Sorry if this has been done, haven't been on in a little while.


How'd you guys get into penspinning? Like who showed/told you about it. Well for me, my friend was talking to me on AIM, and he told me to check out this video (pendosla's 1st collab) and so I watched it. Needless to say i was all ":blink:" so i figured "this is awesome, i gotta learn how to do that." Found out about Pentrix and the UPSB, and the rest is history :).

So what about the rest of you?

I read a wikiHow on how to spin a pencil around your thumb.
From there, I learned a whole bunch of tricks

major influences


my dad

and

chucko :) my inspiration :lol: :lol:

internet and i saw people do it

I saw someone doing one rotation of the charge and got curious.....then it started...the MADNESS

I would say that friends are the greatest influence. There is a poll on PenstudioZ that has been around for a while there.
http://www.geocities.com/shawn_tohlz/main.html
(scroll down)

Saw my friend to a TA, he doesn't spin seriously, only knowns one trick but he's how I figured out about ps.

I learnt TA before I started PS seriously. So I was curios if there are more tricks that can be learnt onliune.. and so..

hehe cool rank kills B)

anyways..i went to a boarding school in korea for one year and penspinning was the cool thing so i learned all the fundamentals and some of their variations...didn't think about searching on internet so i didn't find the boards untill summer 2005...since then...shadows have dominated my spinning. :ph43r:

Learnt TA from a friend. Kept doing TA harmonics for over 2 years before I saw the superhandz video.

Searching around on some drumming forums when some kid was talking about doing the infinit (I didn't know what it was called) with a drumstick. He gave a link to Pentrix and then I started to get interested. Bam! It's almost been a year since then.

2 years ago my brother showed me kams superhandz vid, he learned the fingerpass and me to. About 4 months ago i was bored and started searching for it. I founded UPSB but I didnt register what I still regret.

I saw a cool video, one of the Koreans' (:)), and searched for more info on pen spinning.

well, my bro showed me the thumbaround video from pentrix. hehehehehe.. then i got interested, and here i am today. hehehe.

hm , I saw the swe Ps 1st edition on a swedish website called " Hamsterpaj "
then i got amazed and thought it was a fake lOOl , but then ! , when i found pentrix and saw some more collabs at turtlespin i knew there was a way to do like the guys at the collabs myself . yeah then i learned tricks from pentrix and turtlespin ;)

and here i am :BRAIN:

strangely enough, for me, it was from a school project. I was supposed to research the issue of pen spinning than i stumbled upon pentrix.... i didnt really got into pen spinnning much. I only went into pen spinning 6 months later...

i was watching sumone and figured out how to do a thumb spin then on mlk day sumone taught me how to do an infinity and told me about pentrix so here i am :D

I just heard from a friend and saw a haduri video and searched penspinning and here i am. :) :BRAIN:

Someone posted a link to Pentrix on another forum. It looked interesting so I tried the TA and after I few tries I got it :D

I saw that Haduri video while searching for a tutorial on Thumbaround. After watching that, I searched around some more and came across Pentrix and other websites.

Well I saw a vid from some swedish penspinners: Ceedgee, Ryu/Stuth and Swifter, found it at a swedish site called Hamsterpaj.net. :lol:

about a week ago, i saw a link to pentrix from thesneeze.com and i followed the links from pentrix to get here

the one and only ChucKo.

Well i learned about it through my friend Eriror.He was spinning when i was staying at his place and through that i started to do it to since that i have spinned and liked it very much.Still doing it and learning a friend of mine how to spin now he can already do the TA :P

So thanx Eriror for learning me about spinning and thanks to my great teacher Ivan i learnd a lot of tricks already. :D

A day at the school my friend was doing finger pass. after that he saw a james bond movie.then I was doing the same thing that he did. bbut I wasnt spinning seriously and on my next birthday party my friend show me upsb and then I got PSing seriously :lol:

how did u guys start pen spinning? i started by my friend. he was lookin at these vids and one was about pen spinning and i started downloading vids and tryed to learn the tricks and it just kept goin from then on.

I believe there was a topic about this called "What got you into ps?"

pds 1 was the starting point for all penspinners imo. thats how i started and all my other freinds.

I was browsing a drumming forum, and someone gave a link to UPSB.

I saw one of my friends do it, and so I looked up " pen tricks " on google and found UPSB.

On wikipedia...
I was reading about juggling, then i ended up on contact juggling, where there was a link to the page about pen spinning...




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ok, TV. there's a program I used to watch in thailand about koreans and their "talents"
juggling, magic, eating fire, karate, pen spinning, etc.

one day I finally saw a guy psing.

he's korean so he introduced me to pds. :blink: and a great korean pser which I forgot the name :unsure:

I dont search cuz I have bad english at the time. the word "pen spinning" just didnt come to mind.

a year(?) later I moved to usa and start searching like crazy. :BRAIN: :BRAIN: :BRAIN: yeah just what ur guessing, I found pentrix and kam. :)

with english still under developing, I didnt join upsb. :GLOOMY:

who cares. now I have this board and having fun

ok now this is getting too long bye :pp

i was using firefox's extension stumble upon and many times i have stumbled on pentix and the 1st korea pen spinning video but i didnt take effort to learn

then one really really boring day i stumbled on a coin manipulation site and learned to do coin roll

i was thinking since my finger have some talents why not learn pen spinning and voila

I saw someone doing the charge.

Nuff said

Someone sent me a video (that was on collegehumor.com) of this japanese infomertial about penspinning. So I looked for more information about it and found the infamous PDS collab. I was hooked ever since.

i'd been doing fingerpass for years (somehow i just figured out how to do it without seeing anyone do it before, no joke). and then i saw the haduri vid on google video when it was in the popular. "other people do this too?" i thought... found upsb. eventually found ucpsb. the rest is history.

Had been doing TA for 2 years when I saw a thread on psing on a gaming forum. They posted the link to the superhandz video, and someone posted a link to UPSB from there.

I saw the Korean compilation video. I have no idea which one that was, but apparently, everyone who started around the time I did had also seen that video. I just remember that it kicked ass and I wanted to do it too, so I Googled pen tricks, pen spinning, etc... and followed all the directions I could find.

Someone posted a link to the haduri video on a forum. Then when I tried to find it later, I stumbled across pentrix.com, then as soon as I found UPSB, it got shut down.

My brother showed me Kams superhandz vid in 5th grade ( now i'm in 8th grade). My brother somehow learned the fingerpass from somewhere (I have no idea where). Then in the start of 7th grade I learned it from him. I was doing the fingerpass for one year and at the end of september 2005 I was bored and searched for pen tricks and pen spinning ( it took me 10 minutes to think of the word spinning). After that I found pentrix and so forward, and I think I could still register on to the UPSB and that time, but I didn't. : . Well then I learned infinity and some other stuff. Because I wanted to learn the quadruple infinity I searched on the UPSB and that tricks learned stuff in profiles. I saw Eriror knew it and contacted him. Then he showed me this place.