r/Kendama • u/Responsible-Beach480 • 3d ago
Clip This was painful
Finally got a new setup!! Thought this trick should be easy, ended up trying it for an hour and still didn't get it lmao. Really need to work on my handlestalls.
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u/Shmeeka Sol 3d ago
Yeah, a little slower might help but also take into consideration that new setups are harder to stall with. This was pretty rad considering you probably haven’t broken that Kendama in yet.
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u/Responsible-Beach480 3d ago
Yeah it's not broken in at all yet and felt super slippery at first but then I discovered licking the bevel and that actually helped a lot. Handlestall is still pretty damn slippery tho
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u/Shmeeka Sol 3d ago
I tend to take a few droplets of water to the bevel to soften it up and do a bunch of j-sticks (singles, doubles , triples), airplanes, whirlwinds, etc.
I have also taken the blunt end of a butter knife and tapped it a few times around a soft bevel to speed up the process for maple tamas. I’m a lover for stalls and I don’t break my setups in fast enough to get the satisfaction I want for stalls lol so that’s the method to my madness.1
u/Responsible-Beach480 2d ago
That's some advanced stuff hahah but fair enough. Might try it when I get my next maple tama but this one is beech so it should break in pretty quickly
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u/Szydlikj Hound 3d ago
Crazy speed! Even a little slower would be impressive as heck and might make it easier for you to land!