{"id":8,"date":"2026-01-02T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T18:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fang.blackwhiskercult.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:16:38","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fang.blackwhiskercult.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The beginning;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What started as a joke inside my head, turns into an actual blog and posts. Which I didn&#8217;t expect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me start from the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is fang. I am well known for some in the penspinning community and for others totally unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started in 2009 after watching a video that I later learned was called &#8220;A Collaboration&#8221; and especially from the JEB board in Japan. It was such a weird seeing a hobby like penspinning and in my eyes, was the coolest thing ever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u3010JEB\u3011JapEn 1st\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BB3b1jdj0Qc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My own career was not really noteworthy. I did some tournaments and mostly got kicked out most of the time in the first round. I did some collabs, to be mostly filtered out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a spinner, I was not really good. That&#8217;s something I like to admit. My video&#8217;s were on a poor settup, with bad lighting and without a smooth finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"14 - 07 - 2013\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MaVgrlTZhkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a history in videography, I did edit some collabs and wanted to be more active in the organizing roll. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did however did pretty well social, something that always kept me going back to the penspinning world. We are just a bunch of weirdo&#8217;s and I fit right in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That did make me an active member and after a while I was a pretty known figure on the Universal Penspinning Board (UPSB) and became a moderator (Next to people like Eriror, iColor, Hobby and others) and later on an administrator (Next to Kam, Zombo, and Zkhan). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also ran the Dutch Penspinning community (NLPSC) for a while (next to Eriror, and Xienix) and not forget the few meetings I&#8217;ve been to, like the Duserforf meeting, the Bremen meeting and the Dutch meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rotterdam Gather 2021\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-EPB_2mhc1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bremen gather 19\/08\/17\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pwiVc-I-djM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Xienix for editing these video&#8217;s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">Now life happened and I haven&#8217;t really been active since 2020. In the meantime, I got a relationship, broke up, moved a few times, finished my degree, got a dead-end job, got fired,got a cat, and started my own company. Great times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The penspinning community is something that makes me happy and I have a lot of good memories. I still follow spinners like RPD, Hobby, i.suk, and Coffee on youtube and watch when new collabs come out and not just the JEB Yearly Chistmas video and I have never left the discord groups of different penspinning communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it makes me think I re-try this hobby again. Not to get really good (I&#8217;ve seen the currently level of ps, that won&#8217;t be me in a 1000 years), but just to have fun. I found my old penspinning pens again and I have the space to give it another go. My last uploaded combo on youtube was 2020 and I hope to upload something new and just enjoy my time on the board again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, this blog is a way to keep me on my toes and give out my thoughts (making video blogs is not really my thing). I hope you can enjoy the shit I am about to post. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy spinning,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What started as a joke inside my head, turns into an actual blog and posts. Which I didn&#8217;t expect. Let me start from the beginning. My name is fang. I am well known for some in the penspinning community and for others totally unknown. 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