Oh my gosh, Tumblr! You don’t seem to know about Begleri yet, which is great, because I get to dork out and explain it!
Reasons why you should try it:
- It’s literally just a piece of string that you put a heavy (~14g) thing on each end of. This heavy thing can be, like… basically anything? So can the string.
- This means that you can just pull out your shoelace and tie a housekey to each end if you need a skill to practice on a desert island(??)
- This also means you can make one by going to a hardware store and spending less than $5. Get some brass nuts for the weights, a couple on each end. Done.
- If you’re in the paracord community, there’s a design you can make almost entirely out of paracord! Google “monkey fist begleri”.
- Looking at it from the reverse side now, if you nerd out about high quality metals (this is a significant portion of internet people, which is great, i love you) then you can buy or hand-machine ones out of things like titanium and damascus steel! If you haven’t touched damasteel before, this should be your new life goal. Just go get a bunch of it and touch it. So satisfying. If it’s in begleri shape, you get to say it isn’t a waste of money.
- I KNOW you’re thinking “this looks hard” (except that’s me in the vid and i suck), but you don’t have to hit the ceiling or do round-the-worlds or whatever. You have so many options, lots of which are fun, cool looking, and really, really simple. Just “juggling” it, for example, which is booping it an inch into the air and then catching the other end, over and over - much easier than real juggling, it never even does a full rotation so you’ve totally got that. Or rebounds, which are just bouncing it a bunch off your own hand to channel your boredom, and requires literally no skill except swinging a string til you hit yourself with it and then going the other way.
- Also you don’t even need to do tricks. If you’ve got some really smooth sexy metal-on-a-string in your hands, maybe just… rub that metal. Or rub it against itself so it makes those satisfying scraping noises. Or rotate the beads, or separate the beads and click them. Or string it around your hand like you’re tying yourself up, then take it off and do it again. So many fidgets are available here.
- Totally lowers stress in a way that imo these other fidgets can’t, because they’re all unconscious tasks, whereas you have to focus a little on this. It’s like focusing on your breathing.
- Learning a new skill makes you feel enriched, and you can keep learning and performing this forever.
- 110% more classy than a fidget spinner (unless it’s made of damasteel)
- old greek traditional toy so you can’t be accused of trend-riding, you’re up on the hill of tradition with kendama and stuff
- There is also a toy version for kids that is rubber and lights up called ThumbChucks, so you can start your kids young. These ones are also p good for raves because of the light, according to the kool kids.
- You can customize yours to be the prettiest in all the land, complete with tassels and bumblebee-colored string, or you can make silver and gold beads on black string and take it to a wedding or something?
- Legit helps some people with hand injuries recover from them. I know this because both my hands are almost as good as new now, and I was in assisted recovery for over a year. I mean, good as new apart from that one I can never remember the name of, next to the pinkie. Both of those are still pretty stiff. Gotta work on those more.
I’ll leave you with this :)
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