What about a chill tower like this one?
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It looks so easy…but its so stupidly hard to land.
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Agreed. I skipped the picture tricks of the 90s and jumped straight into unresponsive stuff pretty quick. I wanted to learn all the mounts and it’s surprising how helpful it is learning other tricks when you’re just more comfortable with the movement of your yoyo after getting the mounts down to muscle memory.
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I started by learning as many mounts as I could. Then I learned Rewind to work on plane management. I learned hops and catches by practicing Kwijibo. Once I felt comfortable with Magic Drop, I started working on Kamikaze. I’m trying to get faster with Skin the Gerbil. I basically found an element or skill that I wanted to learn and then sought out corresponding tricks.
With that being said, that’s what’s fun for me. If you don’t want to go that route you don’t have to. Some days I mix it up by just practicing different binds. The most important path to take is the one that you enjoy.
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Same here. I guess that’s why I tend to like watching tricks that emphasize speed and fluidity over complex string structures which often require slowing down and even stopping for a moment (I guess that’s the “tech” side of things?).
String picture tricks are like European juggling where they stop and hold the objects for display, then move them around a bit and stop again, holding them in some new arrangement for display, and so on. Contrast with American juggling where the objective is to keep the objects moving at all times.
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