[188] My Approach to Lock Picking Tension

[pepperfrensley]

It’s 2021 we need more vids like this where LPL just chills and has a real chance to explain. I like the 2-3min vids plenty but this is just what I needed thank you sir.

[wetmink]

Given the speed and ease with which you've opened many locks, I'll take this advice.

[hillbillyholler]

Here I am looking at this in 2024 as I'm beginning my journey into locksmithing and I have to say the heavier tension tip has absolutely saved me! Thank you for what you do and please keep helping us improve our craft ❤️

[RagnarokCo]

This man talks about locks with a passion I've not seen from anyone else. "Look at that tight, tight, TIGHT little dimple keyway~."

[bradhill]

Every beginner should watch this video. It's jammed packed with great info and improved my skills 100%. It is the only video that I found that really helps you under stand tension and how to relate it into your picking. Thanks for explaining it in such detail. Wish I would of found this video when I first started hobby lock picking. Really a must see

[pkrdy]

Wow. I'm in my first week of learning to pick and have been having major consistency issues mastering my first basic 4-pin lock (no security pins). One day I'll pick it 5-6 times in a 45 min practice session, the next I'll struggle to get 2 successful picks. Sometimes I feel like I can tell when the pins set, and sometimes it's a total mystery . . . until this video. Just took your advice and was able to FEEL EVERYTHING, which resulted in 5 successful picks in the space of about 4 minutes. I'm just about ready to move onto bigger and badder locks after a 15 minute video. Thanks so much!

[obfuscated]

Videos like this should NOT be considered overly long because the "short" videos are the hook while longer videos (this one has over a million views!) will be rightly popular AFTER viewers are introduced to the subject. LPL could do a six hour marathon and many of us (self certainly included) would happily watch it if not necessarily in one shot. The LPL audience is firmly established.

[tomorronow]

You can tangibly hear LPL's second thought about stringing the words "thickest, stiffest tool I have" together; the tiny hesitation afterwards is solid gold.

As always, great video!

[nematode_interface]

Your careful manipulation of tension is something I noticed while watching your videos. This more in-depth description was very informative. Thanks.

[morebouncetotheounce]

“If you stuck with me this far...”

We’re not going anywhere!

[memelorddavid]

A 15 minute video from you is like the equivalent of an hour long for any other youtuber, lol

[B-RaDD]

LPL mayor slogan:
We Don't Pay Enough Attention To Tension

[skootz]

I really must thank you for this video. I've been a locksmith for just over two years now, and you just advanced my skills more in fifteen minutes than the senior locksmith in my shop has the entire time I've been there.

seriously, It's a night and day difference how much faster I am now.

[joeygarza]

I don't have any locks to pick nor do I have a lockpicking set... that being said, I sure do appreciate watching an expert explain his craft which is so dear to his heart.

[Heulerado]

Funny, I was practicing on some cheap padlocks (I'm pretty new to lockpicking) and was doing the exact same thing you said: Really heavy tension, releasing a bit when I found the right pin. I thought I was not doing it "properly", but since light tension didn't work, I thought "Fuck it, this works for me and it makes sense". Then I watched this video. Glad to hear I'm not the only one skeptical about the light tension golden rule!

[robjuliekolar]

Thank you for this video it's very very very very very very informative for somebody that's just getting into the lock picking hobby. I'm 42 years old and already 100% disabled so I have to have something to keep my mind busy. I believe your advice is very very good I've done everything from building houses to 200 unit apartment buildings. When my body couldn't do that anymore I went back to college and got into mechanical engineering @CNC job shops all the way to Snap-On and Caterpillar. I watched a lot of videos and tried to follow the very light tension advice ending in very big frustrations. I would recommend this video to anybody that is seriously wanting to know how to do it efficiently. "Paying a-tension" improved my picking by 500% overnight.

[bobloblaw]

Superb video! The thought you've put into this topic in addition to the organized, concise, and articulate manner in which you deliver the information is unparalleled! Thank you.

[Kenshin_Tran]

just watching this i understand why it took me like 30 mins to pick a master. great info!!!! love it! thank you

[tahaiftekhar]

Lockpickinglawyer: I don’t understand why someone will use this tool.
Me: (throws away that tool)

[olenilsen]

This is by far the most valuable lesson from you, and I play this bit over and over and over again. Please make more videos like this to help us understand how it works.