I don’t know if this should be posted here… or the VIDEO section… or the TRICK section… It is not a video of me, nor a trick I can do… but I’ll leave that up to the powers that be to move if need be.
I just got done watching the Jason Lee video posted by YYE on the blog side of things
http://yoyoexpert.com/blog/?p=2242
FIrst, let me say this is the first time I have watched Jason Lee - AND I’m blown away by his technique… where most guys (like John Ando, which I really enjoy watching) are flying at blistering speeds and it’s all TPM (tricks per minute)… Jason has a much slower, methodical/technical approach that I had not truly seen before - poetry in motion…
So if you haven’t seen the Weapon of Choice video (above) check it out…
but I do have a question - there is a move he repeats a couple of times, but does it first at the beginning (around the 9 second mark, and a slightly altered version at the 34 second mark, again at 1:07, 2:09) that looks like a trapeze in slow motion, kind of stalls the yoyo before it goes down the string. Keep in mind I am a newbie - I don’t see hubstacks, so is he just ‘grinding’ the inner lip? I realize it maybe something simple - but I’m amazed out how he really isn’t losing momentum. It’s like he just throws it into this slomo thing… it’s almost the yoyo-equivalent to dancing to dubstep…
which makes me think, why isn’t anyone using dubstep (besides the fact dubstep can be annoying) for their videos, instead of the same’ol-same’ol techno (equally as boring at times) - although I like Jason Lee’s choice of song; Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Back to the question at hand - is there a name for that trick? I can’t say I’ve ‘looked’ for it, but I don’t really think I’ve seen it done in other videos…
I also enjoy the (for lack of terminology) elbow tricks seen at 2:18, and the almost violin like moves at 2:27
Anyhow… until I can figure them (the tricks) out - I will live vicariously through the videos…