Fishing

Fishing is an general term for continuous fingerless charge in unstable slots. When done on the thumb, it’s usually called thumb fishing. Although the notation of these tricks is poorly defined, they usually follow the same criteria as around (counterclockwise is normal).

History

The term "fishing" originates from Ian Jenson from the PSH community. The trick was adapted from contact staff which is a separate manipulation art form.

Following Ian Jenson, spinners such as Hubik and I.suk were among the early adopters who integrated fishing trechniques ito complex power linkages. In modern pen spinning, fishing has become a common component the power trick category. The "bust fishing" variation, in particular, is frequently employed by spinners to enhance the difficulty and variety of their power combos.

Variation

Fishtail

Fishtail is the name given to one particular kind of fishing. With all the fingers straight, starting from a palm side position, the pen does afingerless charge rev over the index finger. The hand and wrist motion alone keeps the pen spinning over 1.

fishtail = Fl charge rev 1*

This trick was devised after Ian Juggler had already made his videos, where he showed other kinds of fishings but not this one. It was Menowa* who thought of the trick, Kay who named it fishtail, and Iteza who first captured it on video and uploaded it, on February 23, 2018. The history of this name is interesting, because in contact staff the broad term for these tricks is fishtail and not fishing.

Bust Fishing

One particular kind of fishing. It can be done just on the index finger, orwith the whole hand (fist bust fishing).

Drowsy Motion

A link involving the following:

• (PS) MA rev 0.5 23-T2 > charge 0.5 T2 > TA ~ thumb fishing ~ TA rev T*-23