I can’t find any good videos of the arm eli hops where you start on an arm trapeze and launch the yoyo over your arm and back. anyone can share tips on how to launch the yoyo? and to bring it back to the string? It dosen’t have to be horizontal.
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If you practice launching the yoyo out and then re mounting it you can slowly get more comfortable with it until you can do it in one motion.
Hope this helps.
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arm hop part: 1:28/2:08
POV: 1:48/2:08
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What I am asking it the detail of how to launch the yoyo. when doing a regular Eli Hop you don’t toss the yoyo up. you pull the thrown hand string a bit and slide the NTH closer to release the yoyo and press the string to bring it back. but what is the motion for launching the yoyo over the arm? do you swing your throw hand arm? do you fling with your NTH finger?
Think of it like a 1.5 eli hop, try it only with your arms crossed, then once you get a cross armed 1.5 eli hop start from the basics when you were first learning eli hops, unmount the yoyo over your arm the remount it. Do that a bunch of times till you have the basic concept of it, then try putting a cross armed 1.5 eli hop and a normal one together but try to launch it through your arms, start straight upwards then gradually go sideways till you have it. Just grind out the trick till you can do it with ease.
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The hardest part about learning this trick isnt the catch, its the launch, I still cant get the launch right, then again I have only been doing yoyo for around four months
I figured out how to practice the launch, start out in a normal trapeze, then slide the yoyo along the string and do a normal eli hop, this helps because you have to slide it on the string to do the arm hop and doing the eli hop is how you will launch it because an arm hop is just a variation of an eli hop, another tip, instead of wrapping the string around your entire throw hand, only wrap it around you first two fingers to give you more string to work with, also, when practicing the hop, keep the wrap so that you know how much room you have to work with.
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the trick to catching it is to think of it like a redirect, give it some slack and pull it back kinda like a 1.5 eli hop
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