when i was in high school, there were two asians who had some cool pencil/pen twirling skills. napoleon would be proud...
thawin was a chinese kid from thailand who was my study buddy for calculus and the lord of table tennis. in fact, he kicked my ass in both areas. anyway, he used to sit at his desk and twirl his pencil...especially during tests.
it was so unnerving.
what was unnerving about it was that the pencil would ALWAYS spin flawlessly around his thumb (video #3), like he had some built in gyroscope in his hand. lee jay and i would watch and just roll our eyes (while we secretly practiced at night).
i never got it down, but lee jay got pretty good. guess i didn't have WILD aspirations of becoming the second best pencil twirler in calculus...such a coveted title.
there was also emily kim, a korean gal whom i had known since elementary. she sat across from me in honors thesis and, like thawin, twirled her pencil during periods of idleness. however, unlike thawin, she twirled her pencil through her fingers, usually intertwining the pencil through her fingers and launching it with her ring finger (see video #2).
so i found it entertaining when i came upon the stabilo site and its twirling videos and how-to's. check out the twister & jump (#5) and the matrixx (#9). those are very cool, especially the twister...so mesmerizing.
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