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  • Peter Payne: 'Pen spinning is the art of spinning a pen around your fingers and doing amazing tricks with it... The First Pen Spinning Boom got underway in Japan around 1976, when students of several famous national and private universities became known for the ability to spin pens. It was later learned that all these students had attented a yobiko (cram school) called Sundai Preparation School, which soon became legend among "spinners" for birthing the sport. In 1997 a pen spinning fan named Hideaki brought spinning to the Internet age with the first website dedicated to the activity, which ushered in the Second Wave of Pen Spinning. The Third Wave arrived with the defining of the various pen spinning tricks...'

    July 2, 2008

  • I had a Korean girlfriend who used to drive me nuts with pen twiddling. She said every kid in her class was able to spin a pen around their thumb.

    July 2, 2008