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Pen Modifications / Heavy Mods Have Ruined My Life

  1. Xero
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:08:20

    So I made a Dr. KT the other day, and it was really fun to spin with, but when I went back to my MSXA it was like spinning a pencil!
    I was so upset that I actually had to readjust to spinning a mod that used to be perfect for me.
    Has anyone else had this issue?

  2. sketching
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:09:36

    That's why Dr. KT is EVIL!

    It shouldn't take too long to get used to something of a lighter weight, just don't touch the Dr. KT for a while, you'll adjust.

  3. MinorThreat
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:11:10

    i told aries about this before he made his kt. Guess what he's been spinning with since... dry.gif

  4. NoRice4U
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:28:43

    uhh... i spin a kt and an mx^2 they seem no different to me scratchchin.gif

  5. k2thez
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:35:12

    Changing from an MSXA and a Dr. KT is a pretty drastic change but you'll get used to it. I mean I alternate between a Dr. KT and a f-3000 mod.

  6. Xero
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:35:20

    QUOTE (sketching @ Jan 15 2008, 09:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    That's why Dr. KT is EVIL!

    It shouldn't take too long to get used to something of a lighter weight, just don't touch the Dr. KT for a while, you'll adjust.

    It took me TWO DAYS to adjust back! pullhair.gif
    It was insane, I thought that I'd never be the same. T_T

    But I was wondering, is it possible to spin a Dr. KT, then an MX right after?
    Does that come with training or something?
    Because I like to swap up pens every once in a while, and I like the swirl effect the KT has to offer. huh(1).gif

  7. k2thez
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:38:32

    Yeah it's definitely possible. At first it'll be like "whoa that's weird" but you get used to it.

  8. Tofu
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:43:17

    I've be spinning with my KT for a while and I can adjust to my MX or my ballsign quite easily. xD I'm speacial. happy.gif

  9. Xero
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:48:38

    QUOTE (Tofu @ Jan 15 2008, 09:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    I've be spinning with my KT for a while and I can adjust to my MX or my ballsign quite easily. xD I'm speacial. happy.gif

    Woah, to a ballsign, that's insane! D:

  10. Tofu
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:50:51

    Well as I practice, I switch between different mods so I can still be familiar to them.

    EDIT: Well my ballsign has signo tips on the ends, so it isn't THAT light. =P

  11. -JC-
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:53:09

    QUOTE (NoRice4U @ Jan 15 2008, 09:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    uhh... i spin a kt and an mx^2 they seem no different to me scratchchin.gif

    0.0...you're so wieerrrdddd, i wish i could do that >.<


    after i spin xero's dr kt (since i'm poor and can't afford my own wacko.gif ), it takes me about half an hour to adjust back to my msxa

    i think that it may help, after you spin a kt, to spin a normal pen or a pencil or something or even just an mx, and then go back to the msxa, so that you feel the heavier weight of the msxa and your brain will register teh msxa as heavy again happy.gif

  12. Crzyazn
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 02:56:32

    To "zero out" your sensitivity to weight again, spin with a pencil for an extended period of time.

    don't hate the heavy mods...they're like drugs. The right amount is healthy, but overuse them and you will feel like crap

  13. Pearl
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:07:21

    huh.gif

    I can easily swap to my MX And/Or lighter mod from my Dr.Kt

    You will get used to it

  14. NoRice4U
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:08:48

    QUOTE (Pearl @ Jan 15 2008, 07:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    huh.gif

    I can easily swap to my MX And/Or lighter mod from my Dr.Kt

    You will get used to it


    sorry about ot but: there, no more doraemon avi 4 me, it was all pixelated and shit tongue.gif

  15. -JC-
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:11:01

    QUOTE (Crzyazn @ Jan 15 2008, 09:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    don't hate the heavy mods...they're like drugs. The right amount is healthy, but overuse them and you will feel like crap

    OMG, i feel like i've said this before somewhere xD

  16. Xero
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:20:42

    QUOTE (Crzyazn @ Jan 15 2008, 09:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    To "zero out" your sensitivity to weight again, spin with a pencil for an extended period of time.

    Would I want to do this on a regular basis, or do it after I spin the KT?

  17. Crzyazn
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:33:39

    i think you should only do it if you are ever "used to" the KT. then again, building skillz with a pencil is great too tongue.gif

  18. TEK
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:35:55

    QUOTE (NoRice4U @ Jan 15 2008, 10:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    uhh... i spin a kt and an mx^2 they seem no different to me scratchchin.gif


    lol same for me too.
    i can spin different mods and it doesn't really effect anything. the only thing that changes is the weight distribution.
    try changing pens like frequently...spin with this pen...then maybe few minutes later spin with a different one.
    thats kinda what i do cuz i get bored somtimes tongue.gif

  19. ArchAngel2
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:41:13

    OMG!!
    I had the exact same problem a few weeks ago...
    you just keep switching, and not spin the same pen for a day or so...
    cause the reason why everything else is heavy is because your fingers has gotten used to the wieght of the KT
    The same thing can happen with light mods... so if i were you... spin a variety of pens wink.gif

  20. Xero
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:43:32

    QUOTE (ArchAngel2 @ Jan 15 2008, 10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    spin a variety of pens wink.gif

    Sounds good. happy.gif

  21. -JC-
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 03:46:57

    well if you spin with say a bictory all the time, spinning'll become much easier if you spin the kt
    but if you spin a kt all the time, it's gonna be so tough to spin with the bictory

    mhmm...practice with a bictory, and film with a kt so that when the time comes to need to do well, you can do extremely well happy.gif

  22. iMatt
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 06:29:59

    yeah, Its really not that hard for me for the sake of I started on a pencil/unmodded rsvp. Then i moved to the ComSSas and then the Dr. KT. Of course Its hard to spin a MX after a KT, but its really just more of having an overall finger dexterity. My intermiediate pen I can always use and switch back to anything is a Grip Aviaire without the middle grip with 5 sections of profile over each G2 grip.

  23. seihe
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 06:58:30

    I want to say somethink from me.

    When i buy kt and make dr.kt tongue.gif i think dr.kt was to weight but 1 day after that i was spinning:
    dr.kr>metal commsa > mx >pencill>mx>metal comssa >dr.kt
    after 2 days i was spinning:
    dr.kt>mx>dr.kt ;P

    You need to wait a moment try to spin with weighter pens to lighter and lighter to weighter and after 1 week will be much better.

    Very sorry for my english.

  24. blugyblug
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 07:28:23

    Meh, Its fine with me, i can adjust really easily. After i spin a Dr.ST, i can spin an MX easily but really quickly as well.

  25. Sfsr
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 07:40:59

    I dunno why this is so different for people. I guess it's something that comes with the time, and being used to switch around with pens a lot. I can sit around in school spinning a KT, and just take out my really light Tombow from my bag and start spinning that instead. Or an MX.

    The only difference I would feel is not being used to it, but I get that too if I am spinning my Tombow and decide to take out some heavier pen.

    The best way to train this would be to bring a lot of different pens and spin them equally much, but switching between them all the time.

  26. WhiteFang
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 08:51:43

    yea.. ive been spinning with pen that's heavier than KT and now i'm trying to adjust to mx..
    i can't do half the trick i do with the mod i use to spin with..

  27. -JC-
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 10:29:59

    QUOTE (WhiteFang @ Jan 16 2008, 03:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    yea.. ive been spinning with pen that's heavier than KT and now i'm trying to adjust to mx..
    i can't do half the trick i do with the mod i use to spin with..

    what pen's heavier than a kt o.0...?

  28. minche
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 15:54:11

    i spin with my staedtler mod (not sure how heavy it is, compared to dr. kt, but it's very heavy) and it's always almost impossible to switch my pen. i can do tricks but they don't look smooth, and feel is like spinning a pencil. but i wouldn't say heavy mods ruined my life smile.gif

  29. K4S
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 17:14:32

    The better you are at penspinning the easier it is to adjust from something heavy to something light. If you've been spinning something heavy and want to scale down and are having trouble simply scale down to an extremely light pen and then scale up to the lighter mod.

    Eg) You're spinning a dr.KT and want to switch to an MX...instead of going to an MX right away switch to an ungripped/untipped bictory and spin that for 15 minutes, then switch to the MX.

  30. WhiteFang
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 17:46:40

    QUOTE (-JC- @ Jan 16 2008, 07:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    what pen's heavier than a kt o.0...?


    this mod i made.. i'll show you later when i get my camera bak

  31. MX Freak
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 20:33:51

    well just give some time to adjust to the msxa weight for a while,
    or maybe try spinning both of them consecutively, like after one, do the other

    i cant tell though cuz 1. iont got a kt but i think i have an msxa almost as heavy as one and 2. i havent spun my msxa and then switch to a kt, besides nobody i know has one here, el deal traded his but never got it back even though his trade got jacked up and he never got the pens he traded for

    you get used to switching weights after a bit but if the lengths have a big differnce, that might be another problem

  32. â–¡â–¡â–¡
    Date: Wed, Jan 16 2008 23:13:53

    Whenever you feel like something has gotten lighter due to spinning with something really heavy, get out an unsharpened pencil and spin with it for a while. Then, after getting alright with the pencil, pick up any mod you want and it will feel heavy again.

    I've noticed this problem too, but that method usually corrects it every time, as well as pretty quickly.

  33. sadi teh pirate
    Date: Thu, Jan 17 2008 01:01:12

    Not rlly the right place to put this, but I'm learning with a heavy mod right now, an its really hard to use my RSVP MX now....should i start using my MX again when i do vids?

  34. 11Thrasher11
    Date: Thu, Jan 17 2008 01:02:41

    Well when I spin something heavy and go back to my normal mod it does feal uber light at first but eventually you get used to it again. Just take like 30 seconds for me.

  35. PenSpinner
    Date: Thu, Jan 17 2008 13:17:42

    I spin Dr.KT ,Ballsign,ComSsa Metalic,RSVP Mx.

    I have no problems I can spin them all biggrin.gif

  36. Novastrike
    Date: Thu, Jan 17 2008 17:34:25

    I used to have the same problem of spinning ballsign mod cos I am too used to the weight of RSVP MX.

    But now I not having this problem anymore. Kinda strange, it just happened to be that way...

  37. Ryuukohaden
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 00:10:38

    It would be really great if someone could post the weights of all the mods, because the wiki only has relative weights.

  38. Teddy
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 01:03:39

    i have huge problems with this too

    i think just spinning a variety of mods rather than concentrating on one really makes things easier

    i spin a ballsign and a kt due to this smile.gif

  39. K4S
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 01:29:41

    QUOTE (Ryuukohaden @ Jan 17 2008, 08:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    It would be really great if someone could post the weights of all the mods, because the wiki only has relative weights.

    Why do you even need to know exact weights? It serves no purpose unless you have OCD and need every single mod you make to lie withing 0.01g of your specific weight.

  40. â–¡â–¡â–¡
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 01:34:57

    QUOTE (K4S @ Jan 17 2008, 08:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Why do you even need to know exact weights? It serves no purpose unless you have OCD and need every single mod you make to lie withing 0.01g of your specific weight.


    Actually, I disagree. If you haven't felt the weight of the "standards" then relative weights are not much help at all. Perhaps... weight classes... such as putting everything from .5KG to 1 KG as heavy... below that Medium and Light... etc...

  41. -JC-
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 01:37:03

    QUOTE (K4S @ Jan 17 2008, 08:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Why do you even need to know exact weights? It serves no purpose unless you have OCD and need every single mod you make to lie withing 0.01g of your specific weight.

    yeah, i agree
    i had measured my msxa and xero's kt just for fun with an electric scale that i have in physics, but it served no purpose other than it being just for fun

    all you really need to know if the relative weight, cause that just helps you find the mod that feels good for you
    nobody can really actually "feel" the difference between similar pens do the gram measurement

    the diff. between a kt and my msxa is about 3g (give or take) and that isn't that big of a diff. (well, it is for pens), even though the pens have such a big diff. when spinning

    it doesn't really matter what the total weight is though, it's more of where the weight is placed on the pen (like, even throughout the pen or weighted at the ends)

  42. K4S
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 01:42:02

    QUOTE (â–¡â–¡â–¡ @ Jan 17 2008, 09:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Actually, I disagree. If you haven't felt the weight of the "standards" then relative weights are not much help at all. Perhaps... weight classes... such as putting everything from .5KG to 1 KG as heavy... below that Medium and Light... etc...

    I suppose weights would help new spinner a lot more than it would help me. But most of the mainstream mods have already been weighed which is all that is needed i think....it's just no one has bothered to edit the wiki haha tongue.gif

  43. sciterz
    Date: Fri, Jan 18 2008 03:29:29

    the reason y the dr kt is evil is because of how bad your fingers hurt after getting the grips and and getting the tips inside the grips and because of how many times you get stabbed trying to do aerial tricks

  44. SLiguykyle
    Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 01:19:55

    lol, wow.... i sping a DR.KT, a comssa metal, a RSVP MX, a bictory, and a couple unique mods i made myself.... the KT is by far the easiest one to spin, but i try not to get TOO used to it, or even the comssa tends to get a wee bit light haha

  45. -JC-
    Date: Sat, Jan 19 2008 02:24:55

    QUOTE (sciterz @ Jan 17 2008, 10:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    the reason y the dr kt is evil is because of how bad your fingers hurt after getting the grips and and getting the tips inside the grips and because of how many times you get stabbed trying to do aerial tricks

    omg, aerial tricks...those are dangerous ohmy.gif

    QUOTE (SLiguykyle @ Jan 18 2008, 08:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    lol, wow.... i sping a DR.KT, a comssa metal, a RSVP MX, a bictory, and a couple unique mods i made myself.... the KT is by far the easiest one to spin, but i try not to get TOO used to it, or even the comssa tends to get a wee bit light haha

    well, yeah, the kt has so much momentum to it >.<''
    and the comssa feels light to me even before i spun the kt xD

  46. Santa
    Date: Sun, Jan 20 2008 02:44:31

    this is y k4s shouldnt release his mp dr. kt ( or should he scratchchin.gif ) so people wouldnt spin the kt. too much and at school. I wouldnt dare bring my kt to school cause ill dispose of my other mods the next day bawling.gif