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Balisong Trick "AMALGAM" By Daniel Song Aug 2021

Started doing basketball spins, propelled by a ring-finger rollover. The balisong would spin on the fingertip, and even slide across other fingers, as if a slide-ladder. Furthermor, adjusting the fingers to create exaggerated crevices would allow the handles+blade-part to lock-in the crevices like a cog/sprocket-gear and roll in-between the fingers, like an amalgam between roll-twirl-ladder steps, continually moving across fingers.

This progressed into vertical attempts, to clarify that this was indeed more than a mere spinning on a surface, or slight tapping and shifting on the sides of a finger.

Vertical laddery maneuvers were verified by the attempter, and felt that the rotations could be propelled by the fingers, rather than whipping or spinning with force. That is, the fingers could slowly, and, in one fluid motion, cause a roll-twirl-ladder continuing along at least two individual fingers, one finger at a time.

The intentional was to see if it was possible to do a twirl, rollover, and/or ladder and seamlessly continue along other fingers, with a maximum of 5 fingers. There seems to be a possibility of increased finger count and roll action depending on location of the starting point and the direction of the initial motion.

This can further be manipulated by using pivots or using gravity, or abrupt stops and turns as a sort of fulcrum lift, using energy created by speed and momentum applied to a sudden stop or turn or continue a twirl, roll, or ladder maneuver.

2 fingers and rotations were done, and confirmed by the user to be feasible. 3 fingers and rotations were possible, but likely impractical to try getting rollovers, but 1 rollover, which whips into an amalgam, or an amalgam which whips into a 3rd rotation in form of a rollover.

If contact rotations cannot occur do to lack of control or lack of center of gravity, any aerial that results could be still caught in a consistent and calculable fashion.

The easiest way is to start from near the ground and work the fingers into a curl or roll motion, which rotates the balisong and brings it upward. It can be achieved in a 2-directional angular method, by doing the first twirl initiation with the palm facing forward, and then pivoting/turning so that the palm faces to the side, and the pivots/turns again so that the palm faces upward. This would prevent the balisong from flying out of the center of gravity or rotation, near the point of spin.

Longer rotations and finger-action can be applied when using a high starting point, and working the motion downward.

It helps to use the wrist to curl back, and create energy to bounce in reverse and start the direction of rotation, which will be further accelerated and propelled by another wrist-curl, in the opposite rotational direction.