How To Snakebite Kendama

We are going to learn a trick called the snakebite. A lot of you’ve been curious about how this trick works. So I’m gonna break it down.

Let’s get into it. So how does this trick work? The first thing that we want to do with this trick is: it has a slight pull up and it’s not like doing an airplane.

How To Snakebite

Nor is it like doing a lighthouse, but you just want to throw the ken up into space, so it has some room so that we can actually throw the bead at it. And ideally, you want the spike to kind of be facing you, so you can see straight down the Ken. So what we’re gonna do to practice. This trick is just pull the Ken up. Just like you would to do the trick itself, but then we’re gonna practice.

The wrist motion. So what we’re gonna do just like a snake striking we’re gonna go away from our body quickly, while twisting the hole away from us and that’s gonna. Allow the bead to fly out of the Tama and what we’re aiming for is directly cross diagonally across the sarado, going right by the Ken and right underneath the small cup. That’s what we want to aim for, so you can practice that just going up and you’re actually gonna be whipping forward, but also somewhat downward. So getting that angle as you pop the kendama up is pretty important.

Big Cup Snakebite

Now this trick does work on the big cup as well.

I just like to aim for that crossroad section over the sarado, but it is cool how it works on both sides of the cerrado. The most challenging part is just getting the angle of your snakebite, making sure that your angle is gonna, allow the bead to track under the cerrado up around lock into place and then gain tension to finish that trick.

That in itself is basically the trick. The most challenging part about this trick is getting the bead to actually lock and wrap around the string. So I’m going to show us what the string is actually doing as it comes around.

The string is going to be coming around the small cup and as it wraps around the cerrado, the bead is actually going to go in between the two other strings right here and it’s gonna lock itself in place. So you can get out of it. In many different ways, common way is just swinging it up to airplane. The way I like to get out of this trick is by sliding the Tama down the string and it lands super neat on the spike and it’s a cool way to end that trick.

How to Land Snakebite

So how do I do it?

To Land Snakebite we want your ring finger just on the bottom side of the string, so the string coming out of the Tama should be resting and making contact with your ring finger. Now the Tama ball is facing directly away from you. It’s even flat with the ground and what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna put a little bit of motion. I find it helps what I do this, putting a little bit of motion in the kendama towards your body and then a little bit of a motion away from your body with the Kendama and once the ken is going away from you, release.

One tip that’ll help you with this trick is actually using a bearing bead. If you don’t have a bearing bead, you can find bearing beads here.

But if not, it still works with just the normal plastic bead as well. One of the biggest challenges that I find with this trick is that when I’m actually doing the whip itself, the bearing will bounce off the Ken. Or just bounce and not go in the the direction that I want to right Underneath that small cup.

And it all just comes down to practice, you just got to practice that motion. Remember. You can start here and just practice that whip trying to get the string and the bead to come out of the Tama.

Just like so become the snake. You got it so there you have it the snake bite, it’s a super fun bead trap type of trick. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and it helped.

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