Lock picking videos are becoming more and more popular on YouTube, but Houston Locksport said they were doing it before it was cool. Members get together once a month at a bar to trade tips and tricks ...

As he manipulates a skinny pick to defeat a lock, 25-year-old Schuyler Towne wants to make one thing very clear: Real "locksporters" abide by a strict code of ethics. "Never pick a lock you don't own, ...

[Chronos] let me know that Locksport International released a new visual lock picking guide. The MIT guide is a classic, but not nearly as easy on the eyes. This one covers all the basics and it reads ...

Learning to pick locks is a fun exercise in learning about locking mechanisms, honing a useful skill, and getting a better understanding of how locks work and protect—or fail to protect—you and your ...

Once a month a group of amateur lock pickers get together at Houston bar to pick locks. It might sound like an odd or even criminal hobby, but for the members of the group it’s a way to exercise ...

Over the past decade, “locksport”—the organized recreational picking of locks by amateur enthusiasts—has become a thriving subculture. Participants are, by definition, not professional locksmiths.

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Locksmiths and lock manufactures have found themselves in a jam. The skills of their trade, passed down through generations under conditions of occult secrecy, have been jimmied open online ...

After nearly 15 years of partaking in locksport, the hobby of overcoming locking systems, David Seidl quickly points out he isn’t much better at it now than he was when he started. What locksport has ...

NEW YORK — Babak Javadi is discussing his obsession with lock picking — how successfully pressing each pin into place and feeling the lock cylinder release is "so pleasant," how quickly he fell in ...

SOMERVILLE, Mass. (CBS/AP) Schuyler Towne took a gleaming brass lock, inserted a small bent piece of flat steel into the keyhole and gently applied finger pressure. Then he slid in a lockpick and ...