FIRST thing that came to my mind with a #2 pencil lol! You want quality pencils when playing Pencil Break or Pencil War too
. Like back in elementary school
. Anybody on here ever play Pencil Break or Pencil War back in the day? I'm 47 and all us boys played it to see who could break the others pencil with their pencil. If you don't know the game I'll explain.
You flip or decide who goes first. If you get to hit you make sure your fingers are loose and streatched out and hands warm so you can make a HARD flicked hit on your buds pencil. He holds his pencil Horizontally and the pencil is held between his thumbs and sides of his forfingers. Like making a fist but bring your thumbs to the side of the forfingers.
Now there are ways to swing to your advagage. I always would try and flex my pencil upward like trying to arcing or bowing it upwards. So it wouldn't just break with a good hit. You have to hold you pencil solid and can't be sloppy loose hand or you soften the blow somewhat. Ya lose your pencil and have to give it up to your oponent or get DQed (bumped to play later) if you do. The rest of your friends are witness to a gay sissy hand and will kick you *** if you cheat at pencil break lol.
They of course gather around the competition in a tight circle to block you two playing from the teachers cause you'd get in trouble playing pencil break
The kid who gets to hit holds his pencil down at the preferably unsharpeded end. You want your pencil as long as possible, You want high speed velocity at the other end, but yet this can be a drawback somewhat ragarding pencil length. Because when it's your turn to hold your pencil to take a hit its long and more susceptible to being broken by a solidly flicked hit. Especially if you have dents from previous pencil wars.
But if your pencil is new you hold it the same way as you do when your it's your turn to take a hit. Between the side of your forfinger and thumb. You want to hold your pencil with the flat of the pencil as flat as possible, so if your oponent hits across the flat with the end of his pencil it wont create as big or deep a dent like had it hit the hex point with the same powered strike. The hex point because of less surface area will recieve a deeper dent weakening the pencil slightly more. This was a widley debated discussion amongst the kids which way was better to hold your pencil, flat up or hex point up lol. I prefered the flat up myself.
Then you keep a lose hand and grab the oposite end at the eraser end and take a couple practice flicks. Then you setup......Load up on your pencil aka battle axe, flexing it to it's elastic limits and rain down a VIOLENT STRIKE from your battle axe of a pencil on your opponents swordpencil and smash into it with ALL your flickable might you can muster lol. And hopefully land that DEATH BLOW to your opponents pencilsword and break it in two or crack weaken it where when he takes his turn he breaks his own pencil when he flexes it back to take his hit. YOU are now the victor!!! And now can go on to fight another day and hopefully become Pencil Break Champion of the entire school.
I went through dozens and dozens of pencils playing with my friends back in those school days lol. Great memories having fun. Winning was of course AWESOME!!!
