Good afternoon, slinky people.
Slinky Josh here.
Today I will be showing you one of the fundamental moves in slinky manipulation,
something I like to call The Energy Beam.
The first thing you're going to want to do
is grab the bottom 2 or 3 coils with your hand, just like that.
Get a nice firm grip on it.
Do the same thing with the top 2 or 3 coils.
And then, you're going to whip this hand, the top hand,
in an arc.
Up, and down, like that.
The bottom hand is going to stay exactly where it is.
It's not going to move at all, at first.
So, I will whip this hand in an arc.
*WHOOTSCHH*
Now when I whip this top hand down, without doing anything with the other hand,
the slinky wants to move back, in the other direction, the way it came from.
So, what I'm going to do
is at the exact moment that it WANTS to bounce back,
I'm going to give it the SLIGHTEST little tug, with this hand.
Back that way.
Observe.
So here it is: the whip, and I'll pull it .
Now,
all you've got to do is keep that going.
From one side to the other.
I'll pull it back in the other direction
and all I'm doing
is PULLING.
I'm never PUSHING the slinky.
I can only PULL it,
and give it a little extra momentum in the direction that it WANTS to move.
Now you may find yourself doing something like this:
and getting really frustrated and wondering why it's not working.
Well,
if you're having trouble getting the right FREQUENCY down,
try going SLOWER.
Go as slow as the slinky can go.
And notice that my arms - my hands - are on the same level plane.
My hands aren't moving up and down, like this.
They're only moving side to side.
I'm just giving the slightest little tug with my wrist.
And then, once you've got this down,
which will take a lot of practice,
you can start incorporating flicks of the wrist,
moving your wrist up and down, like this.
As you're pulling the slinky.
And you can start throwing in all kinds of different motions there
and what that will do
is create a motion like this.
And from there it's all practice.
It's just practice.
I was NOT good at this when I first picked it up.
ANYBODY can do this,
it's just a matter of having the PATIENCE to get through the period where you suck.
Because you're gonna suck at first.
So, grab a slinky,
have nothing else to do for a couple hours,
and just practice doing this
over and over and over, until you can get it this smooth.
Thanks for watching, everybody, and stay tuned for more slinky tutorials.
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