Thanks dude!!
Guys if you can already do finger spins, which Iām guessing would be a fair few.
Then you need to now learn to get :
- consistent
- do fingerspin hops
- do fingerspin like weaving things
- do fingerspin spins on different fingers
- do something different involving finger spins.
Donāt just tick this week off, finger spin is the theme. How much you improve this week is up to you 
Unless you donāt know how to finger spin like me and @twitch77, then this is going to be a slow progress week for us lot lol
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Hereās my first video of this week. I made some hops, some vortex and Iām trying to fingerspin with the EzSpin at the end, which has a convex surface.
BTW I think that the right yoyo is essential to learn fingerspins without getting frustrated, a flat or even a slightly concave hub may be veeeery difficult to lock your finger. For example the YYF Marco has concave hubs but somehow is the worst yoyo I have for fingerspin, it just does not work. You can also learn it quite well with spikes hubs, I know it is counter intuitive but they work better than flat IMHO.
Anyway, hereās my video for today ,
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@ChrysaeThrows
Dude you are so good at making videos!
Chrysae also made a video tutorial yesterday for a trick Iāll be using in the future for this trick-a-week challengeā¦
He says itās his first tutorial heās made, but I wouldāve never have guessed itā¦itās very well done with multiple viewing angles (including a top-down first person perspective) with clear written instructions throughout.
And itās nice and short too.
Just a really nice video! Looking forward to featuring his trick!!
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That was great! I didnāt even get it on a finger last nightā¦ iām hoping to get something on video this week but iām deff starting from scratch on this one
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Itās much easier to finger spin throwing away from your bodyāmuch easier to get the angle you want and hop it onto your finger. Give that a try if you were throwing across your body last night.
Also, donāt rush, you can pause a beat before hopping it up. And when you do hop it, be gentle, as it kinda pops up really high with a little tugānot sure about the physics of that 
OTOH, you can do longer vortex binds throwing left(with normal twist string), because it unwinds the string instead of tightening itādepends a bit on the string, if youāre using a pretty loose twist string it makes less difference. But you can safely ignore that till you can do a finger spin first.
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So Iāve learned how to do a fingerspin, but I donāt do them often cuz they just donāt really fit my throw style. So, Iām gonna use this week to get more consistent, and to try and learn the vortex bind.
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I think Iām going to try to learn to do a hop from hand to hand, and finish with a vortex. And improve my consistency. I can sometimes do vortex binds that completely unwind the stringānot too smart, but other times I leave a little bit of tail on the bind that kills the spin and stability so it doesnāt last long at all.
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I found out that the throw does not have to be flat horizontal when it leaves your hand. I throw it bent to the left a little so that itās flat at the bottom of the string. Iām throwing with the right hand to the right.
Thatās exactly how I unwinded the string completely out of the yoyoā¦ 
Iāve called this āhorizontal transition 1a to 4aā
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Nice man. Love those hops. Nice vortexes too. I need to be more consistent with all of those things.
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Iāve done that too, but Iām kinda hit or miss with vortexes. Any tips for not leaving a tail on the bind? Thatās the thing that I have the most trouble with, some strings are much more problematic.
Edit: Iāve also done that quite a few times adjusting string tension too fast so it unwinds the axle loop and the string jumps off, and Iām left holding a spinning yo-yo on a string without it attached to the yo-yoā¦ the only 4a Iāve ever done
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As you may see in my video, what I do is, after lock in the finger, I create a tail behind the yoyo and I keep it far from the yoyo with my nth thumb. Then when Iām ready to bind, I pass the string into the gap and pull it upward creating the vprtex
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Here you can see how I do with my thumb
https://www.instagram.com/p/B6-UmuqJHvN/?igshid=lrze2u28r816
EDIT: does the Instagram link works? First time i link a Instagram video
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Thanks. Thatās looks much easier than the different ways Iāve been doing it.
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Yeah, the link works fine.
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What do you shoot your video with?
Also, for anyone else, Iāve been having issues with YouTube degrading my video quality pretty badly. Itās really aggravating. Anyone know how to fix that?
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Yeah me too!
Other people seem to have sharp videos. Mine seems really grainy.
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Actually Iām using my phone, xiaomi a2, and honestly its camera is very bad compared to other phones. I did not noticed any loss in image quality when uploading to YouTube, videos are produced with PowerDirector in 720p. I donāt know, maybe YouTube has quality limitation for ācasualā users, and it degrades hq videos. Just guessing.
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Yeah, me too man :(.
I keep producing these freaking AWESOME videos of these super complicated tricks that would blow all yaālls mindsā¦
But then I upload them to youtube and things get all messed up.
Stupid youtube!!
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Yeah I heard YouTube tends to degrade tricks.
Try Insta. Itās capped at 720p so might suit your tricks better 
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