I wanted to get the perspective of a female who pen spins so I asked Kari-Chan,a 16 year old penspinner from Singapore and resides in Australia, a few questions on being a girl and spinning pens.These are the questions and Her answers.
1. Do you think there is any sexism in pen spinning?
No. Both guys and girls have hands. The only reason why there are more guys who pen spin is because girls are the chatty type. They prefer to be on MySpace or Facebook etc. (not me xD) There is nothing that differenciate the fact that both hands were made the same...
2. As a girl what kind of reactions do you get for spinning?
Usually, we tend to get more attention since there are hardly any girls who pen spin but they sometimes tend to have a "line" as in 'you're pretty good for a girl' or something like that...
3. Does the UPSB comunity treat you differently?
Apart from the fact that they talk to me because i'm a girl... no i don't think so xD
4. What inspired or jumpstarted your need to pen spin?
I saw my (girl) friend doing a sonic and a charge and i learnt those then i learnt the thumbaround from my bro but i didn't start pen spinning seriously yet. It took me another year to find UPSB and find Eso's tutorials and made it easier to learn =)
5. What do teachers say about your pen spinning?
Only a few teachers (those really funny kind) say "She's really good isn't she?" etc. and they do a "fingerpass" without a pen... palm up xD
6. What do females around you think of your penspinning?
(School) They're... more into chatting to each other xD
7.How do males around you view your penspinning skills?:P
"Look she's so good at spinning pens" or something along those lines =)
After wathcing some her videos I immediately decided she was my new favorite spinner i mean "girls got skillz" you can find them in this link to her channel on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/SiIentAzn
This is one of her amazing videos "The chop sticks charge is awesome"
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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You spelt community wrong xD
ReplyDeleteoh, another thing, i'm FROM Singapore but i'm in Australia xD
ReplyDeletesrry ill update
ReplyDeletei have been busy playing games srry just reading ur post i thought i got everything from ur page though
Oh my goodness: Kari-chan, PLEASE TEACH ME!!!!!!!
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