I used to to use the old pentrix forums and I remember watching a video with a guy doing the scissor spin. I already knew all the fundamentals before finding the online forums. I only made this account so I can learn the scissor spin. So don't flame me but can anyone show or explain how or where should I start to learn the scissor spin?

I thing do scissor spin but I may be doing something totally different.

Hold your pen near the end between 12 with the long end sticking out palmwise. Bend your thumb down below the plane of the pen. Fold 12 inward to swing the pen toward the top of T1. Release the pen from 12 and let the pen spin 0.5 as it would if you were doing a half tap.

If that is a different trick can someone please tell me what it's called and how to do Scissor Spin? :P

Scissor spin is like a half tap using 12 with the push like an indexaround
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The simplest scissor spin starts in 12. If you fold your thumb down and then bring your middle and index forward like you're going to do a thumbaround with both of them. then it's a half-spin kind of like a half-tap. It's probably most easily thought of as a half tap where the pen starts between 1 and 2.

I don't know a whole lot about spider spin. But I think it starts in a position like a thumb around, but with the cop on the other side of the thumb. Then when you push, it spins on top of your middle finger. I'm not sure where the catch is supposed to be, but you could probably do it where ever you want without much criticism.

does the push come more from the middle finger lik a sideways IA or from the index lik a halftap?

Yeah, it's like a sideways indexaround that spins where a halftap should.

awesome i think i finally got the motion. now jus need to practice it.
recently ive been learning all weiss tricks
bak1.5, rev fulltap and now scissor.
and surprise surprise, they r easier with my pencil :lol:

http://media.putfile.com/scissor
mine is still kinda sketchy but u get the point
im lovin the mirado pencils. so light. i need to get me some f3000s pronto

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The trick is done continuously within the combo. It shouldn't be that difficult to identify it.

Does any one have a tutorial that they made or know of
that will help me learn how to do a scissor spin? Please put
a link here. :bowdown:

check the master threads listing..

I did.
It is just my luck, the vids. had been removed or they were for widows media player (I have a mac) does anyone else have a current vid????

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I'll add more if I find anymore

thanks alot. :clap: :clap:

Scissor spin really isn't such a hard trick, if you're a fairly good spinner (fundamentals, reverses + backaround,shadow) you should be able to get it just by watching one vid.

And before starting the spin with your middle sort of swing the pen back so it gets some momentum.

I'm going to merge this into the master thread scissor spin thread now.

WOW I made this thread almost a year ago. But yeah I realized that the trick I wanted to learn was kind of like a scissor spin, but it was harmonic (Is there such a trick?). I don't know how to explain it cause I haven't seen the video in over a year. All I remember is that I wanted to learn it badly lol.

The name harmonic is only used when referring to a combo of a trick in the normal direction + a trick in the reverse direction.

Example:
Shadow Normal 12-12 > Shadow Reverse 12-12 = Shadow Normal Harmonic 12
...it might just be easier to list both of the tricks as is. :D

Easier example:
Indexaround Normal > Indexaround Reverse = Indexaround Normal Harmonic

Ya I know that. I'm wondering if the scissor spin can be harmonic. I've seen a trick similar to it but I don't know the name. If you think you know what trick I'm talking about can you tell me what it's called? or post a vid of it. Thanks

The only think I can think of a scissor spin harmonic being is a Scissor Spin > Reverse Tap with a weird catch.

I gave a description of what I believe to be the Reverse of the Scissor Spin on the Scissor Spin article on PSConclave.

i diddnt want to post on the old topic and everyone get mad <_< but i checked it out and couldnt find anything useful like all the websites diddnt work. so if someone could post a breakdown or a vid or both it would be appericated.
( if i should post on the scissor spin thread just lock this )

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this is neobak 12-12 -> scissor spin

the video should be self explanatory. You basically do a scissor motion with your 1 and 2 :)

so you flick it with your middle finger throu your index?

I don't know what that means but you move your index away and middle towards the palm while keeping your thumb out of the way. The middle finger flick seems to have the most effect with this trick. I learned it intuitively by just trying a couple of times. I have not mastered it, however.

so when i push with the middle finger it goes around the index instead of spinning on the thumb

the pen never goes AROUND index. You push with your middle and help with your index a bit and after that it should spin like doing a half-tap (or full-tap). Use your thumb for catching only

no, when i flick it with my middle and extend my index i move my hand clockwise (when using my left hand) and it just doesnt stop i spins around the index lol
like im doing a neo-bak 12-12 to IA

then dont move your hand? try to keep you hand still im guessing

@Nameless: unlike the rest of the board, the Master List was made so that people can find and ask questions in single threads that hold the info on a particular trick/combo, even if that means reviving it every once and a while. Since there are so many trick threads and a non-working search function here, the thread was made to stop repetitive threads on a single subject.
Threads Merged.

@Nameless again: I don't really understand what you are doing to make the pen do a Neo Sonic motion, that's quite wrong. Here's a step-by-step:

- Hold your hand out in front of you, your fingers should be positioned vertically, the palm of your hand should be facing you.
- Put the pen between the Index and Middle fingers. The pen should now be perpendicular to your fingers with one end pointing towards you. The COP needs to be on the inside of the hand.
- Keep your Thumb tucked in against the palm of your hand, this will keep it out of the way of the pen.

- With both fingers fairly straight, pull the Index finger away from you and pull the Middle finger towards you. This will make a scissor-like motion (hence the name of the trick) that will rotate the pen up and around the inside the Index finger.

- As the pen moves over the Index finger, the first 0.5 rotation is complete, it should look like the first half of an Indexaround Normal with the pen going on top of the Index finger.

- Let the pen rotate another 0.5 rotation on top of the Index finger. As the pen starts its top spin, lift up your Thumb a bit to support the back of the pen as it swings around. This will result in a Halftap-like motion. Just catch the pen like you would a normal Halftap, between the Thumb and Index finger.

- That's all there is to it. When first starting, you may have to really pull the Middle finger in the get the pen over the Index finger and into a position to allow it to do the top spin.