Same. I can thumbaround almost any pen, marker, or pencil without looking. I was a teacher for several years and I'd ask a question and just thumbaround the dry erase marker and stare at the students... haha. And I'm working on doing it with my other hand. I saw this, not having heard of anything official, and I'm like, "Fancy weighted 'pens?' Not fair! Do it all with a Bic!"
This person is known as padrace in pen spinning tournaments. He has participated in world tournaments before but never won one. He won for standup for pen spinning olympics. Standup is basically performing pen spinning standing up lol.
Back in the mid 90s there was quite a pen spinning craze at our high school. People were doing the thumbaround nonstop during classes. It was driving the teachers crazy when the pens would drop on the table.
Cool to see Padrace featured, really nice dude in the community! Shoutout to Saltient on Threading too, it shows that many tricks are still to be done and explored in Pen Spinning
Incredible video ! ! It's always a little stressful seeing a hobby you know a lot about be de-constructed like this for people outside of it to understand because it's really hard to properly convey the uniqueness of it all a lot of the times, but Padrace did a great job, as well as you guys up at WIRED! I'm really happy that I'm able to see this at such a great production value! 😍
0:00: 🖊 Peter Davis breaks down pen spinning into 21 levels of increasing complexity. 3:16: 💡 The thumbaround trick involves spinning a pen around the thumb and catching it with the index finger. 6:15: 💫 A summary of pen spinning techniques including arounds, back 1.5s, and cardiods. 9:41: 💡 This tutorial explains finger crosses and using two hands in pen spinning. 12:23: 🖊 The trick involves maintaining a conical rotation while moving the hands precisely between finger slots. Recap by Tammy AI
When I first got into this 8 years ago there was such little tutorials on how to do complex tricks in pen spinning just your odd thumb around and stuff. I had to teach myself and make my own mods. I’m glad to see WIRED is bringing attention to this. If any kid is reading this, I recommend you get into pen spinning!
Literally did not know this was an actual thing till 15 mins ago but the YT algorithm got this one spot on. To a complete outsider like me, this was such a good video. Might have to rewatch the tougher levels (once the mods kick in) to fully understand it but this is so cool!
I remember i started learning penspinning back in 2008 to 2012. I got pretty good but i lost my pen mod and back then there were only limited pen spinning fundamentals known such as charge thumbarounds wipers and sonics. The penspinning scene revolved mostly around those tricks, including busts and aerial motions. Now it has evolved a lot and there are some tricks i didnt even know existed! I think i should i get back to penspinning again
What's even amazing is that -- this is going to be counter-intuitive -- if you're putting all the tricks together and do it slowly and smoothly, it looks MUCH MORE amazing than if it were to be done fast (every trick looks the same when it's very fast!). Same with cardistry.
I'm remember learning some basic pen spinning stuff in high school in the 2000s before TH-cam existed and learned the wiper and thumb around and a couple of others (the tricks didnt really have names back then), and it's wild to see how much it has evolved over the years! Such a cool video and now I'm tempted to nerd out on pen spinning again in my 30s lol
time goes fly man!, been pen spinning since 2008 and wasn't good enough to compete, indonesia, thai, and malaysia also koreans killed this competition back then.
Learned some of the basic tricks years ago. I've probably done 10s of thousands of thumbarounds, charges and wipers. Actually I've discovered some advanced variants of charge on my own and I've only found out about it now 😂 It's like second nature to me to just spin pen whenever I have it in my hands 😂
well detailed and informative. i would have liked more history, but it was definitely the wild west back then and might be hard to have documentation. anyone miss Kam? Zombo? Eriror? etc.
@1:05 I've been doing that since I was a kid, but the pen always hesitates at a certain point, and I noticed it happens to you too. It must be a physical limitation.
I've been doing level 2 since when I was in school... It's so cool to see how some of things considered informal can be turned around to become serious engagements by some talented people... I'm glad I found this video today...
as a drummer, i feel you overlooked the Hard Stop. you maintain basic flow through almost everything shown here save for only 1 or 2 hard stops to change direction. ill take my drumstick and run through a couple tricks in one direction and then hard stop and bring it back reverse in the opposite. additionally i use them a lot for rests and "stall" the swing on the sticks with momentum killed by gravity and then bring it back the other way.
This guy's dexterity with pens is inkredible.
That's what she said.
Is that a Mortal Kombat reference or just an ink pun?
Dad jokes of the year goes to
He is very famous in world of penspinning.he is organizer of ps olympics and world cups ans pso winnet
Finger Dex lvl 99
There's a pen spinning competition!???? I've been unknowingly learning level 6 for more than 10 years! 🤣
Same. I can thumbaround almost any pen, marker, or pencil without looking. I was a teacher for several years and I'd ask a question and just thumbaround the dry erase marker and stare at the students... haha. And I'm working on doing it with my other hand.
I saw this, not having heard of anything official, and I'm like, "Fancy weighted 'pens?' Not fair! Do it all with a Bic!"
Ur pen spinning is out of this 🌎
This person is known as padrace in pen spinning tournaments. He has participated in world tournaments before but never won one. He won for standup for pen spinning olympics. Standup is basically performing pen spinning standing up lol.
There are ps olympics,world cups and world tournaments
@@A.K.A_A9aV also national tournaments
Back in the mid 90s there was quite a pen spinning craze at our high school. People were doing the thumbaround nonstop during classes. It was driving the teachers crazy when the pens would drop on the table.
Same. We used to see if we could do more than 100 in a row. I think 114 was my best. 😂
😲 pretty awesome me I’m just that kid trying to do that in bust now a days all by my self 😂
it's how I got good at it, I dropped , my pen was taken away...lol
@@iONLYbetWHENiWIN I know right😂 I back my chair up so it doesn’t hit a table 👉🧠
Hahaha I do that
no matter how specific your interests are you are never alone with them. that fact makes me really happy.
Great promotion of our artform and amazing explanation! Mad props.
The GOAT of pen spinning ey yoooo
Yooo didn't expect you to see there
@@yiuyiu6729 the goat of pen spinning is menowa
feels like 2013
Yeah this video may lead to rise of pen spinning
As a penspinner myself, I'm really glad that such a big channel speaks about it! Thank you!
Same here buddy
Whats up Oleg? Youre videos on pen mods are amazing because people can find out how to build unknown pen mods
@@nrreno unknown
Ghost here, me too 🤙
Love your videos
I’ve never been so excited for something I never knew I was excited for in my life!
i swear, i KNOW what you mean. i felt the same. 🤛✌
That is a paradoxical statement
As a pen spinner, I am very happy to see this. Hopefully, this hobby gets more and more popular in the future. ❤❤
hopefully we get more Supawits in the future :p
@@fristmer ขอบคุณค้าบ
@@ivabra Definitely my bro!
seeing your name just makes me feel nostalgic, used to download all of your vids and peem's in my phone back in the day, great times...
Heck yeah
Level 22 of pen spinning: you actually become one with the pen and transcend into a higher state of being.
Level 23 the pen autonomously moves with just your thoughts!?🤔🧐
Level 24: You draw a spinning pen while spinning.
No its actually you become the pen and the Pen spins you.
level 25 : become the god of pen spinning and spend the rest of the eternity spinning one 🗿
This looks so pro. I can't believe you mentioned powerpass variations!
The king of powerpass variations right there
oh the founder of pwp variations is here :DD
The king of power pass it's pen spinning central❤
@@anfloo4781hes the one who came up with the pp variations
I think it would have been incomplete without them!
Cool to see Padrace featured, really nice dude in the community!
Shoutout to Saltient on Threading too, it shows that many tricks are still to be done and explored in Pen Spinning
wsp sep
Pad making it into the big leagues!!! Congrats buddy!
Incredible video ! !
It's always a little stressful seeing a hobby you know a lot about be de-constructed like this for people outside of it to understand because it's really hard to properly convey the uniqueness of it all a lot of the times, but Padrace did a great job, as well as you guys up at WIRED!
I'm really happy that I'm able to see this at such a great production value! 😍
I agree
love it so much
padrace is amazing
Agreed, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it.
Peter "Padrace" Davis, you make us proud champ!
0:00: 🖊 Peter Davis breaks down pen spinning into 21 levels of increasing complexity.
3:16: 💡 The thumbaround trick involves spinning a pen around the thumb and catching it with the index finger.
6:15: 💫 A summary of pen spinning techniques including arounds, back 1.5s, and cardiods.
9:41: 💡 This tutorial explains finger crosses and using two hands in pen spinning.
12:23: 🖊 The trick involves maintaining a conical rotation while moving the hands precisely between finger slots.
Recap by Tammy AI
nice to see this getting more attention
I'm so glad of this video, finally a good introduction of our art! Ty Padrace!
I love how he explains it and the details, like I think I could listen to him all day.
Awesome promotion for our hobby. Congratz Padrace ❤️
When I first got into this 8 years ago there was such little tutorials on how to do complex tricks in pen spinning just your odd thumb around and stuff. I had to teach myself and make my own mods. I’m glad to see WIRED is bringing attention to this. If any kid is reading this, I recommend you get into pen spinning!
Pen spinning is finally getting the recognition it deserves
I did pen spinning over 10 years ago. Its amazing to see how many new and complicated tricks there are now! Impressive.
there's no better person to be interviewed for pen spinning than my boy padrace
Literally did not know this was an actual thing till 15 mins ago but the YT algorithm got this one spot on. To a complete outsider like me, this was such a good video. Might have to rewatch the tougher levels (once the mods kick in) to fully understand it but this is so cool!
love this! what a beautiful presentation of penspinning
Mah man, Padrace. Massive milestone, man! Super proud of you!
Sup man
Happy to see Pen Spinning popular again
Finally as a fellow spinner I’m glad it’s finally getting more attention
Amazing!
Great that PD was able to have this opportunity with Wired
This is the kind of pen-spinning content we need!
woatho
Yooo
I remember i started learning penspinning back in 2008 to 2012. I got pretty good but i lost my pen mod and back then there were only limited pen spinning fundamentals known such as charge thumbarounds wipers and sonics. The penspinning scene revolved mostly around those tricks, including busts and aerial motions. Now it has evolved a lot and there are some tricks i didnt even know existed! I think i should i get back to penspinning again
What's even amazing is that -- this is going to be counter-intuitive -- if you're putting all the tricks together and do it slowly and smoothly, it looks MUCH MORE amazing than if it were to be done fast (every trick looks the same when it's very fast!). Same with cardistry.
The fact that WIRED made a video about pen spinning means there's a chance that it will get more popular :D
Very nice video ! Thank you Padrace & wired =)
good job Padrace!
He is padrace ?
Anyways I am PenStuff lol
Hows server going anyways
@@Shubham_-_ yup, thats padrace, servers going fine, u shld definity come back tho we miss u
@@Shubham_-_ face reveal done
Not that shubham looks like an ai genreated handsome boy I wish he does 😬@@fienzo_spins
Amazing explanation and video!!
Padrace GOAT!
“First half year of pen spinning” is such a funny phrase to me
I haven't actively "practiced" my pen-spinning for quite the while but seeing a video like this is awesome :)
Yeah same bro, i can power pass, inferse power pass, mirrored power pass, and power pass reverse. But power pass reverse it's hard for me.
@padraceps great job on explaining all that so well!
Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it ❤
Padrace, you taught the concepts so well, you are also well spoken. Thank you and wired so much for the presentation!
The ultimate way to procrastinate. This is awesome!
POV: When you decide to try pen spinning and give up at level 1
Padrace fits the Role so good. Love it!
It’s truly amazing what people have devoted their lives to
padrace did a really good job :D
Yo this is my best friend! We spent pretty much every day growing up hanging out and building legos!
Thanks bro finally someone explained the thumb around properly
Super cool to see all these tricks broken down so clearly. The combos look so fluid and complex!
Fascinating how much this correlates to devil-/flowerstick juggling. I did that for many, many years and the tricks are incredibly similar.
this is very useful information
penspinning and fingerboarding r soo underrated istg
The crazy skill is he does it with the left hand 😲
I'm remember learning some basic pen spinning stuff in high school in the 2000s before TH-cam existed and learned the wiper and thumb around and a couple of others (the tricks didnt really have names back then), and it's wild to see how much it has evolved over the years! Such a cool video and now I'm tempted to nerd out on pen spinning again in my 30s lol
Did you?
time goes fly man!, been pen spinning since 2008 and wasn't good enough to compete, indonesia, thai, and malaysia also koreans killed this competition back then.
s777 and bonkura, man who else remember them, the best of the bests
RIP
many of us remember them :)
RIP to Bonkura 🙏
happy to finally see this skill having the attention it deserves
This is surprisingly way more interesting inciuld have imagined
so this is what my entertainment come to, pen spinning videos
wish every man dedicated this much time to their hand talents
Finally about this topic!❤
Wired really got videos for everything I love. Best channel ever
I need to submit my final project for the semester tomorrow and I'm watching this. Great, I guess.
Level 1 is what drummers use to look awesome! 🤘
Good teacher and clearly excels at his craft
This is so cool. My brain can’t comprehend any of it though 😂
8:25 hawk tuah
Learned some of the basic tricks years ago. I've probably done 10s of thousands of thumbarounds, charges and wipers. Actually I've discovered some advanced variants of charge on my own and I've only found out about it now 😂 It's like second nature to me to just spin pen whenever I have it in my hands 😂
Shout out to Padrace and the team for making such a good video❤️
i used to be professional with yoyos. im thrilled to start doing this as a common object skill toy that's casual instead of performative.
wonderful representation
Thanks Wired, now I know what will I do on our test tomorrow.
well detailed and informative.
i would have liked more history, but it was definitely the wild west back then and might be hard to have documentation.
anyone miss Kam? Zombo? Eriror? etc.
bro has a very good relationship with his partner
LMAO nice one
Came looking for this response
Also came looking fo... Nvm
I just came
@1:05 I've been doing that since I was a kid, but the pen always hesitates at a certain point, and I noticed it happens to you too. It must be a physical limitation.
we need more of these
I have no idea what’s going on and I love it 🤣
Been trying to do this since I was a kid. I'm still at level 1.
Sameeeee
The quality content we deserve
My hero !
This guy knows all the moves
14:37, the coolest way to show the middle finger.
Next week on House Hunters:
HUSBAND: I’m a champion pen spinner.
WIFE: I’m a professional domino toppler.
HUSBAND: Our budget is $875K.
this is an incredible style of art! amazing!
Envied my junior high classmates who could pen spin SO much back in the late ‘00s.
padrace the goat!!
This has the same energy as Hal race walking in a suit and aerodynamic helmet
I've been doing level 2 since when I was in school... It's so cool to see how some of things considered informal can be turned around to become serious engagements by some talented people... I'm glad I found this video today...
Honestly, this applies relativity well with drumsticks as well.
I can proudly say that I have cleared level 1: Charge. It only took my 13 years of my academics.
Never knew that Jerma had this hidden talent, what a multi-faceted man
the one video that teachers hope their students will never click on
Mastered the thumbaround my senior year of high school, still doing it 19 years later.
Hats off 🎉❤
Yeah I do the thumb thing constantly. This is rly cool
😳😳😳backfall is mind blowing
this gave me arthritis somehow but i can’t look away 😍this guy is a whiz
props to the manicurist, those are some fine looking hands
I know every pen spin til' the 6th level and a little bit cardioid too and twisted sonic bust too
I tought myself to do thumb around on the bed cause dropping it on table is annoying me too much lol
as a drummer, i feel you overlooked the Hard Stop. you maintain basic flow through almost everything shown here save for only 1 or 2 hard stops to change direction. ill take my drumstick and run through a couple tricks in one direction and then hard stop and bring it back reverse in the opposite. additionally i use them a lot for rests and "stall" the swing on the sticks with momentum killed by gravity and then bring it back the other way.