Clubs around the thumb are not very difficult…unless you try and rotate the club the opposite way. Still can be done, but I have not yet managed above a couple of reverse spins consecutively. You can also spin the club on just the three middle fingers, in either direction…with no thumb contact at all. Much rarer to see anyone doing it like this, but it is not too hard. Takes practice to get it really smooth though.
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at a resturaunt i used to work at … i got $5 for spinning trays on both hands and unicycling across the resturaunt… it was preety cool
i got to the point where i could flip the tray under my legs, spin around and catch the tray on one finger… keeping it spinning… and 18mins is a whiile, but i have spun the tray for an hour straight…
its fun to spin trays and toss them between people… or spin it really fast and throw it to someone unsuspecting that knows how to do it.
I kind of let my spinning skills goto waste for a while without ever progressing, but now that the circus is taking off, I’m learning new things all the time.
I’m working on spinning left handed as well (I can do it, not well though), and can do tosses right to right, from left to right, and passes both ways.
I want to make a couple of custom props for spinning things. I made a metal disk that I can add wick to and light on fire, but it’s not an ideal solution. I think I might invest a few bucks in making a nice prop like that.
I also saw this product called “pro dough” which is basicly latex pizza dough for training people to spin… pizza dough. It’s almost $40 though, and I think I can just make something similar on my own, which I’d like to do.
I work in a kitchen, tongs, plates, chopsticks, trays. I spin, flip, and slide all of them constantly. I have even started to spin hand towels like pizzas!
I am really getting into hand manipulation right know. Mostly for balisong stuff, which is really cool. I just got my first one last week and have had a blast. I wish I had a trainer though so I could take it with my everywhere.