First off, I'd like to thank Guy Wright for letting me name this trick. It's very nice of him and just proves how much of a cool guy he is.
I first saw this trick in a Guy Wright video, sadly I don't remember which one. So you should take this upon yourself to go and watch all of his videos. ALL OF THEM. It'll totally be worth your time.
I eventually decided on the name interrobang (that's the punctuation mark !?) because of the way the trick flows. You start with an And Whut? hop in a wrist mount, and go into some chopsticks. This is the interro part, as you're wondering what's going on. Then, you drop the wrist, and do a mini hook. That's the bang part because it's really quite sudden and impressive.
The hard part in this trick is without a doubt the hook. You've got to line up your string just so, and get the speed of the hook just right. It's classic Guy Wright; when you get it smooth, it looks effortless and impressive.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Adam SE's Wrist Combo
This is a nice wrist combo that Adam taught me at a YoYoToronto meetup. I was initially mesmerized by the slack in the string when you suddenly fall into a wrist mount, but these days I'm really interested by the under-hop into a reverse GT.
The hardest part of this trick is probably that slack drop into wrist mount. You've got to pinch the string at just the right moment or you'll end up in a mess of string and no wrist mount. But get it right, and get it smooth, and you'll be greatly rewarded. Also of interesting note, is that the reverse GT at the end, is such that you can hop directly back to trapeze. A very useful and interesting concept.
The hardest part of this trick is probably that slack drop into wrist mount. You've got to pinch the string at just the right moment or you'll end up in a mess of string and no wrist mount. But get it right, and get it smooth, and you'll be greatly rewarded. Also of interesting note, is that the reverse GT at the end, is such that you can hop directly back to trapeze. A very useful and interesting concept.
Slackometry
This is a really cool trick from Jayyo's video Forward in Time. You should really watch that video, it's chock full of great stuff. It starts out with my favouritest move ever, the slack to little wrist, and moves through some just awesome slack moves. This is probably my most favourite slack trick ever, even better than some Takahiro Iizuka tricks.
There's little to watch out for in this trick, the only real hard part is moving the slack up onto the string about halfway through, otherwise it's pretty simple.
There's little to watch out for in this trick, the only real hard part is moving the slack up onto the string about halfway through, otherwise it's pretty simple.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Wrist Double Slack
This is a fun little move I came up with while playing around with getting in and out of wrist mount. This is similar to a move I've been doing for a while but without any slack. It's good fun and looks really slick. Not to mention it's quite useful when trying to move from wrist mount to man and brother.
The only thing to watch out for is to let go of that first pinch early enough for the slack to disappear. It only looks like its doing a revolution. Pretty simple stuff.
The only thing to watch out for is to let go of that first pinch early enough for the slack to disappear. It only looks like its doing a revolution. Pretty simple stuff.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Appearing GT
Happy New Year! I'll just stop counting weeks now since I've clearly not managed to post one per week. There's a big backlog of tricks though, so I think I've managed 1 every 2 weeks. Which isn't that bad considering!
This trick is one I made up while messing around. I got tired of seeing tons of tricks where the GT was just the end of the trick and not an integral part of it so I decided that I'd make up a trick where the GT was right in the middle. I've mostly succeeded, although I still end in a GT (sort of).
The hard part to this trick is flipping all those string layers back onto another string without causing a bind. You'll probably need a very wide gap when first learning this. Enjoy!
This trick is one I made up while messing around. I got tired of seeing tons of tricks where the GT was just the end of the trick and not an integral part of it so I decided that I'd make up a trick where the GT was right in the middle. I've mostly succeeded, although I still end in a GT (sort of).
The hard part to this trick is flipping all those string layers back onto another string without causing a bind. You'll probably need a very wide gap when first learning this. Enjoy!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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.
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.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Week 20: Lil' Wrist with Custom Start
Lil' Wrist is yet another trick from the awesome raytsh. I've extended the beginning of it to have some fun slack stuff. I used this trick in my Canadian Nats freestlyes, and the first little slack bit was much to the crowd's delight. This trick is full of fun little parts that flow fairly well together once you've got it up to speed. Just love the first 2 pop-outs when done at speed.
The hard part is without a doubt the chopsticks->back string pseudo-suicide. It looks really cool, but if you give it too much slack the yoyo will lose spin really fast. If you have the back string taught, the yoyo will start to tilt. It's really a very fine balance, and you really need to move quickly there, which of course makes learning it more difficult.
Thought I should just point out the song in the background of my video because it's awesome: Jammer ft Boy Better Know - 10 Man Roll
The hard part is without a doubt the chopsticks->back string pseudo-suicide. It looks really cool, but if you give it too much slack the yoyo will lose spin really fast. If you have the back string taught, the yoyo will start to tilt. It's really a very fine balance, and you really need to move quickly there, which of course makes learning it more difficult.
Thought I should just point out the song in the background of my video because it's awesome: Jammer ft Boy Better Know - 10 Man Roll
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Week 19: GT Slack Stall
This one is a fun trick I picked up at a YoYoToronto meetup that Stephen taught me. It's a pretty simple trick but it just looks so very cool.
The ninja-vanish stall makes it look like you're going to do some Guy Wright-esque suicide combo, but unexpectedly you whip the string into the gap. It looks like you've messed up, but then with a quick rotation around your hand, like magic, a GT appears!
The only hard part to this trick is getting the whipped slack to the right length. Too little and you'll either miss or drop the slack into the gap, getting you a knot. Too long, and you'll either whip too much, or the wrong part into the gap, or the yoyo will gyro off the string. Just takes a bit of practice.
The ninja-vanish stall makes it look like you're going to do some Guy Wright-esque suicide combo, but unexpectedly you whip the string into the gap. It looks like you've messed up, but then with a quick rotation around your hand, like magic, a GT appears!
The only hard part to this trick is getting the whipped slack to the right length. Too little and you'll either miss or drop the slack into the gap, getting you a knot. Too long, and you'll either whip too much, or the wrong part into the gap, or the yoyo will gyro off the string. Just takes a bit of practice.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Week 18: Wrong Schema
After a short hiatus, I'm back! I just got busy what with Canadian Nationals (7th place! whooo!) and several friends getting married. I've got several tricks filmed and ready to go, so expect quite a few posts in the next little while.
So this trick is one I learned from a video. After watching and learning many trick elements from Sam Lopez's videos, I noticed his trick compilation. I saw wrong schema in there and was instantly in love. Not only did the name speak to me, as someone who's used XML before, but I just loved the double ferris wheel through the triangle at the end of the trick.
There's not really much that's explicitly difficult about this trick. My only real tip is to make sure you don't drop the string while learning as you'll get a knot. It's simple to learn and really rewarding. It really opens the doors to a lot more tricks.
So this trick is one I learned from a video. After watching and learning many trick elements from Sam Lopez's videos, I noticed his trick compilation. I saw wrong schema in there and was instantly in love. Not only did the name speak to me, as someone who's used XML before, but I just loved the double ferris wheel through the triangle at the end of the trick.
There's not really much that's explicitly difficult about this trick. My only real tip is to make sure you don't drop the string while learning as you'll get a knot. It's simple to learn and really rewarding. It really opens the doors to a lot more tricks.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Week 17: Double or Nothing Long Combo
This week is again a departure form usual. This is a combo I made up. It uses elements that I made up over the past year or so. There's inspiration here from Doc Pop, Jeff Donovan, Citadel, and Frank Orben (raytsh).
The beginning is based off of Time Twister with the bounded pop (I guess they call that a bend now?), the section after that with over-rotating a mach 5 is something I made up, there's some Doc Pop right after that with a lover's leap and trap door. Moving from the trap door to a fold is an extension of a growing rock the baby combo I used to do a lot. The move from reverse GT to a standard GT is something I saw in raytsh's gunslinger trick. The one finger spin and reversal is an extension of something I saw Jeff Donovan do in an old String Cheese video (those were the best, such awesome talent in there, still want to learn agent orange and code red). The rest of the trick is all mine, though I hear that Mickey does something similar with a backhand suicide catch.
Enjoy the trick, and if you want to learn any part of it (or all of it) I'd be glad to show you in person.
The beginning is based off of Time Twister with the bounded pop (I guess they call that a bend now?), the section after that with over-rotating a mach 5 is something I made up, there's some Doc Pop right after that with a lover's leap and trap door. Moving from the trap door to a fold is an extension of a growing rock the baby combo I used to do a lot. The move from reverse GT to a standard GT is something I saw in raytsh's gunslinger trick. The one finger spin and reversal is an extension of something I saw Jeff Donovan do in an old String Cheese video (those were the best, such awesome talent in there, still want to learn agent orange and code red). The rest of the trick is all mine, though I hear that Mickey does something similar with a backhand suicide catch.
Enjoy the trick, and if you want to learn any part of it (or all of it) I'd be glad to show you in person.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Week 16: Sebastian Brock Decade Trick Breakdown
I originally learned this trick off of the decade video that Citadel posted, it's right after the second song change. I showed off this trick at one of the regular Yo-Yo Toronto meetups and immediately had several requests to show them how to do it. So, while this isn't a full tutorial, the video's got a nice breakdown from several angles, and I'll write down what's going on.
Start by throwing a buddha mount (aborted 1.5 basically), but grasp the string coming off your throw hand with your ring finger and pinky such that the string comes out the bottom of your hand now. This is to create some space later on in the trick. Drop the strings off your non throw hand, or alternatively, just bring your non throw hand in close to your throw hand. Now, pluck the middle string with your non throw hand index and pull it back behind the string, and to your left a bit (assuming right handed here). Now, bring that string, still behind the other strings, underneath your throw hand, straightening out your index as you go. Use that momentum to tighten the strings a bit and hop the yoyo up, behind the strings, and around the strings twice. The key here is to keep the strings fairly taught. Practice time twister or figure 9 if need be. Now, uncross your hands, curling in both index fingers to hold the strings, and repeat the hop and spin maneuver in the same direction. If all goes well, you can just straighten out your non throw hand index finger, and drop the strings on your throw hand, and you should be in trapeze.
Good luck!
Start by throwing a buddha mount (aborted 1.5 basically), but grasp the string coming off your throw hand with your ring finger and pinky such that the string comes out the bottom of your hand now. This is to create some space later on in the trick. Drop the strings off your non throw hand, or alternatively, just bring your non throw hand in close to your throw hand. Now, pluck the middle string with your non throw hand index and pull it back behind the string, and to your left a bit (assuming right handed here). Now, bring that string, still behind the other strings, underneath your throw hand, straightening out your index as you go. Use that momentum to tighten the strings a bit and hop the yoyo up, behind the strings, and around the strings twice. The key here is to keep the strings fairly taught. Practice time twister or figure 9 if need be. Now, uncross your hands, curling in both index fingers to hold the strings, and repeat the hop and spin maneuver in the same direction. If all goes well, you can just straighten out your non throw hand index finger, and drop the strings on your throw hand, and you should be in trapeze.
Good luck!
Week 15: Peril
I originally found this trick when I was out trolling the internet for new yoyo tricks to learn. The double triangle stretch-through intrigued me so I decided that I'd give it a shot. If you have seen rethink yoyo yet, check it out, it's got some pretty neat tricks that are totally worth learning.
The hard part in this trick is the first pass through the triangle. It's really easy to get the string coming off the yoyo the wrong way, or to have the yoyo rub up against your hand because your triangle's too small. There's a lot of really easy ways for it to go wrong. That being said however, it's a really entertaining trick, and the stretch-throughs will reall wow your audience, no matter who they are (except Yuuki Spencer, or Shinya Kido, I doubt they'd be impressed, though likely very polite).
The hard part in this trick is the first pass through the triangle. It's really easy to get the string coming off the yoyo the wrong way, or to have the yoyo rub up against your hand because your triangle's too small. There's a lot of really easy ways for it to go wrong. That being said however, it's a really entertaining trick, and the stretch-throughs will reall wow your audience, no matter who they are (except Yuuki Spencer, or Shinya Kido, I doubt they'd be impressed, though likely very polite).
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Week 14: Kanta
Sorry for the short hiatus, I had some things to attend to, so now I've got a backlog of uploads to do.
This trick is called Kanta, I originally saw it in the ILYY 2009 Team Video when I was looking for some decent frontstyle tricks to learn. Unfortunately, the angle in the beginning is really hard to see, so I asked crackout on twitter if he could provide a better angle. To my surprise, he did! So thank you crackout, for making this post possible.
The hard part in this trick is the mount, it's quite difficult to aim the yoyo (especially larger ones) into the gap between the strings. It helps if you use both your index fingers to get a bigger angle on the string. That way the string you're aiming for is in the middle of the gap in the strings. The only other difficult part in the trick is the stretch through the triangle, but it's just a matter of trial and error until you get the right configuration.
This trick is called Kanta, I originally saw it in the ILYY 2009 Team Video when I was looking for some decent frontstyle tricks to learn. Unfortunately, the angle in the beginning is really hard to see, so I asked crackout on twitter if he could provide a better angle. To my surprise, he did! So thank you crackout, for making this post possible.
The hard part in this trick is the mount, it's quite difficult to aim the yoyo (especially larger ones) into the gap between the strings. It helps if you use both your index fingers to get a bigger angle on the string. That way the string you're aiming for is in the middle of the gap in the strings. The only other difficult part in the trick is the stretch through the triangle, but it's just a matter of trial and error until you get the right configuration.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Week 13: Hougu
I've got a playlist in youtube of videos with tricks I want to learn. For some reason I'd completely forgotten about this trick. The breakdown comes courtesy of raytsh and was fairly easy to learn.
This trick looks really cool, it's got that nice drop between thumb and index I love seeing so much and it's got some decent GT play in there too. The pop at the end is very difficult to do without hurting your wrist. For the purposes of this video I opted for a slightly different dismount. You could argue it's easier, but I'd just argu I'm turning my hand in a different direction and it's the same move.
One thing to watch out for is after you do the drop into what's essentially a GT, the next few moves can very easily make a yoyo bind, so be sure to use a VERY unresponsive yoyo. I made the mistake of trying to film this trick with my P2 who's bearing had been freshly cleaned and lubed. Needless to say, that didn't work out so well.
Well, enjoy the video, I've added a few filters to help make it look a bit better. Also my cat got bored of my attempts.
This trick looks really cool, it's got that nice drop between thumb and index I love seeing so much and it's got some decent GT play in there too. The pop at the end is very difficult to do without hurting your wrist. For the purposes of this video I opted for a slightly different dismount. You could argue it's easier, but I'd just argu I'm turning my hand in a different direction and it's the same move.
One thing to watch out for is after you do the drop into what's essentially a GT, the next few moves can very easily make a yoyo bind, so be sure to use a VERY unresponsive yoyo. I made the mistake of trying to film this trick with my P2 who's bearing had been freshly cleaned and lubed. Needless to say, that didn't work out so well.
Well, enjoy the video, I've added a few filters to help make it look a bit better. Also my cat got bored of my attempts.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
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.
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 11: Boing Combo From Moloko Velvet
In the middle of Crackout's excellent video Moloko Velvet, is a fantastic looking boing combo. It's got a bit of slack, and some GT play, making it an instant classic in my books. I actually had to learn over-under boing for this trick. I don't know why, had never thought to learn it. That in itself might not make a good posting, so I've decided to do the entire trick.
The only part with any real difficulty is getting the transition from regular boing to GT boing perfect. It's quite easy to miss that string. Obviously the frontstyle revolution is easy to miss, but that's a matter of practice.
Really like this trick, how you do too.
The only part with any real difficulty is getting the transition from regular boing to GT boing perfect. It's quite easy to miss that string. Obviously the frontstyle revolution is easy to miss, but that's a matter of practice.
Really like this trick, how you do too.
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.
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.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Week 9: Reverse Suicide
Trick for this week is another simple one as I'm once again gearing up for a very complicated combo. Actually two of them, we'll see which one I master first.
I saw this move in Unagi and immediately knew I wanted to do it. Basically, it's the reverse of a one-handed suicide, hence, reverse suicide (not sure of the real name). In a normal one-handed suicide, you throw the yoyo under your throwhand, it goes above your throw hand, and you catch the look with your throw hand's thumb. This is in fact exactly the opposite. You start from a trapeze around your thumb, rotate the yoyo above your throw hand, it goes below your throw hand, and you catch it with your non-throw-hand index finger.
Pretty simple in theory, fairly difficult in practice. The hard part is the timing for letting go of the loop. Too early, and you'll end up dropping the yoyo or binding, too late and the yoyo will go the wrong direction. Once you nail it, it'll feel awesome.
I've included two shots of me doing it in the video, just because it's hard to capture on camera without some sort of slow mo. I'll look into that, but for now, two shots will have to do.
I saw this move in Unagi and immediately knew I wanted to do it. Basically, it's the reverse of a one-handed suicide, hence, reverse suicide (not sure of the real name). In a normal one-handed suicide, you throw the yoyo under your throwhand, it goes above your throw hand, and you catch the look with your throw hand's thumb. This is in fact exactly the opposite. You start from a trapeze around your thumb, rotate the yoyo above your throw hand, it goes below your throw hand, and you catch it with your non-throw-hand index finger.
Pretty simple in theory, fairly difficult in practice. The hard part is the timing for letting go of the loop. Too early, and you'll end up dropping the yoyo or binding, too late and the yoyo will go the wrong direction. Once you nail it, it'll feel awesome.
I've included two shots of me doing it in the video, just because it's hard to capture on camera without some sort of slow mo. I'll look into that, but for now, two shots will have to do.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Week 8: Second Trick from Unagi
Well, for the first time since I've started this blog, I'm showing a trick whose name I don't know. It's the second trick in Crackout's Unagi video. The trick starts around 27 seconds in to the video.
This is a pretty awesome tricks for a lot of reasons. Firstly, it's a trick by Crackout that Raytsh hasn't made a tutorial for. Secondly, it starts with a rejection and goes straight into some chopsticks, that takes some balls. Lastly, then last bit with the slack is totally epic and an excellent example of directly manipulating the slack. If done properly it really shows control over both the string and yoyo.
Honestly, if you know how to do all of the individual parts this trick isn't too hard to learn. The beginning rejection is really easy to do if you've ever tried to learn figure 9 (interestingly enough that trick is based off a fighter jet maneuver). In fact you've probably done it accidentally more times than you'd like. The slack just takes some practice to get right and isn't that complicated. The hardest part of the trick is really getting the finger positioning right to do the two pops over your throw hand.
All in all, an awesome trick. I guess I should ask Crackout if the trick has a name.
This is a pretty awesome tricks for a lot of reasons. Firstly, it's a trick by Crackout that Raytsh hasn't made a tutorial for. Secondly, it starts with a rejection and goes straight into some chopsticks, that takes some balls. Lastly, then last bit with the slack is totally epic and an excellent example of directly manipulating the slack. If done properly it really shows control over both the string and yoyo.
Honestly, if you know how to do all of the individual parts this trick isn't too hard to learn. The beginning rejection is really easy to do if you've ever tried to learn figure 9 (interestingly enough that trick is based off a fighter jet maneuver). In fact you've probably done it accidentally more times than you'd like. The slack just takes some practice to get right and isn't that complicated. The hardest part of the trick is really getting the finger positioning right to do the two pops over your throw hand.
All in all, an awesome trick. I guess I should ask Crackout if the trick has a name.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Week 7: Asian Pops
Pretty simple one this time as I'm gearing up for a much more complicated combo. I've seen this trick a bunch of times in freestyles and I always thought it looked awesome but could never figure out how to do it.
Thankfully 2 people at the Toronto yoyo meetup knew how to do it and were nice enough to show me. I didn't get it right off the bat, I had to experiment a bit to find what worked for me. It turns out that the trick is much easier if instead of folding your index finger to have the string slip off, you simply aim your pointer finger outwards as the yoyo loops around.
Also, fair warning, you can only do this trick at 2 speeds: fast, and faster.
Lastly, you'll note that I'm using a new setup for my videos. I find that it looks much better and it's easier to see my string. Plus it's in HD. I've filmed a few of the other tricks here with the new setup. I'll gradually replace all the videos with better versions, but for now, there's about half that have been replaced.
Thankfully 2 people at the Toronto yoyo meetup knew how to do it and were nice enough to show me. I didn't get it right off the bat, I had to experiment a bit to find what worked for me. It turns out that the trick is much easier if instead of folding your index finger to have the string slip off, you simply aim your pointer finger outwards as the yoyo loops around.
Also, fair warning, you can only do this trick at 2 speeds: fast, and faster.
Lastly, you'll note that I'm using a new setup for my videos. I find that it looks much better and it's easier to see my string. Plus it's in HD. I've filmed a few of the other tricks here with the new setup. I'll gradually replace all the videos with better versions, but for now, there's about half that have been replaced.
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