How To Leanhouse Kendama

What’s up, how’s it going My name is Cooper from Sweets Kendamas. I’m using my prime pro model and today I’m gonna be teaching you how to do the lean house.

Lean house is one of the very first tricks that I ever invented back in 2013, so I’m super super stoked to finally show the world how to do it. First step you’re gonna want to know how to do a lighthouse because the lean house is just a leaning lighthouse, hence the name lean house.

How to lighouse kendama

So learn the light house, and you’re gonna want to learn the borders balance because this is a very balance heavy trick.

So let’s begin. You’re gonna want to pull up the lean house just like you would a normal light house. Give the tama a little flick so that when you pull it up the big cup ends up facing toward you. This is the prime position you want your lean house.

Now next step is the angle of the lean house. It’s just slightly off from a normal lighthouse. About 10 to 15 degrees somewhere in that range, just slightly. The technique I use to pull this up is kind of hard to explain. It’s mainly just like muscle memory, the angle you want to pull it up at.

If anything just pull it up slightly toward your body. Almost like you’re doing barely an airplane, just slightly. The angle is very very subtle. It’s almost no angle. Now to catch the lean house you’re gonna want to catch it right at its apex.

Right when it’s not going up or down and you want to catch it right on the side of the tama if you have some sticky paint. I recommend like a prime sticky clear or prime cushion clear, anything like that with a sticky tama so you can really balance the lean house out on the side.

Like I said, right in between your hands just like a boarders balance. Use your knees, bend down, really give it a cushion and balance it out.

The place where I’m staring is right on the tip of the spike so I can tell which way it’s gonna fall and so I can correct it.

Just like a boarders balance it’s very very minute movements while you’re balancing out the lean house. This technique only works if you have some sticky paint, like I said. Back in the day in 2013 I didn’t have any type of sticky paint like that, so I was forced to do it inside of the bevel.

This way is kind of hard because once it gets in there it tends to rock back and forth left and right, but if you can balance it out it kind of locks in and you’re able to really balance it for a long time. But it’s kind of unstable because of all the rocking.

So let me give that one a go and show you how that one works.

This is inside of the bevel. First way I learned. That one’s a little more unpredictable. This is the way I do it now, like I said on the side of the Tama.

So use your knees, use the Border’s balance technique to balance out the lean house, give it a 180 and land it into the Tama. Like I said earlier this is one of my babies. This is the first trick I created back in 2013 so I’m super stoked to finally be able to teach the whole entire world.

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