5AMay 2024 - Week 2

Thank you for your patience! Without further ado…

Week 2: Keep on Rockin’ with 5A May!

Hey Sweet Tea Slingers and Counterweight Crusaders! We loved the sweet sounds we heard from Week 1 of 5A May, let’s keep the rhythm going as we dive deeper into Week 2! So Gimme Three Steps to come up with some new tricks and join the YoYo Boomer Club for another jam-session packed week of counterweight excitement!

Sometimes, we just want to unwind and find our way back to that Simple Man (or woman) in all of us, so let’s journey through the heart of our wonderful Beginner’s Challenge Trick Ladder. Sharpen your skills to work your way up to the “dicey” (see what I did there) Advanced Trick-o’-the-Week. Tuesday’s Gone, but there’s no better day than today to try something new. And for those wild enough, feel free to participate in our Freebird Freeform Challenge!

All of these fun events give you a chance at Comin’ Home with some sweet prizes! You Got That Right, it’s a fresh batch of tricks that could win you some awesome swag!

We look forward to seeing all the videos, participation, and general fun to be had, and we appreciate each and every one of you. All I Can Do Is Write About It, but you’re all the real stars here!

What’s that sound? It’s dice and Swamp Music. What’s That Smell? It’s merch!

Can you hit all the right notes and become a true Whiskey Rock-A-Roller? It’s a counterweight concert you won’t want to miss! You’ll have to Call Me The Breeze because I’m flying over to start these festivities immediately!

-SweetHomeTrickabama

Beginner Trick Ladder

The Beginner Trick Ladder contains the following tricks:

Posting video(s) of the Beginner Trick Ladder will earn you entries into the event Prize drawing.

  • Post a video of one trick for one entry
  • Post a video of all tricks for an additional entry

Trick-a-week

This week’s trick-a-week is Gerbil Wheels, presented by @DocPop

Posting a video of the trick-a-week will earn you entries into the event Prize drawing.

  • Post a video of completing the trick-a-week for 1 entry into the drawing.

FreeForm/Production

Post a FreeForm/Production will earn you entries into the event Prize drawing. Must contain 5A Content.

Rules

All video submissions must contain the Event page at the start of the video and are due by Tuesday, May 7th at 11:59 Pacific Standard Time.

Each week you can earn additional entries for prize drawings by completing that weeks challenges. Maximum Entries; Beginner =8, TAW = 4, Freeform/Production =4. All Prize drawings will be conducted at the end of the Event.

Prizes

Beginner Trick Ladder - 2 Prize Packs each containing a Yoyo and Counterweight.

Trick-a-Week - 2 Prize Packs each containing a Yoyo and Counterweight.

Freeform/Production - G2 Yoyo and Counterweight.

Note: Prize packs are subject to change throughout the event if additional sponsors or donors contribute.

Event Sponsors

  • G Squared

  • DocPop

  • Rain City Skills

  • Michael Montgomery

  • Dressel Designs

Event Donors

FAQ

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Please sir May I have some more 5A
:palms_up_together::palms_up_together::palms_up_together::palms_up_together::palms_up_together:

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Thank you for your patience! 5A May Week 2 will be available shortly.

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Thanks for your patience. Let Week 2 commence!

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Looking forward to seeing all those Mega MonsteR’s flying around, haha!

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Alright dudes!
Here are my entries for this week!

Trick ladder
Trapeze & his brother
720
Sprials

Using:
Rain city hipster highlife
@DedHed visitor

Trick-a-week
Gerbil wheels

Using:
@DocPop DIY
Hand made CW

Freeform
This week I just wanted to submit a dumb little trick I created with some buddies, it’s called doggy style and it’s dumb haha!

Using:
One Drop wizard
@DedHed ghoul

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Here’s a trick edit I filmed yesterday as my entry for the freeform submission

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Here’s all tricks and a freeform.

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My gosh. That was a joy to watch.

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DUDE!!! The Stop, and Cup and Ball, and Go was fabulous!!:rofl::rofl::heart:

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y’all are quick. I’m the last-minute team here but you guys kick it off. I love it.

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Thats awesome. I love the idea of just adding some ball in cup play into the mix.

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OK. Now that I know it’s TUESDAY to submit these by, I’ll make sure to get mine in by the weekend!

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I want to try hard to get these tricks. They all look really cool, but not unattainable.

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Spiral one of my favs

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This looks super fun! I cant wait to get good at this style to be able to do stuff like this. Or good at any style really lol.

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5A is super rewarding once you get to the point where you can just keep going without catching the counterweight. It’s just constant flow state.

Having a firm grasp on 1A helps though. If 5A ever feels like a bit of a struggle, you can at least feel confident knowing there’s a lot of mutual skill transfer. 5A didn’t really start clicking for me until I took a long 1A sabbatical to up my general level of yoyo control.

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For sure! Ive been enjoying dabbling in the different styles the past couple months but I am focusing down on 1A and 5A rest of the year. Should be a blast!

This is my first year taking yoyo seriously so ive got plenty of time to up my skills. Im just now starting to get a grasp of what I really enjoy! 5A is calling me tho, so two styles for me!

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What about AA?

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I like to dabble so ill never not dink around with AA. I have enjoyed 0A and modern responsive as well. I like to learn different things so ill probably never stop playing those styles too.

But I do have the most fun playing 1A and the little time ive spent on 5A has been eye opening.

Ultimately id like to at least have tricks in every style but now that the events are winding down I am going full press on 1A and ill keep 5A going too.

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