Community
Hubs
The balisong community is active in many different places.
The balisong community is most active on Instagram. There you will find flipping clips, sales posts, giveaways and product announcements.
In order to use instagram properly, you will need to create an instagram account https://www.instagram.com/accounts/emailsignup/. After you have created an instagram account, you can follow pages or people. Pages will usually just repost stories or posts of other people when they tag the page.
The balisongmarket is the biggest second-hand balisong market. They will repost stories about balisongs which other people want to sell.
https://www.instagram.com/balisongmarket/
The eubalisongmarketplace works the exact same way as the balisongmarket, but it is only for people who live in the EU.
https://www.instagram.com/eubalisongmarketplace/
balisong_homepage will sometimes post product announcements and flipping clips. Although they are very slow when it comes to reposting content in which they are tagged in.
https://www.instagram.com/balisong_homepage/
You do not need to create an account to view posts on reddit, however you will need to create one to create posts and comments. On reddit you will mostly find people asking questions, flipping clips and posts about wanting to buy or sell second-hand balisongs.
The balisong clones subreddit only exists because any content containing clones is prohibited.
r/BalisongClones
The r/Balisongsale subreddit is dedicated to the purchase and sale of second-hand balisongs.
r/BalisongSale
Discord
There are a couple of discord servers, but most of them are very inactive.
The Flippy Boys, owned by camaroEE.
The Will Hirsch Server, owned by Will Hirsch.
YouTube
On YouTube you will find the wides variety of contet: flipping clips, unboxings, reviews, factory tours, rambling videos, tutorials and much more. There are many content creator. They will be listed in the table in the next chapter.
| Name | Platform | Content |
|---|---|---|
| Big Flips | YouTube | Tutorials |
| Blade Bias | YouTube | Rambling, Reviews, Unboxings |
| Ghost Flipping | YouTube | Rambling, Reviews, Unboxings |
| pez flips | YouTube | Rambling, Reviews, Unboxings |
| Taktyc | YouTube | Rambling, Reviews, Unboxings |
| The Buffness | YouTube | Reviews, Unboxings |
| Will Hirsch | YouTube | Rambling, Reviews, Unboxings Factory tours |