UPSB v3
General Discussion / Pen Spinning in Japan become an ART?
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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 11:22:44
Don't know if this belong to General Discussion or Off-topic, but it's related to PSing so i just posted them here.
So PSing is getting really famous eh? -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 11:24:22
It may get famous in the world, but our dumb country is going to "invent" penspinning in the time when I will enjoy my grandchildern
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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:01:57
IMO, penspinning will become like Yo-yoing. Lot's of people can do it, but only a few can do it well.
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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:20:33QUOTE (Tim @ Dec 30 2007, 02:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>IMO, penspinning will become like Yo-yoing. Lot's of people can do it, but only a few can do it well.
What do you mean by "do yo-yoing". You mean just the basic up'n'down move? -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:22:25QUOTE (raelz @ Dec 30 2007, 09:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>What do you mean by "do yo-yoing". You mean just the basic up'n'down move?
This
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means doing it well.
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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:26:53
Absolutely.
Penspinning is beginning to be more and more featured on TV shows these days.
Also in Japan, RSVPs are now available in stores.
It would be unthinkable for us to get them in Japan 3 years ago, when penspinning was not so famous as it is today.
But I don't think general public accept penspinning as an art. Penspinning won't be accepted so until they appreciate it. -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:34:22QUOTE (DaThroat @ Dec 30 2007, 02:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>means doing it well.
No, you don't understand me, I meant what means "doing it" but not being good as it.
Because everybody can do the basic yo-yo move, but learning for example thumbaround is much harder -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:44:46
as in... anyone who is not doing something like that, is not doing it.
you should be at least of some standard to be considered a 'yo-yo' player.
likewise, a penspinner.
others who just do it for fun may be able to do TA, sonic etc. -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 13:50:22QUOTE (Aphsamoth @ Dec 30 2007, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>But I don't think general public accept penspinning as an art. Penspinning won't be accepted so until they appreciate it.
I believe one day people will accept it, although there will be some who don't.QUOTE (raelz @ Dec 30 2007, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Because everybody can do the basic yo-yo move, but learning for example thumbaround is much harder
I don't think so, some people cannot even do a proper gravity repel.
For me, pen spinning is more easy, cos last time, I am not really very into yoyo-ing. But now I am very into pen spinning. Maybe its how much interest you have towards it. -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 16:17:15
uhhh
PS has always been an art, even when Pentix was open it referred to it as an Art, I even wrote an article about it lol... -
Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 19:37:59
Us penspinners seeing it as an art differs pretty much from outstanding people seeing it as that ^^
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Date: Sun, Dec 30 2007 20:44:44
I agree with zombo. Pen spinning was an art already. Go search "Pentix"(Not Pentrix) on Google, it saids "The Art of Pen Spinning" right beside it.
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Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 02:47:26
does pen spinning become popular in worldwide first then japan become more people learn it or japan already has many people doing pen spinning then only people around the world start to pen spinning? I just wonder why yahoo featured the pen spinning in japan, not worldwide.
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Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 02:57:53
How relevant. An article regarding pen spinning in Japan was on the newspaper (The Straits Times) in Singapore today (31 Dec 2007). Check it out.
Japan Pen Spinning Association with 800 members... National pen spinning competition... 5000 pen spinners in Japan... Wow.
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Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 06:26:28
ah, but Zombo and Imagm-1337. you do realize that in UCPSBv2, someone made "Pen SPinning, Sport or Art?" and Sport had enough votes to prove that some people believe PSing is sport.
Same thing in Japan, many people posted "sport"
So when it comes to PSing with famous spinner's website say "art", wouldn't mean PSing is art. It's only that person's view. It was never decided Internationally. -
Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 06:29:29
If Starcraft can become a sport in Korea, then PS can be an art in Japan.
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Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 06:54:03
I just hope it doesn't become that of a "fad" like a lot of stuff with teenagers.
Wow, if pen spinning became another "pokeman" or "yu-gi-oh" event, it'd be horrible. -
Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 06:55:06
"The first Japanese to engage in the art were students taking university entrance exams in the 1970s"
Hmm, where did they get the source from? -
Date: Mon, Dec 31 2007 08:43:44QUOTE (yxTay @ Dec 30 2007, 09:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Japan Pen Spinning Association with 800 members... National pen spinning competition... 5000 pen spinners in Japan... Wow.
National competition... I never knew that!
I expect the association will do much to popularize penspinning.QUOTE (tohlz @ Dec 31 2007, 01:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>"The first Japanese to engage in the art were students taking university entrance exams in the 1970s"
Hmm, where did they get the source from?
H. Kondoh's web site has the oldest information, which is about penspinning in the 1970s.
I don't know whether they got it directly from the web site or they got it through a Japanese newspaper article though.
Yomiuri Shimbun is one of the most famous newspapers in Japan.
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Date: Tue, Jan 1 2008 15:55:38QUOTE (CalhounSpinner @ Dec 31 2007, 01:54 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I just hope it doesn't become that of a "fad" like a lot of stuff with teenagers.
Wow, if pen spinning became another "pokeman" or "yu-gi-oh" event, it'd be horrible.
Now you did it...*imagines classmates all doing crappy TAs*
Im going to have nightmares... -
Date: Wed, Jan 2 2008 04:43:45QUOTE (CalhounSpinner @ Dec 30 2007, 11:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I just hope it doesn't become that of a "fad" like a lot of stuff with teenagers.
Wow, if pen spinning became another "pokeman" or "yu-gi-oh" event, it'd be horrible.
I just don't see that happening.
If you think about it, this is a hobby that uses an everyday object, like a pen, and turn it into something, like cybrax said, that kills boredom to some.
Even though some will stop at the thumbaround, or charge doesn't mean it's automatically killed. If someone wanted to pursue this further, then it would take time, which means two things:
1) the person will keep going because this is something that interest them. Since it's an ordinary pen, the person will probably use PSing in an everyday situation.
2) Give up, because it takes too much time.
This is not just something you can use to "duel" or battle with off the bat.
