Around

Arounds are tricks that involve turning the pen in a disc motion around fingers, body parts or other objects.

They are potentially the oldest pen spinning trick, and one of the most versatile and developed, ranging from the simple Thumbaround to the difficult Armaround or Pun Kan.

Variations

Reverse tilt

Backaround

Like the standard arounds but the tilt is in the opposite direction for a given hand orientation. Palm down around reverses tilt away from the back of the hand, while backarounds tilt towards the back of the hand when the trick starts. Backarounds have the opposite direction to arounds, as historically the backaround was considered to be a separate, individual trick without a reverse.

Bust

A Bust is a common name for Backaround Reverse.

Thumb Backaround

Once confusingly called "Thumb lever", it follows the same rule as the backaround. The normal direction is reversed and it uses the opposite tilt for hand orientation.