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- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -3/+74That's because they're willing to practice while we westerners give up on anything we aren't instantly good at.
- nosferatu, on 10/12/2007, -8/+77why do we even try to excel at anything... the japanese already have us beaten.
- toasty168, on 10/12/2007, -1/+48nuclear bomb?
- rprins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24That music was pretty hardcore for pen spinning. Wonder if that's how they get pumped up before the go out pen spinning.
- revmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22and that, my friends, is what happens when you eat with chopsticks for your whole life.
- huhwhathuh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15i think they're using cheat codes
- SundayTrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Yes..
- 4ooFdvr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19How did our grandparents ever win the war?
- vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Much love for the penspinners...
Spinners of the world unite!
http://www.pentrix.com/ - wheel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9And here I thought it was cool that I could do the thumb spin ONE time. Thirteen and a half kind of makes my skills pale in comparison.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Watching that makes me REALLY want to pop my knuckles...
- ExtraCheez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Japanese are hardcore, I like how they cited the pen models used.
- lordhidetora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f299/1337punk/pencil.gif
thats the best i can do....>.>> - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Sort of bugs me that it has to be labelled "Japanese". I can do most of the tricks shown. It doesn't take practice: just years upon years of boredom. Or of course practice, which is probably what those in the video did.
- DoctorNo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You'd notice those master penspinners didn't have short chubby fingers like myself.
- pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I guess chopsticks are just practice.
- sven007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6it took my forever to get a pen flick, and i was so proud. now, i just suck lol
- DaveyDeadite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5so thats where boris from goldeneye learned that trick.
"I AM INVINCIBLE!" - NomenNescio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5After seeing that vid, I grabbed the closest pen near me and started training.
I need to improve my micro, and it's really awesome ^_^ - jaredpierce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5While it is true that all Japanese people are ninjas, it is not inherent, they train diligently to become ninjas.
- myFriendDerrik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I saw an elf do that at a rave once. Then I realized it wasn't an elf but a cat, and that I wasn't at a rave but the back parking lot of a target store...and had a drug addiction.
j/k
dugg for the music. - pinky24, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4lol, I was bored in math class, so I learned the pen twirl...
this totally gets my digg, makes me want to learn some combo's - Zique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is what happens when you spend your saturdays in shcool.
- arthurbarnhouse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Every policy debator in america is drooling at this video.
- blazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been trying to pen-spin for just over a month now and watching this makes me cry :(
But I guess amateur pen-spinning to pass the time in class is fun even if you suck.
Just wish I could bend my damn pinky without my ring finger following suit. - Canthros, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@CircleFusion: A ground invasion would probably have meant fighting the Japanese to almost the last man, woman, and child. Casualties were 7:1, Japanese:American, on Okinawa. Estimates placed US casualties incurred during a ground invasion in the hundreds of thousands (the most optimistic estimates Wikipedia offers are around 100,000 Allied casualties, and they run as high as 1.7 million). Japanese casualties would have been far, far higher. Non-combatant deaths in the region (if Wikipedia is to be believed) were around 200,000 every month that the war continued. The faster timetable for an Allied ground invasion of Japan was 90 days. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, directly and indirectly, appear to have killed well less than 300,000.
The hard, hard fact of war, *any* war, is that your choices are often between the awful and the terrible. In such a case, the immorality of destroying a few hundred thousand lives in a terrible instant and its lingering aftermath have to be weighed against the immorality of letting the war drag on, or committing to a ground invasion, and the many hundreds of thousands that would probably have been killed or died as a result of that course of action.
The use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Japan was terrible, and awful. But, by the information history has seen fit to provide us, it appears to have been the best available solution to the war in the Pacific theater. - skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What, you don't remember the big pen-spinning scene, with the spin-off between Maverick and Iceman? It was riveting.
- skankyBacon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How about no?
- godmode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3greatest masturbators on the planet
- grooviekenn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So this is what they used to do before there was YouTube!?!?!
- protocoI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, the Pentel RSVP MX mod wasn't made by Japan, it was invented by Kam of Pentrix fame, who lives in California.
And my self-esteem goes a little lower for knowing that. Sigh. - boohoo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13they try to overachive at everything, to compensate for their tiny wienies.
- Mace37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's the Japanese DragonForce!
Man, I think I figured out the secret to doing the long spinning tricks. It's just get a really long pen, I can do some stuff but nothing like this. - richpav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I used to teach in junior high schools in Japan. There are lots and lots of kids who spin their pens on top of their thumb or forefinger (I forget which), but the spinners on that video have superhuman dexterity.
That's why they're on the video, you see. A video of everyday average spinners would be boring. - gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2choosing most appropriate music for pen spinning is a key component to why im digging this story
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1uuddlrlrba start!
- jay0312, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Haha, that's a freaking penspinning clan!
- georgemoore13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pen spinning and flipping is really popular high school debate. I don't really know why....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A little better than Amercam Pen Spinning.
/sarcasm - Codee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone gets that good, at the job, should get fired.
- o0uN0watEiz0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Boondoggle
Japanese TV is more entertaining than American TV...all we have is a bunch of reality show rip offs. come to think of it...today TV shows just plain suck... - mz00m, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm just amazed that they used my favorite song as the background music...
- Dyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The fact that Japanese people are doing it?
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Link to music anyone?
- NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That was better then any of the WALKER video combined
Now I am off to teach myself how to be that dam spiffy with a pen.
Jaw dropping to the end.
WOW - JooRocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its finally nice to see penspinning get some exposure. This has always been one of my favorite vids. I've been spinning for about two months now and I can do a good amount of tricks. Pentrix is sorta dead. The active forum is www.ucpsb.co.nr
- Guspaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Errm, a former coworker of mine used to do all that stuff absentmindedly without thinking while trying to concentrate. It's neat, yeah, but I'm not so sure about how impressive it is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What exactly makes it japanese?
- xxx420xxx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh it's impressive... like curing cancer
- lilrabbit129, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually you're right. By using chopsticks, certain muscles in your hand are quite a bit stronger (that's why if you're not used to it, eating for chopsticks makes your hand hurt after a little while). That being said, its not guranteed that just by using chopsticks you'll be able to do these tricks, it just helps.
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