New to me Prysma and my first MW piece

The lovely pair of an LDY Orion v1.5 and a BBbarfly Superfly; may these help me on my journey as a flipper.

TL;DR: Things have changed a lot and I'm surprised how my flipping has improved so quickly with these new tools. I practice so much more now and love the experience with my new bali's.

So as a returning flipper, and not an expert in anyway (take my thoughts here with a grain of salt), but I've noticed some things between these bali's. I wrote a post about returning to the hobby (I'll link it below), but man a lot has changed.

I was using my HOM Rhapsody as I was getting back into flipping and now I have quite a few more. The flipping is INTERESTING to say the least. I went all in on a few squid products as I liked the flipping experience. I especially like the Tsunami and I NEED the live blade version soon -Lucas help me out man! (: Anyway, currently I spednd A LOT of time flipping the Tsunami trainer and also the Nabalis. Why? Well I had started with the Squid Industries KR and love the sound and feel, but then I watched a vid by Will Hirsch on the Tsunami. He indiced, if memory serves, that this might not be good for new flippers. I would agree on price point, but not on flipping. I have been able to do tricks ( I still suck haha), that I had been practicing on my HOM for a while, and candidly, for me the progression of flipping better went from HOM, to Squid's KR, then to the Tsunami (which I love). Now where does the Nabalis Canyon fit in. Well in all honestly, I only bought it because I wanted to find a way to trick my brain into becoming more comfortable with flipping a live blade (I have HOM Basilik's currently). I noticed that when I have a trainer in my hand then a live blade my brain slows the movement down even though I'm confident in the move. It bothered me so I've been using the Nablis like training wheels, and it's been working. I do, however, have to be careful flipping live blades because my hands are my money makers so trainer's are used 95% of the time.

Anyway, it's been super interesting to feel the flipping experience and smoothness. Is the Tsunami worth the price point? I can't asnwer that for you, but I like. I also need to get my hands on a Machine Wise Serif or something from them.

Jerry, Lucas and Aaron, you all make great products, and I'm proud to own them. They rock!

Thanks for reading and I'd enjoy hearing your thoughts and experiences.

Hoping for used/good condition

I like bearings more than bushings. The 67 and fiore run on bearings.

Heyo!!! 2025 I have a whole list of tricks and combos I want to learn before the end of the year and I wanted to see if anyone else has any for themselves! What are you going to work on this year? Also if you wanna be held accountable lemme know cuz I love talking to people on insta and seeing what they’re up to!

What im going to try and get down this year:

• Giraffes (I can’t do for shit currently)
• Double Scissors (I can get 1/10 tries)
• Some pinky tricks (I can’t do shit with that useless ass finger as of rn)
• Aerial -> 0g Chap (I’m not bad at but I want consistent)
• Few combos from my screen recorded clips
• and most importantly I this will be my year for ladders. I suck at them, I hate them, I can’t do them for shit, but that will all change this year.

How about you guys what you got?

This thing is actually pretty good. Very close to the orion for price to performance imo. I got no. 36

Both are Hazetacs, the black and red one is from limited run they did awhile back. Black and Gold one is my personal custom Hazetad JD with a damascus tanto blade.

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