June 2016 - Legendary pen mawashi Terrorista [JEB]

spinning

Why rotations

I emphasize fixing rotations errors over other execution errors because rotations are a technique error. what I mean is that having bad rotations is due to a lack of knowledge. people have bad rotations because they don't know they should aim for it.

I usually don't tell people to make their spinning smoother or use less arm motion (unless it's clear the spinner doesn't give a crap) because these problems go away on their own. given any repetitive task, people will naturally learn to do it smoother with less effort and motion. this cannot be said for bad technique. people are quite comfortable doing things the wrong way if it's good enough in their mind, especially when doing things 'the right way' would need a substantial investment, and they could just do what they've always been doing. think of every job in existence where you have that one boomer who's still doing things the old fashioned way.

there is a bit of variance in execution, but rotations isn't one where it's allowed. pen spinning does have rules, as vague as they can be, and one of them is that spinning has to look circular. imagine the history of pen spinning if we had intentionally decided to discard circular rotations. I think I would not consider that pen spinning. in fact, most of us would probably find that type of spinning unattractive.

the woe of bad rotations is that like bad technique you can optimize your motions for it. that cements bad execution and forces you to invest energy to change it, which only gets worse the more time you've spent spinning with bad rotations, cause you have more tricks to fix. it's tragic seeing spinners who have been around for way longer than I have with horrific rotations that they have baked in since their early days. thus, I try to eliminate the problem as quickly as I can. because it's a problem of ignorance, if a spinner learns to value proper rotations once, they'll always do so.

History

WC

nine recently joins fenspinner/upsb collab wc team which otherwise consisted of void, padrace, zefia, and diobrando after months of begging by void
nine posts inflammatory tweets about aesthetics spinning and how it's all hand carry. this generates little attention.
baaron posts some random tweet i can't remember what that sarcastically says aesthetics is hand carry
nine retweets it with something along the lines of "this but unironically, and here's why"
big twitter war ensues with every oldie subtweeting like a bitch. notable fen participants include void who made an aesthetics vs technical lore video and neir'da who posted a thirst trap combo (based)
t-word sides with the opposition and tries accusing void of disproven pedo accusations
void and nine were in the workshop where padrace was mod. nine and void asked padrace among others to ban t-word for false accusations if he were ever to join.
t-word joins. nine dms padrace on twitter to get him banned. padrace does not respond for a week and cites working long hours when nine threatens to leave the team if he doesn't respond. btw at this period you could literally see padrace liking tweets
padrace bans t-word on the condition he can return if he apologizes. t-word posts an apology-that's-actually-a-backhanded-insult-that-he-deletes-immediately-after-getting-unbanned lmao
void and nine leave the team and offer to join phps. they refuse on wanting to win wc on their own merits (and they proceed to not even form a team lmao)
they form a fenspinner exclusive team with current lineup of nine, void, allwars.
later, barney, pall, and salt join the team with salt as a substitute. salt, void, barney, nine interchange complexity; nine on aesthetics; pall, salt, and void on 2h; allwars on power; barney, nine, salt, and void interchange doubles; nine and pall on wipers. roughly. i think. allwars at some point ragequits the server after being called out by void for siding with t-word
pall had a history of being flaky and lacking commitment. he quits the wc team citing stressful family circumstances. nine is unsympathetic and tells him to stay on the team. pall quits the server.
pall and allwars are replaced by vanilla and zegentlemen. salt remains sub. new team is called final boss
workshop member wenyu goes on massive rants about fingerpass and how achieving 100 fingerpasses per minute makes him an advanced spinner that is qualified to speak on topics. nine and void lash out against him.
r1 submissions occur with wenyu having joined team flowers. final boss gets 3rd place behind five fingers (padrace's team) and JEB.
nine and void vent their frustration in workshop surrounding their perception of unfair judgement. wenyu argues against them by saying their combos were overhyped and that the editing was subpar.
nine, void, wenyu, and like 20 other members join workshop vc to get into a shouting match filled with insults. void records the call and posts it later.
padrace temporary bans wenyu for inflammatory behavior and perma bans void and nine for the call. they are allowed to return on the condition that they make their amends in padrace's dms. this never happens due to padrace's lack of action against t-word
r2 submissions with final boss against black magic (psh team). final boss wins 5-0 with a doubles combo that mocks black magic's r1 submission. initially ambivalent, black magic's attitude sours when void posts a meme about zegentlemen poking at them.
haton gets pissed at them alongside other psh members who feel as if the score was too one sided, especially in nine's battle against petuy in which nine outscored petuy overwhelmingly.
some funny arguments from psh include that the judges should've decided beforehand who won the battle and fixed the scores accordingly instead of using the scores to come to a conclusion (cope)
i.suk, one of the judges, chimes in to defend the scoring
void receives all of the attention from psh who use alts to attack him and the team, one of whom was haton. hector, another black magic member, laments the results and announces he will not participate in international tournaments again.
quantum, also member, is afraid of how this incident could hurt psh pr and tries to get them to tone the hate down.
petuy tries to defend psh actions by citing cultural differences. he claims that chinese culture especially values politeness and tact and thus psh has justification for reacting negatively to void's 'insensitive' meme.
nine responds to petuy by saying chinese people are actually abnormally rude and tells petuy to know his place. he and void are subsequently blocked by most black magic members.