The "I Finally Landed It!" Thread

Kiwijibo! For the first time I properly landed the uncrossing hop! I would always get my string twisted and couldn’t drop into the double or nothing. So excited! I’ve been trying on and off to get it for years, partly because I l took a break from yoyoing all together for a while, but this was the trick I’ve been dreaming of finally landing for a long time.

Also have been getting my suicides and basic lacerations up to a 25% success rate, which feels like a huge win.

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Found this on my feed a week ago and finally got it down at a decent speed for the first time, the thumb undercut is quite neat.

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Just landed Drift by gentry on the third attempt, I’ve been trying WAY too hard for so long on it but I finally got it. Also landed a Yoyojoe banger whip triangle the other day that I’m pretty proud of.

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Finally got double beef hooks on lock. I read something from someone on IG that said people like things that go around twice lol

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Thats cool, blacklights. Are they special strings?

Just figured out @DocPop 's1.5 mount gyroflop to bind … not sure what it’s called, but its slick af!

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Congrats. That’s called Flopsicle. https://youtu.be/PkcpLTPOt7Y

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New combo I’ve been working on

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Revelstoke by Tyler Vienneau

After about 2 days of practice it’s starting to coming together… but not as vertical & bouncy as Tyler and I can’t yet hit the redirect before the bind.

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Nice! That’s such an awesome trick I tried to learn it a few weeks ago and kept getting hung up at one point. That guy walking past in the tutorial is also slightly confusing :sweat_smile:

When I was first picking up a yo-yo again I was really enamored with whip to 1.5 and beefhooks, but couldn’t really understand how to actually do either.

Now, a little over a year later I decided to try them over the last week and can hit both pretty consistently now. I don’t know if any tricks have made me feel my progress more than these two.

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Just hit black hops for the first time!

Also cold fusion today

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@LX_Emergency has a good one!!

Lol yeah I do.

Been drilling almost nothing but beefhook the past week. Yesterday it just kind of clicked and now it’s around 1/5 that i land it regardless of type of string used.

So today I put it in a chopsticks combo that is also begin working on the past month and I actually landed it first try.

Thanks for the help @Bobparty

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Killing it!!! @LX_Emergency

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Guys i am landing beef hook consistently after a month of practice! Hard work pays off. I just hit it 3 times in a row :smiley: probably landed 100 times tonight. Only like 5 times the wrong way.

Edit: just hit it twice on the toonie!

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So i landed a regular hook a few times tonight…

After learning beef hook, standard hook wasnt so bad.

I thought id be cool and try and get like a 2.0 hook

But had no idea what i was doing and was basically just waving my hand around and almost hitting my face with a chunk of metal

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Slack tricks on a deeper state? Beef hook? I decided i wanted to try it.

Hit my dogs crate, so has a small ding on it.

But tonight i landed it a few times. I feel like its good for understanding the slack entirely. Idk maybe im crazy.

Next ill do a full responsive beef hook.

Is that even possible or am i about to jam some fingers?

I dont know.

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You can definitely do slacks w a responsive Yoyo. Like just pinch the string and you can do a bunch of slack stuff. I’ve never been able to beef hook on a responsive but I also gave up trying pretty quick like it seemed like it was gonna be hard if not impossible because of the way the slack is set up like regular hook you can do because the slack stays pulling away from the Yoyo I think I’m not exactly sure but I can do those. Beefhook responsive felt different to me but it def still could be possible idk imma try it again tomorrow.

Edit: yeah you can Beefhook on a responsive Yoyo but it’s hard. Definitely punishing if you miss so maybe a good incentive to land it more hah I don’t know good luck.

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Just got down the Kamikaze for the first time! It precessed like crazy during the weird magic drop to off-brand 1.5 mount part because it glanced my hand but I still landed it and binded (bound?)!

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