I’m sure this is already a trick, but I’d never seen anyone do it, and its only like the 2nd trick I ever figured out for my self, so it felt neat to imagine if something like that was possible then teach myself to do it.
Its basically a one armed trapeze I guess, but for the fleeting moments where I can pretend I actually invented* something I’m calling it Old Spice, since it goes up under your arm.
*I’m not claiming to have truly invented anything in the broader sense. Only as far as I’m concerned since I’ve never seen it, or known it was possible until I thought it up and tried it myself. I’m not that good, nor that well versed in the millions of tricks out there. I figure most anything I could imagine is already going to be a Trick™ given the levels of insane exploration and skill out there by people way more into it than I am.
I’m not sure if it has a name yet.
It would be really cool if you could bind in the position and have the yoyo return around your arm back to your hand.
That’s a pretty nice trick. I think around the corner type tricks like that tend to look interesting, and the one-handed aspect is a nice bit of flair. If you’re looking for ideas on how to expand on that, one of my favorite Mark Montgomery tricks uses a similar idea, but still uses the other hand for the mount. Hiroyuki Suzuki has also done some cool stuff with that concept.
I originally did it with the free hand for the mount, but I was sitting there watching it spin the other day and just transfered the loop over to my yo-yo hand to see how it looked, and liked it. Then I decided to see if I could just hit it that way to begin with.
That MarkMont repeater is cool!! Thanks for the tip, I’ll see if I can add that version to my repertoire It looks dramatic for its hypnotic factor, but fairly simple too… always a plus for me. 8)
