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Swespin + UPSB

  1. Eso
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 02:36:41

    October 11th, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a lot of fun meeting with Swespin members, especially fellow Genesis member Sfsr. His spinning in real life is just as awesome as it is on video. I gave a few freebies and received some as well! Thanks Sfsr!


    General Summary:
    11:00 - Met at some big open area. Waited for Sfsr and Spinz and one more person. Went inside the train station. Sat on some stairs. A security guard told us to not block the stairway. Sfsr came. Sfsr explained pen spinning to 2 security guards at the train station.

    Some time later - Walked to the art store to buy pens. It wasn't open until 12:00 I believe. We were waiting for only 5 minutes. Some people bought some HGGs and Tombows, I believe. I bought nothing. After leaving the store, one of the employees from the store went after Sfsr to ask more about pen spinning. He bought a Comssa from Sfsr.

    Some more time later - We walked to Kungshallen, a food court. We all went downstairs and after 15 minutes, found some tables large enough for all of us. It was really packed. After eating, we showed off a little spinning and cubing. We had a cubing contest to see who would finish first. Sfsr got first, I got last. It wasn't timed.

    Even more time later - We took a train to some other area of Stockholm and walked a long ways to this one particular cafe. Why this one, I don't know. Sfsr wanted to go there. We walked in and went downstairs to a cafe looking area, while upstairs looked like a 50's era styled diner. Sfsr opened his Mac and logged onto UPSB. Small lulz were had by me and Sfsr. Sfsr showed off his pens. I gave away some copies of the Penmawashi Oh DVD. Sfsr played the DVD to show people. I also showed some Japanese books on pen spinning to everyone. I took pictures and filmed some combos. Around 16:00 people had to leave. So we all went back to the train station. I got off at the same stop as Sfsr, Cawibo, and yomanne. Shook hands, hugged and said our goodbyes.


    Here are some pics....


    Spoiler:


    Group picture... I don't really know who the other people are. Sfsr will have to point them out. The Asian looking kid on the right is Spinz, though.


    Not at the gathering, but something interesting... I found a cola named Ubuntu!


    A close up of the Ubuntu can.


    Meeting with Sfsr before the gathering.


    Waiting for people while Sfsr talks with some members of Swespin.


    We first went to this food court and got some food. I was hungry so I went to this place called Taco Bar and got this. Looks weird. It was alright.


    Sfsr holding some pens and making a face.


    Sfsr brought some of his stuff, including a cube, pens, and PDS case.


    Not sure who they are. Help, Sfsr!


    Not sure who they are. Help, Sfsr!




    Video:

  2. Zombo
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 02:38:02

    ahahahah the kid has a MULLET!

    that Taco (???) thing looks disgusting.

    ironic that he successfully attends a gathering far away yet the gathering close to home failed...

  3. luke
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 02:39:45

    swespin people are sexy

  4. Glamouraz
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 02:41:43

    Wow.. thats a hell lot of comssas!

    Lol ubunto.. Cola by linux whose OS didn't work too well and decided to make a cola instead?

  5. Sfsr
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 07:51:06

    Ahaha, that one picture of me...

    Anyway, it was so much fun meeting you, Eso! smile.gif I kind of mess up the names of the SweSpinners too, but I think it's like this: (first picture, from left to right) Zarklon, Cawibo (top), yomanne (bottom), Eso, LotusWing, Sfsr, Gluppen, Spinz. The Ubuntu cola is "fair trade" cola, so it's produced with fair wages and all to all the people involved in the production, instead of companies like Coca-Cola paying almost nothing to the people producing the ingredients (?). Something like that.

    edit: it was fun meeting you too of course, Lotus Wing! tongue.gif And all the SweSpinners who attended.

  6. R Heng
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 23:03:22

    QUOTE (Sfsr @ Oct 13 2008, 12:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Ahaha, that one picture of me...

    Anyway, it was so much fun meeting you, Eso! smile.gif I kind of mess up the names of the SweSpinners too, but I think it's like this: (first picture, from left to right) Zarklon, Cawibo (top), yomanne (bottom), Eso, LotusWing, Sfsr, Gluppen, Spinz. The Ubuntu cola is "fair trade" cola, so it's produced with fair wages and all to all the people involved in the production, instead of companies like Coca-Cola paying almost nothing to the people producing the ingredients (?). Something like that.

    edit: it was fun meeting you too of course, Lotus Wing! tongue.gif And all the SweSpinners who attended.

    communist cola?

  7. l3east
    Date: Mon, Oct 13 2008 23:16:41

    dam i wish there was lots of spinners here theres not even 1 -.-

  8. xxdefinitionxx
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 01:53:19



    you met sfsr in an alley?

  9. LotusWing
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 02:53:43

    QUOTE (Sfsr @ Oct 13 2008, 09:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Ahaha, that one picture of me...

    Anyway, it was so much fun meeting you, Eso! smile.gif I kind of mess up the names of the SweSpinners too, but I think it's like this: (first picture, from left to right) Zarklon, Cawibo (top), yomanne (bottom), Eso, LotusWing, Sfsr, Gluppen, Spinz. The Ubuntu cola is "fair trade" cola, so it's produced with fair wages and all to all the people involved in the production, instead of companies like Coca-Cola paying almost nothing to the people producing the ingredients (?). Something like that.

    edit: it was fun meeting you too of course, Lotus Wing! tongue.gif And all the SweSpinners who attended.


    hehe tongue.gif it was fun meeting you too Sfsr, and of course all the SweSpinners who attended.

  10. Glamouraz
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 03:04:46

    wow Eso, you look like one of my friends from my school who graduated last year.

  11. K4S
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 04:43:11

    bwahhh Im jealous eso sad.gif Looks like you had a lot of fun...i've always wanted to go to sweden.

  12. Sfsr
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 07:49:21

    QUOTE (xxdefinitionxx @ Oct 14 2008, 03:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    you met sfsr in an alley?

    I live in the gutter there sad.gif

    QUOTE (K4S @ Oct 14 2008, 06:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    bwahhh Im jealous eso sad.gif Looks like you had a lot of fun...i've always wanted to go to sweden.

    I don't see anything holding you back smile.gif

  13. WhiteFang
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 09:09:06

    where did you get that spinz t-shirt?

  14. Sfsr
    Date: Tue, Oct 14 2008 16:29:06

    QUOTE (WhiteFang @ Oct 14 2008, 11:09 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    where did you get that spinz t-shirt?

    from a box ssst.gif

  15. Eso
    Date: Wed, Oct 15 2008 06:42:33

    Video clip is up!

  16. Glamouraz
    Date: Wed, Oct 15 2008 07:00:41

    Wow, stockholm is nice.

    Dathroat? Cool i just met him yesterday.

  17. LotusWing
    Date: Wed, Oct 15 2008 07:57:53

    Yay the video is up!

    The gathering was indeed fun and and the penspinners were great.
    Stockholm is really a nice city, and surely it won't be my last time visiting Stockholm. wink.gif

  18. Clyde Cazeñas
    Date: Wed, Oct 15 2008 09:29:26

    Haha. Eso and LotusWing finally met lol...and is Spinz=Kool Spinz? or another guy?

    Edit: and yeah, HGG's aren't discontinued dry.gif There are HGG's here in Philippines

  19. LotusWing
    Date: Wed, Oct 15 2008 09:33:24

    QUOTE (Clyde Cazeñas @ Oct 15 2008, 11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Haha. Eso and LotusWing finally met lol...and is Spinz=Kool Spinz? or another guy?



    hehe happy.gif

    Spinz is a Swedish penspinner
    Kool Spinz is a Vietnamese penspinner

  20. Zombo
    Date: Thu, Oct 16 2008 12:25:59

    cant hear anything at the end!!!

    and wtf sfsr u dont remember the name of all the members of ur team!! omggg

    and is everybody just tall or is lotuswing just short smile.gif

  21. LotusWing
    Date: Thu, Oct 16 2008 12:55:26

    QUOTE (Zombo @ Oct 16 2008, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    cant hear anything at the end!!!

    and wtf sfsr u dont remember the name of all the members of ur team!! omggg

    and is everybody just tall or is lotuswing just short smile.gif



    lol... I am just short ssst.gif

  22. Sfsr
    Date: Thu, Oct 16 2008 12:57:34

    straight people hear everything in the vid zumbo =D I'm saying like "it would've been fun, I mean, Eriror, next time you can come up here, it's not so far... or I can come to USA some time" and then we're like "yeah let's do some spinning" and "we drop a lot", "we suck" and the guy who's filming is asking in Swedish if he can turn it of at the end.

    and nope, I barely even remember half of them. but we were saying them in alphabetical order and taking turns saying the names so we had a list to go by, and I didn't know who was up next.


    showing penspinning to that random guy and selling a ComSsa to him was fun smile.gif


    "are you filming us?"
    "....no...." *click*
    biglaugh.gif

  23. LotusWing
    Date: Thu, Oct 16 2008 13:04:28

    QUOTE (Sfsr @ Oct 16 2008, 02:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    .....

    "are you filming us?"
    "....no...." *click*
    biglaugh.gif



    lol biglaugh.gif
    One of the best part!

  24. SJ.
    Date: Tue, Oct 21 2008 03:04:11

    seems like a fun gathering....
    and just one more thing

    WHERES CEEDGEE?!?!

  25. Sfsr
    Date: Tue, Oct 21 2008 16:11:20

    Ehr, he lives in "Skåne" duh, the south of Sweden. This was in Stockholm. He lives way at the bottom where it says "Malmö" -> http://www.mapsofworld.com/sweden/maps/sweden-map.jpg

  26. hoiboy909
    Date: Mon, Nov 3 2008 01:10:49

    hey... does anyone know the breakdowns of the people spinning

  27. Sfsr
    Date: Mon, Nov 3 2008 16:54:10

    All freestyled on the spot, no breakdowns available. And I don't think the quality with the light and angle and all is good enough to break it down afterwards. And ask here instead -> http://www.upsb.info/forum/index.php?showt...akdown+requests