Now balisong manipulation exists as a means of practical opening of a knife with one hand and as various means to employ it as a weapon - usually starting from a knife concealed posture.
But over the years people have expanded basic manipulations and are now what I call Balisong Performance Artists where it is done purely for aesthetic reasons and entertainment and of course in many cases done with a razor sharp Benchmade knife.
Check out this guys hands.
Sure he can twirl a knife along with the best of them, but I’d be more impressed if he still possessed 95% of his epidermis.
But I just wonder why you wouldn’t use a dull balisong trainer if you are just gonna spin things around to be pretty. Especially since it’s obvious he can’t do it without injury. He looks like he tried to fix an automatic meat grinder while it was running.
Yeap after climbing back up their to retreive his gear he just couldn’t resist another go, that proved to be fatal.
Dan Osman died November 23, 1998 at the age of 35 after his rope failed while performing a “controlled free-fall” jump from the Leaning Tower rock formation in Yosemite National Park. Osman had come back to Yosemite to dismantle the jump tower but apparently decided to make several jumps (over a few days) before doing so.[2] The failure was investigated by the National Park Service with assistance from Chris Harmston, Quality Assurance Manager at Black Diamond Equipment. Harmston concluded that a change in jump site angle probably caused the ropes to cross and entangle, leading to the rope cutting by melting.[3] Miles Daisher, who was with Osman when he made the jump, stated that the ropes used in his fatal jump had been exposed to inclement weather — including rain and snow — for more than a month before the fatal jump, but that the same ropes were used for several shorter jumps on the previous and same day
