Everything that you can’t find about the way chopsticks work, anywhere else in the world. That is what you’ll find here. Why are text books wrong, when they say chopsticks exemplify third-class lever? Why did thinkers fail for thousands of years, to describe the real finger dynamics behind the twirling of chopsticks? Why do all learning chopsticks available in the market fail to train you? Are there really as many chopstick grips as there are ice cream flavors? And more.
To use chopsticks with the Standard Grip, a flattened, unnatural thumb pose known as Caswellian thumb is needed.
Of myriad ways people hold chopsticks, roughly half of grips engage the tip of the thumb, while the rest do not.
Did you know that chopsticks have more in common with planetary gears than Archimedean levers? Discover the real physics of chopsticks.