Minwoo

Minwoo was a German pen spinner associated with the German Pen Spinning Community (GPC) during the late 2000s and early 2010s. He was known for two-handed spinning, international tournament appearances, the Minovate collaboration series, and the eponymous Minwoo mod.

Competitive spinning

Minwoo represented GPC at the first World Cup in 2008 and was part of the team that finished fourth. He also appeared on the UPSB team that finished second at the Asian Cup 2008.

At the 2009 World Tournament, Minwoo finished second behind Spinnerpeem, with a narrow score gap of just one point (174 vs 173).

Minwoo was on GPC's 2010 World Cup roster. He won the doubles match with TheKOok against JEB and the artistic Body and Environment match against ZzaJae of KPSA. He also registered for World Tournament 2011 but ultimately did not participate.

World Cup 2012 and cheating controversy

Early on in the 2012 event the GPC team had repeated successes in no small part due to Minwoo's 2 handed spinning that made him one of the strongest participants in the event, including a win against Snow from PSH, considered one of the strongest 2 hand spinners in the world after his run in the Pen Spinning World Tournament 2011.

During Round 5 of the 2012 World Cup, Minwoo's GPC submission became the subject of a dispute over video editing in a two-handed section. LPSA administrator Taichi1082 performed a levels adjustment on the video revealing that Minwoo had filmed each hand separately and then spliced the two videos together in post to give the appearance of performing with two hands at once.

Minwoo subsequently quit pen spinning and deleted his YouTube channel, along with all of the content of his Pen Spinning Online project with Samuirai in the following years.

Collaborations and community work

Pen Spinning Online as it appeared in 2013

Minwoo organized the Minovate collaboration-video series and participated in numerous tags and collaboration videos.

He also worked with Samuirai on Penspinning: Online, a project for a tutorial site and social network for pen spinners that was launched in 2012, but became defunct after the WC12 cheating controversy..

Pen Modding

Minwoo Mod as shown in the tutorial video

Minwoo is the creator of the famous Minwoo Mod, a single sided, double capped pen that he used in his WT09 run and beyond. He also created the Minovate DC, a DC superpirat mod that would be used by himself and Eriror.