Pass

A basic trick consisting of a tipped charge, a fingerswitch, and another tipped charge that changes fingerslots. It is typically performed with the fingers curled in at around a right angle but can also be performed with all fingers straight when hybridized with a charge as is the case in the twisted sonic. The normal of the trick rotates clockwise.

History

The trick existed for a long time, but it remained unnamed. Hideaki didn’t list it as a trick at first, as he considered it a movement instead.

Tohlz from PenstudioZ named each pass as first quarter of fingerpass, second quarter of fingerpass, etc. The name pass is attributed to Kam, as he was the first to use it in 2001, when describing the fingerpass:

“The Finger Pass family consists of tricks that "roll" the pen through many fingers. At any time, the pen is always been held by at least two fingers, and each "Pass" (which is a definite step for Finger Pass tricks) will only cause the pen to rotate 180 degrees (half rotation).”

He continued to use the term later on to describe the parts of a double charge as “basically a combination of two Charges and two Passes (passes are parts of a FingerPass)” and in December 2003 he included it as one of the various “spin types”. However, it wasn’t considered a standalone trick and thus included in trick lists until at least 2004

In Japan, the term half gunman was used to describe both the pass and the passaround. During the years 2006 and 2007, there were various debates among JEB members which concluded that those were different tricks due to the different ways in how the pen is held during the movement. From that point onwards, パス (pass) began to be used.

Variations

Fingerpass

A mini-combo and fundamental consisting of multiple passes chained together that traverse the pen down the hand on the palm side and then back up the hand on the back side of the hand, usually excluding the thumb. Fingerpasses are most often performed as a beginner exercise to practice consistency with passes as well as a general warmup.

Half Fingerpass (deprecated)

A deprecated name for either of the two halves of the fingerpass minicombo, 12-23>34 or 34-23>12. It was mentioned on Pentix in 2002, but it hasn't seen serious use outside of Korea.

Twisted Sonic

A pass performed with a full charge rotation, performing one half-charge on the starting slot, interrupting with a pass and finishing with the remaining half-charge on the destination slot. The name was first written by Hideaki Kondoh in 1997 as an initial trick on his website, but has been controversial as the trick does not follow a sonic mechanic and instead uses a pass.

Historically the Twisted Sonic normal explicitly referred to using a pass reverse, but this is no longer the case.

Warped Sonic (deprecated)

A deprecated name for Twisted Sonic normal performed with a pass instead of pass reverse, going down fingerslots on the inside of the hand instead of up.

Triangle Pass

A mini-combo of passes between three fingers that leads to continuous rotation notated as such: Pass Reverse T2-12-T1-T2. All three fingers perform the same motion.

Square Pass

A mini-combo of passes and powerpasses between four fingers performed continuously notated as such: Powerpass 23-14 > Pass Reverse 14-23. It is most commonly used in technical spinning.

Powerpass

See also: Powerpass