alrigh well im learning the basketball spin righ now and need some answers
1. how many spins is the minimum basketball spin
2. which fingers does it land in
3. where shouidl ur fingers be next to the cop?
4. can someone show me a vid

There is a vid on penstudioz http://www.geocities.com/shawn_tohlz/videos.html#hosted
I know #2 is 23

i think it spins a minimum of 1 spin and like it goes from 12-23

I did one in my challenge video with 003


Standard spin is 1.0
Starts from 12 and lands in 23
Start in ta reverse position and pass it onto the top of your middle finger,

When I do it, the cop should be left from the index finger, that is if you're starting in ta reverse position.

video in a sec

Bbal Spin 1.0
http://chanman123.googlepages.com/MVI_1531.avi

that video is correct ;)

got any tips on bringing the pen up to the tip of the middle finger?

thanks chanman ima try to do it now
what i was doing wrong was that in starting position my thumb was under the pen(if that makes sense) so now ima try to do it in ta reverse position
i ll post a vid if a master it :lol:

Chanman's video helped me alot. I just need to know a bit more to understand how its done.

Does the pen always spin on the tip of your finger? (In chanman's video, it spun on 2 if I'm correct)

Is it a basketball spin if it does this:

Hold the pen between 12 like your going to do an index around. Spin it like an index around, but instead of the pen going around the index it spins on top of it (on the finger pad). After 1 rotation (can be done also with .5 rotations or 1+) the pen is caught in the starting position between 12. It never goes around the index or any other finger.

If it is not a basketball spin, what is it?

basketball spin goes clockwise, and indexaround goes counter, so just hold it like reverse index around and it spins on the middle finger, i think the default spins on the middle finger, the tip, and lands in 23

Is this what you're talking about Flip? I believe this is the index variation of sidespin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMZ1mNYADTU

When you're doing it, it usually spins on your middle finger with the index finger aiding it.

meaning that your pinky, ring, are usually stretched back while your index and middle are close together, not too close though.


But sometimes I can get a good spin right on my middle.


It's just how I do it.

Ya that is what I am talking about. Mine usually spin on the tip of the finger instead of the side though. You said that is a sidespin variation, so whats a normal side spin and other variations?


To keep this post on subject, is there a finger push (what finger if yes) with the basketball spin or is it just with wrist motion? I couldnt really tell from the video. Also, is the pen spinning on the tip of the finger or the finger pad?

Sidespin .5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyoK9UMDzM

There's middle and ring variations. I'm not sure about pinky.

What makes basketball spin 1.0 different than inverse shadow 12-23 minus the half charge?

There is a .5 spin on the tip of the middle finger while you are turning your middle finger upwards.
Then there is a .5 spin on the tip of the middle finger.
And then you catch pen. (0 rotations)

Total # of rotations for Basketball Spin : 1

The difference between them is that Inverse Shadow 12-23 minus the half charge spins lower towards the middle finger.

the spin axis is totally different, in shadow the spin is parallel to your fingers.

The BasketballSpin depends very much on the balance of the pen during the spin on the fingers and that by itself, is a delicate maneuver. I probably cannot provide any useful advice since I didn't really went through the process of learning it (kinda got it figured out quite long ago).

The following are videos of the BasketballSpin which I hope are of sufficient quality to be helpful.
http://files.filefront.com/25_Basketball_S...;/fileinfo.html
http://files.filefront.com/25_Basketball_S...;/fileinfo.html

Here are all vids I have of the BasketBall Spin:

BasketBall Spin 2.0 by Zombo
BasketBall Spin Double Transfer 12-23-34
BasketBall Spin "Tutorial" by Zombo
BasketBall Spin 2.0 by Le_Pub

It's almost like a pass, expect that in a regular pass, the pen is perpendicular to your fingers, but in this trick, the pen is pushed with a pass motion but parallel to the fingers. That of course means you can't catch it like a pass. But you don't want to.

The real trick to this trick is getting the pen to spin exactly at its cop.

Yeah, that's hard. Thanks a lot Ivan. Zombo's tutorial helped me a lot and I can roughly do a shitty one. Not only that, I now know what PJs Zombo wears.

If I could find my basketball spin tutorial on my junk computer, I'd post it. Once I finally get that iSight, I'll just record another! :)

Please do.

you guys are lucky i had this basketball spin video lying around:

http://www.packageshare.com/video/view.php...8fcb59976c7769b

if it doesn't work in firefox, try internet explorer

if it doesnt work in internet explorer, try clicking "download this video" near the bottom of the page

if you can't view the video you may need to get xvid here : http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

http://chanman123.googlepages.com/MVI_1531.avi