After watching your video I felt driven to give it a try. I made a tension rod from an old windshield wiper and a pick from a saw blade. I bought the cheapest dead bolt lock I could find and was incredibly surprised and pleased with myself when I picked the lock for the first time. Thx so much. I plan to make more picks and try some more locks. Fascinating. Thx so much.
I've been watching this course and I'm very impressed with your presentation and the depth you go into explaining everything. After watching how to use each pick and how to spot the pins I've already set, I was able to pick both my practice locks in the time it took to watch this video. In conclusion, I will be changing out the kwikset lock on my apartment door immediately. I'm hoping a smartkey double cylinder lock will be more effective. Can you tell me if the bump protection on the kwikset smartkey 665 or 690 is effective? We have a lot of crooked maintenance people who use bump keys.
There's surely an entirely different approach necessary for locks you know are going to be complicated (so that relative cascades would be different. Or so that sticking to one approach like 'hookers' is best all round. Are there different classes in competition? Also, it's not always a progression forward is it? If you can make mistakes that would foil you from then on if you didn't re-start at the lock, then is the perseverance down the cascade necessarily the best idea?
I'll say yes and no to your comment :D Well, the opponent was smart enough to figure out the loopholes in the competition wasn't he? And besides, isn't lock picking literally about finding loopholes and making full use of them? :)
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After watching your video I felt driven to give it a try. I made a tension rod from an old windshield wiper and a pick from a saw blade. I bought the cheapest dead bolt lock I could find and was incredibly surprised and pleased with myself when I picked the lock for the first time. Thx so much. I plan to make more picks and try some more locks. Fascinating. Thx so much.
Great story, thanks for sharing it.
I've been watching this course and I'm very impressed with your presentation and the depth you go into explaining everything. After watching how to use each pick and how to spot the pins I've already set, I was able to pick both my practice locks in the time it took to watch this video. In conclusion, I will be changing out the kwikset lock on my apartment door immediately. I'm hoping a smartkey double cylinder lock will be more effective. Can you tell me if the bump protection on the kwikset smartkey 665 or 690 is effective? We have a lot of crooked maintenance people who use bump keys.
Smashing story.
I like your story!
Very interesting and quite a story.
Great video and lesson pal, thanks for sharing.
- Lee
Very good advice. Thanks 🙏
There's surely an entirely different approach necessary for locks you know are going to be complicated (so that relative cascades would be different. Or so that sticking to one approach like 'hookers' is best all round. Are there different classes in competition?
Also, it's not always a progression forward is it? If you can make mistakes that would foil you from then on if you didn't re-start at the lock, then is the perseverance down the cascade necessarily the best idea?
This is fucking awesome
can you provide a video about a lock picking competition please
Great vid
Do things ever go beyond pin-tumbler locks with security in competitive picking?
It WAS interesting.
Very interesting! Thanks matey!
it sure was hella interesting!
very interesting great job
just one question, when/why do you pick when your'e not in a competition?
I'll say yes and no to your comment :D
Well, the opponent was smart enough to figure out the loopholes in the competition wasn't he?
And besides, isn't lock picking literally about finding loopholes and making full use of them? :)
good job!
Would you ever switch from one tension wrench to another while picking?
Good question.
So modest at the end...
Awesome!!!
nice to now! thanks for the tips. ( a beginner )
Very interesting.
Yes, interesting! Thanks
what makes a "competition" lock? is it the lock itself or they type of pins in it? and can you buy them to practice with?
Very useful, thank you.
The best robber in the world;DDD
they should put screens up. obv no. 1 has been kind of cheating for ages. sort of like looking at the other players screen on goldeneye 64.
XD Have fun with that possible felony charge, bro.