Trick-a-Week 2024—#52 Control Workshop

Yo-Yo Tricks
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Candy Rain 3 has a ton of that rolling and plucking and dropping string stuff going on.

You can also check out all the other tuts by bb26. He’s got a bunch of tricks kinda like that one, very elegant and simple in concept but harder ish to execute .

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This is 100% what I was thinking about doing the trick. Enough that I was thinking about doing it for next week’s TAW, though I think it’s a decent step up in difficulty.

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What is that little sequence you’re doing before the trick?

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Lol it’s a good trick! Pretty long though for so many repetitive moves. I struggled to remember the whole thing when I learned it and definitely do not remember the whole thing anymore hah!

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@GTDropKnot Thank you! I will check those out :fire:
@digitalcharlie It is from this clip, 0:40 - 0:44 https://youtu.be/zmLCegVhRIw?si=92db26V7CIVmWMau&t=40

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Week 43–Yuuki Slack

Doing another classic this week that feels like a good one to trade tips and feedback on. It’s definitely tough, but there are a lot of tutorials that offer a good variety of helpful pointers.

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Still working on getting consistent enough to land 3 in a row regularly, but here’s where I’m starting the week:

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I am getting so tired of this YouTube Bot message. I sign in on the app and on the website and the stupid thing still continues to tell me to sign in. :roll_eyes:

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I love this trick!!

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I’ve been loosely trying to get this for several months now. This is the motivation I need to hammer down and finally get it (hopefully). This is such a cool looking trick.

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oh nooooo one of my banes! ok ok I’m gonna get it. this week is gonna be the week :muscle:

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Aight some tips are just focus on the two slack catches when the direction changes. One way is pretty forgiving, then you go back to double or nothing and that one I pay a bit more attention to the catch and direction change. When you swing into the don, just try to swing so the slack stays in the gap towards the outside. Then be ready to catch and bounce and change directions.

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I used to have trouble with this when I was a kid because I didn’t realize you literally just pinch the string to create the first slack of the repeater portion lol

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Also focus on maintaining a constant speed for fluidity while swinging the yoyo fast enough for the slacks to stay open.

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It seems so simple :pensive:

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It does… but I’ve still not gotten it.

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Me neither. Havent gotten last week’s yet either, or the switchbacks.

We’ll get it, steve. We just gotta keep practicing

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Y’all can send attempts and we can try to see what’s going wrong if you want

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I feel like with practice I’ll get there. It’s having my hand ready to catch the slack that’s got me at present. We are packing the house for a move and I am exhausted so I haven’t been able to practice as much as I’d like and the place is a mess. :rofl:

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i’ve actually been working on yuuki slack on and off for like a month now? there are sooooo many more guides for it now than back in the day. also still trying to get bb26 trick 47 to flow better/more consistently. everyone works at their own pace i guess, haha

here are some of my sloppy but okay-ish attempts of yuuki slack. i still need to learn how to exit cleanly. atm i’m just repeating it until i fail, lol

some tips that helped me:

  • it really is similar to tricks like boingy boing where having a good rhythm and keeping the yoyo rotating around on a straight axis is important
  • in order to keep the straight axis, i find trying to move the non-throwhand as subtly as possible, just enough to get the yoyo to rotate. once i get the momentum, it’s easier to keep it moving and to move my hand as little as possible
  • at first i kind of just stuck my throwhand index finger out and tried to look at where the loop was landing, and then adjusted the finger accordingly. alternate pointing up and down – again, there’s a rhythm to it

some tips on bb26 trick 47 that helped me:

  • i realized that trying to rotate the yoyo in full circles makes plucking wayyyyy harder than it should be. aiming to pause the yoyo at 10 o’clock above the throwhand gives more time to pluck the string out with the non-throwhand
  • the plucking also should give the yoyo enough extra momentum to continue the rotation even though it hangs for a tiny bit at 10 o’clock
  • as with all tricks probably, slowing down the movements also gives more time to pluck/do stuff
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