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<font color="white" size=".72c">In this video
I'm going to show you how to use chopsticks</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So to use chopsticks..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">If we take our first chopstick,
we just want to place it at the base of our thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">open your fingers, and just rest the chopstick against the side at the end of your ring finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Then just lay your thumb over this chopstick
just to hold it in place</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And the pressure of your thumb against this chopstick should press it against your finger and your hand</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And this will just hold this chopstick in place
keeping it stationary</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Now for the top chopstick..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You want to hold it between your thumb and your first and second finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">a little bit like when you're taught to hold a pencil</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">But you don't want to be holding it with the tip of your thumb, because you see how it makes my thumb bend</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You want to hold it more</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">With the pad of your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So you can keep your thumb completely straight</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it's really important that you keep your thumb straight and you'll see why in a moment</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And also you want to move your thumb a little bit further up your fingers, roughly where the first knuckle is</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Then what we want to do to move this chopstick. You just want to bend your first and second finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Paying attention not to bend your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">If you're holing it with the tip of your thumb, which you can do with just one chopstick</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">you're likely to bend your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you won't be able to hold the bottom chopstick
as you'll see in a moment</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So concentrate, on just moving this first chopstick
with your first and second finger..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">trying to keep your thumb straight</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You want to create sort of a fulcrum or a seesaw effect underneath your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So when you've got the hand of that</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You can place the bottom chopstick back in place..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">base of your thumb against the side of your ring finger at your nail</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Lay your thumb over it</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then take your top chopstick, put it back in place</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Again.. between your first and second finger at the ends there and then the pad of your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">pressing on the chopstick just to hold it in place
and then to open and close the chopsticks</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">we just do the movement that we learned with our first and second finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And that is all there is to holding chopsticks</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Now remember to keep your thumb completely straight, see how my thumb is straight</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Keeping it straight is keeping pressure on this chopstick and this chopstick</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">If you have your thumb bent or you're holding it with the tip of your finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">immediately you just lose control of this bottom chopstick</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So if you find that this bottom chopstick is coming loose</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Or you can't meet because
you're just not holding this chopstick in place</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's likely you're still bending your thumb
As soon as you bend your thumb</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">you see how you create an arch and you start to lose pressure against at this bottom chopstick.</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're not holding it with a lot of pressure anyway,</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">so if you lift it up you're just losing pressure
and it's just..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">It starts sliding up your finger and there's no way you can get it [to stay in place]</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So concentrate on keeping your thumb completely flat</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you can push this knuckle a little bit down</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">In order to put some pressure on the chopstick</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And then just practice the movement of opening and closing the top chopstick by wiggling your first and second finger</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So when you've practiced that movement a little bit you can start to try and pick a few things up</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">I've just got a couple of blueberries here</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Blueberries of all different sizes</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And if you don't have any chopsticks don't worry,
you can just use a couple of pencils</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So here's a little tip courtesy of
LeesRandomVids..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Popcorn!</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">I believe popcorn is very good for practicing
your chopsticks</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because like with any technique, it's about repetition. You've got to do it lots of times.</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And popcorn..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's nice and light, and it's all different sizes, and it's  uneven shapes as well, so it's really easy to grip</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Like some foods are really difficult when you're learning it's better off having something that's really easy</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And it's also important that this is toffee popcorn</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Why?</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because it's absolutely delicious!</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and the delicious part is what will make you keep with the repetition</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's okay just moving an item on the table,
putting it there, putting it there</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You'll get bored with that quite quickly</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">With something delicious as this
you take one, you eat it</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You go straight back, you eat another one,
you eat another one..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">you eat another one!</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and before you know it you've eaten 30, 40, 50, 100, 500 pieces, I don't know</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">depends how big your bag of popcorn is</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And you've practiced the movement several hundred times with little effort</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You wouldn't sit and place something there to there five hundred times</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Maybe you would but I wouldn't</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You'd get bored with that quite quickly</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You know I'm joking it doesn't have to be toffee popcorn, it can be anything you want</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">but something that you're going to keep eating, something that's moreish</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">For example, you could also use peanuts</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Peanuts are even more difficult, but again they're really moreish</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">These salted peanuts you eat one,
you eat ten</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you can't stop at ten
You just keep eating and eating and eating</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you eat so many</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">It's also important as well because you're using this technique</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You're not just picking something up and placing it there like I have done with the video</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">you want to actually take it and eat it</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Why? Well you might practice this movement from there to there</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you'll get it perfect, but when you come to use your chopsticks you might find you pick one up</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">You take it to mouth oh, and you drop it. You pick another one up..</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">and you drop it.
As soon as you get to your mouth, you drop it</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And again</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Because you haven't practiced movement from here to your mouth</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">you might find you're opening your hand for some strange reason</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So you've got top practice actually taking it to your mouth and eating it from the chopstick</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">To learn and practice and repeat the perfect technique</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">So thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video
I hope you learnt something.</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">Thanks a lot. Bye!</font>

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<font color="white" size=".72c">And now I get to eat all this popcorn to myself!!! :D</font>

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