Hold Chopsticks like a Pen
Countless chopstick wrappers advice learners to "hold chopsticks like a pen". Here we explore the correlation between pen grips and chopstick grips.
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.
Countless chopstick wrappers advice learners to "hold chopsticks like a pen". Here we explore the correlation between pen grips and chopstick grips.
We dispel the false dichotomy of "crossed" vs "parallel" - an outdated way to classify chopstick grips. We propose Under Swing and Sideway Swing instead.
What did people know about the physics of chopsticks, before planetary gear train was revealed as the key driver, instead of the third-class lever?