5AMay 2024 - Week 2

Don’t worry offtober is right around the corner 4a will be here before you know it

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Please see below for my submission for Week 2!
All Beginner Tricks, Advanced Trick, and Freestyle (Pinky Promise to Capo)
Spirals was kicking my butt, start and finish of it were solid though, haha.
Bonuses at the end!

-YYBC Behind the Music

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I already know 2 out of 3 from the beginner ladder. Started working in spirals today. Not bad at all. I d say I am 50% there after 90 minutes of practice.

Here’s my submission for both the trick ladder + trick of the week.

Spirals is a really hard and awkward trick, it’s really easy to do it wrong or in a way that looks totally uncontrolled. For anybody learning spirals this week I’d really advise you to try and do it more slowly, so you can make sure the counterweight and yoyo both wrap in the way you want them to. Because that’s important for getting them to both unwrap at the same time, rather than just having one half moving while the other half is stationary. And going slower will make it easier for you to get the yoyo into a mount after the unwraps, instead of letting it all flail around at the end.

It’s definitely a big leap in difficulty to do spirals properly.

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My biggest learning when I first practiced spirals was that the string part with the yoyo on it should be longer as counterweight string part. That is in the beginning a bit scary since you feel a bit less controlled but it helps to nicely untangle the spiral.

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The deadline has not changed. Still says may 7th. Can you give us the correct one please?

Thanks.

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Ahh darn such an easy thing to miss. The deadline is the 14th

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Will have to speed up then. Thanks.

Haha! I dig this. Capo is an excellent trick!

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No better weekend beginning than playing some 5A. Getting harder for me, haha. Again all entries :v: enjoy weekend everybody.

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Loved the dramatic music, and +1 for 8A, haha! :slight_smile:

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Thank you very much. Haha, not sure if there’ll be any 3A month, so I had to include it since I was a little forced into 3A recently :grin::grin:

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Here’s 720…

And here’s my youngest wanting to get in on the action.

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This is adorable @ProbablyNotBadRawb . Kids cute too :wink:

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:smiling_face_with_three_hearts:
Bro can ufo better than me :sob: :heart:

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I learned spirals and gerbil wheels. Videos will be uploaded Monday. Maybe you can give me the exact submission deadline (meaning your exact local time). Just in case i do not make it Monday morning.
Is it like week 1? 11:59? (Pm or am)?
Thanks.

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One minute before Midnight on Tuesday evening. Pacific time. In other words. You have until the last minute of Tuesday Pacific time. :grin:

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Awesome. This is till 10 in the morning of 15th for Greece. Thanks.

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Let’s gooooooo!!! Here’s all of the ladder tricks, gerbil wheel, and a simultaneous trapeze switch (Freeform entry).

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That was all very snappy looking!!!

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