First time doing a tower trick - kind of liked hopping around into it.
I totally forgot what I was doing after kwijibo, hence the pause. Hopefully by the end of the week I’ll be able to consistently do beefhook into this and be a little smoother.
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Baby’s first tower trick. Will probably come back with a more advanced combo tomorrow now that I have it down.
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neat trick
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Hades?
yes.
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question, why’s it called a tension hook?
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I actually don’t know where the line of what a tension hook is starts or stops tbh. It’s not just the string tension like the rip cordy tension hooks (below). There is a pinch kinda but the super charger whip can be like just tension or with a pinch and this is kinda like that…I’m not really sure tbh lol Imma @mable
I always think of these style first
Edit oh yeah and these kind are called tension hooks bc you’re using the string tension to pop the string around and hook the yoyo.
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I don’t have any video, but first tower trick and first TAW for me! I really like the cross-arm hop.
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landed hop tower a few times… been looking for a tower trick i can get into from a combo…i only know the basic tower trick you learn from gravity pull, this is way more slick. i still can’t get the bounce to submount right so i just do it from 1.5. maybe will try to get video later if i can land it in a few takes.
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A tension hook is just any type of hook that you send off by holding tight tension and releasing. This Takeshi one isn’t inherently a tension hook because the flip of your NTH wrist is what sends the slack around, more than just releasing the tension.
That being said holding and releasing more tension still gives the slack a lot more force as it goes around, so I think it’d be reasonable to call it a tension hook if you’re explicitly using the release of tension as the primary method of getting the slack to move.
That being said I gotta film a hop tower for this week. Towers and more intricate formations like them always feel so much cooler to end a combo with compared to just a basic GT.
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Hey I finally got it!
Thanks @EOS44 for the tut and @digitalcharlie for the help with the missing wrap.
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sick
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Sorry it’s a little low energy but eleven hour work days will do that to you.
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Love this trick and i love @EOS44 version… i keep getting lost into gentrys speed combo but it works.
I also wanted to say I’ve been dying to share this yoyo, Libero by ZeroGravity is the best competition version yoyo we have put out. Thing is super smooth, balanced and powerful… like most yoyos today 
. Honestly i love this thing and i have not put it down for 2 months. I think it’s dropping next week.
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Is beef hook a tension hook? It uses the string tension to pop the string around but hmmm idk
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I wouldn’t say so, which is why I wouldn’t classify the Takeshi slack as one. There’s more going on than simply releasing tension, you’re not specifically pulling everything tight and releasing.
I’m not a yoyo authority tho, I think it’s easier to not try and put labels on stuff like this since it’s kinda unnecessary and people can have different definitions.
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True! I was curious
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Ok… im voting @mable as the Trick-a-Week yoyo authority! You rock and we appreciate everything you add to this thread.
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I keep ending up in something like this photo below. I imagine this string formation is the tower not spread properly because when I mess with it the tower forms the way it should. It’s usually small though. Any idea why this is happening?
*I think I got it. Just the way I was curling my finger and holding it.
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If you spread you the top of the tower it will help open it up also
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