Hi!
I've watched an older video tape with Bob Wooding. He explained a technique using the breath for shaping balloons. He bended and exhaled on parts of the balloon and those parts kept in place. I suggest it was because of the temperature (warm breath). Am I right?

And is this a common technique these days? Why didn't he shaped the balloon (e.g.) with squeezing? Where is the difference?

Thanks,
Carsten

You end up with more or less the same result if you breathe on or squeeze the balloon. Both techniques warm up a certain part of the balloon and this will stretch/expand more than the cold/unsqueezed section of the balloon. It's the same as friction twisting/shaping. friction-twist-shaping-t1092.html

Ah okay. Thanks!

By the way: I've seen another technique to shape the balloon. Sucking the part into the mouth. It was in the book "Great Balloons!" from Jean Merlin.