# Photosynthesis (Fixed Axle Yo-Yo Video) **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Videos\ **Created:** [June 4, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426 "2012-06-04T22:15:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/1 "2012-06-04T22:15:44Z")
[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/1/0/5107bbad5aab65dad08caafd3e4bf49e0ac5ef9c.jpeg "Photosynthesis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r88rM6U1wA) > [@](#): > > 've always done my best yo-yoing outside. ‘best’ can have a lot of connotations, and i should be clear. i’ve always ‘understood myself as a person playing with a yo-yo’ most clearly out-of-doors. > > this video is called ‘photosynthesis’ because i was surrounded by my deciduously autotrophic friends during its filming, but it’s worth noting that photosynthesis is the process by which green plants ‘feed themselves’. as a yo-yoer, especially in this year, i’m mostly alone. i haven’t gone to a single contest, i don’t dissect freestyles, and i play an old-fashioned wooden yo-yo. regardless of circumstances though, you gotta eat. creatively, you’re either a producer or a consumer (or a decomposer, i guess… whatever that would be). you gotta GET AT the stuff that sustains you, and cool or lame, easy of tough, this is the kind of yo-yo playing that sustains me. > > i hope you enjoy it, and that maybe somewhere in there is something that resonates. regardless though, i’ll keep producing. :wink: > > song is ‘touched’ by VAST > yo-yo is my signature fixed-axle, the ‘eh’ by SPYY 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lagg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lagg/32/974_2.png) [@lagg](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/lagg)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/2 "2012-06-04T22:28:36Z")
stop being so badass 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Neight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/54ee81/32.png) [@Neight](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Neight)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/3 "2012-06-04T23:42:55Z")
Some pretty gnarly tricks youre throwing in this one. Loving the one at 2:08. ---
**Author:** ![patrickcondon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/patrickcondon/32/619950_2.png) [@patrickcondon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/patrickcondon)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/4 "2012-06-05T01:58:55Z")
Absolutely stunning. You truly are quite the player, Ed, and not just in any old way. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/doctor/32/917_2.png) [@Doctor](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Doctor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 12:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/5 "2012-06-06T12:34:48Z")
Your videos are always so unique and very inspirational. How the heck do you get the yoyo to start spinning again on some of those tricks? It looks like it just stops and sits on the string. Then you trow it out and it comes right back. ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 2:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/6 "2012-06-06T14:56:42Z")
Thanks for watching. Those are string stalls. The yoyo is 85% wound up when it lands in the mount. You pause, then regenerate. Most of my tricks have some kind of integrated stall these days. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/doctor/32/917_2.png) [@Doctor](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Doctor)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2012, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/photosynthesis-fixed-axle-yo-yo-video/38426/7 "2012-06-06T17:44:54Z")
Cool, now I can look up tutorials on how to do them. Thanks!