Spinning Styles

There are numerous unique approaches to spinning in the hobby, each with different goals. This page aims to serve as a glossary of the most well-known types.

Not to be confused with Aesthetic Style.

Types

Technical

Technical Spinning or Tech is one of the two major broad categories of Pen Spinning, along with its polar opposite: Aesthetic Spinning.

Tech is based around accomplishing some measurable goal, usually in terms of combo complexity, difficulty or repetitions. Power overlaps with Tech when it comes to the difficulty aspects, but it is possible to be a Technical Spinner without Power, instead using linkages for complexity.

Aesthetic

Aesthetic Spinning or Aesth is the second major broad category. It is concerned with creating pleasing visuals to the viewer, which is usually a fixed camera. Aesth often ignores complexity and difficulty in search of better visual appeal, and includes elements irrelevant to technical spinning such as finger positioning, hand angles and mod choice.

It is common for Aesth Spinners to use Single Sided mods for their visual effect.

Power

Power derived from the term Power Tricks is an extension of the legacy 'Hard Trick' style of spinning. Adherents repetitively train difficult tricks in order to perform them continuously, either for use in combos or to achieve a personal or World Record.

Power tricks are usually but not always considered Fingerless, that they are performed continuously without catching the pen.