Like your new profile pic. Your Spirit Bomb tip is a good one. Several videos go over that a bit, but I don’t remember which ones.
Also helps to lay your throw hand palm up during the first hop.
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lol /grrr
Instead of making forward progress yesterday…I was making backwards progress! >.<’ How does that even happen? haha
I was actually getting the first hop on Monday (then skipped practice on tuesday)…and then yesterday I couldn’t fot the life of me get the first hop.
Are any of you guys having any better luck with this thing?
lol I was feeling pretty confident till yesterday!
I’ll keep at it though! 
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@Ryanmcg and @angvs those are great tips…i kept missing the second hop into the triangle a lot… now with mt TH spread open and face up im actually getting into the triangle and close to that landing.
Thanks. Just not worthy of any video attempts yet since ive only landed it completely once this whole week.
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Nice. I remember the same tips helped me. There’s little details to Spirit Bomb that aren’t obvious or intuitive.
The other tip that really helped me at first, for the last hop, bend your knees and use your legs to help hop it, so you don’t have to move your arms as much. Don’t let it sag too much before the hop; you want to keep your arms pretty much fixed except for upward motion.
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Do you happen to have the ability to film a POV of you doing the trick? This was something I would do when struggling with a trick so I can look back and review it and share with others who might have some insight.
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Hey man, what is that yo-yo in your profile pic?
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That’s an iyoyo Firrox
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Cheers, buddy!
I’ve been throwing just over 3 years now. TBH I still haven’t had an aha moment to make the injection happen every time. A shorter string seems to help. I haven’t been able to throw for a while but I think I’m getting past that now. At least enough to get a clip for this week’s video and hopefully clean up the bits from my last video too. This is the first time I haven’t been able to throw and it’s absolutely killing me!
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How come you haven’t been able to throw?
I know what that’s like… few things have ever been as frustrating as when I couldn’t throw.
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GAH!
I just spent 30 minutes failing at this trick in front of my camera (my phone) so that I could watch the footage to see what I was doing wrong.
Got the footage transferred to my computer…and…it was all in time lapse! >.<’ I accidently switched from video mode to time lapse mode when attaching the phone to my tripod.
Grrr! lol
I’m so bummed I broke my other camera the other day :(. At least I can still use it as a printer for my phone…but with the touch screen broken I can’t switch it from photo mode to video mode. /sigh
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I’m really struggling with this trick…but I fully expected that.
That being said though, I’m really enjoying working on this one!
I’ve gotten so dang close a couple of times.
I don’t know if I’ll be able to get this trick by Sunday evening…but I’m sure trying!
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Sorry to hear about your camera woes dude. I went through a spell of the same thing with my phone on a tripod. From having my phone fall completely off the tripod, to the tripod mount squeezing the volume button which was set to shutter. Changed the button to zoom instead and that got me a few times too. Where about in the trick are you stuck?
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I’m having a hard time getting into the mount after the first pop…then I’ve yet to land inside the triangle with the second pop…getting damn close though!
If only I could land in the mount after the first pop more consistently so I could work more on the second…
I’m going to go watch some tutorials again…then go attempt to record myself again so I can try to pinpoint some of the issues I’m having.
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I’ve been going though a bi of a bad time lately and got an outbreak of eczema. Not usually a problem but this is right down the inside of my non throw hand index finger. It’s a little bit more settled since it first showed up last weekend so I’ve managed about 10 mins throwing with a glove on. Managed to film a clip for trickweek on the NRYYA page on Facebook and almost got a clip for spirit bomb too. I already have spirit bomb down so I have a little wrist mount combo I wanna pop it in the middle of.
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It might sound daft but try using kendama knees when hopping. It can absolutely help keep everything in a line. Maybe try a heavier throw too as it will also help with keeping stuff in line. Pop the video up when you can and I’ll see what I can do to help
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Man, sorry to hear about the eczema 
That sounds super painful and frustrating.
I feel like I’m close…but at the same time I might be doing 100% everything wrong too haha >.<’
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And here’s my best attempt so far:
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Man, you are SO close! I’ll give these another check out tomorrow and see what tips I can put together for the second hop. Looks very much like you are a huge majority of the way there. It’s nearly 2:30am here in the UK so probably not the best of times for filming.
Cheers. It looks to be on the mend and didn’t really aggravate it too much with throwing today. Gonna see how tomorrow goes and hopefully will be back in full swing towards the end of next week.
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Kendama legs was a good tip… iim consistently getting into the triangle but still can’t land that sting… i have 10 min of video misses.
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Hello guys, I’m very sorry for have been inactive this week but I’ve been on work trip so I had no time to practice. I have made some study tho on this trick and, given the short time I had to upload a video before Sunday, I found a shortcut to land this trick without land the second hop inside a triangle. On the second hope, I hop the yoyo in front of all strings and land on the same string uncrossing the hands. I land in the same wrist mount and it is much more easy. It is a shortcut for sure but I think it is as eye-catching as the original trick. Let me know your thoughts on this. On the video below:
1 . My version of Spirit Bomb
2 . Entering a wrist mount from chopstick
3 . Spirit Bomb and hourglass combo
4 . Spirit Bomb and magic dismount
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