# Tricks by audience age?

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**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\
**Created:** [April 1, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378 "2012-04-01T05:11:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![thousandlegs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@thousandlegs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/thousandlegs)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378/1 "2012-04-01T05:11:11Z")

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I often find myself showing basic tricks to relatives, friends, and occasional strangers. I find that sometimes I don’t know which tricks would be a good choice for the age group of my audience.

I’ll usually start with Mach 5 for 3rd grade and up, but with tricks more like Rock the Cradle and Walk the Dog for younger kids. If I have a responsive yoyo on me, I’ll do Over the Shoulder for both groups.

Does anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![anonyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378/2 "2012-04-01T05:51:20Z")

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Typical advice stuff.

Eli Hops always scores big on the applause-o-meter. Gyro flops just looks cool. Boomerang ain’t bad. Rewind with pauses scores big.

Big moves, not terribly complicated and looks easy = score!

Always throw in a couple of really complicated tricks for yourself to serve as a method of moving from crowd pleasers. Nothing long, but it’s mostly for yourself.

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**Author:** ![YoYoMaster107](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@YoYoMaster107](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoMaster107)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378/3 "2012-04-01T16:13:19Z")

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Boing-e-boing, one of the best crowd pleasers. Also, pause in ripcord, then complete it. It’s cool because everyone thinks you’ll get a big knot. Whips are cool because they go from nothing to something. The hopping tricks like Black hops look pretty cool too. Also do seasick. Grinds are pretty good too.

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**Author:** ![HaOn1313](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@HaOn1313](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HaOn1313)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378/4 "2012-04-01T16:31:51Z")

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I find people are most impressed with exaggerated body tricks and side style.

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**Author:** ![Troy\_oyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/troy_oyo/32/340_2.png) [@Troy\_oyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Troy_oyo)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tricks-by-audience-age/36378/5 "2012-04-01T17:10:34Z")

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Montgomery Twist. The single greatest crowd pleasing trick ever.