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Inside the hidden world of competitive lockpicking - CNET
Despite criminal comparisons and bruised fingers, a community of hobbyist lockpickers is thriving online.
It starts with tension.
Not unlike defusing a bomb, the practice calls for incredible precision -- listening and feeling for the acute signal that progress is being made.
It could take minutes, hours, days. Even weeks. Tools break, fingertips turn purple with pressure. Grips falter. All for a series of tiny mechanisms, hidden within the confines of a piece of metal no bigger than a few inches.
It's rigorous and demanding, but for the locksport community, it's all worth it to hear that final click.
Despite criminal comparisons and bruised fingers, a community of hobbyist lockpickers is thriving online.
It starts with tension.
Not unlike defusing a bomb, the practice calls for incredible precision -- listening and feeling for the acute signal that progress is being made.
It could take minutes, hours, days. Even weeks. Tools break, fingertips turn purple with pressure. Grips falter. All for a series of tiny mechanisms, hidden within the confines of a piece of metal no bigger than a few inches.
It's rigorous and demanding, but for the locksport community, it's all worth it to hear that final click.