Deciphering

Rolling the J

  • Nov5/09 21:04:31
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[Cypher]

We've all, at some point, been that guy/girl. Faced with a pile of freshly ground bud, we pick up a leaf of rolling paper and gingerly sprinkle some weed into the crease, attempt to roll it up while retaining the contents, and ultimately come up with a crumpled fail of a joint. Laughter and mocking ensues among the more experienced, who take over and are able to produce a tightly rolled masterpiece within what seems like seconds. They are moving so quickly, that you cannot take in the technique(s) they use.

This was me about a year ago. I took refuge in my ownership of a nice, albeit small glass piece, and banished from my thoughts the possibility of me ever becoming consistently good at rolling joints. Since then, I've learned a couple techniques as well as come up with methods of my own. Here is what I used to do when I had a bit of time on my hands, and before I really realized rolling as an art. Experienced rollers, you have been warned: this technique gets a bit messy to the point of being almost blasphemous. Here's my old "rolling" technique, step by step:

 1. Grind weed into pile with fingers.

2. Find a rolling paper (I use ZigZag) and a ballpoint pen.

3. (The unbelievable part) Roll the paper around the pen, lick, seal into perfectly round tube.

4. Slide the tube almost all the way off the pen

5. Fill tube with weed until almost full.

6. Twist off the free end, remove from pen, twist off other end (this is before I knew about the rolled card "filters" used in joints).

7. Get laughed at/attacked for awful, insulting technique and lack of skill. 

 

I have since learned how to roll cone-shaped joints from a friend, and while I'm not awesome at it, I can produce something respectable, and more importantly, smokeable in about a minute. 

 

Okay, so now that I've 'fessed up, your turn. Leave instructions/descriptions for any rolling techniques  you have invented. These can be actual legit ways of rolling, or ridiculous mistakes that turned into methods such as the one described above. 

Hope to hear from a few of you, at least.

Peace. 

Kappy Nov10/09 08:01:54
[Kappy]

The perfect joint, every time

Cypher Nov10/09 13:03:23
[Cypher]

Yeah, that'd be a worthy investment.