A word of caution:

[Sal Bertucci]

It is unadvised to start floryshing when you are alone in an elevator. It didn't get jammed this time, but next time I might not be so lucky. Especially with that elevator.

[Corey Roberts]

How did you manage to actually swing a weapon in a space as tiny as an elevator?

Or were you floryshing unarmed, hehe, I think most of us on here florysh all the time when nobody is watching, with any longish object we can find....

[Sal Bertucci]

I was unarmed, but I acted like I had a longsword. I was going home from work, and thinking about "play". As the doors closed I thought "how would I do X?" By the time I was done there was a very loud creaking, and an extremely noticeable sway to the elevator. It's a fairly new elevator, but it gets stuck all the time. So I was quite afeared.

[Lance Chan]

I was unarmed, but I acted like I had a longsword. I was going home from work, and thinking about "play". As the doors closed I thought "how would I do X?" By the time I was done there was a very loud creaking, and an extremely noticeable sway to the elevator. It's a fairly new elevator, but it gets stuck all the time. So I was quite afeared.

Yes, that could be highly dangerous.... I did it a few times and my friends around me all stopped me and I could actually feel the elevator swinging inside the space the channel. :S

[Stacy Clifford]

Sounds like another one to add to this thread...

http://www.thearma.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15076

[Jonathan Newhall]

I remember when I first learned the footwork I would practice it in the halls while going to class if nobody (or a ton of people) were around. It got kind of awkward though, so I stopped once I had it down to muscle memory

[Mike Sheffield]

You want the elevator to sway a little (it may seem like a lot while in the elevator, but it really isn't). You know steel cables are doing their job then. You don't want it to be ridged, it may snap. Even if the cable fails you have a neat mechanism that catches you so you don't fall. I used to help do elevator maintenance a few years ago. As for it getting stuck it is probably that mechanism catching. They probably have it set too sensitive. Elevator cable makes interesting looking patterns when you make blades out of them btw.

[Sal Bertucci]

That sounds nifty! You wouldn't happen to have a picture would you?

[Mike Sheffield]

Not of my work, but if you search cable damascus, or cable blades your going to find pics. The pattern tends to be like scales. My favorite (read as ONLY) customer calls it dragon pattern.

Ariel Salaverria has a tutorial with some good pics at the end.

[Jonathan Newhall]

Doesn't look terribly solid, but it is rather ornate - I could see a market for stuff like that.

[Mike Sheffield]

Well like with all forge weld steel there is always a chance that something could go wrong. If done right it is a solid bar of steel. Just some neat patterns in basically a 10xx bar of steel.

[Shane Smith]

It is unadvised to start floryshing when you are alone in an elevator. It didn't get jammed this time, but next time I might not be so lucky. Especially with that elevator.

Watch out for the ceiling fans too! Don't ask how I know

[Scott A. Richardson]

Sal, I can't help but wonder if this was one of those elevators with the ever-more common survaillance cameras in it. If it is, I will definately keep an eye out for you on U Tube!

[carlo arellano]

hahahaha, I just did this last week.