Learning Pen Spinning with No Experience (thumb around)
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- čas přidán 21. 04. 2020
- This week I learned the most basic pen spinning trick, the thumb around. Learning how to spin a pen around my thumb sounded easy at the time, but took me WAAAAY longer than expected. That said, through a couple tips and tricks I share in this video, I was eventually able to land it consistently (and I'm sure you could do it quicker).
Did I master the thumb around in the three days I filmed this? Absolutely not...but I did get a solid introduction into the world of pen spinning and a super fun "at the desk" hobby.
FEELS GREAT.
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The one dislike is from someone without a thumb
:thonk:
Me: learns how to spin a book on my finger from Mike.
Also me: learns how to spin a pen on my finger from Stephen.
I learn from all of them
Nice video! I've been penspinning since 2008. it's was so fun to see your progress. Reminded my struggles with this trick.
The main mistake you doing here is moving your thumb and whole wrist. It's should be completely still. You need to push it only with index finger. And keep you hand parralel to the floor. Your is turned inside quite often.
You should also learn tricks: sonic and finger pass.
Good luck!
Good
This is my new favourite channel to watch!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉
So I'm one of those pen spinning guys
Here is my tips:
Don't move your thumb, keep it straight, Stephen was moving his thumb a lot and this prevent the pen from spinning
Your index finger must be on the start of the pen and the middle finger on the middle of the pen, so the weight make the pen spin a lot easier
Use heavier and longer pens
(bad english sorry)
I love how you can make something watch worthy from spinning a pen around a finger.!
Thanks for the beautiful outside view!
Haven't been going out much either and was nice to see some beautiful scenery!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed the nature!
I learned this trick in math last year. It's so much fun lol. I've only learned 1 trick after that, so I'm getting stoked to learn so more.
This is the second skill toy video you've released that I actually play lol. Yoyo and pen spin ftw 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
(Imo the thumb around is similar to a snapping motion, so it might be easier to build off that.)
you are a very patient person
the quality of your videos is unreal!
My classmate learned me to do it, that's so cool!
I learned this trick over many months in class. I’d love to see more videos combining skills like the bass/bass and slack line/yo-yo once the world gets back to normal.
Nice, there are more of those to come! The combing skills episodes take a lot longer to produce, so they have to be spaced out. We hope to have more episodes of How to Learn Anything out this fall. Will keep you posted!
Damn dude you are criminally underrated
This is one I've always wanted to try. You've done well sticking it out here. Great idea for a CZcams channel, you have learnt so much
Thanks man, it's been an incredible journey thus far. You should give pen spinning a shot!
While watching the vid rn im also practicing it's like I'm practicing w a buddy!!
My problem is also focus. But unlike you, I would have been completely amerced with nature and forgot why I came outdoors. As always, awesome beard.
So... All you have to do is keep a fair distance between thumb and the middle finger when you have them crossed... Then use index finger like a some sort of of resistance...like a propeller... So when you make the move to snap your fingers the index should be the one resisting or maybe stopping the pen from moving. Thumb should be placed right where you can balance the pen in one finger. So if you do all that when you snap your fingers and the force of the snap is stronger than your grip from the index finger it will act like a propeller forcing the pen to go around your thumb. So keep the thumb straight. When you learn that round movement of the pen you will notice that even though the pen goes all the way around the thumb it falls afterwards. Thats because it hits to your index finger and not the middle finger. First step is done. Now just try to imagine your hand position after the snap. Keep index finger OPEN (clearing the path for the pen to land on the middle finger) after the snap and close it immediately after pen goes around thumb bringing it close to your middle finger. That way the pen will land on the middle finger and your index will catch it as soon as it lands there. If you do that after practice you will get better and better. I did my best to explain it as simple as i could hope it helps!!
EDID: I forgot to mention. When you start practicing you will use less force because... well because everyone does at baby steps in this trick. So you will use your whole hand rotation to keep the force right. When you want to be more stable try to stop using your hands rotation and find the perfect force on the snap. that way thumb will be much more stable and the trick is gonna feel a lot of easier.
Yey upload
The tutorial you linked isn't available anymore :( looks like the account was terminated by youtube. Any other tutorials you recommend?
nice watch! what is it?
You are holding it in the middle. Try holding it a bit up towards the upper part of the pen(At around 3/4 part of the pen). It will be easy👍
A R came here to say the same thing.
Nice, thanks for the advice!
I was gonna learn this to show off to my friends but I remembered I couldn't see them until quarantine ends
"I'm sure many of you will be able to learn it faster then i did." I learned it in about 20 mins watching KTrinh's tutorial
makes me wonder how i got up to the point of where i am now. forgot how frustrated i got or if i even got frustrated.
The account for the tutorial video you linked has been terminated unfortunately. Are there any other tutorial videos you'd recommend for this?
Shoeman6 is good short and concise
I learn this to show off at school xd
Dude. This shit is hard, but I can see why it's harder for you to catch it. You are moving your thumb down, and it messes with the trajectory. You have to keep the thumb completely still, without bending down, without moving at all. It's an axis for the pen to follow around, if it moves while de pen follows, the pen goes flying around some random direction. Of course practice is the most important part, but if you practice right, you'll get there sooner. With enough practice you'll be able to control the momentum enough to spin it around your thumb without even using the middle finger to propel it, just with a movement of the wrist. Then you'll be able to do it with every sort of shit, even bananas. And you already figured out something essential: the heavier, the easier. If you can get a drum stick to practice, it will be way easier to figure out the movements. Btw, in my opinion, both the finger pass and the charge movements are easier than the thumb around, give those a try too.
Nice, thanks for the incite!
You should try an other pen, well balanced if possible. And I think you really should watch videos about it, best thing to do for that skill. Pen spinning is 90% of try hard and keep doing it till your fingers get the movement ; also, when you have mastered a trick, try to learn a new one quickly as your fingers don't get too much use to that precise movement and forbid you to try smthg else.
Your baldness video is very motivating
Dislikes are people without pens
At around 5:50 you can see how you lower your thumb mid spin. I think thats the main problem you're having, to do this trick correctly you shouldn't lower your thumb. If you look at the tutorial video you link to in the description, that guy doesn't move his thumb at all.
Totally! It's such a tough habit to break.
I explained this to my friend and he learned it in 10 minutes
How
Now learn how to do thumb around extended
Lol I get it in just a minute 😉😎😎😎
A tip for the thumbaround is keep your thumb still and don't move it around while spinning it.
i just use a drumstick
helllo my bro¡ , hey it's a suggestion, you should translate your videos in Spanish, you also have an aidience, for those who don't know English. it would be very helpful a greeting :)
oh no! The most helpful thumb around tutorial has been removed from youtube ;(
Sorry about my English. I don't think you're doing the trick right. Why are you moving your thumb? Try to make a movement as if you are clicking your middle finger. And do a flip around your thumb. I learned this trick with a user of the channel "Pen Stock" there is a good explanation for performing this trick and others. I believe that you will succeed.
Ya! I'm realizing that now, thanks for the tip. The thumb movement is just a bad habit that formed while learning the skill. I didn't even notice that I was doing it until I edited this video. Do you have a specific tutorial you'd suggest folks checkout?
@@stephenrobinson52 There are a lot of good tutorials on the Internet. But almost everyone forgets the movement of the thumb, and this is the most difficult part of the trick (holding it still). I had a problem with that, too. It took me two days to realize that. Maybe this video will help someone(sorry, I don't know other youtubers who speak English) czcams.com/video/ad9HpOXeBTc/video.html
its ez
It only took me 5 min
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You always moved your thumb away...try to avoid this
Learn a new skill