About Palmvex
Palmvex is an artisan flow arts prop brand created by Ian Jenson, a juggler and object designer.
We make objects for hand control, visual experience, and body-driven movement — props shaped by how they feel in the hand, hold the eye, and move with the body.
Objects lead technique.
Techniques do not always come first.
Often, the object appears first — a weight, a grip, a surface, a size, a strange balance — and the technique grows around it.
A prop is not just something you use. It changes how the hand controls, how the eye watches, and how the body moves.
The thing that started it all
Before Palmvex, I spent years inside pen spinning and small-object manipulation.
I kept seeing techniques move toward something slower, heavier, and more deliberate — almost like a contact staff reduced to finger scale.
That question became the Finger Staff. Then it became the first Palmvex release.
Who I am
My name is Ian Jenson. I started spinning pens in 2008, and I have been working with contact juggling and object manipulation since 2010.
Over the years, I have worked across pen spinning, crystal ball, contact juggling, buugeng, baton, and other technical object manipulation forms.
My work has appeared in multiple Kuma Films features, including crystal ball and pen spinning , as well as international festivals, stage performances, and judging contexts across object manipulation and flow arts.
In 2024, I won the Contact Ball Cup in Japan. I mention this not as a trophy wall, but to explain where my opinions about prop feel, movement, and behavior come from.
Contact Ball Cup 2024
Free Division Champion · Japan
Visual object manipulation
Crystal objects taught me how stillness, refraction, and isolation can change the way an audience watches an object.
Some of my technical crystal ball work was also featured in IJA Tricks of the Month in 2021.
This is the foundation of the GAZE line: objects made to be watched, not only used.
Three ways to meet an object
PALM
How the hand controls the object. Small props for finger movement, hand control, close-range manipulation, and daily practice.
GAZE
How the eye watches the object. Crystal surfaces, isolation effects, refraction, stillness, and the illusion of floating movement.
FLOW
How the body moves the object. Props for spinning, rhythm, transitions, and continuous body-driven movement.
Body-driven movement
Some objects are not controlled only by the fingers or watched only through stillness.
They move through rhythm, transitions, weight, and the whole body. This is the foundation of the FLOW line.
This video shows an earlier buugeng design. The current version is a later-generation product, but the movement research behind it is the same.
What Palmvex is
Palmvex is not built around one fixed discipline.
It is built around the moment when an object changes what a player wants to try — a different weight, a smaller scale, a clearer surface, a stranger balance, or a new way for the hand, eye, and body to work together.
I make props because I want to put these objects into human hands and see what techniques grow from them.
I have been doing this long enough to know that I do not know exactly what will happen when someone picks up one of these props. That is exactly why I made them.