but maybe you can learn through videos and books if you try. Remember the lesson from all those childhood movies, believe in yourself and you can do anything.
I learn mainly by practice. The video will show me what's supposed to be done and the basic mechanics of it, then as I'm practicing I'll be analyzing what I'm doing and thinking about it, and that leads to epiphanies and breakthroughs. You can be your own teacher in this way.
I own several knives, and the blade on the Benchmade 42 is vicious. That's the best word I can think of to describe it. It's not just the factory edge being sharp, it's the blade geometry too.
What other mishaps were grosser? I only posted pics of one other, the small laceration on my pointer finger.
I can't watch horror movies either, and I really wonder about all the people who can. I hate seeing that kind of stuff.
Normally when I get cut I feel faint. I used to get dizzy and faint as a child a lot. There used to be a girl in my third grade class who was diabetic and had to prick her finger to test her blood sugar, and I fainted one time watching her.
With the balisong it's different for some reason. I don't feel faint at all when I cut myself with it. Maybe I feel safer since I have some type of control and am expecting that I may be cut, maybe it's because the wounds are usually superficial lacerations, not really a scary type of wound. I don't know.
It's a frightening world we live in, full of blood and people getting hurt. I once said that I wished people were made of something nicer like cookie dough.
Don't give up on it so easy. I practice for hours a day, I know going into each practice session I'm going to get cut at least once. Most of the time it's small nicks, but even when it's worse than that it's still not that bad. It's helped me get over my faintness at blood, and in general made me more confident in myself. Something about balisongs obsess me. I feel deja vu when I'm flipping them.
I'm about to buy a high quality trainer bali from Benchmade, if I can find one. They've discontinued the trainers too. Earlier this decade, there was a surge in balisong popularity that combined with a good economic climate caused a lot of knife companies to manufacture high quality models. No more. Now the only high quality production balis are the Benchmade 51 and the Bradley Kimura.
What kind of balisong did you have?
You should think about getting into it again. This is part of your culture and who you are. Let's bring flipping balisongs and this aspect of Filipino culture out of the movies and into reality where it belongs.
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This hobby is so fun though, you should get into this too. It's such a feeling of accomplishment when you learn a new trick.
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I learn mainly by practice. The video will show me what's supposed to be done and the basic mechanics of it, then as I'm practicing I'll be analyzing what I'm doing and thinking about it, and that leads to epiphanies and breakthroughs. You can be your own teacher in this way.
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What other mishaps were grosser? I only posted pics of one other, the small laceration on my pointer finger.
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Normally when I get cut I feel faint. I used to get dizzy and faint as a child a lot. There used to be a girl in my third grade class who was diabetic and had to prick her finger to test her blood sugar, and I fainted one time watching her.
With the balisong it's different for some reason. I don't feel faint at all when I cut myself with it. Maybe I feel safer since I have some type of control and am expecting that I may be cut, maybe it's because the wounds are usually superficial lacerations, not really a scary type of wound. I don't know.
It's a frightening world we live in, full of blood and people getting hurt. I once said that I wished people were made of something nicer like cookie dough.
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But I got cut (hand) so I stopped.
I know a handful of people who can do the actual flipping. They are bad-ass.
Be careful next time. Or try to use a dull one when you are practicing. ^^
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I'm about to buy a high quality trainer bali from Benchmade, if I can find one. They've discontinued the trainers too. Earlier this decade, there was a surge in balisong popularity that combined with a good economic climate caused a lot of knife companies to manufacture high quality models. No more. Now the only high quality production balis are the Benchmade 51 and the Bradley Kimura.
What kind of balisong did you have?
You should think about getting into it again. This is part of your culture and who you are. Let's bring flipping balisongs and this aspect of Filipino culture out of the movies and into reality where it belongs.
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