# How Do You Guys Name Your Tricks?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [March 24, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879 "2014-03-24T21:23:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@WaterFiredude](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WaterFiredude)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/1 "2014-03-24T21:23:26Z")
I was just wondering how the yo-yo community names their tricks. I know that for me, I start with one thing that the trick reminds me of, then I think of something that reminds me of the last thing. It’s hard to explain but here is an example:
One of my tricks, Birthday Cake, was first landed when it was one of the hottest days of summer
People eat ice cream when it is hot
My favorite type of ice cream is an ice cream sandwich
I had my first ice cream sandwich in the first grade
My first grade teacher was Mr. Heart
Hearts remind me of Valentine’s Day
My Birthday is relatively close to Valentine’s Day
People eat Birthday Cake on their birthdays
So, that’s how I name my tricks. I find a characteristic or something about the trick, then I continue it on. The end result is something that has little to no correlation to the original. It’s sort of like the Direct TV commercials. 😛
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### Author:  [@Logi](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Logi)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/2 "2014-03-24T21:24:53Z")
Don’t ask me to name tricks, my cat still doesn’t have a name.
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### Author:  [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/3 "2014-03-24T21:41:24Z")
I name tricks on just cool words I find. Like, recently my dad told of a word called lumshavoc it means headache in airplane talk. So The repeater I made I name it that.
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### Author:  [@Zorro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zorro)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/4 "2014-03-24T21:43:11Z")
I can’t find any unused names. 😃
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### Author:  [@WaterFiredude](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/WaterFiredude)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/5 "2014-03-24T21:50:53Z")
> [@Logi](#):
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> Don’t ask me to name tricks, my cat still doesn’t have a name.
🙂
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### Author:  [@mr.nightshadow95](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mr.nightshadow95)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/6 "2014-03-24T21:53:34Z")
Just the most random two words that come to mind or just the first word. Like “monkey leaf” done.
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### Author:  [@LinksLegionaire](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LinksLegionaire)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/7 "2014-03-24T22:11:46Z")
I try to take elements from the trick and associate words/phrases with them.
I Went To The Circus and All I Got Was a Broken Leg plays on the old idiom ‘break a leg!’. It ends in a tower which undoubtedly reminds me of France and thus French circuses. The whole trick has a circus-like feel to it as well.
Foreign Land is just a combination of a bunch of stuff I’ve never done before. It starts with a very strange mount.
Attempted Suicide is pretty simple; you throw a 1.5 Suicide but land it on a string to make a GT.
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### Author:  [@yoyoavenger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoavenger)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/8 "2014-03-24T22:20:47Z")
Throw in a common noun/pronoun, a proper noun, and some sort of other, usually a food.
i.e. Grandma Kimmit Sandwich
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### Author:  [@yoyoboy224](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoboy224)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/9 "2014-03-24T22:44:38Z")
I don’t name them.
I forget them :-\
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### Author:  [@YoYoJordan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoJordan)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/10 "2014-03-24T23:06:06Z")
Random crap.
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### Author:  [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/11 "2014-03-24T23:33:38Z")
I call my tricks “this trick doesn’t have a name.”
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### Author:  [@Paul\_S](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Paul_S)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/12 "2014-03-24T23:42:39Z")
eh, I usually end up remembering them as something like ‘houdinimounttoaroundtheinsidetocrossarmunderpasschopsticktomach5styleexitdropNTHthumbthenpinchthenslackout’
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### Author:  [@Darkscism](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Darkscism)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/13 "2014-03-24T23:47:18Z")
> [@LinksLegionaire](#):
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> Attempted Suicide is pretty simple; you throw a 1.5 Suicide but land it on a string to make a GT.
I’d like to see this! Any chance of a video?
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### Author:  [@LinksLegionaire](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LinksLegionaire)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/14 "2014-03-25T00:17:36Z")
> [@Darkscism](#):
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> I’d like to see this! Any chance of a video?
I can probably get something up tomorrow if you’d like.
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### Author:  [@PaPaSea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PaPaSea)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/15 "2014-03-25T00:19:28Z")
I try to give the trick a name based on where my inspiration came from it, or where I came up with it
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### Author:  [@55379](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/55379)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/16 "2014-03-25T00:24:49Z")
I dont
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### Author:  [@Foofy69](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Foofy69)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/17 "2014-03-25T00:48:24Z")
> [@WaterFiredude](#):
>
> I was just wondering how the yo-yo community names their tricks. I know that for me, I start with one thing that the trick reminds me of, then I think of something that reminds me of the last thing. It’s hard to explain but here is an example:
>
> One of my tricks, Birthday Cake, was first landed when it was one of the hottest days of summer
>
> People eat ice cream when it is hot
>
> My favorite type of ice cream is an ice cream sandwich
>
> I had my first ice cream sandwich in the first grade
>
> My first grade teacher was Mr. Heart
>
> Hearts remind me of Valentine’s Day
>
> My Birthday is relatively close to Valentine’s Day
>
> People eat Birthday Cake on their birthdays
>
> So, that’s how I name my tricks. I find a characteristic or something about the trick, then I continue it on. The end result is something that has little to no correlation to the original. It’s sort of like the Direct TV commercials. 😛
That’s is SO overly complicated, I actually laughed a bit. As for how I name my tricks, I take words that sound funny and use them somehow or another. But as of right now I only have 2 combos that I created purely by myself. “Kerfuffle Madness” and “Flibbertigibbet Mayhem”. My next one though is gonna be called “Ugly Betty’s Potato”.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_S](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Paul_S)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 1:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/18 "2014-03-25T01:55:24Z")
Actually I do have a combo called sea pig because I was thinking about this video when I acidentally came up with the main mount/concept
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4DbZivHCY)
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### Author:  [@Darkscism](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Darkscism)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/19 "2014-03-25T02:13:53Z")
> [@LinksLegionaire](#):
>
> I can probably get something up tomorrow if you’d like.
Yeah that would be awesome, PM if you do get it up!
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### Author:  [@LinksLegionaire](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LinksLegionaire)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-guys-name-your-tricks/64879/20 "2014-03-25T14:17:32Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c61O1bznQFA)
First trick - Attempted Suicide
Second trick - Foreign Land but I added a little something at the end.
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