Hey, just felt like writing a random blog today. I was reading this TL blog about things that would be cool to learn about and someone linked this video.
I was instantly amazed. I always fool around with my pen or pencil during class. So after looking at this video it led me to this huge community about pen spinning competitions and pen mods. http://forum.upsb.info/forum.php
I have started working on my fundamentals for pen spinning, my hand muscles are not that strong apparently. Maybe while improving this my SC2 APM will rise? Who knows?!
Wondering if anyone else out there in TL does pen spinning and is any good at it?
Oh and here is an amazing drifting video I thought everyone might enjoy.
one of my friends do it it'll make ur hands more nimble, but its really hard and takes a lot of practice to be good at. start with like thumb arounds or charges
I do pen spinning a lot and i highly recommend you not start. First of all, it takes a lot of work and effort to learn and its not as easy as "ill do it by tomorrow"
Secondly, don't start because then you cant stop. If I hold a pen, I cant resist (its hard at least) and its highly distracting. Dont start. Also, its only impressive for a short while and after that it becomes annoying to the viewer.
edit: volkswagon penspinning commercial was hilarious
I "found" that forum a long time ago (3 years ago maybe) when it first came up and didn't learn anything much past the fundamental tricks they gave (charge, fingerpass, thumbaround, sonic) and their reverses. Made some of the easy mods they had (the bictory and a few others), got used to linking the fundamentals together, and haven't done anything else since.
You can really do a lot of cool stuff just by learning the fundamentals and using them together, but the stuff beyond can be pretty hard to grasp without a good pen mod. Start off with an RSVP unmodded with the cap on the back (slightly uneven center of gravity but iirc people recommend some unevenness for momentum), or a standard unsharpened "circular" pencil (not hexagonal like some are) with erasers on each side (rip one out from another pencil and stick in onto another).
It's really not that hard to learn tricks, just time-consuming. You gotta sit down for hours each day till you get one down smoothly, then you gotta sit down for even more time to learn how to smoothly link it to other tricks. And you even have to "relearn" tricks to do them on other fingers. Oh, and I'm only talking my experience with the fundamentals and other simple moves here... I can't imagine how long it would have taken me to learn more beyond that :V
Only non-fundamental tricks I got good at were the twisted sonic, sonic rise, and infinity. In combination with all the other fundamentals and reverse fundamentals (except fingerpass), I could do a bunch of cool stuff that amazes my friends. Anything beyond that... welp D: Just learn whatever looks coolest to you and you get used to it.
I got my start on this guy's tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/akujinnoeso He doesn't make anymore, but they're easy to follow. He's left-handed, so he has a little window in the bottom-right with a reflected version of each tutorial
Wow, I wrote a lot of stuff that you probably could have found on their forum. Oh well. Someone else on TL could probably penspin far better than me, but they'd probably give the same advice too. You just gotta practice a lot.
Also what ReketSomething posted is true. Keep that in mind.
lol that drifting video is awesome. The part with the the segway... so sick.
I can do the most basic pen spinning. I've managed to do a complete rotation with sonic and reverse sonic. And thumbaround is pretty easy now. I prefer sonic more however.
Yes, and I don't recommend doing it. You'll never stop. Any time I'm nervous, or talking, or whatever, even when I'm standing up, I feel like I need to keep spinning the pen.
Also yes, it isn't hard, just takes a lot of time to learn, and even longer to master. You'll do it once in the beginning and go what the **** when you can't do it again.
It doesn't make your hand stronger a lot of those tricks some of which i know just require good muscle memory and mostly dexterity.
On January 03 2011 11:34 ReketSomething wrote: I do pen spinning a lot and i highly recommend you not start. First of all, it takes a lot of work and effort to learn and its not as easy as "ill do it by tomorrow"
Secondly, don't start because then you cant stop. If I hold a pen, I cant resist (its hard at least) and its highly distracting. Dont start. Also, its only impressive for a short while and after that it becomes annoying to the viewer.
edit: volkswagon penspinning commercial was hilarious
And teachers get pissed when you drop a pen then walk over to pick it back up. I wasted like one year of high school mildly paying attention in classes doing that and the rubik's cube, now i have 2 important skills for getting a job, oh wait.
I can pen spin as depicted in the above videos, but had absolutely no idea about the community around it. I used to be on a drumline and had to do a lot of stick spins for one of the shows that I was in. I eventually translated some of the spins over to my pen while I was bored in class and went from there. I tend to do it when I am bored in class mostly without really thinking about it.
I find pen spinning to be the easiest with a heavier, longer pen. This might be because of how I learned to do it in the first place on marching snare sticks, however.
I actually pen spin as well, it definitely help makes your hands better and more nimble! I learned about upsb a while back ago and learning about modified pens and etc.. :3 it also makes people at school look at you pretty kewl, but I never bother teaching them though ]:
On January 03 2011 11:34 ReketSomething wrote: I do pen spinning a lot and i highly recommend you not start. First of all, it takes a lot of work and effort to learn and its not as easy as "ill do it by tomorrow"
Secondly, don't start because then you cant stop. If I hold a pen, I cant resist (its hard at least) and its highly distracting. Dont start. Also, its only impressive for a short while and after that it becomes annoying to the viewer.
edit: volkswagon penspinning commercial was hilarious
hahaha, he's just trying to be dramatic
pen spinning is fun and highly addictive; its great because at school when you're just sitting on your table, you can just do pen tricks and its so fun
its not that hard to learn; i got into it (not INTO IT INTO IT, more like casual -> mediocre, nothing TOO hardcore) in sixth grade and i've garnered some popularity doing pen tricks, all the way up to twelfth grade people know me as the kid who does pen tricks lol
im korean yes
basically you look up some tricks, figure out how its done, and you have literally 10+ hours of practice time a week by just being at school and naturally chilling on the desk spinning
its way fun, and i would recommend you try it out
obligatory poll
Poll: Pen Spinning
Yeah I'm casual (31)
53%
I'm hardcore (own like 5 spinning "pens" (read: sticks) ) or was hardcore (12)
20%
Know some people who can; I can't myself (10)
17%
I have never really known about it (6)
10%
59 total votes
Your vote: Pen Spinning
(Vote): I have never really known about it (Vote): Know some people who can; I can't myself (Vote): Yeah I'm casual (Vote): I'm hardcore (own like 5 spinning "pens" (read: sticks) ) or was hardcore
you can't vote for the hardcore option unless you have 1. spent at least 7 hours modding pens 2. spent at least 40 hours looking through forums/tutorials 3. spent at least 3 hours of video watching of pens
A Korean Exchange student at my Uni told me that he's spent so much $ in the states on pens made for spinning. I guess they are quite expensive in Korea compared to the U.S.
lol thats ridiculous, most people use what is called an "RSVP MX"
you basically go to the store, buy a pack of RSVP pens, you get a Hybrid Gel Grip pen, you shift some parts, get some drilling done, and you have a fully functioning pen that is extended and weighted perfectly
not expensive
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oh your post confused me, yeah they're cheap in u.s. don't really know how cheap they are in korea, i know they sell custom made double headed pens called comssa's and ship them
This guy has tutorials for pretty much every trick you'll ever need, and he's still very active. He doesn't talk, but it's easier to see than it is to explain how to do everything.
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