chris if your talking about the striking trick "Instead of drawing them to you, as you would with a normal match, you should strike them down onto the striker, as if trying to poke it through the top, with just a very little forward motion, not with a pulling motion you would normally use with a match. "<br><br>i use a diffrent trick, just hold the match half on the burning and the other half of the wood with 2 fingers and stike, than slide your fingers away...