How To Small Cup Kendama Tutorial

Learn How To small Cup Kendama

In this post I’m going to explain to you how to catch the tama with the small cup. If you haven’t already, make sure you’ve learned how to catch the tama on the Big Cup because all the same techniques apply.

Grip For small Cup

And just like the Big Cup we’re going to start by learning how to hold a kendama. Specifically in Sara Grip, only this time you’re going to turn your hand over so that the small cup is facing up and the spike is pointing away from you and then catch it on the small cup. Of course, like the Big Cup you also want to practice with the Ken Grip because will use both grips.

The difference is that when you turn it you want to make sure that the spike is pointing towards yourself and this is very important because a lot of tricks rely on the spike pointing in towards yourself.

Practice catching by pulling up ball and positioning the small cup under the ball and using your knees to help the ball land softly in the small cup.

And once you’ve mastered that you want to start trying to put these two techniques together that you’ve learned, going form the small cup to the big cup. We can start from the Sara Grip, come up small cup, big cup. You can see there is a lot of wrist action in there, so this is where it’s very important to make sure you are using your knees to pull the tama up.

And that is how you catch the tama on the small cup!
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