Week 21: Behind Arm Simple Repeater

This is a pretty simple trick that's a lot of fun to do. I saw it first in Reggie Dias' Repeater Contest video. That entire video is full of great repeaters, but this one stuck out to me if only for its simplicity and elegance. Plus, it's some behind the arm stuff which I'm really not very good at and need to learn more of. (Any suggestions?)

There's not really any hard part about this trick, there's only one move really. There is a trick to it however, and that's to bring the yoyo close to your hand. The closer it is, the easier it'll be to swing into the string and not beside the string or into your arm.

Week 12: Adam's Double or Nothing Repeater

Just came back from a meetup and learned a great new trick for this week. Adam showed me a nice double or nothing repeater that incorporates one of my favourite moves, an intercept.

The difficulty in this trick lies in doing it smoothly enough to not snag. There's a whole lot of places where the yoyo could come zipping back at your hands. So if you're learning this one, I'd suggest starting with a dead yoyo, or a VERY unresponsive one.

Week 10: Slack Repeater from Kinetics

This is one of my facourite repeaters, I was watching Sebastian Brock's Kinetics video and was struck by a really nice and smooth repeater near the end of the video. I fell in love with it and just had to learn it. It almost looks like an alpha-style trick that Doc Pop would do. I don't think I've got quite that flair for it yet, but I'm working on it.

The hardest part of this trick, technically, is to land that slack move over and over consistently, always in the same way. It's also a bit of a mental trick, in that you need to remeber the direction changes. Many times during learning it did I spin the yoyo the wrong way.

All in all, it's an excellent trick, decently easy, and a lot of fun. I highly recommend everyone learn it.

Week 5: Simple Hop Spin Repeater

I was on an oldies trip this week and was watching a ton of videos from Sector Y. Somewhere in there was a trick the Steve Brown was doing that was really simple and really slick. From trapeze, he'd pop up the yoyo a bit, the do an And-Whut style rotation around the yoyo with the throw hand then untwist his non-throw hand. When done doc-pop style and fairly quickly it looks really slick. The video should show it off pretty well.