Remember how in childhood we called the sides of the matchbox, smeared by sulfur? Yes, right, "Cherkalo". Did you try to light a match without this "Dwarf"? The task at first glance seems almost impracticable.
However, you may occasionally surprise your acquaintances, to shoot children on any holiday when the time of entertainment comes, (and maybe even get out of the predicament, for example, fishing, if part of the box with sulfur suddenly - oh horror! - It turned out to be wet ) And make a match light without "Cherkal". True, for this you have a small stationery gum should be at hand, with a diameter of approximately 4-5 cm.
We take a ring of rubber band with two fingers of the left hand, clamp it in the middle, so that the part of it towers over his fingers. I wrap this chord with his right hand and the edge of it clamps with a thumb so that two loops are formed nearby. Then we fold them, pressing each other so that the edge of the chord is like a cassetting of these rings. In the formed loops we start the match and tighten the lower part of the gum. Who knits, he can easily imagine this picture: facial (or wrong - which side look) loop on the match, like on the needle.
In a hanging part of the gum, we start another match, we have a gum right below the sulfur immediately and, putting it vertically, stretch the match from the loop, which is built by strictly opposite the first. Cold let go of a match with a loop. It hits the head right in the sulfur vertically standing match, and both are flammable from hitting.
Look at the video, and make sure it is really simple and interesting.
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