Got my new butterfly knife, a Benchmade 51, that I've been waiting for like a month already :D Well I'm really suprised by the qualities of the blade, I thought it would be much thinner and perhaps a bit more heavy. I agree with those that says that it feels like a toy but it flips like a beauty! Took me almost no time to adjust to the weight (my previous knife was a m-tech twist that was about 153g, this one is 93g) and it already rolls smoothly between my fingers :) I'm not 100% comfortable with it yet but I'll guess it will grow on me.
For those of you that don't know what a butterfly knife or flipping it's check out these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balisong_(knife)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4BTBN9srDM&feature=channel_video_title
It's what I do most of the time when I'm not sitting on the computer or is at school :D Been doing it for about 8 months and I'm slowly creeping through the intermediate moves listed on this site: http://www.brokenbrains.us/arena/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2097
I also "almost" force-cutted myself with the blade, it's a community thing which means that "a blade is not truly yours before it bites you". Well too bad the 51 is quite dull out of the box so even when I landed an aerial wrong it didn't want to cut me.
Flip furiously.
Flip 'til you bleed.
Flip and Fly
