How to do the Pinch Twist in Balloon Folding

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Jeremy, here on behalf of Expert Village, here to teach you the next twist, in the manashree of twists, of teaching. This is called the pinch twist. Now, the pinch twist is used basically when you want a more graceful turn, than a barrier could offer you. A barrier, when you put it on there, is a very abrupt corner. Now, with a pinch twist what you do is, you fold the balloon over, you grab half of the balloon, in a pinch, and you twist your hand, as you're letting it go. What that does is, it creates a similar corner but without that extra bubble there. The other version of it, you can do is if you take, the balloon, and you round it like that and you actually squeeze it, try to get one side heated a lot more than the other and you can create a curve. The reason it does this is because, as you pinch, or rub the balloon, it weakens that side, the stronger side pulls it and creates the curve or bend. So the weaker you make it, without popping it, the stronger, the curve you can get. Now, I use it a lot for the tail on a monkey; it makes for a much more graceful tail. When I'm doing human figures, especially girls like princesses, for the arms, it also seems to make for a little bit more graceful look to them. "