UPSB v3
General Discussion / PenSpinning Action Sport
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Date: Tue, Aug 19 2008 02:54:21
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sports/o...amp;oref=slogin
Yo-yo World Contest preview article in the New York Times. Is there really that much of a difficulty level between yo-yoing and penspinning that the Penspinning World Cup isn't mentioned in places like this? When I read this article, they might as well be talking about penspinning. Any thoughts to why the art of spinning the pen isn't as well known as yo-yoing. Are we not as appealing.
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Date: Tue, Aug 19 2008 02:58:34
Well thats like a live event with people coming from multiple countries to participate, and also yo-yoing is more entertaining to a broader audience than penspinning.
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Date: Tue, Aug 19 2008 03:06:46
live event and yo-yo has been around (and more popular) far longer...
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Date: Tue, Aug 19 2008 04:25:54
Well...i bet that in time pen spinning would become just as popular....
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Date: Thu, Aug 21 2008 22:34:36
I think that in penspinning, with advanced tricks it is difficult for a spectator to differentiate between similar tricks, so it might be boring to watch and more of a novelty than a sport... However, in Yo-yoing it's easy to tell the difference between all the tricks that I've ever seen.
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Date: Thu, Aug 21 2008 22:45:14
like everyone else has basically said,
yoyoing = more appealing to an audience
whereas penspinning is more subtle and done in class when you're bored
it's like in that one show that sfsr was on ("something" Got Talent? or something along those lines)....even though he spun decently and busted out 2p2h, the judges still weren't impressed cause they had stuff a little focus to concentrate on..
and even if you include aerials and headstalls and whatnot, it's just simply not enough cause the pen is such a small object to focus on
in cases of entertaining an audience, it may be better to use a hugeee stick instead of a pen, something that is normally frowned upon on upsb
it's like that other guy who passed that round, who was boton (<--sp? it doesn't look right -.-'' ) twirling
i don't want to assume that his tricks were mroe simple than the tricks in penspinning since i have never tried it myself...but to me..it just looked like he was tossing the thing up and down and walking around (but then again, that kind of attitude is probably used to view ps as well) -
Date: Fri, Aug 22 2008 13:49:02
Back in high school my friends told me to enter the talent show with pen spinning, but like -JC- pointed out, it's just too difficult for a large audience to focus on a small object like a pen. The people in the back would essentially just see you moving your hand slightly from time to time, and it would get boring, really fast.
With the yo yo, the tricks with a higher degree of difficulty that you perform actually look difficult to the audience. With pen spinning (especially if you're a fast spinner) everything basically looks the exact same to the untrained eye.
Hell, just recently I was spinning in a restaurant. I was doing incredibly basic tricks, pretty much just fundamentals and variants and even then my mom said that it looked like I've been practicing a lot. -
Date: Fri, Aug 22 2008 20:10:48QUOTE (Clam @ Aug 22 2008, 12:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I think that in penspinning, with advanced tricks it is difficult for a spectator to differentiate between similar tricks, so it might be boring to watch and more of a novelty than a sport... However, in Yo-yoing it's easy to tell the difference between all the tricks that I've ever seen.
ditto
remember sfsr's vid from "talang"?
i don't think psing is really entertaining to non-psers. maybe some crazy aerials and arm rolls, knee bounces... >_>