So I have been learning to yoyo for a while and today I decided to learn Boingy-Boing because I felt like learning something harder. The tutorial video said it is the kind of trick that can take a while to start getting at all, so I was expecting quite a bit of practice.
Long story short, I hit it first try. I started getting it to look good after about 15 minutes, and consistently after another 20. I feel scammed for not trying it sooner.
To be quite frank Iām not really sure what you expected when you attempted Boingy- Boing. By its very nature itās a scam trick.
I donāt know, I expected it to be much harder than it was. I didnāt try it before because ether tutorial said it could potentially take a day before you even hit it. And now Iāve found out itās both easy and satisfying.
Post a vid?
Here you go
straight scamminā.
You havenāt been scammed yet. Try it in 2 weeks when suddenly you canāt do it anymore. Thatās how boingy boing gets you.
Lol, more like 2 hours. And then it came back 20 minutes later. It comes and goes.
Youāre a real boingy boing pro
This is solid progress but you have just barely started to make sense of the concept. This looks very scarce still.
its really good you grasped its concept very quickly, cant wait to see you mastering it and making it look good.
Oopsā¦ā¦ poor word selection. You didnāt get āscammedā.
Scamming is a deliberate method of misappropriating things of value by larcenous techniques.
Misjudging the degree of difficulty in the length of a tricksā learning curve is based more on oneās personal judgement and does not indicate any: contrived, conceived, premeditated or any intentionally misleading origin.
Now, that you have demonstrated your ability to whittle a mountain down to a molehill just like that, jump right in to another hailstorm and learn Spirit Bomb.
You didnāt get scammedā¦
I got misled, then. The tutorial I used started by saying it could take days to get at first, so I didnāt try.
I have tried many times to get this trick even a little bit and failed, became frustrated and put into a category of trick, I will devote time to when I have the allot of time. Plus of course to everyone saying it will be difficult.
Then I see this post and said yea it must be a yo-yo Illuminati thing to make out this one trick seem more difficult than it is.
I know all of the things to do to hit this trick but have not been successful. So I tried one more time. Holly stuff if I did not get boingy-boing after a few tries. Thanks to this post
Thank you
Boing-boing is a fun trick. I find it very relaxing. Now that you can do the basic; you can try the many variations.
Boingy-boing is one of those tricks I use to evaluate yo-yoās. How a yo-yo reacts to direction-change can tell you much about speed.
Update, 2 sticky pennies about boingy boing.
I have been doing Boingy Boing for a few hours today since being able to get into the trick, it is by no measure pretty, it is still difficult and sloppy getting into and getting out of the trick, but working on smoothing that out, as I become more comfortable with the timing.
The few hours that I have been able to do the boingy boing, I have increased smoothness and length of time I can keep the timing correct and start to feel the back string catch the throw and move the throw from the back string to the front string.
The 2 Sticky Pennies
Things I have noticed on successful attempts.
My nth arm elbow is pined to my side hand stiff fingers spread apart.
th string finger is extended, string will slide through fingers, this help me feel the throw on the string.
This is how it worked so far for me.
Once in boingy boing mount ready to do it!
Hand position nth slightly in front of th
1 th moves down and catch the throw on the back string then, th moves up to propel the throw toward the front string, again th moves down to catch the throw on the front string, th hand moved up to propel the throw toward the back string. Back to 1.
In the beginning the motion of the th up and down needs to be small and progressively get larger to a controlled timing and depth that can be adjusted on the fly, this is a totally feel trick imo once you get it. I am not even close at this time but when I am in the correct timing I relax and can feel how that is so totally possible.
*** with practice ***
For the longest time I would only get 1-1/2 boings then Quit. I needed to keep trying with my 1-1/2 boings. Today I did and then I notice what was going wrong, most of the time for me was nth not steady, throw hand string finger curled not letting string slide, even after learning to relax the string finger some time I find myself placing my thumb on the string ( this did help with feel but when I was tense I would press down and this would prevent the string from sliding ) I am most successful when my thumb is on the string finger on top of the string slightly feeling the string slide.
I have noticed string selection may help with this but could become a crutch, needs to be learned on all string types
By no means am I slightly satisfied where I am with boingy-boing. I now trying to watch what I am doing and make the slight corrections and keeping strings in plain and set up for a clean entrance into the trick and then a clean exit out.
Then I will try Over and Under Boingy Boing
I hope this may help anyone having trouble with boingy-boing. I have made so much trick progress with help from the forum and all those that contribute I only wish to add in my long poorly worded post.
You were fortunate. Most people take awhile to get control of it. I was one of those people.
Boingy Boing was a tough one for me. Story of this trickā¦2011, my brother and I are at a yoyo contest. We both just bought some yoyos (I treated him to a b-grade SPYY Stryker) and myself a RecRev Fig 4. When getting the feel of our new throws, my brother asks me what tricks I had been working on that I could show him. I then explained to him about Boingy Boing and showed him how to get into the split bottom mount. But then showed him where I was having trouble getting that rhythm. Seconds later, attempts it, looks at me and says ālike this?ā (pulls off trick).
It took me yet another couple weeks of constant trying to find that rhythm and found that doing an additional braintwister roll before doing the trick set me up for pulling off that first boingā¦plus it looks cool 
Me too
I know right
