I Tried this Mind-Blowing Ancient Japanese Technique

i never knew dirt could become so shiny and beautiful!
there's a nice metaphor/lesson about life somewhere in there...

If you're still reading this, thanks for coming along with me on my journey of making a Dorodango! and if you're new here welcome aboard! :)

#diy #dorodango #artist #diyprojects #creative #japanese

[octimus]

It's 3 am and im here, sitting, watching a dude rub his ball for 36 hours straight

[AstroPirate]

The ancient japanese did this as a symbol. A symbol of patience and hard work. With hard work even a pile of dirt can become a shiny gem. Now you have proved that you are capable of great patience and hard work and that you dont give up.

[madeofnapalm]

You were right, it's the best dorodango I've ever seen.
It's also the first, but those are minor details.

[_Harly_]

Not gonna lie when he said I need some special dirt i thought we had gonna dig a grave up

[lectronica]

Now THIS is a true DIY project. No fancy workshops, no expensive machinery, just some dirt and a lot of free time!

[themagdanzhaus]

What are we waiting for? Let's get an assembly line going. I'll dig.

[space-odessey]

Actually, making dorodangos is Japanese children’s daily fun. They preserve it in their own shoes boxes and everyday polish it after come back home, like their little pets.

[chaonpod]

This is detailed enough to essentially be a tutorial, and it's done with such simple tools. I think I might actually try this, make one for myself and then see if I can't make one to sell whenever I have a big purchase I wanna make, to cushion the expenses a little. Thanks for putting so much effort into showin us the process.

[LeoTeo-xpwu]

I love how he values his wedding dirt like gold

[jonathonthomas]

Okay this is getting crazy. I legit _just_ read the part in one of the Eragon books where a dwarf does this exact practice and i had no clue it was based on something real

[anrijupiter]

We all made dorodangos as kids in Japan but I didn’t know it could be that hard. Good job!

[theunrecorded]

Why am I watching a man turn dirt into a shiny ball at 2 26 A:M

[YasuTaniina]

That's such a a sweet way to preserve a memory. I kinda want to teach this to my kids

[CinJyxxe]

Dorodangos are usually multiple-day labors of love, and the most perfect ones can take weeks to finish, so a 24-hour timeline is very ambitious.

[WormBurger]

The ancient Japanese techniques using ancient Japanese microfiber.

[Enzozenki]

This video has been up for 2 months, and currently has 1.6 million views..
1.6 million people have watched you polish dirt, including myself..
Not bad. Good job man

[crowznest]

I used to know some people back in the 1980s who lived in a dirt floored cabin. That floor was swept every day and it was shiny and hard like those dirt balls.

[misqclips]

So it was "dorodango" ...
I used to do this technique when I was younger and in spring or autumn on the beach and the forest on the cliffs nearby. We just took a big or two hands full of muddy sand from that area, where the waves disappearing in the sand. We formed a kind of ball with it with twisting while throwing it from left hand to right hand and vv. Every now and then we took a little bit less muddy or just dryer sand from the beach and added it around this ball. We were perfecting the technique of drying the ball with throwing it from hand to hand and grinding and forming it with turning it around and around. At the end, means after about 2h, we were only adding really dry sand or soil and were kind of polishing our sandball while it got perfect spherical and really robust.
We actually were able to roll it over the pathes in the forest or even concrete later. But mostly we had fun with just throwing it down the cliffs and hearing a loud dull bang of the impact.
Everytime nice to know, that those intuitive techniques have a name.

[Gorillacado]

I fell asleep with YouTube on and woke up watching a man make a dirt ball😂😂😂

[daniellabonafede]

I’m not gonna lie I was NOT expecting that good of a product for the dramatic reveal. I gasped I am so impressed!! I’ll have to make one soon for my special occasion