# Making tricks with a "formula" with Justin Dauer

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This week, Justin Dauer was my guest on the “kill your yoyo” podcast.

Justin brought up an interesting idea about creating his competition tricks using a formula. For simplicity, I’ll define a formula as any structure or framework that a yoyoer uses to create tricks. This formula could be as simple as including a beginning middle and end or as specific as making tricks that start in font style, transition to horizontal, and always end in a fancy bind.

Have you ever found yourself using a formula to build your tricks? If so (or if you were to make one) what is it?

For me I often find myself making tricks based on shapes. Like I’ll consider a set of x and y axes and try to align all my movements with those, or I’ll focus on creating tricks that feel “round”.

**If you want to learn what Justin’s formula is for making tricks that look good and win competitions then listen to the episode** [here](https://anchor.fm/kill-your-yoyo/episodes/11---Justin-Dauer--The-Yoyo-Formula-e1fb34h/a-a7hego2)!