# Compulsory tricks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [April 1, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115 "2014-04-01T12:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThatGuySteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ThatGuySteve](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThatGuySteve)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/1 "2014-04-01T12:26:35Z")
Hey gang. I was watching a few of the WYYC videos and came across black(Tomonari Ishiguro) and noticed he made black hops, now that is a mandatory trick in 1A contests. Now I’m wondering what are the other mandatory yo-yo tricks in the competitions? There may already have been a post about this. but i plugged some key words into the search tool and i couldn’t find anything. Maybe I spelt them wrong or something. If there is already a thread dedicated to this please point me in the nearest direction, If not any help would be appreciated. Cheers! Steve ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/2 "2014-04-01T14:38:00Z")
Freestyles do not have any mandatory tricks. Black may have done Black Hops because it’s his trick. :wink: The only “mandatory” tricks that I’m aware of are during trick ladder contests… they may have a trick ladder category at World’s; not sure. Then every single trick is “mandatory” and you do them in an order that approximates ascending difficulty (not always true for every player, but they do their best to come up with that kind of order!). ---
**Author:** ![stuarttw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/3 "2014-04-01T22:29:07Z")
Elevator 1 Matrix 6 Rock the Baby 1 Pop-n-Fresh 6 Brain Twister 3 Plastic Whip 6 Dizzy Baby 3 Slack Trapeze 6 Trapeze 3 Gerbil 6 Double or Nothing 5 Iron Whips (3 reps) 8 Drop in the Bucket 5 Cold Fusion 8 Split the Atom 5 Suicide (2 rep) 8 Mach 5 5 Spirit Bomb 10 3 Eli Hops 5 Black Hops 10 ---
**Author:** ![stuarttw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/4 "2014-04-01T22:29:58Z")
This is the beginner 1. Gravity Pull 2. Sleeper 3. Walk The Dog 4. Creeper 5. Jamaican Flag 6. Forward Pass 7. Around The World 8. Rock The Baby 9. Pop The Clutch 10. Breakaway ---
**Author:** ![LeftyLink](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/leftylink/32/1321_2.png) [@LeftyLink](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeftyLink)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/5 "2014-04-01T23:02:37Z")
I never made the connection between Black and Black Hops…wow ---
**Author:** ![ThatGuySteve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@ThatGuySteve](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThatGuySteve)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/6 "2014-04-02T12:06:07Z")
> [@stuarttw](#): > > Elevator > 1 > Matrix > 6 > Rock the Baby > 1 > Pop-n-Fresh > 6 > Brain Twister > 3 > Plastic Whip > 6 > Dizzy Baby > 3 > Slack Trapeze > 6 > Trapeze > 3 > Gerbil > 6 > Double or Nothing > 5 > Iron Whips (3 reps) > 8 > Drop in the Bucket > 5 > Cold Fusion > 8 > Split the Atom > 5 > Suicide (2 rep) > 8 > Mach 5 > 5 > Spirit Bomb > 10 > 3 Eli Hops > 5 > Black Hops > 10 I’m assuming those are the point break-down for tricks? ---
**Author:** ![stuarttw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/7 "2014-04-02T17:18:52Z")
> [@ThatGuySteve](#): > > I’m assuming those are the point break-down for tricks? yep ---
**Author:** ![mr.nightshadow95](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mr.nightshadow95/32/1093_2.png) [@mr.nightshadow95](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mr.nightshadow95)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/compulsory-tricks/65115/8 "2014-04-05T02:40:35Z")
yeah no tricks are required for a freestyle per say, so you can do whatever you want pretty much.