# Those WEIRD tricks…
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826
**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks
**Created:** [October 9, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826 "2021-10-09T05:03:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 5:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/1 "2021-10-09T05:03:58Z")
I strayed off the beaten path in my yoyoing somewhat. I mostly abandoned trick tutorials when I was still a relative novice. I had barely learned ladder escape when I decided to make my own tricks.
As such, my yoyoing can be weird. Nowadays, you see these kids on the competition scene, and pretty much every trick they throw is a variation on a meta element that literally everyone does. Which I get tired of sometimes, but I does score very well. So I respect the hustle.
But for better or worse, my trick set is kind the opposite of meta I guess. It’s pretty much entirely based on layers of elements that I’ve been figuring out on my own since I was 13. Unfortunately, I’ll never win any competitions with it. But it’s definitely my own.
I just whipped this one up on a study break. Looks odd, but it’s SUPER fun.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M41ybhdILI)
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/2 "2021-10-09T05:10:20Z")
Anyway, I want you guys to post any weird/just for fun tricks that you come up with!
I’d love to see.
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### Author:  [@EOS44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EOS44)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/3 "2021-10-09T20:13:01Z")
Hey. I just wanted to chime in to say this tricks is… not weird?
Pacman-like formations being utilized in stationary suicides are pretty common, as they are derived from stationary suicides from red triangles.
Here’s a very know example by non other than Takeshi:
Yours is very cool too, its like a doube pacman looking thing, and you’re doing the stat suicide on steps, since the formation allows for separate movement of the string loops. I have a trick that uses a similar mount due to its similar properties, but to an isolation instead of a suicide (theres a stationary suicide at the end too i guess).
Also.
> [@nightshadow](#):
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> post any weird/just for fun tricks that you come up with!
As if all tricks weren’t done for fun, smh.
/jk
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### Author:  [@anon14765792](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon14765792)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/4 "2021-10-09T20:54:28Z")
[https://imgur.com/a/CK5veaa](https://imgur.com/a/CK5veaa)
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### Author:  [@anon14765792](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon14765792)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/5 "2021-10-09T21:23:35Z")
🕶
[http://imgur.com/a/mPt6apq](http://imgur.com/a/mPt6apq)
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### Author:  [@Theycallmecotton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Theycallmecotton)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 12:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/6 "2021-10-10T00:21:34Z")
Go crazy! Everytime you laugh i laugh haha
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 2:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/7 "2021-10-10T02:03:00Z")
> [@EOS44](#):
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> Hey. I just wanted to chime in to say this tricks is… not weird?
Yes and no. Perhaps it’s not the best example.
But still, I’ll play devils advocate and argue that setting up a “pac-man” style mount, and then doing a 3D suicide while purposefully missing one of the loops, just to see the string do that fun untwisty thing is a little off the beaten path.
When you see Takeshi’s trick, it has a logical progression into new mounts with each element. It’s creative, but each gets him somewhere new. This makes sense, especially when considering that you have a hard time finding someone who has created more of those “meta” elements I mentioned.
Mine is more like “hey look at this fun spinning string thingy, and then watch me reject into a trapeze for some reason”.
In my mind, they’re very different.
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### Author:  [@EOS44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EOS44)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/8 "2021-10-10T02:13:05Z")
> [@nightshadow](#):
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> setting up a “pac-man” style mount, and then doing a 3D suicide while purposefully missing one of the loops, just to see the string do that fun untwisty thing is a little off the beaten path.
I agree that this is mostly underexplored. But the umbrella element family in which that element lives under is not weird.
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 3:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/9 "2021-10-10T03:18:34Z")
> [@EOS44](#):
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> But the umbrella element family in which that element lives under is not weird.
Haha, alright man. You got got me.
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/10 "2021-10-10T06:13:00Z")
I just saw this.
This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen in my life.
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2021, 5:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/those-weird-tricks/345826/11 "2021-11-06T05:30:39Z")
Came up with this on a study break. @EOS44 don’t even try to tell me this one doesn’t have a weird ending :joy:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZ52i8FCyQ)