School Talent Show Trick Ideas? (and other suggestions also welcome!)

[Buddy_Jim]

You could do a 5A grind. Just trapeze dismount as the yo-yo leaves let out some slack and catch the yo-yo on the weight. (Provided it’s not a rubbery bouncy ball) I’ve found this trick to be a particularly nice crowd pleaser. Along with Boingy Boingy and Eli Hops.

[SaltySalvador]

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

[Bcmaddog]

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

Which ones can’t you do?

[anonyo]

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

I can’t do the simple ones, much less the facny ones. Keep working at it. You will eventually get it. So will I in time!

[SaltySalvador]

@Bcmaddog

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

Which ones can’t you do?

Anything besides a regular Boingy. I am going to grind at that trick till I get it. Boingy Boing itself was the hardest trick I have ever learned. It’s taken me 1 year of practice to get a semi-boingy going. And Whut and Superman were learned in the same day with no problem. Boingy Boing is just hard for me.

[anonyo]

@SaltySalvador

@Bcmaddog

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

Which ones can’t you do?

Anything besides a regular Boingy. I am going to grind at that trick till I get it. Boingy Boing itself was the hardest trick I have ever learned. It’s taken me 1 year of practice to get a semi-boingy going. And Whut and Superman were learned in the same day with no problem. Boingy Boing is just hard for me.

Isn’t it strange how things go that way sometimes?

You can’t learn something lower in the trick list but some stuff higher up is like “no problem”?

I worked on Magic Drop for a week, then finally got it. Then Shockwave went fast.

Boing-e-boing is still not coming along. I know if I work at it hard enough, I will get it in time!

[SaltySalvador]

@Studio42

@SaltySalvador

@Bcmaddog

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

Which ones can’t you do?

Anything besides a regular Boingy. I am going to grind at that trick till I get it. Boingy Boing itself was the hardest trick I have ever learned. It’s taken me 1 year of practice to get a semi-boingy going. And Whut and Superman were learned in the same day with no problem. Boingy Boing is just hard for me.

Isn’t it strange how things go that way sometimes?

You can’t learn something lower in the trick list but some stuff higher up is like “no problem”?

I worked on Magic Drop for a week, then finally got it. Then Shockwave went fast.

Boing-e-boing is still not coming along. I know if I work at it hard enough, I will get it in time!

Yeah. Magic Drop was insanely easy for me. Kamikaze was an even simpler piece of cake. I need to get a solid Boingy Boing and then learn to do some variations. It’s frustrating because I saw this on FB today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rgdk-U5YOUI

[Skred300]

@Studio42

@Skred300

@Studio42

I think you should start a bit smaller. You’ve got a decent range of tricks in there.

What you might want to do is break it down a bit. If you’re going to mix styles, that’s fine, but keep each style to it’s own “block”.

Some of the picture and basic tricks, you might see about doing those with a responsive yoyo. Engage the audience, get their attention with these crowd pleasing simple tricks. Get ready to swap out. Start your routine with a gravity pull, then a sleeper for 2-5 seconds and then tug it back. Do some tricks. End that little bit how you started, then swap to an unresponsive yoyo. Do a forward throw or break-away, show how it won’t come back, then “oh yea!” and bind it back. Continue. Don’t do something too complicated yet. and save stuff like Bong-e-boing and Eli hops(because those are talent show crowd pleasers) for when you need to draw the audience back in. The cool thing about boing-e-boing is you have the over-under that really giives you more to work with. Eli hops has your regular hops, then that “doing a 360” with them as a trick for later on. You can also use gyro flops as another trick to break things up and change the pace, especially if you do multiple flops. Grinds should get decent reactions but I think most people won’t know what to make of them but should still react good.

I think if you can add some 3A and 4A in there too if time permits, mostly since people don’t see that. Most people are familiar with 2A looping. Even if ou just do some 2 handed loops inside and outside and maybe some hop the fence, that will be good enough.

As I said, good choice of tricks. Just make sure you just break it up. People not really into it can’t handle the barrage of fast moves. They need frequent breaks to simpler stuff. You have to realize your audience isn’t yoyo people, it’s regular people. Focus more on connecting to the audience, which might be difficult.

Thank you! Unfortunately, I can’t do 3a at all and I’m not prepared for 4a (in case I drop my only Go Big) but yeah, the tricks above are only ideas and suggestions so I won’t be using them all. I’ve already got a kind of idea of how to start though. ;D

I can agree with your logic for 3A and 4A. I can’t do 3A, but I do have plenty of 4A stuff and I can do a few decent tricks, although nothing super amazing. Having only one right now is a good reason to skip. If you lose it, it looks really lame.

I would suggest doing looping 2 handed. Doing it 1 handed looks a bit silly. Just see if you can get 10 loops in each hand, inside and outside, and hop the fence. Or I’d just skip looping entirely for now. Looping is hard. You can do forward pass and around the world and a breakaway in your responsive portion, and if your yoyo is responsive enough, a couple of loops(or more). That might be a good starting point actually.

Thank you again Chris! I’ve never actually thought about looping stage-wise.

@SaltySalvador

@Studio42

@SaltySalvador

@Bcmaddog

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

Which ones can’t you do?

Anything besides a regular Boingy. I am going to grind at that trick till I get it. Boingy Boing itself was the hardest trick I have ever learned. It’s taken me 1 year of practice to get a semi-boingy going. And Whut and Superman were learned in the same day with no problem. Boingy Boing is just hard for me.

Isn’t it strange how things go that way sometimes?

You can’t learn something lower in the trick list but some stuff higher up is like “no problem”?

I worked on Magic Drop for a week, then finally got it. Then Shockwave went fast.

Boing-e-boing is still not coming along. I know if I work at it hard enough, I will get it in time!

Yeah. Magic Drop was insanely easy for me. Kamikaze was an even simpler piece of cake. I need to get a solid Boingy Boing and then learn to do some variations. It’s frustrating because I saw this on FB today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rgdk-U5YOUI

Complete oppsite of me; Boingy Boing was quite easy for me but I’m still stuck on Magic Drop (I still can’t understand how the string is supposed to unwrap when you land the yoyo.) ;D

[Buddy_Jim]

@Studio42

@SaltySalvador

I wish I could do those super fancy boingy-boings.

I can’t do the simple ones, much less the facny ones. Keep working at it. You will eventually get it. So will I in time!

I’ll tell you what I told a friend here in Utah.
GIVE MORE!!!
Often times boingy boingys just need a little more slack to get the proper pacing down. Most players start thinking they’ll get the timing then loosen up with it. You must first loosen up then the speed will come to you.

[Skred300]

The school talent show is coming back on next Thursday (please read the edit)

[mr.nightshadow95]

I did my talent show on yoyo and trust me people really like picture tricks and just simple flashy tricks I did some complicated sting tricks but did not get the reaction that I wanted so your list is pretty good I think. You’ll do great

[Skred300]

@mr.nightshadow95

I did my talent show on yoyo and trust me people really like picture tricks and just simple flashy tricks I did some complicated sting tricks but did not get the reaction that I wanted so your list is pretty good I think. You’ll do great

Thank you for the feedback, I’ve started looking at which tricks I will include and also what music to include, the speed of my yoyoing at different parts of the music and I’ve also been trying to calculate the amount of time needed for the trick.