Welcome to my balloon twisting for beginners series where I teach you how to twist balloons
like a pro Hi I'm Melanie from Balloon Artworks in Derbyshire in the UK and in this lesson i'm
going to show you how to make a balloon heart and one of the techniques that we're going to use is
the shock twist it's a really important technique for balloon artists and we can use it in lots of
different ways today i'm using a red 260. so it's a polytex balloon 260 because when fully inflated
it's approximately two inches in diameter and 60 inches long and i'm using my qualatex hammer
pump which is my preferred hand pump so we're going to inflate this balloon all the way so we
don't need to count how many strokes of the hand pump we're using but as we inflate we do need to
keep an eye on the tail and as i said in the last video when you've finished inflating so inflate
and when you've got to the point where your balloon is fully inflated very quickly take
the balloon off the end of the pump otherwise your balloon will start to deflate and you will lose
air through the pump so if you need to recap on that make sure you check out the balloon
dog lesson the previous lesson i'll leave a link in the description so that you can check that out
but towards the end of that video i did explain about hand pump so make sure you watch that video
if that's something that you you missed last time okay so we're putting our 260 on the end of the
pump and fully inflate and as soon as you get the balloon fully inflated take it off the pond
so that's fully inflated and again i'm returning my pump to the downward position okay
so i'm just going to let out a little bit of air but i don't want to let out
so much air that the tip starts to deflate so i just want to soften it just to reduce
the pressure here okay and then i tie in the usual way and if you need a recap on how to tie the
balloon then check out the first lesson okay now bring your the two ends of your balloon together
okay and right at this point here just take hold of them so we're holding them together here
squeezing them and then i'll take over take hold both bubbles and just twist them together okay
now to make sure this doesn't twist doesn't come undone i'm just going to take one bubble and pass
it through the middle there and that ensures that that twist is not going to come undone
okay and then what we want to do is at about this point we want to move the center of the balloon
down okay so we've got that heart shape but if we let go at this point the balloon will just
peel straight back up so hang on to the balloon here and then with your other hand just massage
the tip here we call it you call this a stop twist you can do it a little bit harder if you need to
but we're just kind of massaging and that will give you the beginnings of your heart shape
so and we need to do the same here with the lobes okay so we can shot this a little bit more
to get more of a pronounced shape and then what i like to do as well
is hold on to this section here this low and then i move over to this side
and i stop this load here and that gives us a really nice and very pronounced
heart shape remember to like this video and subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any of
my future balloon twisting lessons for beginners and i'll see you again in the next lesson