Discovering a hobby: Juggling begleri beads

Sooo. You liked the previous article about butterfly knife tricks. You got bit by the tricking bug (and maybe even by the knife itself). You now feel empty when there's nothing in your hands to play with along the day.

Unfortunately, flipping knives around is not really the most socially acceptable activity in most of places. It might not even be legal in many of them.

Worry no more (pun intended). There is a safe, discreet and accessible way to get similar sensations, that you can make right now and carry with you anywhere : Begleri beads.

02/11/2016 Update:
If you're not convinced, watch this cool tricks video on the topic:

Discovering a hobby: Butterfly knife (balisong) tricks

Most of you probably know of butterfly knives, also called balisong.

You've most likely seen some bad guy flipping them around in some 80's movie.

When I first laid my hands on one friend's knife many years ago, he quickly showed me the most common trick for opening it which I spent the afternoon trying to master.
Next time I saw him, I was the one showing how to do the dozen or so tricks I had learned or invented.

There is a huge online community dedicated to the love of those particular knives, and the many flashy tricks you can use to open, close, or just juggle them.

Flipping balisong is an impressive, not that hard, and only moderately dangerous hobby (well, it at least depends on you how much risk you're willing to take in learning any given trick).

In this article I will give you some leads on how to get into this very accessible hobby, that will surely impress your friends.

What is this blog about?

There are countless times when people get bored.

The Internet provides a nearly infinite source of entertainment, and many communities develop around more or less known hobbies.

However, it is often very difficult to discover new things, especially as most sites try very hard to tailor content to your habits or expectations.
That gets you caught in a bubble of familiar things that you never get out of and you never stumble upon new interesting things.

This blogs aims at featuring some of the lesser known, quick, fun or cool hobbies projects or experiments you might have never considered or didn't know existed.

I hope it helps you discover new topics or things to try, or maybe hobbies to pick up.
Be it for a rainy weekend project, or to fill your retirement time.

For each topic, I'll try to share with you a bit of background,a getting started, some essential or advanced references, and my personal feedback on it, because yes, I've personally done all of the things I will write about.

Not to spoil anything but, some of the topics we will cover over time will include:

- Badass past times such as, butterfly knife and Zippo tricks,whip making and cracking, knife throwing, fire eating and breathing, lock picking
- Craft and DIY past times, such as metalworking, forging, metal casting, knot tying, paracord stuff, mead and beer brewing, origami, electronics and radio, hydroponics or phography tricks
- Cool past times such as magic, escapology, building RC models and quadcopters, bushcraft and survival,making slings slinghsots,blowguns, hypnosis
- Old school games,past times or simple things or weekend projects,
- And some niche unknown past times such as as the ancient art of dorodango, juggling begleri beads, furoshiki or playing mumblety peg.

So if you are bored, a jack of all trades looking for your next hobby or an aspiring cool kid around the block, I hope you find something interesting in those pages.