Prelimindary Base

Video Transcript

"In this clip, I will show you how to fold the preliminary base. Like the water bomb base, we can follow the creases, or we can do squash folds. Let's do the follow the creases way. It is a more precise way to fold. So with the color side down, fold the paper in half horizontally, so that your sheet of paper is a rectangle. Open it back up, and do the same thing, perpendicular to your original crease. Fold it in half into a rectangle; open it. Now turning the unit, your sheet of paper onto the other side so that the color side is up, fold point to point diagonally. Now you have a triangle. Open it, and do the same thing perpendicularly point to point. Now once you have that, invert that point, and you will notice that this time instead of the diagonals being the ones up, it's the horizontal lines that are up. Pushing it together, like this, you have two sections on this side, and two sections on the other side. Flatten, and you have your preliminary base. Now note, with the preliminary base, you can get a preliminary base from a water bomb base. It is essentially the same base. Starting with a water bomb base, open your paper, invert the point, and you see, if you fold it this way, you have your preliminary base. You can turn that back right into a water bomb base by opening it back up, invert the point, fold, and the water bomb base."