Happy cake day man!
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Wow, thank you! 
Gotta admit it took me a minute to understand how you knewā¦ I was 1000% confused until I saw the forum adds a little cake-thing 
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Happy birthday dude!!!
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lol 
Happy birthday man!
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Thanks a lot @MoonageMin and @twitch77 
For my cake day, hereās some progress for week 4 and 5:
Week 4 and 5 were my favorite so far.
I love the Smoothie trick so much! I only started learning it this morning and later today but I instantly loved its elements and flow. It just all feels really naturalā¦ Iām definitely gonna try to look into more tricks like that.
Whip slaps with Jade/Follow on the other handā¦ I still suck lol.
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Wow your speed of progress is scary!
I saw your duck pond on IG already, but that smoothie is looking smooth!
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Heck yeah! Great progress! Youāre blazing through these and thatās awesome!!
Very clean Smoothie there!
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Oh and super cute title screens btw!
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Thanks! 
I try to keep my consuming/creating ratio balanced through the day (something Iād strongly encourage anyone to give a shot).
And since Iām not really creating tricks any time soon, I thought at least I could try to create a little doodle of every trick I learn/consume since discovering this topic.
Honestly discovering Trick-a-Week has been such a boost in motivation, I donāt feel sad anymore that I couldnāt convince any of my IRL friends to learn yoyo tricks with me.
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We all need that special someone to share our progress and success with.
I will be your spiritual guide on your journey 
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Okay so Iām making some pretty good progress with Jade Whip. Spent 4+ hours on it over the last couple of days. My shoulder starts to hurt real bad after about 15āish minutes haha.
This trick looks SO simpleā¦and I mean it really is simpleā¦but thereās so many little tiny subtle things to it.
Each day I work on it Iām realizing new things I hadnāt realized before with itā¦and Iām very slowly increasing my consistency.
Itāll likely be a very long time before I get to the point where I can do it time after time without missing like you see in the tutorial videos.
How are you guys doing with these tricks?
I havenāt even touched Follow yet.
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If your shoulder is hurting youāre probably whipping too fast. You should almost be letting it just fall into the gap while youāre holding the string so the yo-yo doesnāt drop. Give it just enough of a whipping motion to get the slack moving.
Even when you do it faster it doesnāt require much effort for the whip.
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As for me, Iāve got Jade down pretty well, Iron I really donāt like but Iām getting better at itāI used to be pretty consistent at it, Iām not quite sure what my problem isāand Follow I can do about 30% of the time, but getting better.
I really havenāt spent enough time working on the tricks these past two weeks.
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Iāve had a hard time just having enough time and energy to myself to throw here in these 2 weeks. Kinda just been seizing the moments I do have some steam to flow on what I know.
Iāll be back on my ******** though.
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I think my Jade whip is pretty much consistent now, parked follow for now and currently working on Iron whip.
My consistency is like 5% though haha, canāt quite figure out what I am doing different when I catch vs when I miss so still trying to figure this one out. When I get this a bit more consistent Iām going to go back to working on follow.
Also I learnt cheese whip and Magic Trick last night
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Very cool!!
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At least your VW Bug has tires. I feel like my Jade Whips are the Yugo of yoyo tricks
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A real paramount engineering achievement!
Yugo defeats the competitors!!
Do not hold your horses!
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Are you hard on yourself French?
Itās something I have such a difficult time with! I get frustrated with my slow progress and the self doubts and frustrations really hinder me.
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I tend to joke about my lack of progress, I really canāt say it bothers me too much. I get it that we all have tricks that are easy and ones that are tough. I try not to let the ones easy for me to learn make me overly proud, nor the ones that are harder make me overly sad.
Jade Whip has been a challenge. I know I will eventually get it, when my brain and muscle lock in on it. I guess what Iām trying to say is I have managed to avoid the trap of letting my self worth be defined only by my yoyo skill set.
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