I wanted to learn how to do this for years and this week after six hours of
practice I was finally able to land the thumb around pretty consistently while
filming this video I learned that this skill goes incredibly deep with an
entire community dedicated to doing crazy pen spinning moves like this this
and this but to keep it simple I decided to learn one of the most basic pen
spinning tricks the thumb around this is the one that you've probably seen people
do at school or work or wherever people spend pens around their thumbs as you
will soon find out I came into this skill with way too much confidence and
as usual documented the whole process so you can see the failures and successes
that I had along the way and maybe learn a thing or two I decided to come outside
today and do this scale outside because I'm just so tired of being inside all
the time so I'm thinking we can get like three four or maybe even five pen skills
mastered today I have no idea but I'm feeling pretty confident that actually
doesn't look too too hard pen spinning attempt number one
the goal is for this is so much harder than I was expecting
come on hey that was pretty close I
think it's all about the fella but the catch right now well and release oh look
at that beauty
which is just great sometimes so this point there wasn't a whole lot of action
going on but there were a couple big mistakes I was making that I wanted to
point out one thing that I was doing totally wrong here was flipping the pen
with both my finger and thumb I thought I had to do that to get the Pens
spinning properly but what you really want to do is keep
your thumb as straight as possible and flip the pen around it with your middle
finger
just one come on just give me one I was also doing the trick completely wrong
rather than throwing the pin around my finger I was kind of throwing it up and
catching it still at school but that means that this doesn't really count yes
yes yes oh that feels good it's totally okay to feel stoked about it though just
finally making progress what I love about days like these is that I've been
planning to learn how to spin a pen on my finger since like high school there's
a couple kids who could do it and our grade I thought it was cool but I've
never really gone for it and then now I've spent like an hour and a half just
focusing on it and like I'm getting decent and I think by the end of today
I'm gonna get pretty good I don't know that's awesome
getting pretty cold out there so I decided to come back inside and also my
fingers were getting to the point where they were like I'm pretty sure less
dexterous than if they were warm also right now with this initial move I feel
like I'm doing more of a throw it and catch it and then like a roll over the
thumb at this point I started messing around with a number of different ponies
watching a bunch of tutorials and was slowly getting better I do find that the
larger pens are easier oh yeah alright the sound of the pen falling was getting
very annoying so laying this shirt down that doesn't work
it's really interesting how much just sitting back and taking a break from
something when you're getting frustrated how big of an impact that can have on
your ability to learn something I've been doing this for a long time but I
still get a lot of moments of frustration when I'm learning a new
skill which you know it's kind of part of it but you can avoid those feelings
learning becomes a lot more enjoyable
you can learn a lot faster too
by the end of the first day I had spent about five hours total practicing my
fingers were legitimately sore but I was able to land about one in every five
attempts not as good as I thought was gonna happen that day or maybe even five
and skills mastered today it's still something over the next couple days
while editing this video actually I continued to practice and as we speak I
can land the pen tricks about 75% of the time which honestly is very satisfying
all right as far as takeaways go for this episode I think the very first
thing is I've linked a tutorial that I found was really helpful my favorite
tutorial of all the ones that I watched down in the description below a couple
of the things that was missing that tutorials I think that using bigger and
heavier pins is really helpful and making sure that when you're starting
out at least that you're throwing the pen with the heavier side down and then
as I mentioned earlier on in the video making sure that you're not like
flicking the pin with both your finger and your thumb and just kind of doing
like a flick motion with your middle finger and letting the pen wrap around
your thumb unfortunately a lot of this just comes down to spending time on it
and being patient I'm sure many of you are gonna be able to learn this quicker
than I did especially if you focus on keeping your thumb straight flicking it
with your middle finger using a heavier Pony and trying to manage your
expectations so you don't get super frustrated after like an hour of working
on this anyways thanks for watching hope you enjoyed and we'll see in the next
video