# Advice on keeping string from flying off hand
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [March 11, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761 "2018-03-11T09:02:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@RichDeAvilla](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RichDeAvilla)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/1 "2018-03-11T09:02:30Z")
Anyone familiar with your yoyo flying off your hand? Ive got a slipknot in it, I keep the single line toward my thumb and the double line outward. After about 5-10 minutes the string will slide around my finger itself. No matter how hard I choke it, it feels as though it has no grip to my finger itself. I hope I’m not the only one
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### Author:  [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/2 "2018-03-11T12:03:14Z")
I made this post some time ago, offering options to reduce finger pain but these also may reduce slippage.
> [@Avoid finger pain~the skitrz way](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/avoid-finger-pain-the-skitrz-way/59163):
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> I often see threads regarding the finger pain caused by the string strangling the newcomers phalanges. I personally dislike tape and gloves, especially when new to yoyoing. It’s really such a bother to carry a glove and mess with tape not to mention the feel of the string. I present to you the skitrz digit survival guide! Method 1 Run the string through the loop as you normally would, forming a nice slip knot. Make the slip knot a little larger than you normally would and twis…
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/3 "2018-03-11T12:33:40Z")
Turn the string around on your finger so it tightens as you pull the standing end towards your pinkie with your palm facing up.
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### Author:  [@RichDeAvilla](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RichDeAvilla)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2018, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/4 "2018-03-11T20:51:15Z")
Thanks for the advice guys. Much appreciated
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### Author:  [@Rosenberg](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Rosenberg)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 1:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/5 "2018-03-24T01:22:14Z")
There’s a knot called the finch head or finch’s head that you should check out. I tried to find an old post to link for you but I couldn’t find one and gave up after 45 seconds. (Someone find it and link it please because I can’t remember how to tie it :-\ )
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/6 "2018-03-24T02:32:18Z")
Here’s the topic with the finch knot…
[Stop your slip knot from slipping on slippery string](https://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,72865.0)
Here’s a couple more posts on the issue;
[Where do you put the string around your finger?](https://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,77453.0)
For many more posts on the same google “finch’s head knot site:yoyoexpert.com”
You will end up with mostly references to a print format page which does not have images. You can get to the normal post this way…
Here’s the type of link google will give:
[https://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=64491.0](https://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=64491.0)
To get to the normal post you’re used to seeing remove the “?action=printpage;” piece and insert a "/"so you end up with:
> **[Weird Habits](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic=64491.0)**
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> So, I was throwing earlier, and realized that I have an odd habit or two I’ve always had when throwing. One of mine is when I put the string on my finger, I ALWAYS have to have the part of the loop with two strings on the left side… Anybody else...
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### Author:  [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/7 "2018-03-24T16:32:38Z")
Finch head is super easy. You just make the usual slip knot, and make a second slip knot through the loop of the first slip knot. Then tighten that first slip knot around the string.
I use the Finch for all of my nylon string, and any poly that is extra slippery.
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### Author:  [@Whammytap](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Whammytap)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2018, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/advice-on-keeping-string-from-flying-off-hand/85761/8 "2018-04-18T14:56:02Z")
This happens to me, too, even with proper string placement (double side toward pinkie). As Skirtz suggested, I find putting a bit of that self-stick bandage tape around my string finger really stops the slippage. I kind of wonder about putting a dab of something gummy on the finger end of the string itself, too–anyone tried this?