The use of head wraps can make balancing much easier. Depending upon the shape of your head, you may or may not need a head wrap. Some dancers are blessed with heads made for balancing objects, nice and fiat on top or with a little indentation. Others seemed cursed for balancing possessing hills and valleys and even round knots. Everyone s head is different - hard to tell under all that hair.
Hair also plays a crucial role in balancing.
Fine silky hair makes it nearly impossible to balance a sword, while coarse, thick curly hair makes a bed that the sword can nestle into. If you are going for the bare head approach, it helps to tease the top of your head where the sword will rest and then douse this spot with tacky hairspray such as Final Net. This greatly helps to keep the sword from sliding back and forth. Sword balancing takes great concentration, so again, you need to know your steps and how to play the Zils very well. The head must he kept in a level position.