I mean the hop that will land you inside the triangle. When I first learned this trick, I tried hard not to get it tangled because that’s how he does it in the tut. I found that pulling your hands apart once you are at the highest point of the hop is helpful. The reveal is also pretty neat tho 
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This trick looks super fun. Question about one of the movements in it; what string is he passing onto during the zoomed in part right before underpassing the thumb? It gets a bit clustered in the video and I can’t quite make out what’s happening.
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It’s the string attached to your TH finger, I had to go frame by frame to figure it out…
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Yeah ironical_monocle is exactly right. That part is confusing and not the clearest. You want to land on the string coming off your yoyo finger and fall out of the other string it was on so that that string goes to the front. It’s super hard to explain with words tbh. I will make a POV slow mo and try to capture that moment as clear as i can tomorrow.
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Dude a POV slomo would be so awesome! I tried looking for other tutorials of the trick on YouTube and that SF one is the only one.
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Alright so this one is just like hard to get on film right bc my hands kept like blocking the view. If you move throw hand around and under non throw hand, so arms crossed, it becomes a bit more clear where to land, like the string coming off your throw hand. Hopefully this helps but let me know if you can’t find the right mount after trying it a few more times and i can try to like jerry rig a chest mount for the go pro or something.
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Amazing, thank you! Going to check it out now. And yeah, it seems like that’s a common problem with trying to film an over the shoulder view of this trick in regards to hands blocking the view. It’s the same in the main tut.
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Yes exactly! It’s kind of like you dump it out of the mount and onto that string. Then just make sure the string on the index fingers stays to the front if the yoyo like away from you bc sometimes it will want to stay in the gap.
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Ok so you pop the yoyo up to hit that string while giving the string a little slack so the yoyo has the ability to turn over and land on it? Similar to the motion of 1.5 mount or an underpass.
(So confusing to type out)
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Ummm maybe but I’m not really sure i would explain it like that. It’s like you move throw hand around and under to take a string out of the gap and let the yoyo fall onto the other string. Trying it more broken down like in this vid might help it click.
So around 10 seconds, before unmounting the yoyo—the strings are crossed. You’re going to want to remove that string from the gap and the yoyo will fall down and you land it on the string coming off the yoyo finger. When you do it at speed, it’s like you just move throw hand around and under the yoyo. It kind of does it by itself, but it is really unclear what you want to happen exactly when first learning it. It took me a bit of trial and error to figure it out and I was on the fence about making it a TaW because of that, but do think that once people figure out what they want to happen, the actual element isn’t very difficult.
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Nowhere near as smooth as @rickyyR, but feels pretty good.
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Alright, so I switched to a wider more stable yoyo to help me out a bit while learning the trick, and I think I got that one part. However, after I get the yoyo onto the string connected to my throw hand finger, there’s a twist in the string going around my non throw hand thumb. I’m not totally sure what’s happening there, but I don’t see it in other peoples videos and it may be affecting that thumb underpass move. Any idea what may be happening?
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ummm really hard to say without a video, maybe you’re just rotating your thumb around and adding a twist? It doesn’t really interact with anything so i don’t know why that would be happening
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Alright still grindin’ away at this trick. Quick question, does this formation of string with the twists around specific strings look correct to you? This is the formation right before underpassing the thumb on the NTH and what I think is incorrect.
Sorry it’s not the sharpest image, I’m filming video with the phone in my mouth and then screenshotting stills lol.
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Okay I wouldn’t bet a hades on it, but I am fairly certain that is correct. When you roll the yoyo into the chopsticks mount it will feel pretty congested but should be okay still. Make sure that youre pinching with nth middle and index when you release the string from th, and that the slack is falling in front of the yoyo and under the gap before you release and end up in that funky mount. @rickyyR might have some more insights as well that could help you out so i will ping him. Nice work staying diligent learning the trick also and I’m sure you will get it soon!
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This mount looks correct to me. The trick is more straightforward than it might seem because the string forms a complex pattern, but the yoyo itself doesn’t do much. If you’d like, I can record a POV as well, but I think it wouldn’t show much more than what Henry has already uploaded.
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Have you tried watching the tut frame by frame? That helped me a lot with this trick…
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I did. I think there’s probably a small/subtle aspect that’s not clicking for me some how.
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