# Slow motion magic drop **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [April 17, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379 "2013-04-17T10:20:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/1 "2013-04-17T10:20:15Z")
Does anyone know a video of this? I’m a bit confused about this trick and would like to see it. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/2 "2013-04-17T12:29:29Z")
> [@Yoyo Kangaroo](#): > > Does anyone know a video of this? I’m a bit confused about this trick and would like to see it. I know that feeling. I scoured the net for slow-mo showing EXACTLY when the string pops out of the yoyo and stuff… never found one. Instead, I just followed the MFD tutorial ([http://youtu.be/nfokoRwxed8](http://youtu.be/nfokoRwxed8)) and got some tips from another forum thread, and just did it. The MFD video has some slow-mo but it didn’t fully give me the view I was craving… nonetheless, the instructions were great. There were two keys for me (I think both are in the MFD tutorial): spreading the strings with the non-throw-hand in anticipation of the drop, and angling my throwhand “gun” inwards with my thumb pointing toward my left shoulder. The point I’m trying to get to, though: just practicing it on faith (without fully understanding what’s going on) will probably see you landing it soon enough, and once you land it a time or two, you’ll “get it” better than just watching a slow-mo video. ---
**Author:** ![yuki\_onitsura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yuki_onitsura/32/1162_2.png) [@yuki\_onitsura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yuki_onitsura)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/3 "2013-04-17T12:46:39Z")
Here you go. Just have to get through a few walls of text but there’s some decent slow mo video for you as well. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJo1qDKxsRQ) Yuki ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/4 "2013-04-17T12:50:07Z")
For some reason, that HSYY video never did it for me. But it might help others! ---
**Author:** ![Graiskye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/258eb7/32.png) [@Graiskye](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Graiskye)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/5 "2013-04-17T17:29:05Z")
When first learning the 'Drop, it took forever. It’s one of them tricks… but when I finally stated to get it, I found a distinct, chopping motion, with the throw hand, helped. Ill try to explain as best I can. When you hit your index finger(throw hand) on the string to initiate the rejection, after sitting in trapeze, then swinging the trap up into your finger, think of a karate chop, and sort of give the string one with your throw hand. Just a really short lil chop, you just want to contact the string, like you were bouncing you hand on it, not cut it in half, its a very quick movement. I found this really helped to initiate the string rejection. After learning this way, I can get very slow and deliberate rejections. I have no way to make a video, or I would try to show you what I mean. I think once you do it a couple of times, and think about it, youll see what I am getting at. Good luck, dont give up, but dont be afraid of just letting it go for now. I kept coming back to the MD every couple of weeks till I got it, you cant, or you shouldnt, let one trick dictate your fun quota. Good luck with it, you will get it. ---
**Author:** ![Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/6 "2013-04-17T22:21:19Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![xxjohnsonxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b782af/32.png) [@xxjohnsonxx](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xxjohnsonxx)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/7 "2013-04-18T00:59:43Z")
SO far I can get it to regect most of the time but landing on the back string is my problem ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/8 "2013-04-18T01:30:56Z")
> [@xxjohnsonxx](#): > > SO far I can get it to regect most of the time but landing on the back string is my problem Spreading apart with the non throwhand made this a breeze; plus when swinging the yoyo around the throwhand, consciously aim for that back string now that it’s spread backwards as an easy target. ---
**Author:** ![IdleHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@IdleHands](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/IdleHands)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/9 "2013-04-19T01:10:35Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG2V-dpSN7g) this one good besides his nasty thumbnail ---
**Author:** ![Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/10 "2013-04-22T22:25:06Z")
So, the point of making the L shape is not to do some chopsticks maneuver? ---
**Author:** ![yuki\_onitsura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yuki_onitsura/32/1162_2.png) [@yuki\_onitsura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yuki_onitsura)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/11 "2013-04-23T00:10:20Z")
> [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](#): > > So, the point of making the L shape is not to do some chopsticks maneuver? No chopsticks involved at all (thank god!). Yuki ---
**Author:** ![Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo_Kangaroo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/12 "2013-04-24T22:36:50Z")
So, what is the point? ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/13 "2013-04-25T00:51:12Z")
> [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](#): > > So, what is the point? Magic! Magic is always the point. ---
**Author:** ![HipposLoveCereal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hipposlovecereal/32/7934_2.png) [@HipposLoveCereal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HipposLoveCereal)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/14 "2013-04-25T11:38:29Z")
> [@Yoyo\_Kangaroo](#): > > So, what is the point? Making the l shape allows the string to stay taut and make contact with the yoyo walls while it swings over your throwhand. This allows the string to reject- the biggest thing that helped me was keeping the L-shape on my throwhand still, which let the string reject. If I move my hand with the yoyo while it swings around, the string usually doesn’t reject, and I get all sad. Somebody feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but thats how I see it. ---
**Author:** ![G2\_Jake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/g2_jake/32/446_2.png) [@G2\_Jake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/G2_Jake)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/slow-motion-magic-drop/52379/15 "2013-04-25T11:41:53Z")
Here’s another if you haven’t seen it. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/2/d/f/2df6d47b988f00cc2811f5dbc768f2a83575ed3b.jpeg "G Squared Tutorial - Magic Drop") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx2HYdHaxMQ)