"Spinning a pen over your thumb"

After years of not being able to achieve this trick I am today able to spin a pencil over my thumb and catch it again! :'D

I'm so happy, I feel like I've joined a cool club or somthing. :))

Tomorrow I'm going to learn how to juggle. ^_^

/spins pen endlessly

Welcome! Don't tell kalel

smoothpete wrote:
Welcome! Don't tell kalel

Actually I have this habit. It’s silent and non-vibrating, so completely acceptable! :)

Razz – next step is to learn how to flick it back the other way. Then you have to do it with two pens in two hands.

I wish I'd figured this out, spent a while trying it in work until someone got pissed off with a pen hitting my keyboard every few seconds. Bastards. Don't they know I'm trying to be skillfull over here!

Advanced spinning.

Get it to do a couple of extra spins on your knuckle before you catch.

And don't forget the vertical spin.

/tips hat

I can do the whole spinning pen inbetween fingers thing, and I can pretty much do a knuckle roll with a poker chip, although only when I'm concentrating on it specifically.

And then move onto this.

Wow! So much to learn. :)

/enters clubhouse
/ploks self down on dusty old leather sofa in n00b section

You guys got any more advanced guides on how I can level up? Actually I need to be able to do this consistantly first. I can't catch the pen anymore. :/

Gremmi wrote:
I can do the whole spinning pen inbetween fingers thing, and I can pretty much do a knuckle roll with a poker chip, although only when I'm concentrating on it specifically.

I thought you was permanantly retired?

I just noticed that! :D Gremmi's back!

He probably logged in as Gremmi to check his inbox and groups and whatnot only to forget to logout before postign, I've done this several times myself.

Edited by Razz at 16:33:07 25-03-2008

Razz wrote:
Wow! So much to learn. :)

/enters clubhouse
/ploks self down on dusty old leather sofa in n00b section

You guys got any more advanced guides on how I can level up? Actually I need to be able to do this consistantly first. I can't catch the pen anymore. :/

Flicking it back the other way is just a case of not letting the pen slip under your forefinger on the way round, and instead using your forefinger to stop it and then send it back the other way.

I say “just a case of”, but actually I still can’t do it. It took me about a year or two to get a 100% success rate on the standard flick, another year to get to the same place with my left hand, and I’ve been trying the “flick back” for about a year on top of that with so far no success at all.

I can't do it with a pen, but I'm able to do it with a kitchen knife. No casualties to-date.

With a kitchen knife? o_O Holy shit. Did they teach you that in the Chinese restaurant?



Edit: fixed link

Edited by Razz at 16:51:38 25-03-2008

I've managed it with a broom a couple of times - very slowly. Easier without the head.

I must get round to recording some videos of me spinning fire around

w00t wrote:
I've managed it with a broom a couple of times - very slowly. Easier without the head.

Not sure Razz'll do too well with broom handles.

Hey pete I've been looing into getting one of these for a while. Are there any you could reccommend?

Edited by Razz at 16:52:59 25-03-2008

Razz wrote:
With a kitchen knife? o_O Holy shit. Did they teach you that in the Chinese restaurant?

No, in an English restaurant actually. I can also flip it under my index finger. I haven't tried this in a long time, so I won't be bringing any knives to London this Friday.

Edited by catterz at 16:52:55 25-03-2008

Fixed that link now.

Is this the same method heavy metal drummers use to spin their drumsticks?

Fixed that too! :D

Lutz wrote:

Gremmi wrote:
I can do the whole spinning pen inbetween fingers thing, and I can pretty much do a knuckle roll with a poker chip, although only when I'm concentrating on it specifically.

I thought you was permanantly retired?

My public demanded an encore.

Razz wrote:
Fixed that link now.

And I changed the quote for ya too.

I'm not just sure, I'm HIV positive.

catterz wrote:
I won't be bringing any knives to London this Friday.

Aww.... I'll wait till you've had a few and give you a knife to entertain us. :)

I'll probably entertain a few medical staff too.

catterz wrote:

w00t wrote:
I've managed it with a broom a couple of times - very slowly. Easier without the head.

Not sure Razz'll do too well with broom handles.

Heh.

Maybe he could have two brooms. One for spinning and the other for that other thing.

Razz wrote:
Hey pete I've been looing into getting one of these for a while. Are there any you could reccommend?

They're all much of a muchness. I'd suggest you get a longer one (1m isn't very long) and maybe one with double wicks. It's also good if the part in the middle with the grip binding stuff is quite long too, and doesn't have big plastic things at either end.

I'm not explaining this very well...

You can put that on your CV now, Razz.