Spin a Balisong On Your FINGER - The Chaplin (Beginner Tricks)

Welcome to Episode 1 of Balisong Basics! Today we're learning to spin a knife on your finger, in a move known as a Chaplin! This is a staple of butterfly knife flipping and something that will help you a lot in the future! Be sure to let me know what you think in the comments down below and subscribe to get more of these videos in the future!
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[@WillHirsch]

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial! If you have any tips please leave them in the comments or as a reply to this one!

[@mudkipmadness23trickshotsg16]

Hey will. I'm looking into buying a Kraken V2. I'm new to flipping and I'm wondering which blade style I should get. Do you recommend the Tanto blade or the Bowie blade?

[@ea4443]

Great tutorial Will. Can't wait till you make a palm stand one

[@jakemiller3026]

Hey will where does one go to find a quality balisong? I’ve got a cheap trainer that just sticks every now and then and want to add a balisong to my collection.

[@mudkipmadness23trickshotsg16]

@@jakemiller3026 BladeHQ or buy one off instagram

[@petepyrotechnic6150]

You should do a review on the atropos BRO. I'm torn between this and the Kershaw lucha, and have no idea what to do!

[@JM-vq5jz]

*squiddy goes flying across the room from just breathing on it* Ah that's what they meant when they said you'd have to get used to it for tricks like this

[@JJ-bi5qx]

Haha i have a triton and it went flying

[@hamheathen6821]

my squiddy-a is so light i cant and it is stupid

[@ReTrace04]

I have a squiddy b and this is so hard

[@coryjordan863]

I have the squiddy-U and I can get it for a few spins then it yeets itself into the void

[@brandonmtrujillo]

It’s nice to know I’m not alone…

[@justpiri421]

When you already know how to chaplin but just like wills videos

[@someimmature12yearold81]

Fr

[@bawbsandlasagna]

Good evening reed

[@ris4rootbeer387]

All to real man

[@Wa_g3]

@@bawbsandlasagna jn

[@Wa_g3]

@@bawbsandlasagna bon

[@skelo6167]

Finally the king has uploaded

[@jaydedfox1046]

Finally? I mean it wasn’t that long lol

[@meisteryoda7598]

@@jaydedfox1046 every minute longer is too long

[@thebrandonbakerclone]

If Will is the King does that make me the Queen?????????

[@skelo6167]

Omg thanks for the heart i just Got into Balisong flipping I got a CS go icon galaxy white trainer

[@skelo6167]

@@thebrandonbakerclone YES

[@wabek5882]

I just ordererd my krake raken trainer! You were one of the main reasons i got into flipping in the first place.

[@hudsonkim1419]

Bruh I missed the drop by 5 min so sad

[@wabek5882]

@@hudsonkim1419 Yeah they sold out really fast and i tried for 2 weeks and i finally got it

[@chongert6396]

i wish i could get one lmao.. they won’t release and i’m too impatient. im just gonna go for a limited edition nautilus

[@hudsonkim1419]

@@chongert6396 try wait till wednesday 11 am central and the make sure you’re logged in before you try an buy it then make sure that you press buy now the second it’s released

[@chongert6396]

@@hudsonkim1419 yea i copped a naut... so nice. zero play, zero tap, and it looks amazing (red and white). arrived in like 3 days i love this thing.

[@ethanowen159]

I will literally chaplin for days it's so satisfying to do

[@afezarazak1936]

My balisong’s bout to fly across the room because of how hard this is to master. I HAVE NBEEN TRYING FOR 2 hours (Thanks for the tutorial, gave me instructions and hope) :,) Edit: I GOT IT SIUUUUUUU

[@colenouwens2589]

Just got my first bali and I'm so glad I found your channel. Your production quality is amazing dude!

[@cate9059]

I have been struggling with the Chaplin for so long but then I stumble upon this video and within a few minutes I have the basic mechanics down and can multiple rotations with full control 🤯🤩🎉

[@Mattryanfisher]

ditto, yo; it’s like a little over four minutes in and I’m doing an actual flippity trick and not just “opening it really fast”. related note: wifey says you’re a bad influence. Subscribed.

[@emilem6894]

Hey Will just wanted to let you know that ive searched all over the internet for chaplin tutorials and none of them helped one bit (except Big Flips) but after watching this one ive mastered it in a day! Thank you for the amazing content man❤️

[@millerh4500]

Thanks for the great video! Went from dropping it every time I tried to consistently getting it to spin within a day. Much appreciated!

[@rumpleforeskin5064]

That first 30sec was fun propelling yourself into flight haha

[@Ezrasaintmorgan]

I love how I’m watching this even though I’ve well and truly moved on from learning chaplains lol , great tutorial keep it up dude

[@keefstafro]

“I just wanted to give a quick shit out” I can’t unhear it 😂

[@hehe-ve5zi]

Thank you so much man. You’ve helped me to get into such a fun hobby and you’re always so fun to watch! Keep up the good work!

[@lukesoulwalker1109]

I love all the sloms, at first I was like hm kinda repetitive buuut I realized it was actually heckin perfect and diagrams the moves very carefully!

[@secondsofsilence_music]

Please do more vids like this, good work man!

[@pinchylobster7392]

Just what i have been looking for

[@chotaadam]

I've never seen Mr. Hirsch in a normal T shirt XD

[@WillHirsch]

Same actually

[@kyuubi_9T]

This helped a lot... I have been struggling with this for a while and with in 15 min i got the hang of it🔥❤️

[@in_direct]

Dude I've been searching a good chaplain tutorial and when I saw this vid it took me 5 minutes to do it consistently thx Mr will hirsch

[@itzabee3609]

I love how they use comedy and aren’t boring like other regular tutorials

[@Oofu]

Yeah but I really appreciate big flips

[@StaringLongingly]

@@Oofu big flips is a gigachad

[@r6demii351]

Just got my my first balisong and it’s a squiddy.Thanks to you I got into it

[@lukeanderson4593]

how's it holding up

[@pukarmaden7052]

The intro killed me XDDDDD wasnt expecting that hat

[@RonKwok]

This tutorial is so well done man, starting my Chaplin journey today!

[@peaup6014]

Damnnnn will back at it again to try and cure my depression! Life’s on repeat I swear to god

[@peaup6014]

And bro fuck the squiddy c, I had a mako and it was decent and it’s just gone like tf, so know squiddy is my only knife ugh. But I’m hoping some day maybe in the near future I’ll be able to get a kershaw or a 51 because I wanna get into mod work 🤷‍♂️

[@littleblueriolu9093]

Thanks for the tutorial...also liked the riolu in the background!

[@ryanmartinez6410]

Took a while to get down( by a while I mean 3 days of rewatching this video..) a lot more helpful than others I tried to watch thanks bro 🙏

[@ErebusCreations]

So hyped for this video

[@matthewfoster7556]

This was really helpful! Thanks for this I was trying to learn new tricks and this really helped!

[@Vania-]

i love this trick so much i did my first combo using this which is a y2k rollover then a close then a open and a chaplin still practicing tho

[@travisphan9770]

Lol the first feature of this knife is *laughs* shark coming *dying by laughing*

[@bean7947]

TYSM now I can do the Chaplin and sum sick combos with it 😎

[@addisontrue8769]

aayyyeee we're back!!

[@ewen643]

Hey, i just buyed my first trainer (the cheap one from amazon you advice) and you release tutorial for newbies that's more than coincidence... Anyway i love your video, you explain the trick well and you got so much quality for a little channel so keep that up, yoi deserve way more. Now i have something to train.

[@WillHirsch]

That's awesome!!

[@soloman5967]

thanks for the clean and concise tutorial! got my first couple rotations in a good hour of trying!

[@wowtac547]

Dam lucky. Been trying for a week and just getting 3 rotations. Idk what I’m doing wrong so going to a discord for help🥲

[@carljohnson-fc6el]

@@wowtac547 just keep trying, i was in the same boat but i can do about 15 now

[@Eidel_Rose]

I loved the tutorial, I can hold it longer and longer each time, and I’m getting better at stopping it.

[@evans7171]

Bro your amazing keep up the good work

[@newt4388]

I recently found your channel (recently as in literally like 10 minutes ago) AnYway- Thank you so much for these videos! I've recently found an interest in Balisongs and am saving up for a trainer or squiddy, your videos are amazingly helpful. I love the mixture of humour and education. Keep doing what you're doing dude! Someday the youtube algorithm will catch on to your high-quality videos! Keep up the great work!!

[@_JustAPerson_]

Momento Mori.

[@steveglitterbutt]

memento mori

[@user-co6hh3jx6f]

Thanks for tutorial i learned like in just 4 secs when realizing spinning it oval and up and down spin because when its circle i drop it a lot and cant think how i position correctly

[@jwagoner7]

I absolutely love my Serpent Striker!

[@NoExtent]

Very dope stuff. You break it down just right.

[@sp1ffy_]

early gang, love the shirt!

[@filips7766]

Shark coming 🦈 💨

[@TheMrleeyang]

Love that in 2020 we get tutorials with HD graphics :))))

[@siampayak8925]

WOWW THE INFINITE ROTATION

[@jesserubingh278]

"also, i Just wan to give a quick shit out"😂 0:44

[@moop4567]

Woahh this is rlly cool!

[@slayernight-ce2hb]

Nice and good tutorial!Keep it up!

[@fourmaple]

Hi! Thank you Will for the video!

[@sungmoon55]

dude thank you wow i can do it now that's amazing

[@Thewillboxing]

Love the channel you always seem so exited and love you’re work in quite inspirational also I love the cat

[@WillHirsch]

Thank you so much!!

[@Bxxxx222]

Thank you for this vid it helped me a lot:)

[@chrishudson4676]

Great tutorials ! Very well done ! Thankyou !! 🙏

[@yoshisawamura9100]

I'm new and I learned this like 2hrs thanks for this

[@jackwang8051]

Everything is out of stock on alot of the websites but I found one and got this trick down thanks man

[@Guns-and-Glory]

Literally just watching you do it and I learned how to do it

[@noideaforaname1524]

I couldn’t tell if that was your cat or Brandon who said “wow wow”

[@petehairlive7045]

lol fax

[@thebrandonbakerclone]

We will always keep you on your toes wow wow

[@nobel9547]

@@thebrandonbakerclone how do u hav low subs u should post funny moments and ask him to shoutout u

[@thebrandonbakerclone]

@@nobel9547 Making videos with Will is enough of the KZbin game/fame for me haha

[@nobel9547]

@@thebrandonbakerclone omg u answered

[@nigeldalton532]

so refreshing to see consistent uploads from someone other than artsea lol

[@WillHirsch]

I'm working crazy hours right now along side youtube but I'm trying my best to upload often!

[@nigeldalton532]

@@WillHirsch we all appreciate it Will, its by far the most professional yt channel for balis weve had keep it up!

[@moslimislam5714]

@@WillHirsch Thank you!

[@ethanbrown6352]

Is she one of the popular balisong youtubers? I am new to flipping so I only know a couple like, Will Hirsch, Artsea, and Big Flips...

[@nigeldalton532]

@@ethanbrown6352 depends how you like at it alot of people like her and she has more accumulated views but she also is a clone supporter loosing her alot of potential followers and alot of little things like that can change how you look at it

[@nathanstrong4359]

Damn, that’s some smooth-ass BGM

[@sethbrown3245]

This video helped so much thanks all I needed to do is watch someone do it so I could understand what I was doing wrong I got my first actual successful Chaplin in less than 2minutes after watching thanks for the help

[@SevenIV]

well wasn't that the best intro i've every seen

[@dominic8444]

I learned this in one day thx

[@jensun3450]

Dude I’m a beginner and I literally did this first try, thank you so much!!’

[@WillHirsch]

Yessssss!

[@lavender6970]

Good job man!

[@Mitchell_aguirre]

I think this is the best vid for learning the chaplin

[@mateokatindoy3846]

dude ur sooo good u deserve more subs!

[@Control.710]

Thank you thank you very much! The tutorial is really good, I love this channel

[@timothy_jr7455]

Thanks that helped so much

[@anthonytheguyman4296]

This is definitely how I learn it

[@keineschwachezeigen6959]

thank you so much now i can do this trick perfekltly👍👍👍 nice vid 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@vertex3243]

i just learned this right before you posted this video lol

[@rlgkpoliticsthebestchannel5021]

You deserve so much more subs!

[@abresham3795]

I'm waiting for that review buddy!

[@WillHirsch]

SOON

[@AraaBlast]

UNDERRATTED!

[@matthewmansapit]

THANK YOU everyone teaches a chaplin but never teaches how to get out of it or combo after!!!! Thank you, you honestly got me into flipping and one day ill be super good at it 😎

[@WillHirsch]

Yes that's so awesome to hear!

[@meshafterdark7085]

I honestly forgot how funny these videos can be

[@prxston3898]

Thanks I started practicing last night and now I got them down thankd

[@tryhardr2658]

Took me 30 minutes to learn this thanks to Will and Big Flips! (Can now do about 5 chaplins in one go consistently in less than an hour)

[@JoeBlow-ub1us]

You bastard, this trick is kicking my ass rn.😂

[@MrNoAvail]

Good job man. I've been trying this for a few minutes at a time like 10 to 15 times a day for 4 days and I'm no closer then when I started.

[@rackyradon1791]

I got it going infinitely in like 25 min thank to him, what i also did was close my eyes and feel the weight of the balisong as its spinning

[@Lonewolf-]

​@@MrNoAvaili think the balisong we use also has a huge impact I'm using this cheap amazon knife and it looks impossible Correct me if I'm wrong I have no idea new this

[@ofangelsflipz]

The chaplin is driving me crazy... I'm using a triton v2, I can do alot of other tricks just fine just I can't get it to keep spinning idk I feel like my finger might be too big....

[@brianpapercraft9273]

Since you’ve planned to review the Maxace Serpent striker next and I saw you’ve already had a maxace ss v2. I suggest you get a maxace ss v1 and compare them with each other.

[@ASTRO545]

Hey will im just started my butterfly knife journey and i got to say yiu are the best teaching person i ever saw so yeah keep up the good work im going to work on my Chaplin get good at it abd yeah thanks will

[@ASTRO545]

You not yiu

[@whitecoffee1427]

I learned this on my own just messing with a knife when I was younger, I had a really fun time with it, and this tutorial definitely would have helped me!

[@nikolastaras8787]

I love you man

[@sagealling40]

yes thank god a new video

[@Flip_B]

FANTASTIC TUTORIAL! I’ve been stuck at the Chaplin not knowing what to learn next. ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: TWIRL My biggest obstacle was the way my ring finger did not want to move right. I could feel it only wanting to move a certain way for the first like 15-20 tries. Also, I thought I had it when I stopped it and went back into the Chaplin. The extra twirl took me a while to get past figuring out how to get it to get the SAFE HANDLE between my ring and middle finger. I kept getting the bite handle and throwing my balisong around when I would return to the Chaplin backwards as a result of reversing from the bite handle.

[@tannerloy4863]

LETS GOOOOOOO

[@tylerbator3168]

I was not expecting the intro 😂😂

[@marroci1109]

I got it on my first try! THANK YOU

[@ethanhutchison7301]

💙lov ur channel💙

[@Pirouyy]

That perfectly cut scream at the start tho x)

[@RuptureOng]

You just earned my subscription

[@ryano.1527]

for the past 3 years flipping on and off, this tutorial was the first that got me to finally be able to do chaplins; that’s crazy

[@XRZANNA]

It took me like an hour

[@ivly8031]

@@XRZANNA my index just dont roll with the bali bruh

[@lt_briggzi8694]

Live blade tricks are terrifying

[@r.j.trinidad2996]

man, i already know how to chaplin but i still came early to watch!

[@N_A_M_E__A_I_N_T__H_E_R_E]

Tysm it only took me half on hour to figure out how to do this

[@zeke4985]

Will your tutorial is absolutely awesome! I wasn’t even able to start a chaplain yesterday, and now I can. Once I get into the chaplain it’s super wobbly and the handles and blade keep coming apart and clicking back into each other. When this happens the knife ends up flying off my finger after a few more rotations. Any tips to keep the spin stable and prevent it from clicking or flying away? Is it just getting used to the balance of the knife and practice?

[@halfwayforte4407]

Hey thanks for this tutorial! I can do the chaplin itself and catch it when I'm finished, but I'm having trouble getting into it from the starting position. I feel like I lose all of my momentum between the opening swing and the start of the rotations. Any advice?

[@GranAutizmo]

id love to see you do a video on the rep. and see where you would place it on your list

[@matt3r16]

Best thumbnail to ever exist

[@francismiqueles]

Man u amazing

[@user-sx8gw6wc2m]

It took me a day to do this. I dropped it a lot but I eventually got it. Now I can impress my family members! Thanks Will!

[@DeezFlipsies]

How do you keep it from flying if your fingers when you spin