So to use chopsticks..

If we take our first chopstick, we just want to place it at the base of our thumb

open your fingers, and just rest the chopstick against the side at the end of your ring finger

Then just lay your thumb over this chopstick just to hold it in place

And the pressure of your thumb against this chopstick should press it against your finger and your hand

And this will just hold this chopstick in place keeping it stationary

Now for the top chopstick..

You want to hold it between your thumb and your first and second finger

a little bit like when you're taught to hold a pencil

But you don't want to be holding it with the tip of your thumb, because you see how it makes my thumb bend

You want to hold it more

With the pad of your thumb

So you can keep your thumb completely straight

And it's really important that you keep your thumb straight and you'll see why in a moment

And also you want to move your thumb a little bit further up your fingers, roughly where the first knuckle is

Then what we want to do to move this chopstick. You just want to bend your first and second finger

Paying attention not to bend your thumb

If you're holing it with the tip of your thumb, which you can do with just one chopstick

you're likely to bend your thumb

and you won't be able to hold the bottom chopstick as you'll see in a moment

So concentrate, on just moving this first chopstick with your first and second finger..

trying to keep your thumb straight

You want to create sort of a fulcrum or a seesaw effect underneath your thumb

So when you've got the hand of that

You can place the bottom chopstick back in place..

base of your thumb against the side of your ring finger at your nail

Lay your thumb over it

And then take your top chopstick, put it back in place

Again.. between your first and second finger at the ends there and then the pad of your thumb

pressing on the chopstick just to hold it in place and then to open and close the chopsticks

we just do the movement that we learned with our first and second finger

And that is all there is to holding chopsticks

Now remember to keep your thumb completely straight, see how my thumb is straight

Keeping it straight is keeping pressure on this chopstick and this chopstick

If you have your thumb bent or you're holding it with the tip of your finger

immediately you just lose control of this bottom chopstick

So if you find that this bottom chopstick is coming loose

Or you can't meet because you're just not holding this chopstick in place

It's likely you're still bending your thumb As soon as you bend your thumb

you see how you create an arch and you start to lose pressure against at this bottom chopstick.

You're not holding it with a lot of pressure anyway,

so if you lift it up you're just losing pressure and it's just..

It starts sliding up your finger and there's no way you can get it [to stay in place]

So concentrate on keeping your thumb completely flat

and you can push this knuckle a little bit down

In order to put some pressure on the chopstick

And then just practice the movement of opening and closing the top chopstick by wiggling your first and second finger

So when you've practiced that movement a little bit you can start to try and pick a few things up

I've just got a couple of blueberries here

Blueberries of all different sizes

And if you don't have any chopsticks don't worry, you can just use a couple of pencils

So here's a little tip courtesy of LeesRandomVids..

Popcorn!

I believe popcorn is very good for practicing your chopsticks

Because like with any technique, it's about repetition. You've got to do it lots of times.

And popcorn..

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

Like some foods are really difficult when you're learning it's better off having something that's really easy

And it's also important that this is toffee popcorn

Why?

Because it's absolutely delicious!

and the delicious part is what will make you keep with the repetition

It's okay just moving an item on the table, putting it there, putting it there

You'll get bored with that quite quickly

With something delicious as this you take one, you eat it

You go straight back, you eat another one, you eat another one..

you eat another one!

and before you know it you've eaten 30, 40, 50, 100, 500 pieces, I don't know

depends how big your bag of popcorn is

And you've practiced the movement several hundred times with little effort

You wouldn't sit and place something there to there five hundred times

Maybe you would but I wouldn't

You'd get bored with that quite quickly

You know I'm joking it doesn't have to be toffee popcorn, it can be anything you want

but something that you're going to keep eating, something that's moreish

For example, you could also use peanuts

Peanuts are even more difficult, but again they're really moreish

These salted peanuts you eat one, you eat ten

and you can't stop at ten You just keep eating and eating and eating

and you eat so many

It's also important as well because you're using this technique

You're not just picking something up and placing it there like I have done with the video

you want to actually take it and eat it

Why? Well you might practice this movement from there to there

and you'll get it perfect, but when you come to use your chopsticks you might find you pick one up

You take it to mouth oh, and you drop it. You pick another one up..

and you drop it. As soon as you get to your mouth, you drop it

And again

Because you haven't practiced movement from here to your mouth

you might find you're opening your hand for some strange reason

So you've got top practice actually taking it to your mouth and eating it from the chopstick

To learn and practice and repeat the perfect technique

So thank you for watching. I hope you enjoyed this video I hope you learnt something.

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And now I get to eat all this popcorn to myself!!! :D

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