| This FAQs page contains answers to some commonly asked questions. If you have anything that you are unclear of regarding this Site and Pen Spinning, you can take a look here. This list is updated often to add new questions to help visitors. 1. What is PenstudioZ Colour Bar Indicator (PCBI)? 2. What is -=[P]enstudio[Z]=- ? 3. What is Pen Spinning, why Pen Spinning and why is it good for us? 4. Getting Started...what should I do first? 5. What exactly do you mean by Pen Stalling and Balancing? Isn't this a Pen Spinning Website? 6. I am interested in Pen Spinning, Stalling and Balancing. So where should I go to? 7. There are so many videos, are all of them Pen Spinning videos? 8. I saw a 'Hosted Section' in the videos page. What is it for? Can I request PenstudioZ to host my videos? 9. I am new to Pen Spinning, are there anymore help other than viewing the videos? 1. What is PenstudioZ Colour Bar Indicator(PCBI)? PenstudioZ Colour Bar Indicator, PCBI for short, is a new feature that shows whether there will be frequent updates or lesser updates in the following days, weeks and months. The purpose of PCBI is to allow visitors to understand or know more about what PenstudioZ is currently working on and not to disappoint them. The Colour Bar Indicator: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Green) Frequent Updates. Probably one or more update/s in every 1 - 14 days. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Yellow) Regular Updates. Probably an update every 2 weeks or more. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Red) Slow Updates. Expecting low numbers of updates. Probably after 1 or 2 months later. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Blue) Major Update. Expect some major update/s soon. Come back often to check it out! |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Brown) No Update. Stop updating due to some reasons such as shortage of time. Updates of PenstudioZ will resume after I have more time to do so. In the meanwhile, you can spend your time chatting in the Tagboard. |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| - (Teal) Celebrations update. This will inform the visitors that PenstudioZ will be celebrating the incoming festivals, yearly anniversaries for PenstudioZ and holidays such as New Year and Christmas. Common celebrations update would be adding some videos. * Multi Colours Bar Indicator: This indicate the possibility of falling onto either one of the colour code or both. Note that the sequences of the colours may also stand for different reasons such as Blue + Brown and Brown + Blue. Possible Multi Colours Bar Indicator: i. The mixture of Blue and Brown indicate that there maybe a major update, but due to the shortage of time, the major update maybe held back. ii. The mixture of Red and Green indicate that there maybe very little updates for now, but expect alot coming soon. iii. The mixture of Blue and Teal indicate that there maybe a major update and this major update is done to celebrate certain festival such as PenstudioZ Yearly Anniversary. iv. The mixture of Yellow and Red indicate that the amount of updates maybe slowing down now and probably due to shortage of time. v. The mixture of Brown and Blue indicate that PenstudioZ is going to have a major update but the exact date of the major update is unknown. vi. The mixture of Yellow and Teal indicate that there were still be regular updates before celebrating certain festivals or holidays. ** The Question Mark logo is a shortcut that will tells you the recent updates and possible upcoming updates. Just place your cursor over the Question Mark and the information(tooltip) will appear beside your cursor. Back to Top 2. What is -=[P]enstudio[Z]=- ? -=[P]enstudio[Z]=- , a place where pen spinners, beginners or experts, should come in. Here, we were show you tons of videos on pen spinning, stalling and even balancing where other websites provide you with only pen spinning videos. PenstudioZ will be showing many videos right from the basic to the hardest trick you won't be able to imagine of. Maybe you can learn the tricks here or discover new tricks when watching the videos. So good luck to you! There will also be Tips showing you how to Pen Spinning. If you are unsure of some tricks, kindly post it in the forum. For experts, just remember... there's thousands and even millions of tricks for you to learn. Its just that you have not discovered it yet. Though the internet is a wide range and a best resources to know more about things such as Pen Spinning but there would still be many skills that we have not discovered. Many people that did not go to the net to search for Pen Spinning doesn't mean they don't know as much as 'us'. Some of them might even know tricks that the internet did not have. ( I had encountered a girl doing a weird thumbspin in a Library before and was shocked. Curious? ok... she's doing a ThumbSpin that looks like Charge... I mean Continuous rotation of The ThumbSpin without even a break... it looks like a thumbspin... so i put it in a way that i saw a girl doing a weird thumbspin.) Back to Top 3. What is Pen Spinning, why Pen Spinning and why is it good for us? Pen Spinning is a form of contact juggling(Yo-yo is another example). Contact Juggling, meaning to juggle objects that you are holding or in contact with. Pen Spinning, meaning to 'juggle' a pen or pencil. Many people may think, why is Pen Spinning not as famous as Yo-yo? No one knows the exact answer to it. Maybe its because Pens are mainly used for writing and not spinning and it people would not regconise this skill as an Official form of Contact Juggling. In my opinion, although Pen Spinning, not as popular as juggling or Yo-yo, it helps ur fingers, by training them to become more flexible. Through pen spinning, you can improve your typing too. There are many benefits to it. Not to say you can also cure boredom.. I believe one day, Pen Spinning would be as popular as Yo-yo. Okay, Pen Spinning would be a hobby once you start to pick up the skill and you like it very much. Some people had hobbies such as collecting phone cards and stamps. But they would stop collecting one day as they get bored to it. What about Pen Spinning? To tell you this, Pen Spinning is a 'forever' hobby, a 'forever' skill that you won't be able to forget once you learnt it. The reason is because you come in contact with pens and pencils everyday, especially for students. If you had learnt the skill, it would be impossible for you not to spin the pen when you are holding onto it. To put it simple, you are addicted to Pen Spinning. Wait! You are not addicted to it in a bad way. Instead, you are addicted to it in a good way such that having addicted to Pen Spinning is alot better than being addicted to smoking and drinking. So isn't Pen Spinning good? If you feel like wanting to smoke, then take a pen and spin instead. Choose one... Pen Spinning or smoking and drinking? Back to Top 4. Getting Started...what should I do first? For Pen Spinning, these would be the basic requirements before you spin a pen. a. Choose your best pen. - Choose a pen that the most suitable for you to spin it. My recommendation would be, long. A long pen maybe more easier to spin(In my opinion), as the Weight Balance is just fine. Choosing a good pen is important as this pen would 'follow' you around and you would be using it often for Pen Spinning. b. Weight Balance. - Weight Balance, if the pen has imbalance points, it would not spin well and it would be more difficult in performing and learning tricks. - The meaning of balance points means that you should be getting pens that have their both ends well-balance. A imbalance pen would be one that have the tip too heavy or too light compared to the end point of the pen. - The pen should also not be too heavy or too light. Too heavy would not be able to spin fast and too light the pen would 'fly' when learning tricks such as ThumbSpin. This is my opinion only, its not compulsory to get a pen that is not too heavy or too light. - Well and comfortable. Most suitable pen to use, would be the right pen for you. c. Start with the basic. - Start with the basic tricks such as ThumbSpin Normal or Fingerpass. Why? This is because, some beginners are amazed with the difficult tricks that are shown in the net and wanted to learn it. The problem is, you haven't even know the basic, how could you do a trick that is much more difficult? Maybe you can, but it would take a long time to master it. So it is best to start with basic tricks first. - Decide on which trick to learn and remember the concept well. Remember to learn one trick at a time if you are not good at Pen Spinning. Learning a tons of tricks at a time will only confuse yourself and not do any good to you. d. Basic exercise. - Warm up you fingers by stretching and crutching it. Stiff fingers would not be nice as it would be more difficult to spin the pen. e. All ready. - Finally, what are you wating for? You are well prepared now. Start Pen Spinning! Back to Top 5. What exactly do you mean by Pen Stalling and Balancing? Isn't this a Pen Spinning Website? Yes, this is a Pen Spinning website. But thats not all. PenstudioZ not only provide you tips on Pen Spinning, but in addition, PenstudioZ added a new family section on Stall and Balance, where none of the Pen Spinning website ever tried before. What is Stall and Balance? Stall means to stop or to delay something and Balance means to get into a steady position , without falling to one side or the other. So why bother to Stall and Balance? The answer to it is, when you combine Pen Spinning tricks and combos together with Stalling and Balancing, not only it will become more challenging, but it will also create very great impact on the whole combos or freestyle, making it much more appealing compared to doing the Pen Spinning tricks alone. Back to Top 6. I am interested in Pen Spinning, Stalling and Balancing. So where should I go to? There are many places you can visit here. Examples are watching the videos provided by PenstudioZ. You will get to know alot of tricks here. In addition, there are Tips Section where PenstudioZ will show you tutorials of basic tricks through Videos, unlike other websites, providing only pictures illustrated tutorials. Back to Top 7. There are so many videos, are all of them Pen Spinning videos? The answer to this question is NO. PenstudioZ maybe a website mainly for Pen Spinners, but PenstudioZ is also working on other hand manipulations such as Recorder and Keychain Spinning. The videos in PenstudioZ does not contain only Pen Spinning. Other hand manipulations videos can also be found. If you are not sure how to differentiate between Pen Spinning videos and other hand manipulations videos, just go to the videos page and look at the 'Site Legend' which is located at the top of the page. Back to Top 8. I saw a 'Hosted Section' in the videos page. What is it for? Can I request PenstudioZ to host my videos? The 'Hosted Section' in the videos page contain videos that are filmed by my friends or other people, and are hosted in PenstudioZ. If you have any interesting videos related to any types of Hand Manipulations, you can send it to shawn_tohlz@yahoo.com provided that the videos are filmed or recorded by yourself. PenstudioZ will not host any videos that are owned by other websites or if the videos are not yours. Please send an email if you have anymore inquiry. Back to Top 9. I am new to Pen Spinning, are there anymore help other than viewing the videos? Yes. Below are some guides for beginners that can help in many ways. Download them and perhaps they can help you to become a better pen spinner. They are in Microsoft Word Document Format. Guides for beginners and anyone new to Pen Spinning. A Guide To Pen Modding Guide On How To Create A Good Combo Or Freestyle Guide On How To Create A Good Combo Or Freestyle (Japanese Version Translated by Aysh) Back to Top |
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