Monday, January 25, 2010
Well this is my third blog post. Recently, I am very obsessed with pen spinning, that even when I am watching television or resting , I would just habitually spin it. One of the main important things to take note if pen spinning is to get your own modded pen, which means piecing different grips and caps onto a pen, and the pen must of course be balanced. For example, cutting different G2 pen grips to make the grip. Having an ink is optional, but is not really practical when you keep dropping the pen, and the ink will leak. I actually started pen spinning since primary 5, but gave up when I could not do more challenging tricks with a normal pen, and I did not know how to make a modded pen then. Until last year, when I saw many of my classmates doing it, I asked myself, "If they can do it, why cant I?" Therefore, I decided to ransack my box of pens and piece them together during the holidays. Now, I have a great pen with good balance and a medium weight, excellent for spinning.To me, my pen is as important as my Green Day albums. Although I only mastered a few basic tricks, such as the Thumb Around, Charge Normal, Fingerpass and Sonic, I will not just stop there. Today, I managed to pull off the Shadow spin, which requires the pen to spin on the four fingers before catching it. It took me a lot of effort and time to learn it. Although I did not fully master it yet, I still feel a sense of achievement. For the whole of tomorrow, I would have to keep on practising it in order to get the gist of it. Normally, it would take me a day to learn the trick, and roughly another two days to sort of master it. It can be fun when you are spinning it together with your friends, and you can learn from them too!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Well this is my third blog post. Recently, I am very obsessed with pen spinning, that even when I am watching television or resting , I would just habitually spin it. One of the main important things to take note if pen spinning is to get your own modded pen, which means piecing different grips and caps onto a pen, and the pen must of course be balanced. For example, cutting different G2 pen grips to make the grip. Having an ink is optional, but is not really practical when you keep dropping the pen, and the ink will leak. I actually started pen spinning since primary 5, but gave up when I could not do more challenging tricks with a normal pen, and I did not know how to make a modded pen then. Until last year, when I saw many of my classmates doing it, I asked myself, "If they can do it, why cant I?" Therefore, I decided to ransack my box of pens and piece them together during the holidays. Now, I have a great pen with good balance and a medium weight, excellent for spinning.To me, my pen is as important as my Green Day albums. Although I only mastered a few basic tricks, such as the Thumb Around, Charge Normal, Fingerpass and Sonic, I will not just stop there. Today, I managed to pull off the Shadow spin, which requires the pen to spin on the four fingers before catching it. It took me a lot of effort and time to learn it. Although I did not fully master it yet, I still feel a sense of achievement. For the whole of tomorrow, I would have to keep on practising it in order to get the gist of it. Normally, it would take me a day to learn the trick, and roughly another two days to sort of master it. It can be fun when you are spinning it together with your friends, and you can learn from them too!
