Interviews are very interesting to read. It's real pen spinners' views on pen spinning. I try my best to get them for you so here you go...

David Weis is what some people would call a Pen Spinning Machine. He has been Pen Spinning for many years now and it really shows.

First off, before we start I would like to thank you David, for taking your time to take this interview.

AC: What inspired you to start Pen Spinning?
DW: I think, like most peolpe, I found that it was something fun that could be done while sitting in class.

AC: Where do you see yourself in the world of Pen Spinning?
DW: I guess I see myself as an inovator, I've always tried to come up with new tricks, from continuous half taps and continuous forward 1.5 thumbspins to my more recent inovations that involve continuous backaround variations and pushless direction changes.

AC: Do you think that Pen Spinning is growing in popularity? If so, why?
DW: Absolutely, when people see you spin they want to learn, and then their friends see them spin and they want to learn and then their friend see them..... its spreading like a virus, but a good, happy kind of virus. Once someone starts spinning, the feeling of satisfaction of learning new and more difficult tricks keeps them addicted, ummm, I mean 'interested.'

AC: What influence do you believe KAM has had on the world of Pen Spinning?
DW: Well if I were to continue with the virus metaphore, KAM and his website would be like the dirty needle shared by a bunch of drug fiends. KAM has allowed a community to form and a critical mass of interest that has ultimately accelerated the progression and growth of pen spinning. In other words, if the government wanted to stop the pen spinning epidemic their best line of action would be to shut down the Pentix website and pass out clean websites.

AC: How would you overcome difficult tricks?
DW: Most of the difficult tricks I do, I come up with myself be exploring a variation of a trick that I already know. For examlple, I've been working on a finger tip backaround, (a backaround done with the fingers together causing the rotation to occur at the finger tips, this trick obviously came from a trick I already have wired so that I have a good point of reference of how to make it work. In other words, to learn a difficult trick with consistency first learn all of the prerequisite or building block tricks for that trick.

AC: What do you believe is the most important part of Pen Spinning?
DW: I would say that relative to spinners, enjoyment is most important. But relative to Pen Spinning as an entity, evolution of the art is most important. I mean, if you had to define an objective for Pen Spinning isn't that what it would be? To keep developing more difficult tricks, approaching tricks that seem impossible.

AC: If there were one thing that you could change about Pen Spinning, what would it be?
DW: Lets see, hmmm, I'd like to be a proffesional pencil spinner and make millions of dollars a year in the NPSA, or better yet while we are talking hypothetically, I wish I could use my pencil spinning as a time machine, 4 continuous bak1.5s into a snap flip and 'BLAM' the year is 1993 and I'm buying every share of Microsoft I can get my hands on.

Seriously, no, what is there to change?

AC: What tips would you give to beginners out there that wish to be as good as you?
DW: I always have a pencil with me and I spin it whenever I can, this is of course because I enjoy it.
So, the second part of this statement is most important, enjoy it, and the first part of the statement follows, practice whenever you can. Of course, depending on your personality, doing the first part of my statement may then cause you to no longer do the second part of my statement, which makes doing the first part pointless.

AC: Why do you think that people have become fascinated about pen spinning?
DW: Because it looks amazing, and hey, all you need is a pen or a pencil. So naturally the, "I want to do that!" indicator immediately starts flashing in a person's brain when they first see pen spinning.

Thank you very much David for this interview. If you wish to just say anything please do here:
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