Hello, spinners!
Alex Sukhov is here and today I want to show you 2 good pen mods and try to compare them
in different aspects.
I hope this video would help you to choose one of them if you think about such choice
and I know many of you really do, for the rest of you this video would be pretty interesting
anyway, so get yourself a nice cup of tea and watch carefully.
If you already have both or only one of these mods – leave a comment below this video
with your opinion about them.
If you are just at the very beginning of your journey into the Deep World of Pen Spinning,
there is no need to pick both mods in your first order together and later I will tell
you why.
Surely you can order these or any other mods wherever you live from PenStock.net, we have
delivery all over the world and it is really easy to get goods for pen spinners from there
– a lot of penmods, spair parts to fix your mods or make them look individually, or maybe
even create totally new mods out of different spair parts.
Waterfall and Flying Panda have 3 things in common:
1) pretty big pieces of grips on their caps.
Waterfall has expensive Dr. Grip grips and Flying Panda – cheaper, but still nice and
good looking and feeling tornado grips. 2) Both have Reynold’s 094 caps, which are
pretty rarely used in modding nowadays, 3) And Signo tips in them, these are commonly
used tips, you can see them in plenty mods.
The main difference in them is their bodies.
Flying Panda is based on Crayola Super Tips – universal popular body, which is used
in many good penmods and Waterfall – on a Super Pirat body, which is not so popular,
but I personally like this body pretty much and prefer it instead of Comssa.
Many people, mostly newbies make a big mistake while looking on Flying Panda mod, they think
it is pretty similar to Tornado mod which is completely wrong.
Yeah both of them use similar grips, which you can’t see so often, but please remember,
they have nothing in common at all.
In all aspects except the grips these mods differ from each other like day and night.
Flying Panda – is one of the best choices for noobs, Tornado – one of the worst choices
for noobs.
OK, hope we are clear here.
Anyway, Flying Panda is much closer to Waterfall than to any other mods, though it could seem
doubtful at the first glance.
Design, that’s a subjective aspect, isn’t it?
As well as all the other aspects for that matter, lol.
Both mods have pretty long pieces of grips as I told before.
Dr. Grip grip on Waterfall is a little bit shorter, than Tornado grip on Flying Panda,
but still it is much longer than grips on most other mods.
It is very handy when you do wipers, but in case of Flying Panda these grips take a little
bit too much of the mod’s length and it reduces momentum, compared to Waterfall, where
the grips are a bit shorter and placed more at the ends of mod.
Despite of it’s light weight, Waterfall is 16 gramm, Flying Panda – 16.4 gr, despite
of this Waterfall spins easier.
Sure, both mods as well as all the others need some time from you to get used to them,
but good momentum of Waterfall – that’s what you will feel from the first freestyle
with it.
Probably thin and light body of Waterfall – Super Pirat also helps it to get better
momentum.
It is a good body, feels great and makes the mod look consonant and elegant.
Waterfall looks like how the mod should look.
I have made a separate video about it – check out in the description under this video on
YouTube.
I really like it’s simple design, at the same time it doesn’t look plain and simple
or cheap.
Flying Panda also looks nice.
Tornado grips make it look a bit individually, as I told before you wouldn’t see them to
much in pen modding, though I don’t really know why, these grips look and feel awesome.
Yeah, they are a bit lighter than Airfit or Dr Grip grips, a bit softer than them, but
still – nice alternative to those 2.
Nevertheless if you look closely you can notice slight similarity of Flying Panda with a barbell,
lol.
No, really, I can’t stop seeing barbell in this mod, I like it, but…
Waterfall has 2 edges at the ends of working space, Flying Panda – only 1, maybe the
point is somewhere there, I don’t know.
And Crayola Super Tips body, which is one of the most popular bodies for penmods, maybe
it is even the most popular body of all.
It is much more universal, has average thickness and there is much more chances, that you will
like it and it is more than can be said about Waterfall.
I like Super Pirat, but many people don’t share this feeling with me for some reasons.
It much less universal, some may find it too thin, doesn’t matter, what I want to say
– there is a quiet bigger chance that you wouldn’t like this barrel.
Any way there is bigger chance that you will not be pleased with this barrel than with
Crayola, especially if you don’t really like thin barrels like Comssa.
Flying Panda has a little bigger working space – 10.6 cm against 10.0-10.2 cm of Waterfall’s.
Both sizes are good and will serve you just fine.
Length of mods – that’s what you also might dislike in Waterfall, it is 20.5 cm
long, which is not so much, not enough for many pen spinners, Flying Panda is 21.5 cm
– and it is a golden mean for penmod’s length.
The price – Dr. Grip grips and Super Pirat cost more than Crayola Super Tips and Tornado
grips, it makes Waterfall cost more than Flying Panda.
You may see the slight difference in price if you lay both mods in front of you and take
a good look at them, when you take and spin them, you can see and feel that Flying Panda
is more, how to say, coarse than classy Waterfall.
But probably this difference wouldn’t be noticed by noobs.
They will get the very same pleasure out of both mods and for them I would recommend to
choose Flying Panda, it is a better choice if you only start your journey into the Deep
World of Pen Spinning.
For more experienced guys, who can show some stuff with mods I would recommend to take
a closer look at Waterfall and give it a try.
It is a good mod, you can perform power and jep tricks with it, it wouldn’t harm your
fingers and wrist.
A lot of people call Waterfall one of their favorites, at the same time many people stop
spinning Flying Panda as the time passes, only few of them stay with this mod as they
reach advanced level of pen spinning.
Anyway – the choice is up to you, I just tell my own opinion, it is very subjective
and serves to give you some expression of 2 great my favorite penmods.
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May the style be with you, bye!