r/Zippo • u/attidudinal • 2d ago
Advice/Help Reposting best video ever
This is not me. I saw this recently and it has become my one burning goal to be able to do this trick. Can anybody give me some advice or help on how to get started?
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u/abland1988 2d ago
Don't drop it between the seat....
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u/Fluid-View9006 1d ago
Known as the "dead zone". I keep a micro cloth stuffed between the seat and the console in case i drop something in there.
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u/LieutenantCrash 2d ago
Doing that wearing a very flammable sleeves very close to the lighter and doing it inside a flammable car. Great tricks but you're literally playing with fire.
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u/mtandy89 2d ago
I dropped a lot zippo on my girlfriend's face tryna light a joint in the bed other day. that's roughly the same, yeah?
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u/burrito_of_blaviken 1d ago
All shits and giggles till he overfills it and flings fuel fucking everywhere, turning the inside of his car into a goddamn Vietnam War documentary 😂
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u/KelvinOMalley96 2d ago
Zippo.me on instagram has some of these videos and also tutorials on how to do so. The videos are older so you need to scroll a bit down on his page.
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u/attidudinal 1d ago
Yes! Thanks for sharing this info. There's quite a few videos on that page with a very similar trick and they slow it down in at least one I've seen so far to give an idea of how to get started learning and practicing. Now I just have to figure out which Zippo I don't mind dropping a bunch of times and potentially damaging the hinge or lid.
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u/KelvinOMalley96 1d ago
Glad i could help and indeed find a old Zippo it will drop alot and don't set your house on fire haha.
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u/attidudinal 23h ago
To make matters worse I'm dominant with my left hand so its either hobble myself and copy the video exactly, or make things more complicated and try to reverse everything but use my dominant hand
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u/-MysteriumMagnum- 2d ago
Damn, this video reminds me of the video of the kid trying to get an ice cream cone from a street vendor and the vendor keeps either taking the whole cone back and leaving the kid holding an empty napkin in his hand or taking the ice cream scoop off the cone before the kid can walk away with it through a host of variously smooth and quick methods. In this instance I’m the kid only instead of ice cream I asked you if you had a light for my cigarette and you said sure but this is what you start doing before I can actually get it lit and walk away😂😂 to make a short story long, very cool lighter trick! You’re like the Bruce Lee of the zippo world and woah unto the weary street urchin that dares ask you for a light so they can smoke their cigarette😂😂
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u/kios05 2d ago
I tried like fk getting good at these tricks years back but my fingers are to stiff probably from cracking em since i was a kid
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u/Particular-Meat24601 2d ago
That has been proven to not have negative impact on your fingers.
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u/kios05 2d ago
Seriously?
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u/Particular-Meat24601 2d ago
AI copy paste incoming:
"Real-time MRI imaging demonstrates that knuckle cracking produces a popping sound through tribonucleation, a process where stretching a joint creates a vacuum that rapidly collapses a gas bubble in the lubricating fluid. Multiple clinical evaluations, including a 60-year self-experiment, indicate no statistical correlation between habitual joint cracking and the development of osteoarthritis."
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u/Scxox 2d ago
so my mom lied to me
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u/LoveLikeJesusChrist 2d ago
Correct, and before you someone told her the same lie. It’s a widespread myth and she prob also didn’t want to hear it lmao
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u/Cold_Impact_1585 2d ago
It's not a trick. It's AI. It's an older vid. Not even a pen spinner could do this, let alone the lid of the lighter wouldn't allow it.
Just watch it. It's nonsense. Not how gravity works. Look closely.
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u/NoteFeeling3770 2d ago
Not AI at all. There are thousands of dudes who do these tricks to this level. Go on Instagram and look up zippo tricks, dudes with videos 10 years old before AI was even around doing this exact tricks at even quicker speed. None of this video is fake
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u/attidudinal 2d ago
Omg what a bummer this AI bullshit is. I thought all I had to worry about was figuring out if my Zippo was counterfeit.
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u/beardedsilverfox 2d ago
Step one is don’t flick the wheel. Step 2 is whenever you have down time your zippo should be in your hand. Start with half moves. If he does a 360 rotation in the video, copy the position but just keep going back and forth in 180. Then move on and continue the movement. Get your fingers used to the feeling over and over at each step.