[188] My Approach to Lock Picking Tension

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.

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

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

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 ❤️

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!

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

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

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.

“If you stuck with me this far...” We’re not going anywhere!

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

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!

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

I felt like such a badass when I lost the key to my postbox and picked it with a letter opener.

I just paid so much attention to tension I'll mention my invention, it's a tension retention extension. My intention is not dissension but ascension to the pension dimension where my penchant for prevention of contention ends with detention or suspension. also locks.

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

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.

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.

Man I wish LPL had more time to do videos like this and this length. I know he too has a life and family but man we sure could triple our learning quickly. Either way, thank you LPL for ALL you give us.

lpl: use heavy tension because it amplifies a small click across a room theives who are trying to covertly pick locks: ok

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.