Pen tool question for curve lines!

hello illustrators.
i watched this 1 minute tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YuBcgJv6OM
and this guy is making a nice curve,but whats the tool his changing to?im aslo adding like he is a point in between the line,but when i try to make
a nice curve,instead im getting a triangular looking line.

Hmm... But i don't think he has trouble adding anchor points, he has trouble with the handles of those anchor points he's already added, because he said that in order to pull handles out of that anchor point, he had to switch to the Convert Anchor Point Tool, and the guy in the tutorial simply adds the anchor point and the handles are already there.

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Yes this works very well for what I'm trying to accomplish.
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