PSUK

PSUK stands for Pen Spin UK. It was an English-speaking Pen Spinning Community that was active from late 2007 to late 2011, with members from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

Despite being defunct, a few UK spinners have used the board name since, notably Juminuwo in popular CVs and Ceru entering under the community's name in WT15. There has also been controversy over spinners entering competitions under the community's name despite not being from the UK, using it to gain extra spaces in competitions.

History

The PSUK community was initially formed in October 2007 by asakawa, with their first collaboration video, PSUK 1st being released four months later on January 31st, 2008. The domain www.penspin.co.uk was registered and a forum was hosted there since December 8th, 2007 using Freeforums.org as a platform. On August 8th 2008 the forum was updated to phpBB3, which brought across multiple features including a shoutbox and simplified YouTube video posting.

The first gathering of the community was held on the 24th May 2008. Notably IVESOUND and CrAsH were present with videos and photos taken, but these have not been recovered.

On the 9th November 2009 the PenSpin.co.uk domain name expired, but the forum still remained up at penspinuk.freeforums.org until 2015 when it was removed by FreeForums for inactivity. When FreeForums was acquired by Tapatalk in 2017, this meant that penspinuk would not migrate to their platform, as the forum and all the data had been deleted, unlike UCPSB. The board still had some activity and further gatherings were arranged. In December 2009 there was a Christmas gathering for the community held at a Costa Coffee in Leicester Square, London. It was recorded by Darkgenesisspinner-XD and CrAsH was again present.

On Feburary 1st, 2010 the second official collaboration video, PSUK 2nd, was released 2 years after the previous collab. This was the final official collaboration from the board. Later that year on the 13th April an Easter gathering was held in Leicester Square, London at the train station's snack bar. IVESOUND, Darkgenesisspinner-XD and CrAsH attended.

The last group activity of the board was a meetup that occurred at Oakwood Theme Park, Wales on the 2nd September 2011. This was again recorded by Darkgenesisspinner-XD.