Lock Twist Techniques Used to Make Balloon Animals

Video Transcript

" Hey! Malik, the magic guy with expertvillage.com; more on balloon twisting. We are going to talk about the lock twists. Now the lock twists is probably the most important technique. This is going to combine with other stuff. This is actually how you hold some bubbles together. So you are going to start with your balloon, you are going to make one bubble like this, you are going to make one bubble like this and you can actually stick your pinkie right in that joint there to hold it together. Then you are going to fold the balloon down like this so this is what you have. You are going to measure this off here and twist another bubble right there so that you have this set up here and then you are going got take these two bubbles and twist them around a few time and that will give you this set up right here. Anytime that you want to take two bubbles and put them together, you can just twist them together like that. Now you can make a lock twist without measuring this; just by twisting it across but if you want to make sure these are the same you are going to want to measure them. So later on we will talk about lock twists with multiple bubbles and we’ll talk about combining this with other twists. "