Show me your progress by posting the earliest recorded trick circle you can find, then the newest, with dates! I’ll start. Just a coincidence they are almost exactly 2 years apart, lol.
Otherwise, outside of trying to be a show off on a unicycle, here’s one of my actual first recorded tricks (and possibly the “most complex one” I knew at the time, this was in 2014 and I was still thinking Split the Atom was some hot stuff.
I don’t have a ‘first’ video to share…lol the ones I do have from the first 8’ish weeks of playing are far too painful to upload to youtube to be shared.
I was having a hard time landing Rewinds, Skin the Gerbils and Cold Fusions.
It was a big milestone for me to land this one in June of last year (a couple of months into throwing)…
Here’s my latest trick compilation I just put together a few weeks ago:
I’ve pulled off some really cool tricks I’m pretty proud of…the thing that eats at my self confidence/esteem is the fact that I’m very inconsistent…it can take me FOREVER to finally land a cool combo or trick.
I’m blindly hoping that practice truly does make perfect and my consistency will increase at some point.
It is so super encouraging @adamantiumpops and @hobbygod to see some of your earliest videos of you guys noobing it up! haha…you’ve both become such amazing yoers over the years and I have a ton of respect for both of you…seeing you struggling like I’m currently struggling gives me hope!
Sorry about that…i thought i could work a link. Try again…
First video is in Costa Rica on my honeymoon. I was throwing regularly but i wasn’t learning anything new. I feel like this year has been my best yoyo year ever.
This i posted to IG yesterday from my living room.
A little further digging…realizing that I had some pretty primitive stuff on Youtube. This was one of them as early as 2010 when I got back into throwing:
This was me doing various things using a split bottom mount - my first venture into exploring a given yoyo element. My yoyo collection was minimal with just a Yomega Dash, Pocket Pros Zombie, Freehand 2010s, and Duncan Metal Drifter. I quickly learned that I did not like Duncan’s quick-wearing friction stickers. I think I may have been demoing how to get into a split bottom mount for somebody hence my really slow and robotic technique - my first trick tutorial at just a few months back into modern throwing.