this week i wanted to learn four bodies
and tricks from beginner level to
advanced every body zone has a safe
handle and a bite handle and even if i'm
using a trainer which has no blade
because i cannot need my fingers the
goal of every trick is to never get your
fingers stuck between blade and bite
handle i decided to start with the
easiest and most common move the basic
open to begin grab the knife from the
safe handle and flip it over the back of
your hand now rotate the knife 180
degrees to move the blade downwards then
by moving the thumb out of the way and
flipping the knife up the trick is done
the theory is pretty simple my brain was
sure i was gonna do it easily but when i
actually tried my hand had a different
opinion i totally felt like a
neanderthal man figuring out how to use
objects for the first time my movement
was extremely mechanic at first but i
kept trying one step at a time and
slowly i started to get more confident
at this point i tried to blend the three
steps in one single fluid motion by
holding the knife loosely i let your
wrist do all the work the 180 degree
rotation happens almost automatically at
a certain point my knife wasn't touching
my knuckles anymore it took me a bit of
practice but after about 50 minutes my
movement became smooth and fast and the
three steps became two circular
movements this trick works also
backwards once you open the knife by
repeating the same motion you can easily
close it and the sound the sound he
makes when you close it is really
beautiful the second trick is called y2k
and it's fundamental to learn the last
trick of the list and it basically
consists in spinning the knife around
your thumb if you saw my pen spinning
video the y2k is basically the sharp
version of the thumb around this time
grab the knife from the bite handle
holding it between index finger and
thumb by pulling the index finger
inwards and bending the wrist we should
make the knife spin around the thumb at
this point release the index finger and
let the knife spin until you can catch
the safe handle with the other fingers
then move your thumb away and bring the
knife back up so spin around your thumb
catch with the other fingers and flip
the body zone back up and as expected
when i first started practicing i simply
kept throwing the knife far away from me
in many different weird directions i
really had a hard time figuring out the
right power to use for the first move it
was always not enough or too much so
i've been forced to practice on my bed
for about 20 minutes at first i couldn't
see improvements but then suddenly it
clicked if you use your arm and not just
your wrist it gets way easier this is
with the wrist and this is with the arm
too
i kept practicing until the movement was
more fluid and i started getting good
results then i kept trying to make my
movement faster and smoother and in the
end i was pretty happy with my y2k you
can also perform this trick vertically
if you like it you simply need to change
the angle of the rotation around the
thumb the next move is called
zenrollover and it's similar to the y2k
but harder and it's necessary to achieve
the last trick this time instead of
grabbing the knife from the bite handle
we hold the safe handle with index
finger and thumb and because of that
after spinning the valyson around the
thumb the sharp side of the blade will
fly against your hand to avoid that you
need to perform another move the wrist
pass the theory is pretty simple hold
the bite handle and flip the knife over
your hand and when you flip it back the
blade will fly towards your fingers so
you need to turn your palm upside down
and point your wrist downwards this
movement will transfer the momentum and
make the other handle come at your hand
instead of the blade but at first when i
started trying the wrist pass i really
couldn't get it right then i realized
that to perform this move correctly you
simply need to hold the bite handle with
the last three fingers that's it as soon
as i applied this tip i could finally
get a good wrist pass and after a while
i got faster butterfly knives are
illegal initially by the way imagine my
neighbors see me practice like this all
day
anyways by simply combining wrist pass
and y2k you'll be able to get the zen
roll over last trick is called helix and
it's absolutely beautiful i tried into
ripley for a while but i couldn't do
much i'm sorry
i can't hear this sweet sound anymore
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beautiful then i watched probably 20
tutorials we start with the wet 2k grip
so holding the bar handle and we perform
a y2k and here is where things start to
get complicated we have to catch the
knife with the bottom three fingers
letting the index finger pointing out i
had to practice for a while to get used
to it but then it got pretty intuitive
then we put the index finger on the safe
handle and we turn the palm downwards
this move should cause the knife to spin
horizontally so y2k catch with three
fingers index in front and turn the hand
upside down at this point we catch the
safe handle with the thumb and index
finger forming a sort of okay symbol
then we bring the hand upside down once
again performing as then roll over and
the trick is done well it's complicated
but practice is the only way to make
complicated things become easy so i
started practicing step by step i threw
myself into it not caring too much about
the technique but with the only goal of
keeping the knife in the air i failed
for an entire hour but after that i was
completing the trick in some way even if
my movement was extremely mechanic at
least right now i was finishing all the
steps and this was enough to make me
extremely excited the goal now was to
get it cleaner faster and blend the four
steps together i kept trying over and
over for hours and slowly i was kind of
getting better at it in this type of
skills it is extremely easy to see the
progress you get through practice the
more i was getting better the more i was
excited to try again don't get me wrong
i kept failing consistently but it was
all worth it for the single time i was
getting it right and even if this trick
seemed literally impossible in the end i
was pretty happy with the result
yeah
this was nice
these tricks are extremely fun and
relaxing after you learn them
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