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Ooo fancy start
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Week 47 - Hajime Miura Triangle Trick
This week we’re doing a triangle element by Hajime Miura from a Junyi Lin tutorial. I love his tutorials, and I think this one is about right for the tougher side of TAW.
I found the most difficult part to be the element at 22 and 42 seconds. If you keep your hands close together and rotate the yoyo around aiming towards the string coming off your TH thumb, you should be able to get it.
It’s not the easiest motion to explain (so also if anyone has a better explanation, please help!), but I think of it like… when the yoyo gets to the apex, you want to move your TH to generate a little bit of slack that lets the strings pass under the yo-yo.
Below is a video with few angles of slow mo if it’s helpful.
slow mo in a couple of angles
Not all great, but figured more was better.
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Here’s my take
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yessss!! been waitin for today, let’s gooo!
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Okay I figured out the trick. Going to run through it throughout the day today and I’ll post it up when I can get it to flow decently smooth. That part was definitely funky and a bit confusing for me to learn at first. Not really sure if this is a better explanation really, but it helped me to think mostly about getting the right string segments to fall out of the gap. This is super hard to see in the video, but you don’t really land on the string coming off the thumb exactly. That string segment is on the other side (the top side?) of the bearing, so once you get the right strings to fall out of the gap, you land in the correct mount. That’s why the string coming off the th thumb isn’t under the bearing when you land the element. I did my best to try to explain it and think the extra slowmos help. Good luck everyone! Also this is a very very very cool trick. I like that the yoyo is just rolling in the same direction the whole time pretty much.
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That’s a good point that you’re not really landing on the string coming off your thumb, it’s just something to aim for (the subtitles there also say something to that effect).
It really is weird to explain - that’s why I went for just a bunch of slow mo shots.
One thing I will add is that at first I pinched the string with my NTH during that part (to understand what was going on, and it sort of looks like he does that in the POV of the tutorial), but I find that actually really unhelpful now. Pinch is bad for me.
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