YouTube-Lock Picking tutorials

[gademsky]

There are a number of people teaching lock picking on YouTube. Bosnian Bill was the first I found when I started and I continue to learn from him.
There are many people making YouTube videos of lock picking, but they don't do much for teaching or help a person learn new skills.

Here are the You Tubers I have identified that actually teach picking threw the use of videos.
1. Bosnian Bill
2. Lock Picking Lawyer
3. Schuyler Towne

Can anyone here recommend other You Tubers who have learning sites? or even other websites that are good training places.

[ltdbjd]

Datagram has a lot of good articles on his site, though they might be a bit complicated for somebody who is brand new. http://lockpickingforensics.com

Same goes for Marc Tobias. http://www.security.org

TOOOL has a lot of good beginning info. http://toool.us

So does Deviant Ollam http://deviating.net/lockpicking/

There are a bunch of others; these just come to mind right off the top of my head.

[tpark]

There are a number of people teaching lock picking on YouTube. Bosnian Bill was the first I found when I started and I continue to learn from him.
There are many people making YouTube videos of lock picking, but they don't do much for teaching or help a person learn new skills.

Here are the You Tubers I have identified that actually teach picking threw the use of videos.
1. Bosnian Bill
2. Lock Picking Lawyer
3. Schuyler Towne

Can anyone here recommend other You Tubers who have learning sites? or even other websites that are good training places.

Bosnian Bill's video where he teaches about how spools are picked with an indicator showing the core position (with washers as weights) is brilliant; This is genuinely helpful in explaining what is really happening. I really liked how the Lockpicking Lawyer opened the MT5+ lock - those things are bastard hard, and I haven't picked mine yet. Of special value is how he explains how to get the lock back together. Check out Random Locks on youtube - he's got some interesting videos and he also has one where he reassembles the lock first.

[gademsky]

This weekend I found a bunch of good videos and training type videos on utube at uk lockpickers (utube name) and then a large group of good learning videos at ukbumpkeys. These are under the tab how to lock pick.

The internet is amazing for learning.....and a person learning curve can be so rapidly increased with these videos and practice, compared to 20 years ago.

No wonder the economy and workforce is changing so rapidly.

[MiPo]

Thanks, the ukbumpkeys is really good. I actually love the unusual stuff beside the usual picking theme, like pulling a plug or the decoding tools.

This weekend I found a bunch of good videos and training type videos on utube at uk lockpickers (utube name) and then a large group of good learning videos at ukbumpkeys. These are under the tab how to lock pick.

The internet is amazing for learning.....and a person learning curve can be so rapidly increased with these videos and practice, compared to 20 years ago.

No wonder the economy and workforce is changing so rapidly.

[jeffmoss26]

I learned a lot from Wizwazzle and Kokomolock way back when.

[Pickybastard]

I'm working my way through bosbills videos now. i'd say i'm half way through or more. i love that he doesn't just focus on picking. there's a lot to learn about making tools, bypass sort of stuff, pinning, assembly, tool reviews, lock features.............he's a great teacher. i'm going to check out the above suggestions too. i 2nd reddit as well.

[huxleypig]

For all the Bosnian Bill fanboys, do not take everything he says as gospel, he is actually pretty inexperienced but just good at sounding like he knows what he is on about. He very often talks complete shit.

[MiPo]

Can you give some examples please? Thank you.

For all the Bosnian Bill fanboys, do not take everything he says as gospel, he is actually pretty inexperienced but just good at sounding like he knows what he is on about. He very often talks complete shit.

[huxleypig]

Oh my God, where to start?! As a rule, I do not watch his stuff because it winds me up and so the full litany of nonsense can't be fleshed out here in all of its glory. But I will outline a few things:

He is not a locksmith and has only been picking locks for 2 or 3 years and yet you'd think he was some sort of guru.

He thinks all Abloy are unpickable and that they have trillions of differs . He has no idea AT ALL about them, just that some can be hit with a hammer.

He knows nothing about disc detainers (not just Abloy).

He "picked" a Vanlock in one of his videos...by drilling into the face and making his own tensioning slot! That is not picking a lock. Hilariously, Vanlocks can be picked without defacing them but Bill does not know this, let alone how.

These are things that he has gotten demonstrably wrong. If you think that he is informative then watch his videos again in a few years' time!

[Razor2016]

Oh my God, where to start?! As a rule, I do not watch his stuff because it winds me up and so the full litany of nonsense can't be fleshed out here in all of its glory. But I will outline a few things:

He is not a locksmith and has only been picking locks for 2 or 3 years and yet you'd think he was some sort of guru.

He thinks all Abloy are unpickable and that they have trillions of differs . He has no idea AT ALL about them, just that some can be hit with a hammer.

He knows nothing about disc detainers (not just Abloy).

He "picked" a Vanlock in one of his videos...by drilling into the face and making his own tensioning slot! That is not picking a lock. Hilariously, Vanlocks can be picked without defacing them but Bill does not know this, let alone how.

These are things that he has gotten demonstrably wrong. If you think that he is informative then watch his videos again in a few years' time!

I think the truth myself and others need to take from this is that "not everything you see on the Internet is real". Watch them for the entertainment and glean whatever good is to be had from the videos, but don't use them as your sole foundation for learning to pick locks. We all discover things differently depending on how our brain is wired, rejoice in the difference and explore every option you have available to you.

Regards Ray

[tpark]

My opinion is that most of the YouTube lock picking videos have value in that they are both entertaining and instructional. There may be errors, and sometimes the poster of the videos may have misconceptions or make errors, so it's important to think about what you've seen and apply your own critical reasoning. On message boards such as this one, errors may also occur, but it's more likely that someone will catch the error and comment on it.

tumbl3r has some great videos where he opens locks that are very difficult.
Although he rarely posts now, chessguy125 has some impressive lock openings.
Random Locks has some videos where he opens challenge locks. He makes challenge locks too, but I haven't seen videos of what he does to make them.

It's great to watch people open very difficult locks, but watching less experienced people open locks has value too, since they are showing you part of their learning experience too.

[huxleypig]

Don't get me wrong, I have learned and do learn a hell of a lot from YT videos. My issue with Bill is more with his followers who lap what he says up verbatim and then have the temerity to slag me off because I disagree with his bollocks.

In my Youtube videos I try to open locks that have never been opened on Youtube before. If it isn't unique then it does not go up.

[jimu57]

Some of it is educational. Some is entertainment. No one knows it all.

[gademsky]

huxleypig. Can you give me your utube name? I would enjoy looking at your videos. BosBill is very entertaining and I bet he is making big money from his utube views. He isn't a working locksmith but does have solid over view of locks from his own study and also from what appears to be federal agents position involving security.

My long time locksmith and great friend seems to be very cynical towards BB and critical of BB's skills. Looks like my friend is not the only locksmith that feels that way.

The profession of lock smithing is a lifelong learning career. Put 20 locksmiths with 30 years experience each into a room and each would know something the others didn't. That room would make a great basis for a knowledge based artificial intelligence system that could challenge security systems. Sort of like the IBM Watson computer that can beat anyone at chess.

So BB has narrow band of experience, but makes good media and I would like to see the 1099 he gets every year from google.

Anyone here up for putting together an A.I. system? Some sort of knowledge based expert system. Its coming....then put that as the brain of a simple, cheap robot and you guys might be out of work!! ha