What I was _really_ gonna post 8 days ago before my comp crashed.

[ebbomega]

Who taught you how to roll? How did you learn?

Mine was a bit of an arduous journey to consider myself a practiced doobie roller. Still today I make plenty of mistakes. But I generally know how to roll up a quality doobie, minimal kinks.

Well, I learned from the best.

For a long time I had been in the presence of experienced rollers of their own volition. Devan was a masterful doobie roller with a very high success rate. We always just got him to roll one up because, damnit. As well, Pat had a doobie roller and was happy to use it. Jerry and Dave were all about the bongs and pipes.

I always preferred the doobie, except later on when I discovered I liked Hash much more than both. Hash straight from a pipe. But I was unfortunately limited to those around me.

One day, we decide to have a sess with a doobie apiece. Great way to start out a movie. Have one at the ready partway through. Or perhaps a blunt. We decide to roll up a blunt, and Devan uses this as an opportunity to teach me how to roll.

Devan taught me basically how to take your time with it.... Showed me a method where you roll one way, then to roll up and lick up, flip your fingers around. I managed to make up a half-decent blunt. Not an exceptional work but smoked and got us high. So none complained.

Finally, after a while, I decide to start self-teaching. Learnt a few things, mainly just getting my finger dexterity down to a point where I could start to figure out the technique actually getting involved. Spent a lot of time listening to MUX techno whilst rolling it up on the beach at the Cowichan River. To this day I still accredit Drew as one of the people who taught me how to roll.

Didn't do a very good job at it. Eventually gave up. My friend Ian could roll, but didn't "practice" (like a religion, right? He could eat meat etc.). So I adopted that technique. Spent that summer chilling out around the park a bunch, so there were usually some kids around to roll it up.

One day, a group of us is hanging out at a friend's place, and a doobie needs to be rolled. Jerry says I should do it. I say I don't practice. Jerry doesn't take no for an answer.

So I give it a try. Pat starts to show me a style tip courtesy Kurtis "Mothafucking" Jackson; roll it empty for a couple passes to get rid of the crease. Jerry shows me how to pack down a doobie before you roll it ("I cheat," he says. "Keeps it even.") Then shows me how to let the weed almost spill over ("You can always repack it") and then roll it all the way up to the edge. Huzzah! Rolled doobie.

I kind of "Woah" at it. Get congratulations from friends on a finely rolled doobie which is followed by the massage/makeout session. Fucking ravers.

After that, a major test comes in. Shambhala. I bought myself an ounce of bud, I got a leatherman wave to bust, and had many rollies.

Rolled a _lot_ of weed that weekend. Copious amounts. Copious amounts of copious amounts. Got a lot of technique down.

For a while though my doobies would falter if I didn't keep practicing.

Jerry to the rescue once again. He gives me a suggestion: "You know that shitload of shwag pat has? You like shwaggerettes, right? Roll that up into a shitload of doobies. I really don't think Pat would mind."

May it be foretold. YOU WILL NEVER LEARN TO ROLL DOOBIES LIKE YOU LEARN TO ROLL WITH SHAKE. Fuck almighty that shit was nasty, messy, and just not fun. Bud is a fucking cake walk after this.

I'm still running into problems every once in a while. Always have to adjust things. One day Anja saw me struggling on a roll (I think I was teh ripped), so she just asks, "Ever try rolling backwards?"

So I give it a shot. Holy shit. Works like a charm.

So thus far is the journey of my rolling technique.

So. Who taught you how to roll?

[mikey]

I got a quick lesson when i was 15 from a chick i used to blaze with. But basically self taught. However I've taught dozens and dozens of people how to roll.

[hardstylin]

im a self taught master "the fucking master" actually if anybody would like to battle me at rolling meet me at the amsterdam cafe feb 12th 3 oclock sharp ill be there with doobs!!!!!

[Crazy Dave]

I can only roll when I'm too stoned to smoke any more.

[mapleleaf4ever]

My friend Thomas taught me how... I'm ok... need to practice more. I prefer a Pipe or my Hookah. I'm lazy.

[Behn]

self-taught, very handy sill to have tho...

[mojo]

never learned.
i had an ez roller.