# gyroscopic flop **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [March 23, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651 "2010-03-23T14:31:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yoyo4show](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo4show/32/469_2.png) [@yoyo4show](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo4show)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/1 "2010-03-23T14:31:52Z")
well ive been practicing for a while on this and is just doesnt work,when ever i get into the mount for it it doesnt roll,am i doing something wrong,are there other ways that will work for me ``` PLEASE HELP ME ``` ---
**Author:** ![pickle24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pickle24/32/483_2.png) [@pickle24](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pickle24)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/2 "2010-03-23T15:22:49Z")
I’m no flop expert i’m not going to pretend to be. But I can do it and I belive I had the same problem you did. First off you basically want to pull as hard as you can (just don’t brake the string). Second you don’t want to touch the sides, but you do want to tilt the strings a little. Pull your hands in opposite direction as much as you can without letting them touch the sides. Essentially you want to make little circles with your hands. This isn’t going to get it for you right away. Even if your brain knows it it sometimes seems like your hands don’t. It’s still going to take a little bit of getting the feel for it. Let me know if this helps. ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/3 "2010-03-23T15:41:38Z")
There are many topics on this issue. > **[Gyroscopic Flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,1828.0.html)** > > Okay will friday I was watching the video and realized instead of whipping the string(cool way) you coulddo something like a reverse brain twister mount but holding string in had like a bat, then really quick you flip you front hand holding those 2... > **[Gyroscopic Flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,1828.0.html)** > > Okay will friday I was watching the video and realized instead of whipping the string(cool way) you coulddo something like a reverse brain twister mount but holding string in had like a bat, then really quick you flip you front hand holding those 2... > **[I have two trick questions.](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,11339.0.html)** > > Number one I need some tips on Gyro flop i can do alright except I dont get more than like one or two what is the trick to getting more? Two how often will I run into Iron Whip in a contest or something. I dont really care for the Iron Whip it isnt... > **[Gyroscopic flop problem](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,11879.0.html)** > > For some reason, I can only do 3 spins with the gyroscopic flop before it starts spinning like crazy or dies out. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong but Andre Boulay says you can pretty much go as long as you want. > **[gyroscopic flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,9456.0.html)** > > What are some ways to get into the gyroscopic flop, beside whats on the video section with andre? > **[Gyro Flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,1831.0.html)** > > Hi guys, when I do Gyro flop the yo-yo does not rotate at all. I pull hard then harder then harder but nothing. The yo-yo starts leaning to one side then spins out and I get a knot. Note: I do the Gyro Flop where it’s a trapeze and I twist the... > **[Gyroscopic Flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,1262.0.html)** > > Hi, when I do Gyroscopic Flop, it doesn’t rotate. Let me explain, I do the Plastic Whip motion right and the string hooks onto the yoyo the way it needs to. But when I pull, the yoyo loses its spin time and it won’t rotate. Any tips? > **[i need help with gyroscopic flop](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,4426.0.html)** > > ok i can do gyroscopic flop for a few seconds and ive been wondering would a konkave bearing help make you do the trick longer There are a few. ---
**Author:** ![yoyo4show](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo4show/32/469_2.png) [@yoyo4show](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo4show)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/4 "2010-03-23T22:55:17Z")
thanks it helped me ---
**Author:** ![Amdroid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/amdroid/32/476_2.png) [@Amdroid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Amdroid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/5 "2010-03-31T03:35:18Z")
I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. ---
**Author:** ![pickle24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pickle24/32/483_2.png) [@pickle24](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pickle24)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/6 "2010-03-31T12:00:56Z")
> [@Amdroid](#): > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. You really should of said that in the first post. ☹ Just try exaturating the movemant. ---
**Author:** ![ratfacedudeguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ratfacedudeguy/32/273_2.png) [@ratfacedudeguy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ratfacedudeguy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 8:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/7 "2010-03-31T20:24:45Z")
> [@Amdroid](#): > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. Search function comes in handy. I know I’ve personally addressed this exact same issue before at least once or twice. ---
**Author:** ![Amdroid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/amdroid/32/476_2.png) [@Amdroid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Amdroid)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/8 "2010-03-31T22:42:45Z")
> [@ratfacedudeguy](#): > > > [@Amdroid](#): > > > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. > > Search function comes in handy. I know I’ve personally addressed this exact same issue before at least once or twice. I searched. I looked at a lot of questions, until I got through the list to the part where they are all mostly irrelevant. Could you find me one of those question that you have already addressed? I would love to see some more answers to this problem. ---
**Author:** ![king825](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/king825/32/347_2.png) [@king825](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/king825)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/9 "2010-04-01T00:49:52Z")
> [@Amdroid](#): > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. If that’s the part you’re having troubles with, then you should learn plastic whip if you don’t, It’ll make it 75% easier, at least. Make sure your string tension is good as well. ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/10 "2010-04-01T00:59:10Z")
> [@DiggingEagle](#): > > If that’s the part you’re having troubles with, then you should learn plastic whip if you don’t, It’ll make it 75% easier, at least. Make sure your string tension is good as well. > [@Amdroid](#): > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. ---
**Author:** ![pickle24](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pickle24/32/483_2.png) [@pickle24](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pickle24)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/11 "2010-04-01T01:23:23Z")
> [@Apetrunk](#): > > > [@DiggingEagle](#): > > > > If that’s the part you’re having troubles with, then you should learn plastic whip if you don’t, It’ll make it 75% easier, at least. Make sure your string tension is good as well. > > > [@Amdroid](#): > > > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. I hate it when people just leave quotes and no words. And don’t respond to this and ask why. ---
**Author:** ![king825](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/king825/32/347_2.png) [@king825](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/king825)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/12 "2010-04-01T01:42:39Z")
> [@Apetrunk](#): > > > [@DiggingEagle](#): > > > > If that’s the part you’re having troubles with, then you should learn plastic whip if you don’t, It’ll make it 75% easier, at least. Make sure your string tension is good as well. > > > [@Amdroid](#): > > > > I am having problems with gyroscopic flop. I have looked at a bunch of other topics, but I cant find that problem I’m having. > > > > I am just having problems with the whip part. I know there are other ways to do it, but I want to learn it the way Andre teaches it. I can do plastic whip, but I can’t do the whip part of this trick for some reason. I just kind of hit the yoyo with the string, or I completely miss the yoyo, and the whip wraps around the string directly above the yoyo. > > > > oops, sorry, missed it, I suppose. I though it said he was having trouble with the plastic whip part. ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/13 "2010-04-01T01:50:23Z")
> [@M²](#): > > I hate it when people just leave quotes and no words. And don’t respond to this and ask why. Why? 😛 I bolded a part to answer the person’s question. ---
**Author:** ![almostfamous](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/almostfamous/32/475_2.png) [@almostfamous](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/almostfamous)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 5:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/14 "2010-04-03T17:59:44Z")
You probably already figured it out by now but I learned this by going into a Mach 5 then pulling for the gyro-flop. It really helped me get the motion of everything and helped me learn to keep the string from touching the inner walls of the yoyo. It’s really, really easy actually. After I got it good this way I started getting into the gryo-flop other ways, such as the whipping way. ---
**Author:** ![yoyofan11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyofan11/32/426_2.png) [@yoyofan11](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofan11)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/gyroscopic-flop/12651/15 "2010-04-04T20:36:30Z")
I have a vid of a way to do it from break away. You go into a Houdini mount put it onto the back string, pop it back and pull. [http://i740.photobucket.com/albums/xx43/yoyofan11/th\_MVI\_0411.jpg](http://s740.photobucket.com/albums/xx43/yoyofan11/?action=view¤t=MVI_0411.flv)