I don’t care where you learned it or how. It seems that at some point, there was probably an Asian involved, wasn’t there? Pen twirling that is. Don’t deny it. You were in awe when you first saw it and you just gaped at the defiance of gravity as the pens just went back and forth and all over the place. You never knew pens could be fun, yet the person doing it looked bored and was probably studying.
Now, there’s a new pen, specially crafted for the art of twirling. It’s balanced, and has colorful LEDs and has different styles depending on what type of pen-twirling you do. PENmawashi was developed by champion pen twirler, Hideaki, and you probably don’t care but you know that you really really want one. Especially after watching the video and head-banging to that hard rock piece that accompanies it.
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Akrypti wrote:
Actually, the first time my class-time attention zoned in on a twirling pen was in high school AP Calculus, performed by a scrawny Jewish guy sitting in the front row. It was like magic, like you said. The pen defied gravity. Imagine my delight when several years later I learned this trick has been widely attributed to Asian people. Us? Oh yeah. The great discoverers of spaghetti, ketchup, bubble tea, and now pen twirling.
Posted on 25-Mar-08 at 10:50 am | Permalink
yoshi wrote:
I honestly don’t remember when I first started twirling pens…i guess when i was in gradeschool. LOL Nah, couldn’t have been that long ago. But wow, I want this pen!
LOL I love it!
Posted on 25-Mar-08 at 12:55 pm | Permalink
cheekyricegirl wrote:
that video rocks! that dude was doing pen-twirling that i’ve never seen before! i’m not impressed with the “light-show,” though — the pens look cool and all, but teeny microscopic bulbs made it look pretty pathetic.
i only know one of the pen-twirling moves on that vid. i’m going to have to work on those other ones to get even more asian cred!
now that i think about it, having gone to law school in one of the whitest, reddest states in the country, i think i was one of the very few pen-twirlers in my classes. as opposed to when i took math in high school, where there would be seas and seas of pen-twirlers like me.
asians just totally rock.
Posted on 25-Mar-08 at 1:34 pm | Permalink
Julie wrote:
Dude, in high school I felt like a defective Asian because all my Asian classmates knew how to twirl pens and I didn’t. Watching that video just brought back all those feelings of inadequacy…
Posted on 26-Mar-08 at 8:26 pm | Permalink