Just getting back into yoyo after about a 12 year hiatus. Back when, I could do the old Roller Coaster and Split the Atom and such, but that was with old-school responsive yoyos. I got my nephew a yoyo for Christmas and started playing with mine again, and went on to Google to find out some new tricks. All I can say is “WOW!” Things have moved on. So now I have a couple of unresponsive yoyos, and I’ve learned a few new tricks like Plastic Whip, the Matrix, Brother Slack, and such.
I’m working on Skin the Gerbil (where do these names come from, anyway?), and as I’ve seen a couple of different videos online I’ve found that there seems to be more than one way to skin a gerbil. Some versions use the TH finger to do the loops, others do an Oliver Twist kind of move by just throwing it. I’ve seen it with two loops before the double trapeze, or with one. I’ve also seen it with a loop after coming out of the double trapeze before going into the revers double trapeze, as well as without. Is there a “canonical” or preferred way to do it, or is there truly more than one way…?
Welcome back to throwing again! Also…you have to reference the best material around from before all those ‘fancy videos’ and ‘highspeed interwebs’ and whatnot to find the original way it was done or intended to be done.
Check out anything in the sector y archive to see how everything was done back in the day. That is the way Doc Pop did it and he is the inventor of the trick. I’m sure you can find a video teaching this exact way, but it’s not too difficult to learn from the diagrams and they help break everything down. Also, check out some of the other awesome and not so known about tricks (they are known, just not many people do a lot of tutorials for them, if at all. Example is Yellow Airplanes aka Kamikaze 2)
The name skin the gerbil was basically just a name that got fiddled with. There is a trick known as “skin the cat” so my guess someone changed cat to gerbil.
