# String holding **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [October 5, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-holding/19741 "2010-10-05T18:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fh\_zero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/fh_zero/32/541_2.png) [@fh\_zero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/fh_zero)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-holding/19741/1 "2010-10-05T18:38:16Z")
How does he hold the string like  that while throwing it normally like that?  When i do it slips out of my hand.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eORRvfCzjcg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eORRvfCzjcg) ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-holding/19741/2 "2010-10-05T18:45:40Z")
He doesn’t use a slip-knot, he just simply ties a knot with the string around his finger. ---
**Author:** ![fh\_zero](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/fh_zero/32/541_2.png) [@fh\_zero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/fh_zero)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-holding/19741/3 "2010-10-05T18:49:37Z")
Still having problems here \>:( \>:( \>:( \>:( ---
**Author:** ![j\_lowell9](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/j_lowell9/32/358_2.png) [@j\_lowell9](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/j_lowell9)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2010, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-holding/19741/4 "2010-10-05T20:39:39Z")
He takes the knot on the loop which you use to make a slip knot and makes another loop next to it This is a way of shortening long string