# Basic Chopsticks help
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951
**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks
**Created:** [August 20, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951 "2023-08-20T20:19:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@theendofcake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theendofcake)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/1 "2023-08-20T20:19:16Z")
hey everyone, so after watching worlds i got inspiration to keep practicing harder tricks but learning the basic chopsticks thumb mount is confusing. every time i successfully land the yoyo from the trapeze to the mount it will either smack my non throw index and lose a bunch of spin or tilt wayy off plane. any tips for improving to make my practice more efficient would be greatly appreciated, thanks 🙂
also remy baskin at 18 is such a robbery
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### Author:  [@MarioMaker17](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarioMaker17)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/2 "2023-08-20T20:30:11Z")
This is the trick I share with people when they want to start learning chopsticks.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOHW6UCdxug)
I would make sure to hold the string at the tips of your fingers. Also I would try using your non throw hand yoyo finger (not index finger) and thumb for the chopsticks mount.
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### Author:  [@digitalcharlie](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/digitalcharlie)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/3 "2023-08-20T20:41:59Z")
I never thought about using my middle finger or noticed that’s what he’s doing. Wow.
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### Author:  [@theendofcake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theendofcake)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2023, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/4 "2023-08-20T21:48:33Z")
learning the chopsticks switch now, the middle finger tip helped for the room to land, i think i just need to keep practicing. thanks!
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### Author:  [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/5 "2023-08-21T00:30:09Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPSGCdtC85k)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZIaiXO-vU)
Here are two videos that go into details about chopsticks by Sakatuca. They are Japanese, but you can turn the captions on with auto translate and it picks up a surprising amount of the content. The first one goes into 5 points about learning chopsticks that are really helpful. The second one is a more comments about chopsticks based on feedback he received from the first video. There are comments in both of these that are really helpful and that I haven’t seen anywhere else. I also haven’t seen anyone else conceptualize the details of any yoyo movement this thoroughly and they are both worth a watch.
It’s like too much info for me to type out here but watching these and practicing some of the exercises in here has me feeling way way more comfortable with chopsticks.
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### Author:  [@Yooo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yooo)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/6 "2023-08-21T00:44:50Z")
Using a smaller diameter yoyo if you got one helps.
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### Author:  [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/7 "2023-08-21T00:47:24Z")
This the first point in the first sakatucatut he goes smaller yo-yos makes chopsticks simply easier and says go small to large and it will be harder to learn with a larger Yoyo.
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### Author:  [@Yooo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yooo)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2023, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/basic-chopsticks-help/382951/8 "2023-08-21T01:15:46Z")
I learned chopsticks from that Colin Beckford chopstick slack video you sent me. That trick is hard still haven’t got it.