I know that tricks take a practice, some more than others. What do you do when you have a trick that you have been working on and just aren’t getting?
Do you just keep struggling through?
Do you skip it for a while and focus on learning something different and come back to the tough trick?
It was boingy boingy for me. Runner up goes to Kwijibo.
I think if I had fellow yoyoers around me in person, it wouldn’t have been as bad. You can only get so far watching videos.
Still cant land the dang Beef Hook
Supercharger and Monochrome. The slack element at the end of both tricks is basically the same and I’ve been struggling with it forever. Also, tension slacks.
Usually, if I’m struggling with something, I can just grind it out over a day or so to get it down. I just haven’t done it with those two yet. Maybe I will this weekend…
For me it was nitrogen cycle. I am an ecologist and was looking up different aspects of how human activities have altered the nitrogen cycle and Tessa popped up. Was actually the reason I started to yoyo. It looked fun and fast and flashy. 8 months after knowing nothing I ended up learning the trick in its entirety. Breakaway to nitrogen cycle in 8 months. Was pretty great.
I’m extremely frustrated with Monkey Madness.
I can get all the way except for the last move back in to kamikaze mount. But it’s only been two days so far so we’ll see.
The one that’s frustrated me the very most is Go Green Triangle. I can still only land that one 20% of my attempts. What a MFer of a trick. Virtually every element of that short little trick has so much potential to go wrong. Took me ten days before I could land it more than twice in a row.
Ten freaking days of working on pretty much only that trick. I was dreaming about it and my wife was getting fed up with me even trying.
+1 at least a year or more of trying and I still can’t land it.
It’s definitely a road block for me, I want the trick in my repertoire, but it almost feels like I’m wasting my time by spending hours a day throwing the beefy hook with 0 success. I understand the nuances, but just because you understand the trick doesn’t mean you can land it.
I can learn other tricks within days, or a week, combos take a few months, other similar tension hooks or whips I can do. Nothing has been this hard, and because of the frustration of not being able to land the trick, being drained by repeating it non stop with no success, and feeling like I’m making 0 progression because I’m not learning new tricks. I ultimately gave up on it for now.
I come back to it every once in a while. Maybe it’s not even worth it as it looks so deceptively easy. Brandon Vu has a real nice video that got me a little closer. Check it out if you haven’t already.
Yeah, I just throw the trick around randomly now, definitely not spamming it like I was last year. Literally woke up and threw it all day every day and I still suck.
I watched his vids, and all the ones I oculd find. Watched them in 0.25 speed and dissected everything from their hand/finger placement/movement to the yoyo/string etc. I still can not land it, I fully understand the concept. That’s the issue, it’s SO deceptively easy, but so incredibly hard to learn that I wasn’t ready to be so discouraged by not landing it. Just waiting for the “Ah hah” moment, but it usually happens within a few days to a week, at most a month.
edit: i’m using this conversation as motivation, I’m gonna land the beefyhook.
I want to say to keep both hands closer together so there’s enough slack to make it around and land. Maybe string length has a whole bunch to do with it.
Thanks, I actually use shorter string cause I’m not super tall. I’m going to go a bit longer and keep the hands closer - I really think that could be the problem. Thanks dude!
Looping! I just can’t do 2 handed looping. I can loop with either had, just not at the same time. I broke out my myy D3s to practice and ordered a second Hornet so I can really grind it out. My goal after the antibanger comp is to finish the year off as a confirmed intermediate 2a player lol
Just chiming in to say that I think string length is like 95% of why beef hook is such an “impossible” trick to a lot of people. As a short person it kind of sucks because I actually can’t hit most slacks and hooks with the string at a comfortable length for my body. I never landed beef hook once until somebody gave me the advice of “use a longer string” and suddenly it just became consistent while doing the exact same thing.
The trick that still eludes me is infinite beesting. My double beestings are pretty inconsistent and sloppy when I do land them… I also don’t play 5A that much any more. Maybe this May I’ll make it my goal to finally get infinite beesting down
That’s rad! I’m a geochemist and I was looking up stuff on meteors when I found a slow-mo video of Taka using a YYJ Meteor to do his “Taka Hook”. That’s how I got hooked on yoyoing.
Beefhook also drives me mental. I hit it so inconsistently. I think I’ve gotten worse at it over time.
I feel that deeply because my string length is already longer than it should be for my height, when I push it longer I’m consistently dinking my yoyo so I thought I found my sweet spot - I’m gonna give it some more length and give it a try again. Thanks for the insight.
That’s crazy that both of us are in stem and both of us found yo-yo things named after what we were trying to learn more about!
Plastic whip
I worked on it on and (mostly) off for 3+ years. At a certain point I think my skill finally got to the level I needed to be in order to get through it. If it’s taking too long, then it might be too advanced. I’ve found that even if I can get through a trick that’s too advanced for my current level, I don’t get the flow to it until my skill level catches up.
Electric Triangle was a tough one for me. I finally got it one day, it just clicked. That’s the last trick I really remember being stuck on.
Now I’m trying to do it without the yoyo on a trapeze.
