I’ve been throwing for about a year now and I’m struggling to keep track of every trick I learn. For example: I’ll find a random rail combo online, practice it for a while and get good at it, and then completely forget about it weeks later. I don’t mean I forget how to do it, but I forget that it exists and is something I am capable of. At the moment all I have to organise my knowledge is just a few videos of myself and some bookmarked tutorials.
I thought about making a massive list of everything I can do, but I feel like that would end up being incredibly patchy and cluttered.
Does anyone have any advice for keeping track of your tricks? Thank you!
I have the same problem lol. I try to learn new things every week so I started posted videos to Instagram. It doubles as a kind of video library of tricks I’ve done that I can reference if I can’t remember how I did something
I have a private YouTube playlist with all the tutorials I’ve used and new stuff I want to learn. Helpful both for remembering the tricks themselves and also how other people do them, cause through practice I often subconsciously change little details and don’t realize it until I go back and rewatch the original tutorial. I also try to film everything I learn and put it in an album on my phone, even if it’s still messy, just so I can have a catalogue of sorts.
I started a spreadsheet for my tricks when I started throwing. I put the trick name, date I learned it, link to the clip/video/tutorial I learned it from, and any notes I might want to jot down. I don’t keep it super updated with everything anymore, but it’s helpful to peruse it and see a trick you learned a hot minute ago and forgot all about and you’re like “oh yeah, Otters, But With Braids is a thing”
I use a notebook, where I write learned tricks and new tricks to learn. Also when I change strings or a bearing, anything yoyo related. I use Milanote for that and Google Keep for videos.
As my father like to say; “Dumb people memorize stuff and smart ones write it down”
just another pov, but maybe don’t as steve winwood said “roll with it, baby” you’ll forget stuff through disuse. think about all the words you’ve learned throughout your life. you don’t use them all the time in all of your speech/writing. you still gained knowledge and experience learning it, but i think moving on from them is ok too. conversely if you enjoy tracking or spreadsheeting then that’s a diff story and just ignore me but i just wanted to point out you don’t have to remember every single thing you learn
i think this is awesome when this happens. it’s how ppl make something their own. you did what was natural and comfortable for you. nothing wrong with that
I’m not joking, if I don’t make a whole tutorial for it, I will forget it . There’s been so many times where I’m like oh snap I NEED to remember this so I go out of my why to make a tut haha
as steve winwood said “roll with it, baby” you’ll forget stuff through disuse. think about all the words you’ve learned throughout your life. you don’t use them all the time in all of your speech/writing. you still gained knowledge and experience learning it, but i think moving on from them is ok too. conversely if you enjoy tracking or spreadsheeting then that’s a diff story and just ignore me but i just wanted to point out you don’t have to remember every single thing you learn
. There’s been so many times where I’m like oh snap I NEED to remember this so I go out of my why to make a tut haha