Hello everyone. I'm going to teach you how to make a very simple balloon sword. This is kind
of a saber style balloon sword, as opposed to the foil that I teach in another video.
You need a balloon. Just a long balloon. You can get it from your party store or your dollar store.
A pump is really nice if you can get one. To start, we're going to leave about a half inch
of uninflated end and I will explain why we do that. So I'm going to inflate the balloon.
As you can see therej, I've left about half an inch of uninflated end. And the reason why we
do that is because every time you twist the balloon, it displaces a little air.
It [the air] has to go somewhere and it goes to the end of the balloon. And ideally, at the end
when you're finished with your balloon sword, your balloon will be evened out. So you won't have this
this little bit of uninflated end. Now we have to tie the balloon and let me show you how I do this.
I like to hold the balloon between my thumb and first finger. Now watch my right hand.
It goes underneath. I grab the nozzle here and what I'm going to do is take the
nozzle. I'm going to bring it under the balloon over and put the nozzle between
my first and second fingers. So let's show you how to do that.
Right there and I think you can see what happens here. All I have to do is take this loop
and pull it over and it'll tie the knot. Maintain the hold here
and there's our knot. What we're going to do is create a small basic twist at the end of
this balloon here. You actually pinch first and then twist. It makes it a lot simpler. And one
hand has to hold the end as you twist. Let me show you what that looks like: pinch and twist.
Two or three twists is usually enough. Now watch what happens. If I let go of my left hand,
the balloon comes undone. You have to maintain the hold here. So once again, hold, pinch, and twist.
Now watch my left hand. It creeps over to the next section. The reason why we do that
is that first of all, as I let go of this, as you saw, it comes undone. I also have to hold here
because if I don't, then I will have nothing to twist against. In other words, holding this
so I can actually twist the other end. Now what we're going to do is create something called a
fold loop (twist) for our next step. It's actually a fairly large fold
loop that you normally wouldn't do, but I'm going to bend it in half.
Just a nice generous fold loop and notice how my left hand
holds here. Because if I don't hold, it comes undone.
So hold. I'm going to actually pinch here and twist this entire assembly here. So once again,
pinch and twist. That's what's known as a fold loop. Now once I make the
fold loop here, it actually holds everything in place. I can let go
now. To finish your sword, all you have to do is - I just squeezed it to kind of fill it out there.
But you just bend your end here, place it here and feed it through.
And that's your very simple pirate or saber balloon sword.