Sat Aug 23, 2014 10:34 am by xeo
I'll just be totally honest with you, about my own personal reasons for not speaking:
The main reason is I am not on YouTube to entertain people. Speaking detracts from concentration. Farmerfreak is right in saying that some locks require immense concentration and thinking about what to say next unnecessarily occupies brainpower. The goal of my videos were to document my picking progress and accomplishments and to not educate the viewer about anything. I wanted to focus on the sounds of the lock instead of some annoying commentary. I am personally allergic to the pop culture commentary style "Tosh 2.0" canned laugh rapid fire motif that plagues modern television and media. It makes me sick at the amount of over-stimulation provided by content creators as if they're trying to medicate people with severe ADHD. People seem to be more and more uncomfortable with silence these days. They all seem to need to be constantly speaking even if the speaking means nothing. Yes, Bosnianbill is the "most popular" lock picker. That means absolutely nothing to me. What have you actually learned from him about raw picking skill? Is his endless speaking and entertaining helped you at all?
Enough about that, I wanted to record raw realistic lock picking where the picker is not doing anything but picking the lock. You can very clearly hear the pins clicking/setting in most of my videos. This is something that a lot of lock pickers who make videos neglect. I had one person send me a message on YouTube claiming that he used my videos as a way to fall asleep because of how relaxing they were. If you actually pay very close attention at what I'm doing with the picks and tensioners you can see some of the techniques I use and you can actually learn something by simply watching. You'd be surprised at how many messages I've gotten asking me what I was doing or how I was doing it when they could have learned by watching closely.
But, in any case, if you want to ask questions feel free to ask me.
The code is hidden in the tumblers. One position opens the lock, another position opens one of these doors...http://www.youtube.com/xeotech1(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
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