What comes after DNA 🤔

Coro Coro! 3a rise up! It gets a strong reaction from non Yoyo people and it’s just a super cool trick. Literally that trick got me to play the style hah!

Plus Coro has a ton of cool variations like double wrap coros, cross arm, btb, the little mini one out of trapeze or kinky trapeze dismount, all the Aliyah tan variations, etc!

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I wanna see Gyroscopic flops become trendy.

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Maybe we need fancy rock the baby variations, combos…

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A combo that

  1. Starts with the fastest pinwheel possible
  2. Into the fastest around the worlds
  3. Land onto trapeze and bang through some eli hops
  4. Drop down into boingy boingy
  5. Then Mach 5
  6. Ended with a split the atom

I think that would blow some non yo-yoer minds, and it’s really just some super basic brought together into a combo

As to a name for this combo, I dunno, something that’ll be catchy for the masses like

Yep, that settles it, I’m gonna break ONE July (since I’ve been using a responsive) and turn this into a reality today

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I’ve been working a little bit on a boingy-boing into rock the baby into some kind of arm or leg grind combo just to give casual non-yoyoers something to recognize among my tricks. I haven’t fully worked it out though.

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Hah - sounds a wee bit tricky :sweat_smile:

I can get behind this actually.

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I think a lot of X div play def impresses folks, but it generally doesnt drive as much interest in folks giving yoyo a try because it looks hard :smiling_face_with_tear:

These kinda come in and out of popularity. We’d need more variations to pop up :eyes:

Ok yea I thought that’s what you might have meant. Prob a little too confusing for the average eye is the things about it.

I like to flop as entry to dna, people seem to like it, but its still a dna…

I did it, and it’s probably the corniest video I have ever made, lol, but it was fun.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTNu8dJcX/

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I really don’t think DNA will be topped for a long time, it’s the modern walk the dog, but so much better. On top of that Hyper-Yo-Yo is coming back and their entire line is based off of doing the DNA really easily.

The main thing about the DNA is the interaction it allows. I can’t think of any other trick you can do with another person like this. It’s like going to a Harlem Globetrotter game, standing in the court with the player, and he sets the ball on your finger and you’re able to spin it like they do.

That sort of interaction is virtually priceless for starting a kid’s interest or love for the hobby. DNA gives anyone the ability to “yoyo” without actually having to yoyo. But it gives them that spark that lets them know “wow, I can do this!” The added bonus is how good the DNA looks.

The downside to all of this is that… Walk the Dog was like, trick 5 or something. The DNA requires you to know how to horizontally throw, catch the yoyo on your finger, then bind. It’s not the greatest “entry” trick for learning progression imo which is probably it’s only issue it has.

The only other trick I could ever see having this potential at fame is Rancid Milk.

The reason behind this is because, once the baseline skill of yoyo grows Rancid Milk will become even more of a staple for people to throw. I swear, every year on instagram, there’s two weeks that’s full of everyone throwing Rancid Milk without notice, it just happens organically. No other trick has that power aside from DNA being blasted 24/7.

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I wasn’t thinking about a trick that can have variations so much, but that is a good attribute for a viral trick to have. There is Saturn Flop (like a horizontal Mach 5) and a 3A version of Mach 5, but I think if we’re going for tricks that can be adapted, there are better (e.g. boingy boing as others have said, Eli Hops).

Gyroscopic flop used to be more popular - perhaps it could make a comeback with room to grow into things like gyrolutions. Again, a much easier trick than DNA to learn. However, considering how many kids have managed to learn the DNA, perhaps we shouldn’t underestimate what level of tricks could go viral.

That’s actually a really cool take. I hadn’t thought of that contributing to the DNA’s popularity that much.

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I’d like to see people start doing tricks blindfolded. I can do a few with my eyes closed. Double or Nothing is fun doing that.

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Rancid Milk and Enigma are still my all time favortes to do.

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Although ill say i dont always land the very last part of enigma haha

Classics gonna classic

I doubt Rancid Milk will ever be anywhere near the ballpark of walk the dog, rock the baby, now dna. Each of these tricks are very singular. Rancid Milk is wwaayyyy too deep for common public.

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@unklesteve did a whole competition freestyle blindfolded.

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