Aah with you now

Very nice, thanks, Sean.

I made my own version (locktwisted muzzle ) without the different coloured tail, but by usiing your duplet for the nose and tongue, it has shaved some more seconds off the design while adding the tongue, which i don't add unless I have time.

Now, it's faster to tie my metallic brown rounds (love them for dog noses) to a red water balloon and wrap them around the muzzle than it is to wedge secure int he right position and then tie off the metallic round nose on it's own.

It's nice to have a really fast cute dog, that used to take me about 6 minutes to make without artwork, your tip for the nose/tongue has just brought it down under 2 minutes including artwork!

You just nailed the whole "Speed Twisting" idea. It's not that I want to do as many balloons in an hour as possible, it's that I want to do really good (GREAT!) balloons but still have people feel like the line is moving at a reasonable pace. And I want the interaction time.

I worked an event as a second to another twister. I was doing my normal thing with my music, talking, joking with the line, and my line was moving. I got a polite word from the other twister that the event guy wanted me to stop doing a show and just twist. The other twister explained I wasn't doing a show, that's just how I twist. He didn't care. I said, no problem. I worked the rest of the gig trying to tone it down.

At the end of the gig, the other twister said, "He loved it and wants us back next year." I responded, "No way." I don't work those kinds of events. Once I'm somewhere I'll do what it takes to get the job done, but I won't put myself in those positions on purpose.

*end tangent.