# Fixed Friday frustrations **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [April 16, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270 "2021-04-16T10:00:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lido](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lido/32/173650_2.png) [@Lido](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lido)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270/1 "2021-04-16T10:00:43Z")
I’ve been enjoying throwing my No-Jive and a couple of other fixies (to borrow a maligned 00s bicycle term), but how on earth can I learn brain twister or double or nothing? Every time I try I either run out of spin or the yoyo tilts and starts spinning in the wrong direction. ---
**Author:** ![TheThrowingGnome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thethrowinggnome/32/14231_2.png) [@TheThrowingGnome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheThrowingGnome)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270/2 "2021-04-16T11:23:02Z")
There might be some tricks here that you’ll enjoy. > [@Easy Fixed Axle Tricks](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/easy-fixed-axle-tricks/332845): > > Been trying to come up with some fixed axle tricks lately and figured I’d start a thread on the forum to post some easy tricks. If you’re like me you can get quite overwhelmed with a lot of the incredible stuff that masters like @edhaponik and @EOS44 post, so let’s see those easy but satisfying tricks you’ve come up with! Obviously, the YYE tutorials that Ed did and the Bandalores instagram account are great places to start, but wanted to see what the forum had come up with too. I’ll kick it … ---
**Author:** ![Myk\_Myk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/myk_myk/32/63087_2.png) [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 12:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270/3 "2021-04-16T12:30:02Z")
Is your No-Jive in butterfly formation? You should have it like that for 1a (string tricks). You’ll need to work on your plane management and a good, hard, straight throw! You really can pull off some nice 1a tricks if you work at it, and to me, it’s so satisfying. Also, you may want to check out @TheThrowingGnome 's suggestion and @edhaponik ‘s tuts. These types of tricks play to fixies’ strengths rather than pushing against their limitations. > **[YoYoExpert](https://yoyoexpert.com/learn/#FixedAxle)** > > Watch free yo-yo trick videos, learn from professional yo-yo players, and buy yo-yos from the YoYo Expert! You’ll still want to work on your throw, and plane management. Brain Twister and Double or Nothing are reasonable goals. You should be able to do those, even if you do end up gravitating more to the 0a (modern fixed axle) style above. ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270/4 "2021-04-16T15:22:53Z")
Step 1: BELIEVE you can. Step 2: Practice. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![Lido](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lido/32/173650_2.png) [@Lido](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lido)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-friday-frustrations/337270/5 "2021-04-16T17:47:54Z")
Haha. Why is the answer never “just put a little magic wax on the string”? Thanks. Yeah, I just put the No-Jive in the butterfly config for the first time. That at least got me able to do a trapeze and return. I’d really like to at least got a single brain twist and return to work. Plane management has always been a challenge, which is a pain when the main thing I do with any yoyo is looping. I’ll just think “how would Myk or Ed throw” next time I pick it up.