MoonageMin & Twitch's Trick-a-Week Challenge! (2020)

[twitch77 (Green=Love)]

@AKYOYOMIKE

@French i landned your vanish combo twice!

Nice job man!

[Apple]

@twitch77

I’m thinking I might need to take a step back from yoing for a week or two. I’m not having all that much fun with it right now and am having a hell of a hard time with frustration with myself.

set some time for like 15 minutes a day, that’s all, and give yourself a reward if you do it. Just a little bit to keep the muscle memory going. Stop when you reach the 15 minute point even if you feel like you want to keep going.

You might find a trick you can do while watching TV without loosing track of what you’re watching (I like doing snap starts, just hold the yoyo by the string with one hand and spin it using a snap start with the other)

Try just doing freestyles. Don’t make it about learning new “official” tricks and progress. Use your mess ups to create new tricks (personal non official tricks), it doesn’t matter if it’s cool, just have fun.

Switch strings, switch yoyo’s.

Have fun. Just 15 minutes a day, or some time in front of the TV. It’s worth it.

[Apple]

@twitch77

I’m really hoping @MoonageMin will be able to jump back into this weekly challenge at some point again. Man I miss having him around and I think his absence has been playing in with some of my motivation issues with the hobby as of late.

This man has great energy about him. I can feel it through the computer.

[twitch77 (Green=Love)]

@Apple

set some time for like 15 minutes a day […] Just a little bit to keep the muscle memory going

Hey thanks for the awesome reply
I plan on throwing each day still…just taking a step back from this challenge for a bit.

@Apple

Try just doing freestyles. Don’t make it about learning new “official” tricks and progress.

Things like this is what I’m planning on doing. Creating more of my own combos from tricks and mounts I already know and trying to hammer down a couple of tricks (like Candy Rain) that are fun to work on but that I’ve yet to land.

I’m not throwing in a white towel or anything here…I just need a break from the pressures I’ve been putting on myself…the frustration with myself for not being able to land some of these past week’s tricks.

This hobby means a lot to me. I’m just in a bit a slump right now and need to slow things down a tad bit.

@Apple

This man has great energy about him. I can feel it through the computer.

Absolutely! He’s very charming, friendly, motivational and he oozes with charisma! haha I feel like I’m being clingy or something…but damn I miss having him around!

[Apple]

@twitch77

but damn I miss having him around

I miss him and I barely even talk to him

[Mystik (Brothers of the Flame)]

Either/or.

If you do other props it helps. I’ll put down a yoyo, go play with a contact sphere, and then return to the throw after I’ve let my brain melt into a different type of manipulation. It helps😉

[AKYOYOMIKE]

Yoyo break...

Yoyo break

[French]

You rock!

I only have a goatee because I can’t grow a Billy Gibbons or Dusty Hill style beard

[Mystik (Brothers of the Flame)]

That’s what I’m talking about!

[ryanmcg (Ryan M)]

Nice!

[AKYOYOMIKE]

FRENCH VANISH

Just a few days at it … but myv wife will be happy i can go take care of my kids again.
Thanks for posting and encouraging.

[French]

Here is another variant to drive you crazy…

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9dKinHBkAr/?igshid=12v0v6uxisnoc

[twitch77 (Green=Love)]

haha that was amazing!
And did you earn that shirt? Or is it just a random shirt?
Amazing job if you hit that 1,001 miles man!

[French]

Thank you. That is an earned shirt, the Charity Miles app tracks your walking/running/crawling… different companies sponsor the app, you can choose from a huge number of charities to benefit from your sweat equity. I normally turn the app on in the morning and capture the miles I walk during the day. When I run, I leave the phone behind, but the GPS watch will capture miles (so, I don’t double dip).

[twitch77 (Green=Love)]

That is so inspirational! good for you!!

[French]

Thanks, but, anyone can do it. Hopefully this display of just remembering to turn on an app each morning will inspire other ordinary people to do what they can to make a difference. I like to think this is the non-yoyo version of making simple amazing.

[AKYOYOMIKE]

WT$#@! THAT was great. Loks like fun. You are very smooth and clean with that rock.

[MoonageMin (Min Park (Team Playaz))]

I am feeling totally burnt out now.
Not with yoyoing with work.
Literally left the office past midnight everyday for the past two weeks+.
But finally I think I’m going to slowly start having more time from Tuesday onwards.

Thanks everyone here especially to @twitch77 who has been manning the fort as it were while I was buried in work.

Priorities though right? Gotta feed the family and pay the mortgage.

So today I got some time (while the kid’s were playing in soft play) and I started catching up a bit finally.
Doing Ryo Combo.
Everything seems fine but the slack suicide thing. Can’t seem to keep the loop open when I throw it.
Any tips?

This week’s trick, Twitch will pick (sorry again)
But I should be back on it from Tuesday!!!

I need yoyo back in my life and you guys too. Hehe.

I have been throwing throughout the day but haven’t learnt a single new thing, just casual messing around while on the phone at work mostly.

Now I am so behind

Will also update the OP with links after Tuesday

[ryanmcg (Ryan M)]

@MoonageMin

Can’t seem to keep the loop open when I throw it.
Any tips?

I had a hard time with this, but then I remembered how I had a hard time with brother slack and revolutions. It’s the same kinda thing, can’t let it slip at all, and the motion has to be steady and not excessive, just with your NTH.

[twitch77 (Green=Love)]

Thanks for the update Moons! It’s always great to hear from you and I’m really looking forward to having you around again!
Your presence has been missed by many!