Finally got Kerian Cooper’s slack upside GT!
http://www.instagram.com/p/BBn2dokr1mX/?taken-by=rowland_balcom
I’m just gonna leave my instagram here. Don’t want to fill half the page with a few weeks worth of trickcircle…
Seasick, I’ve never really tried learning it since it looked intimidating. Felt brave and it only took a couple hours to get down.
Wigwam…decided to give it a spin, came to what I felt was satisfactory of pulling it off (Meaning, I didn’t do the trick as intended, kind of ended it my own way, may build off of this).
Hay Gumball, I am not in istagram so I can not score a “Like” But I did like.
It always gives me the best thumbnails.
Finally did a single full rep of Twizzler Repeater!
This took me all day (and a few long breaks, because temper), but I FINALLY landed Hiroyuki Suzuki’s tech combo. I blew through the first part in about 15 minutes, but took forever trying to figure how to get into that GT. I just ended up doing what I think the video did, but I couldn’t see.
Cool combo! I decided I’m going to either work on this or cherry pick some cool elements in it (love tech tricks). So far, starting at the 1:16 mark, I had that part down on the first try 
I just started yoyoing in January, but I was very excited to pull off Mondial and Pop n’ Fresh today.
Sweet! Good job. Like I said, I had so much trouble with the last part. I hope you get it sooner than I do.
getting the matrix down somewhat consistently. can ususally do two gens and occasionally 3.
also getting the boingy boing a few seconds. also getting eli hops about 1 in 3 or 4 times. i’m going to focus on these three for awhile. enough variety to keep me entertained.
edit: this probably should have gone in the “what trick are you working on” thread.
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Finally landed Kwijibo! I don’t know what it is about this trick, but dang that was tricky.
Good job! That one is tough because you have to be accurate.
Thanks! Yeah, for sure. Still have a long way to go to get consistent, but even landing 1 in 10 times feels good.
Ah yes, that wonderful day when you first land Kwijibo. It felt great. Congratulations!
i did a triple or nothing. kind of by accident - but none the less a full blown triple or nothing.
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Magic Drop and Shockwave. Still not 100% on the Magic Drop, but, practice makes perfect.
Kwyjibo is really satisfying to land smoothly for the first time.
The secret to consistency turns out to not be accuracy, though. When you do the undercut, do it very close to the yoyo. The yoyo pretty much has no choice but to land on the string. And then when the yoyo is coming down from the “pop”, you spread your hands apart… not TOO sharply (nobody wants string burn!) but with purpose. This will force the yoyo towards the string so that it has almost no choice but to hit the string. Trying to ‘catch’ it when it comes down from that second pop is a natural way to start, but before long you’ll be doing the hand-spreading.
Doesn’t it feel good when you hit it though? That trick really looks great. I always get a great response when people see me do it. People don’t expect you to catch it cross armed.