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Did you play with slinkys when you were younger? Josh Jacobs has taken a childhood toy and turned it into a visually stunning art form. Slinky manipulation is a fairly new practice, starting around 2010. Josh got into "slinking" eight years ago when watching an incredible Chinese performer do things he never thought possible with a slinky. Now, Josh is one of the best slinky manipulators in the world.
Check out Josh's channel here: / @slinkyjosh
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Director: Charlie Jordan
Director of Photography: Colin Witherill
Editor: Richard Trammell
Talent: Joshua "Slinky Josh" Jacobs
Producer: Wendi Jonassen
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Melissa Cho
Production Manager: Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Audio: Ted Thacker
Cam Op/Gaffer: Alex Witkowicz
Production Assistant: Daniel Ellis
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Ben Harowitz
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@jopo7996 Год назад

No matter what time of year it is, it's always springtime for this guy.

@enyajungle Год назад

Got him sprung

@pianoguy5110 Год назад

Ha ha... That was a nice one

@jamesforrest9837 Год назад

absolutely fire

@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle Год назад

Huh? it's always tornado, mosquito, wet and allergy season for this guy? sounds terrible

@tonedblock1106 Год назад

He inspired LL Cool J’s song “HEAD SPRUNG”

@whatwilliwatch3405 Год назад

I love his enthusiasm. He sounds like he'd be willing to talk to someone for hours on the topic of "slinking." He also just has a really friendly, positive vibe. I can imagine a lot of people being inspired by him, just based on those things alone.

@chimkinNuggz Год назад

Hey vsauce. Michael here.

@ilovexu Год назад

@@chimkinNuggz ☠️

@DepressedVoidGuy Год назад

he is doing that right now

@Wired4Life2 Год назад

"I wanna be a slinky man," he cried, "Make me a slinky man!" But the slinky master did not answer. He just kept on slinking!

@plainpotato6454 Год назад

😂😂

@ShawnFumo Год назад

Deep cuts here

@blackvulture7999 Год назад

"TEACH ME YOUR WAYS, SLINKY MASTER!"

@jeanxza5395 Год назад

To slink, or not to slink.

@jellojiggler1693 Год назад

This was the very first thing I thought of when I saw the thumbnail.

@MyFatherLooksLikeAPallasCat 7 месяцев назад

He's exactly how I imagined a pro-slinker would be. A tad bit nerdy, enthusiastic, confident, eccentric, but just radiating pure happiness and joy! He's now one of my role models!

@teddy2577 Месяц назад

That's great 😁 it's really hard to find a role model these days 😔

@StevieCooper Год назад

He’s happy, talented and spreading joy. We should all be a bit more like this if possible. Good floor him 😊

@hxcadillac Год назад

It's amazing ceiling him perform!

@zachnado69 Год назад

@@hxcadillac i can't think of any good wall jokes

@daniel9485 Год назад

@@zachnado69 wall I hope you can find a joke

@gef2 Год назад

lets the slinky hit the floor

@franxyt6424 Год назад

Sure he is a kid grown

@ZergrushEddie Год назад

Of course most of the footage of him wowing people are festival goers. If I bumped into this guy at Burning Man I'd probably be convinced he was a wizard

@randall814 Год назад

Definitely recognize Electric Forest in some of that footage lol

@Michael-kp4bd Год назад

@@randall814 same! That place is forever unique

@kuyakris615 Год назад

@@randall814that house at 2:07

@randall814 Год назад

@@kuyakris615 Yes indeed, good eye! The only other festival that even comes close is Shambhala but I've been to Forest enough times to recognize it instantly

@briondalion3696 Год назад

@@randall814 I've never been and it's sold out this year. Maybe next year.

@alexpetrov13 Год назад

I love it how accurately he describes how to do the tricks. Not only is he great at slinking but also at explaining and teaching others about it

@karltrapson Год назад

That's because this isn't hard at all. Balisong tricks are way more difficult, but you see all kinds of people still doing them online.

@briandhamby 11 месяцев назад

@@karltrapson They're commenting on how well he speaks about it. Of course there are things that are harder, that's completely irrelevant.

@MaxMckayful 11 месяцев назад

Lots of performers ALSO practice that - it's a skill itself. Some natural talent and aptitude, some learned "how best to explain it" craft hones through years as a performance artist. Not required for acts, but a component many showfolk add.

@remoengels2085 2 месяца назад

Naa he isnt only the basics with some skill u have them on lock within a week and then you have to figger it out your self..

@arushsharma6556 Год назад

What I find most interesting is not only he has mastered slinky, but also defined the terminologies around techniques, making it much easier to pass on the knowledge to others

@coyotemoon722 11 месяцев назад

Yes, he is very adept at "terming"

@searchandestroy69 Год назад

This guy is exactly what I’d imagine a “slinky manipulator” to look like

@thanosianthemadtitanic 8 месяцев назад

you can manipulate my slinky anytime babygirl🤨😏

@Franic19 Год назад

I never really realized how fun those slinkies could be, let alone see what you could really do with them other than make them walk down some stairs. This looks crazy fun though and actually makes me want to pick one up to learn some :D

@juancelop Год назад

Love this comment!

@KolmManison 7 месяцев назад

When I saw the stupid bottle rolling down stairs tiktok trend, my brain went "that's just dumber, more hazardous version of watching a slinky."

@sabastiankilgore781 Год назад

There is almost nothing like the feeling of controlling pure momentum, and that moment of power over inertia. Manipulating momentum feels amazing

@JGunit Год назад

It's crazy how someone has mastered the art of every obscure action imaginable.

@stanleykubik1778 11 месяцев назад

give yourself 2hours of practice and you ll be a master just like him, lol.

@janajusimi269 9 месяцев назад

@@stanleykubik1778 2 hours is nowhere near enough -someone attempting to do this

@celuler22 4 месяца назад

@@stanleykubik17781000 hours to be able to claim mastery of any given task

@DOC_951 Год назад

With a name like “slinky Josh,” good thing he’s so into slinkies!

@Tricke432_YT Год назад

that's his artist name, not his real name haha

@takoinche Год назад

LMAO

@PhilhellenicAgori Год назад

@@Tricke432_YT that was the joke

@JosiahWarren Год назад

Great coimcidence

@Sharkest44 Год назад

No way someone thinked that that it is his real name....☠️

@johngalactus4014 Год назад

So nice to see stuff like this, just a human enjoying his time and then sharing it to others.

@aldo9021 11 месяцев назад

I'm a long time yoyo player and absolutely love seeing videos like this! Just people having fun and living their best lives!

@SmokeyChipOatley Год назад

This was me as a kid in a Mexican family whenever my mom would chuck a molten hot tortilla at me when having dinner. If only I’d known she was trying to prepare me for any potential career opportunities as a hippy-flipping slinky bending electro wizard performer at Burning Man slangin’ slinks in exchange for hits of acid-laced warhead candies.

@philipm3173 Год назад

🙈

@TheRolvaag Год назад

Poetry

@twostepRMX Год назад

I’ve ran into this guy at electric forest! He bounced it right off my head and made my day

@fuzzybanana0123 Год назад

"It's pretty unique to have a slinky this giant." Found my new Tinder opening line.

@felipeandmichelle Год назад

This is so wholesome that it almost feels like a mockumentary. I love it.

@Resyektt 8 месяцев назад

Hahaha perfect way to put it,

@GaryGuerin Год назад

great tricks ! Please introduce him to the slow-mo guys ! I would love to see the behaviour of the slinky at insane frame rates !

@bikeny Год назад

Great idea.

@ZZ-qy5mv 7 месяцев назад

I love how he’s not gatekeeping or claiming it as his idea, but is just excited to grow a community for a pretty new art form.

@bugorchard Год назад

I used to ask my friends to tangle up my plastic rainbow slinky in any way they wanted because I genuinely enjoy untangling them. That is, unfortunately, the only slinky skill I possess. This guy is incredible.

@wishingonthemoon1 10 месяцев назад

Not only do I love his craft, I love his enthusiasm and joy and passion for sharing slinking and passing the knowledge down!

@Moofy1 Год назад

That's incredible! I've gotten into penspinning, yoyoing, magic, cubing but everytime I had a slinky as a kid I always remember stretching it out weirdly and it wouldn't go back, then I'd break it 😂

@CreativeSteve69 Год назад

I like this guys mantra practice makes perfect. This year I'm going to find time for myself to learn my unicycle no excuses. Thanks for the motivation Josh Jacobs.

@artepjan Год назад

Ace Ventura perfectly bouncing a slinky on a super long stairway until the very last step still makes me laugh until this very day XDD

@midwestmike613 Год назад

I can see him killing it at all the EDM shows!

@keithgreene79 Год назад

This is so cool. I was performing similar tricks in my room as a kid with the metal Slinkys - until they bent or became too entangled. Awesome of Josh to take this to the next level of performance and exposure.

@Resyektt 8 месяцев назад

NO THIS CANT BE TRUE, ACCORDING TO THE VIDEO SLINKY ART DIDN’T EXIST UNTIL HE SAW A VIDEO OF A CHINESE DUDE DOING IT AND DECIDED TI CREATE IT HIMSELF SO THERES NO POSSIBLE WAY YOU JUST SOMEHOW DID THIS BEFOEE IT WAS EVEN A THING. You folks are ridiculous 😏😂 /s

@keithgreene79 8 месяцев назад

😅🤣

@rikii2034 Год назад

wow slinky winky

@rhyshm9102 Год назад

Impressive

@elizabethgodwin7679 Год назад

What I love about this is that it's an incredibly new thing and an incredibly old thing at the same time

@Aleedis226 Год назад

These intriguing Wired videos always give me timeline apprehension right before I show them to my kids, who COULD drop all plans & latch on to fun but random/niche jobs, finally making this the literal crazy house I joke about. 😄

@Digitalhunny Год назад

Wendy, if you watch this video back to your practicing the 180 trick, really watch your active hand. When you go to flick it back you're flicking real hard. Try flicking the slinky softer, or more _feel the momentum_ of when it wants to return. You _absolutely_ CAN do it! You're just giving it a bit _too_ much juice.😉 When you do get it, you NEED to post a short to RU-vid as an update!🤞

@j3nki541 Год назад

These toys already amazed me as a child just watching them run down some stairs. Stoked to see them again, glad people have found ways to make them cool again.

@Fallub Год назад

Those tricks look even more amazing in slow-mo. Cool guy.

@jacobc874 Год назад

I know this fella, couldn't be a more kind and lovely soul.

@talabarzkar785 Год назад

I love this guys so much! His enthusiasm for what he loves is infectious ❤

@luxtempestas Год назад

Man, I would give all I have to have ANYTHING in my life that I would look at it with the joy and enthusiasm he seems to have towards his Slinks! 😢

@JV-ll1cu Год назад

Video games

@AnaRena1094 Год назад

He has such a fun and colorful job. I'm happy for him!

@azdaze227 Год назад

Made me super happy he mentioned yoyoers, my friend group and I all competed in yoyo contests and some of us messed around with slinkies and noticed tricks could be done with them but never took it this far, that's so cool

@Frank7489 5 месяцев назад

I’m glad you put that trying to learn part in there cuz he really makes it look like something you could just pick up and do first try

@jugglerj0e Год назад

As a juggler and doing some flow, this is so cool. I never realized you could do this with slinkies. I just think of them going down a staircase.

@randomsandwichian Год назад

This, juggling (assorted), yoyos, the diabolo kinds, etc, they're all just mesmerizing. Kudos to you too.

@n0xure Год назад

I think it's because slinky's are famously fragile. If you're the "juggler-type" and at one point owned a slinky as a kid, I'm 100% sure it didn't survive the first day. You got bored after seeing the slinky go down the stairs three times, so you tried to use your hands as steps and as a result it got tangled up and ruined after five minutes.

@tm82891 Год назад

I met josh in 2015 when he was roommates with my buddy. Congrats Josh! Great to see you make it this far

@a2rhombus2 Год назад

Always excited to see new forms of juggling like this

@k03hl3r Год назад

Cool to see this guy on Wired! The clips of him slinking at Electric Forest went kinda viral within the EDM/music community and I wondered who he was!

@karimjawhar5 Год назад

People like this make me realize you could really succeed doing anything if you really love it and stay consistent. He plays with slinkies for a living, don’t let anyone tell you what will and won’t succeed at.

@pentachronic Год назад

Just goes to show how much joy an inanimate object can give when animated by a master craftsman! ❤

@sashajary Год назад

Omg, one of the best video you did!

@NeroBaelside13 Год назад

My entire life I thought that watching it go down stairs was the pinnacle of entertainment for a slinky.

@GreenT_LoR Год назад

What a cool guy. Josh's being just exudes joy.

@Lucifer-hq5pe Год назад

Yeah, the guy is a real slinker.

@renees766 Год назад

I love slinkies! I'm old school, so the original metal is my fav, but those tricks w the plastic...WOW!

@nahometesfay1112 Год назад

I used to do this kind of stuff with a metal slinky. There are some disadvantages, but you can still do all kinds of tricks.

@insectbah Год назад

I love people getting really good at stuff!

@PacoOtis Месяц назад

Very enjoyable! Thanks for sharing!

@SinisterShrink Год назад

I wonder if he coined a lot of the terminology himself, or if other slinky artists did before him. I remember seeing the same video of the chinese guy doing it and I had the same reaction he did, I wanted to learn how to do it. Unfortunately I made the mistake of doing it with a metal slinky and, well, it ended up the same way the metal one in this video did.

@torpedex4600 Год назад

I didn't even know a slinky was something you could master

@SeriousGamer753 Год назад

This is SO much cooler and more visually pleasing that juggling! Dang!

@CapitainBarbaRoja Год назад

The just simple happiness this brings him and the people involved is great.

@GuyWithAnAmazingHat Год назад

I remember watching that very clip of the Chinese slinky performance, pretty cool to see one of the origins of an artform.

@helder1340 Год назад

@citrusblast4372 Год назад

Someone should ask THAT guy where he learned that lol

@dbzcollector9963 Год назад

This sorta reminds of yo-yos how everyone has probably owned one at some point but the most exciting thing we’ve done is making it go down like 12 sets of stairs. Then they’d end up tangled and in the trash within a week. 😂😂😂 I never would of imagined something like this so props to him for doing it and doing it well.

@dave14647 Год назад

Love this guys energy

@nemlicklee Год назад

Ive met him a couple times at shows, it's so cool watching him live and a very very nice guy

@joaquincaceresguibovich3182 Год назад

I'd love to see a physicist explain why any of this happens

@slishslash9202 4 месяца назад

Im no physicist but he said in one of his videos that the wire of the slinky travels in sort of waves, like when you whip a rope up and down it travels all the way down slowly. So when he does that hand twist the twist eventually reaches the other end of the slinky when he does his next crazy move.

@amicaaranearum Год назад

Next week on House Hunters: HUSBAND: I’m a professional slinky manipulator. WIFE: I’m a world yo-yo champion. HUSBAND: Our budget is $875K.

@user-py6ou4ob2g Год назад

you need yo do a video about skateboarding, some of the things people can do is absolutely insane and technical. I think its worth it

@montysaints4750 Год назад

He's mastered skills beyond our realm.

@ItIsYouAreNotYour Год назад

Every slinky I have ever owned ends up in knots and broken.

@bruno3 Год назад

If we had to fight aliens for the future of our civilisation and slinkies were somehow involved, this guy would be in the room. A true expert.

@albcod90 Год назад

men i was looking for activities to feel my time and this was so cool! this inspires me a lot. thanks guys for the video

@captcoin9512 Год назад

Met this dude at a music festival, awesome to talk too and he bopped me on the noggin. Great dude

@Business_Facts_Daily Год назад

walter white if he never met jesse

@JourneyStand Год назад

GREAT! Now I have to buy a Slinky

@gabriel.cashez Год назад

man... the vibes of this dude are crazy, he is just happy all the time, what a nice pal

@stphndrn Год назад

There's definitely Phisics in this art form...Im glad we live in a day and age... that someone can live off slinking manipulation! And he's happy so cool!

@roofus282 Год назад

This is some avengers-level super power 💀

$@fractiousfauxpas1368$

@fractiousfauxpas1368 Год назад

Straight away my brain went to flow arts at raves, but I see you've already done it. Seems a little more accessible than a some of the other flow art equipment I've seen, more intuitive at least 👌

@tripalongbrasil Год назад

Wow, didn't know Babish played with slinkies as a side hustle! Very cool.

@t.n.k-willy6684 Год назад

bro looks like water white

@radry100 Год назад

Literally every asian street vendor who sells slinkies can do that.

@avantikaarvind4725 Год назад

This is literally so awesome

@Trund27 Год назад

I love this!! What talent!!!😮😮😮😮

@torpedex4600 Год назад

Slinky Master is such a wild job title

@MoGimp. Год назад

Dean Pelton before Greendale.

@kaonashi3D Год назад

My buddy and I met this guy like five years ago at a fest he's come so far. So great.

@Vroxius Год назад

I actually started watching his videos a couple weeks ago glad hes on here now

@abruoon Год назад

slinking manipulation community

@hillpunk92 8 месяцев назад

wild! ive been juggling for a long time and thats very unique and interesting. many more variations than i would have thought.

@robertsmall1657 11 месяцев назад

This guy also has a rare talent for teaching and engaging. Would make a great teacher.

@theinventiveidiot 11 месяцев назад

he does! He has some courses on his site! and does workshops!

@danielamaro4554 Год назад

Art form? I don't think so

@johnchristian4821 Год назад

Wow. That's an amazing Slinky Bending! Ang will be very proud!

@pixelchu Год назад

There’s cardistry, yo-yos, kendamas, bottle flipping, and now this I discovered. I wonder what’s the next toy to be taken to the next level. It didn’t occur to me much how cool slinkys can be.

@penname8441 Год назад

So a white guy got famous for doing something he saw an Asian guy do, why didn't wired try to go find the original Asian guy josh says inspired him?

@clentonium Год назад

...

@Bettinasisrg Год назад

We used to try stuff like this in the 1970s but all the slinkys were metal so I think that's why it's taken until the plastic ones came out to catch on, also yes the bends! So cool!

@juancelop Год назад

Man, his aura is amazing! 🥹 Now i miss my childhood slinky that only went down the stairs 😭