Sidepicks documents Stealth Rogue challenge lock with unseen hook pin
Stealth Rogue hid a hook pin Sidepicks had never seen, and the upload walked from picking to gutting, key pins, driver pins, and closeup.
Sidepicks’ latest upload on Stealth Rogue’s Sec 1 challenge lock hinged on one detail: a hook pin the picker said he had never seen before. The video broke the lock down in chapters for picking, open, gutting, key pins, driver pins, and closeup, so the story did not end when the core turned.
That structure matters in challenge lock work. A good build is supposed to make the picker read feedback, chase false sets, and recover when the lock starts talking back in a way that does not match the last pin. Stealth Rogue’s hook pin fit that brief. It was not just a novelty piece; it was the kind of geometry that forces a picker to slow down, notice how the pins stack, and work out why the tension is lying.
Sidepicks is built for that kind of first-open documentation. The channel says lockpicking started there in October 2023, and the videos are presented as raw, unedited first opens made for documentation and learning. That choice gives the community more than a result. It shows the hand, the pauses, the misreads, and the moment the lock finally gives up, which is exactly where a challenge lock earns its reputation.
The broader locksport world treats that kind of post-open teardown as part of the hobby, not an afterthought. The Open Organisation Of Lockpickers, or TOOOL, says its mission is to advance public knowledge about locks and lockpicking through teaching, research, and competition, and it also says it aims to strip away the mystery around locks and safes by publicly discussing findings. Locksport is widely framed as recreational, social, and competitive, and community resources such as The Locksport Network Directory list challenge locks as a recognized part of the scene.
That is why the Sec 1 video lands the way it does. The unseen hook pin is the hook, but the real value is the full sequence around it: the pick, the open, the gut, and the closeup that lets builders study what Stealth Rogue put into the lock and what Sidepicks had to do to beat it. In locksport, that kind of record is the point.
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