Wow!
Been wanting to learn hooks beyond the first one for ages. Tried 1.5 off and on every now and then.
Finally it clicked today and i landed it.
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Managed to land Multifarious Whip!
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Finally landed the whip to Kamikaze even though I’ve been able to do it from a Houdini mount for a long time. Prior to that it was the Brother Slack to Ninja Vanish. Such a cool trick!
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It’s taken me about 6 months of trying on and off.
But I finally kind of got a handle on the last hop in Black Hops.
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Hell yeah!
Hell yeah dude!! 1.5 hook has been a bane to my existence lol. I think I’ve finally figured out the whip (at least saw the loop over my th for once lol), but ive been trying for months and have never gotten close lol
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My achievement today…
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OMFG!!! 1.5 HOOK!!!
This trick has literally taken me months to hit it one time. MONTHS!
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Just wait till you get to 2.5 hook…
its not fun
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i’ll meet you at 2.5 hook in 2.5 years lol
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I just learned shoot the moon! Wanted it since I was a kid!
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WOOOO!!! STM is one of my all time favorites and I do it literally every day lol
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I will be too now that I can do it, haha
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One minute one throw. 2 misses but overall I’m pretty proud of this combo in terms of construction.
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Just learnt 4A Quick Ring… Whilst hitting the ceiling a few times
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Not the biggest deal, but finally hit black hops!!!
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2.0 hook on a Kun. Hands down my favorite trick to do fun wise lol but almost threw my shoulder out learning it 
did well over 100 if these yesterday lol
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After three months of trying it at least once a day, I finally got it. The past few days I have been watching every tutorial, trying every technique, and just practicing a ton. My arms are like jello right now because once I got it down, I didn’t want to stop. I just went on a boingy boing marathon doing it over and over for 30+ minutes. In the past, I got it once and then couldn’t get it again. I think I got it this time.
A few things I noticed: I have to start off the mount with the first boing or I can’t get in a good rhythm. Also, because of that, I think it’s causing my yoyo to eventually fall out of alignment because it doesn’t allow me to take the time to line everything up. After about 10 or so boings it’ll eventually get off center and shoot out.
Didn’t wanna make a new topic so I found this one. I’m pretty pumped up about this.
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That’s awesome! Isn’t it rewarding to make a breakthrough like that and finally get a trick that you’ve been working on for ages?
When I first started in the late 90s, I saw some boing-e-boing videos online and I thought that was the most remarkable yoyo trick I had ever seen. Then when I started back up during the pandemic, that was one of the tricks that I really wanted to learn. So like you, I worked at it for months, watched, rewatched, then ultimately re-re-rewatched all the video tutorials for it that I could find online. I eventually got it and can now do it regularly, but if my setup is lousy then I often can’t overcome it and it fails. But as long as I start it with enough momentum, I can get a bunch of boings before it either shoots out the front or I stop because it’s angling too much. The only sad thing is that since I’ve spent so much working on it, the trick has kind of lost its novelty and it isn’t as exciting as it used to be.
Personally, I found that it was easier if I did a couple of things:
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Boing-e-boings are easier for me with a shorter string. If I do a few barrel rolls before the boings, then it shortens up the string a little more since the rolls cause the string to wrap around my fingers. So the barrel rolls do a good job of adding more interest to the trick as well as shortening the string, making it easier for me to do the boings. If I don’t do any flips or rolls and try to do the trick with a long string, it’s significantly harder.
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It’s a little easier if I angle the boings upward instead of having them parallel to the ground. For this, I basically rotate everything up about 15 to 30º and for some reason, it’s a little easier to do the trick this way.
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It helps me to think of locking my throw hand elbow to my side, then performing the boings by only moving my throw hand forearm. If I keep my upper arm totally still and only rotate my forearm from the elbow, then I do a better job of staying in the right plane and rhythm.
And the last tip that helped me was the most difficult. I know that my throw hand is only supposed to go up and down, but since I want the yoyo to go back and forth my brain still tries to change my arm’s movement since it seems like you shouldn’t move it a different direction than you want the yoyo to go. But if I concentrate hard to keep my throw arm going up and down, then I have a better chance of succeeding. If my throw arm starts moving forward and backward, similar to what the yoyo is doing, then everything gets messed up. Basicallly, it’s really hard to do what seems like the wrong movement to make the yoyo go in a different direction.
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