Trick-A-Week #31 STAR COMBO
Sorry for the late announcement guys! @MoonageMin has been slammed with workā¦and Iām not exactly sure whatās going on with me this week. Iām a bit out of sorts though!
Butā¦weāve got a cool one lined up for this week! Looks tough, but I think itās manageable! Itās one Iāve wanted to work on for a while now!
I hope you all have a good week and stay safe! 
Great jobā¦and for being in a dimly lit room, the quality here was great! Everything is very clear and easy to see!
Heck yeah man, youāve got this :D. Iām too busy counting all your wins you continue to rack up as the weeks and months pass to keep track of any mistakes you make!
Yes! A bit more practice and youāll have these down like theyāre nothing!! 
Well done!
Thanks a lot for updating the trick of the week nonetheless, I hope both of you guys realize how much the time you put in this thread is appreciated! 
Hasnāt been an extremely yoyo-productive week for me neither except during the week-end. 
This weekās trick looks great, I definitely had 2 or 3 āwooah!ā moments while watching the preview.
Thanks for the kind words @stringKnot I really appreciate it.
My enthusiasm and confidence ebb and flowā¦not sure whatās going on right now, but itās okay Things are good and will work themselves out!
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Iāve only put about 20 minutes into this trick so far just now, and Iām up to the first star in the combo! This is the best Iāve felt on a trick in a good long whileā¦I actually feel like I can do this one! lol
For the last couple of weeks Iāve been trying to focus on already learned TaW tricks, and tried for the first time to find some ways to combine them between each-other or find nice ways to go from one to the other.
Here is the result, made in majority out of Trick-a-Week tricks (Only exception being the basic rejection at the beginning and some Kwijibo parts).
Hope you guys enjoy it, I feel very grateful for finding this topic!
haha wow! So cool you got this on camera! Thanks for sharing! This was very impressive! Love how you got parts of so many T-A-W tricks in there! Parts of Kamikaze and Smoothie, as well as Jade Whip, lots of hops and a complete Black Hops like it was nothing!
Is this a combo you hope to continue working on? This would be a killer combo to show off to others if you throw in front of people in the 3d world!
Also we appreciate having you man! Youāve added a lot of support, encouragement and positivity to this thread!
Thanks a lot @twitch77!
Definitely , at the moment Iām really happy with the kwijibo/superflow/kamikaze hybrid at the beginning, they go so well together and feel really satisfying to land.
Iām looking for new weird ways to dismount the Jade Whip and different variants of the Smoothie/Black Hops but these three are giving me a harder time. I did experiment with some Kwijibo/Black Hops fusion and it looks cool but is tough to land.
Holy cow! Everything about that video was fantastic! That was effing smooth and crisp and i needed to watch it a few times. BLACK HOPS! Mid combo like itās nothing! YOU DA MAN! @stringKnot you should make more videos!
Can u post the trick order if your willing? I like putting together TaW combos, that one may have been the best ever!
On a much less smooth noteā¦ 45 seconds of your time and a thank you to @PCaliyoyos for a cool yoyo. This is the second matio star ive learned. He seems to have a endless library of cool stuff to throw into your routines. This is a keeper for sure.
@twitch77 & @MoonageMin you are both extremely appreciated. I hope things settle down for you. I know life has been crazy for a few months, honestly i donāt think mine is going to go back to anything close to normal any time soonā¦ positive it leaves a lot of time to throw with you guys. 
Cool star at the end of this Trick AK! I totally plan on learning this so I can finish this weekās trick with it like you did!
Also, the Superstar is such a great little throw! Wish they made them in green 
Both are mr matio tutorials.
Do you have a link to the tutorial by chance?
Z grmly star [the second star i threw)
This weeks trick just to stay organized. https://youtu.be/a4CuR7OmT4A
Seriously this guy has tons of great stuff
Thanks AK!
Thank you very much @AKYOYOMIKE, glad you liked it
Of course, hereās the trick order:
Start with a double or nothing
Do a Basic Backhand Rejection
ā Important: On the rejection hop, Adam lands the trapeze on his index finger like normal, I land on my thumb. (Iām actually using this Rejection to sort of hide the fact that I start Kwijibo with thumb)
From your āthumbā trapeze, launch a āthumbā variant of first part of Kwijibo into a 1.5.
āImportant: Itās like throwing a normal first Half of Kwijibo except youāre replacing your NTH index with your NTH thumb.
Once in 1.5, you can do a Superflow. Mind that it will look/feel a little different because of the NTH thumb replacing the index.
Right at the end of superflow you can do the second and final hop of Kwijibo. Youāll notice that you actually land in Houdini Mount since you used your thumb instead of index.
From Houdini, you can do your usual Kamikazeās first part (I skip the magic drop)
Then a Jade Whip, that you dismount by putting your finger inside both loops and can make it roll like from a double or nothing.
This will put you in the perfect momentum to start a Smoothie
At the end of the Smoothie, instead of binding I dismount and go for triple or nothing
Black Hops
Your favorite bind
As you can see, the beginning differs from the rest as itās much more āhybridā and less āone trick after each other back to backā, Iād like ultimately for the whole combo to feel like the former.
Wow, you already got this weekās trick super fast, looks great!
And thanks for sharing the second one, thatās a perfect match.
glad i could provide a good yoyo!
Wow, that was nice! And MF Copi FTWāthereās been so many times Iāve been trying to land a trick or combo and I just canāt until I switch back to Copi (or Dragon).
Did it take you long to come up with that combo and land it?
Iāve recently been toying with superflow with a thumb trapeze to include bits of Candy Rain in some combos.
Nice work man. I guess I need to get on it and start working on this weekās trick.
Yeah, I agree with you about MF Copi and Dragon! They are on my two most played throws (got Dragon on my Ti-Vayder) and they feel so great to play with, especially for slacks!
I already knew it was possible to combine Superflow/Kwijibo and I just got curious if I could land in Houdini mount after that same trick by using my thumb. Once I found it out, the rest of the combo took a week to get smooth.
Itās not a too hard combo to land imo, as almost all elements were part of T-a-W, the Superflow definitely makes it look more complicated than it is 
. Iād say I can land it 20% of the time flawless, with the most common failures being:
Oh wow! Just looked up Candy Rain and it looks like a perfect fit with Superflow, looking forward to read/watch your result!
Well I never really accomplished what I was going for. Iāve got a few other combos Iāve been working on and really really need to get on film sometime soon. Itās just really hard for me to find time to film and set up my equipment.
I did make a vanilla Candy Rain video up aboveā¦ among the thousands of posts 
Iāll just link it here, a mere mortal doing Candy Rain:
