Wait…are you doing every thing from boingy forward on “reverse” spin?
No, I tried it that way because I knew it would be a more visually appealing transition, but it would be more difficult for newbies.
Goal would be to get new people to learn:
Around the world
Pinwheel
Trapeze
Eli Hops
Boingy Boingy
Mach 5
Split the Atom
Bind
Then hopefully if they make it that far, they get just as hooked on the hobby as us and the community grows. It’s more entry level friendly than DNA in my opinion. It also gets them doing some front facing tricks which is something I’ve liked about your style, in a world where there are so many trapeze oriented trucks.
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If something like Mach 5, Boing-E-Boing, or Yuuki Slack didn’t catch on in the past 15-16 years then it’s not gonna. A lot of yoyoers are looking at this through the perspective of “man yoyoers enjoy these tricks, surely they would pop off to the layman”
Those tricks look “magic” to a layman. A bit geeky too. Start doing any of them and they’ll glaze over and go “awe man yea that’s soo cool, anyways”.
Tech tricks especially will never look great to a layman because they plain and simple don’t have the know-how to understand why it’s cool. Rancid Milk looks no different to the layman than Spirit Bomb. At best they can kinda tell one is harder than the other but they don’t know why or how much harder or why they’re more impressive.
Walk the Dog and DNA have elements of simplicity and wow factor to make them work.
“Omg that yoyo trick looks like you’re walking a dog hooooly”
“Omg that yoyo trick looks like a DNA strand between your finger and the palm of your hand!!!”
They’re cut and dry, simple, and kinda have a well-known symbol (DNA and Dog in the case of… DNA and walk the dog lol)
So something cut, dry, simple with some sort of iconic symbol behind it. That’s what will beat out the DNA or Walk the Dog when it’s time for a new “mainstream” trick.
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You say that now Gingie, but when you are putting out a documentary in a year about Chicken Pot Pie…
Joking, I understand what you are saying, and if cornie videos like this get one kid to pick up a yoyo it will be time well spent. Will it top DNA, nope, but it’s fun to brainstorm together.
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i think the draw of tricks like both dna and walk the dog are three-fold. first, they’re flashy. simply look neat, dog in its day, dna now. second they are easy to remember the names of, thus easy to ask others to perform. three, they’re easy enough that most ppl that get asked to do it are in fact able to. if no one knows how to do the thing, ppl will stop asking to see the thing.
when i first got an xt and looked up tricks, dna was the first thing i saw. it looked so neat i said to myself if i can learn that, I’ll consider mission accomplished. at this point i can finger spin but i cant bind from it or dna. frankly i stopped trying or caring because obviously the yoyo world is bigger than dna. but it was a. the flash and b. the fact that it looked attainable that drew me in.
ultimately it’s like a trick form of advertising; eye catching and accessible. ppl watch sports like figure skating, skateboarding, etc. without any understanding of how the thing is done or how difficult it is on a precise level. it just looks kool, and if it’s easy to remember, it can act as an ambassador
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soloham
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YES!!! I’m waiting for hajime to blow it out of the park with another full solo ham worlds final routine.
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Non yoyoer people are so weird, they all get excited for different things, my neighbour exploded after a cross arm whip gt, literally he blow his mind ahahahahah
Tech tricks agree do not work at all, as Gingie said they can understand is hard to do but they don’t get the level of it, I noticed slacks are appreciated usually even something easy as a “follow” or then something that always work is zoning, arm and leg tricks are super appreciated even some whip towers but DNA I think is quite impossible to beat, it is very interactive and easy to teach as well
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Predicting what would be the next breakout trick is hard given the DNA is basically the first one to enter the wider public conscious in decades. The biggest factor in its emergence imo was also Tiktok/the boom in short-form video content (after all, the DNA had existed for a good while before the trend) and predicting what the next media trend will be and what it may favour is probably an even harder task.
Having said all that, imo 5a tricks are a good candidate for tricks which could, to a far lesser extent, replicate the phenomenon. Butterfly in particular imo has potential given:
- It’s very rhythmic and looks cool,
- It’s pretty basic and relatively easy,
- It involves big movements,
- The concept of a counter weight style is pretty mind-blowing for non-throwers (more so than other yo-yo styles imo),
- It has a simple and immediately obvious name.
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I will agree with 5a being a good guess. As mentioned it needs to be flashy, attainable, show off the yoyos aesthetics, basic elements, synced to trending songs. It helps if the person presenting it is very photogenic and likable.
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I recently wondered if I could do the slack trapeze trick without waiting for the yoyo to hit the end of the string before whipping the slack, and I can do it somewhat inconsistently. I wonder if there’s something there. I’ve impressed non-yoyo people with Magic Trick.
For me, one of the things I really love seeing (and am working on mastering) are tricks with multiple slack catches especially when there isn’t an obvious transition between the slack catches. @EOS44 did one that I love to do, but am still very inconsistent with.
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Kick Flip.
Yes its 0A. But also possible on Unresponsives.
As I have been practicing this trick (for a while).
“Wait, the yoyos not spinning?”
Then you regen and its a yoyo again.
Has reference to another known “Thing”.
I think it is easier for the general public to grasp and do on a Butterfly (Walk the Dog).
Its a foundational element that can be embelished into other tricks.
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That’s a style of play though. I’m most curious on singular “trick”.
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I could see butterfly catching peoples attention for sure. But I’m concerned it’ll still feel to skill wise distant from the average non-yoyoer to fully catch on as a “thing”.
Yea with respects to zoning, I have a hunch that eli hop variations could have some strong potential. Namely if stylized so the throw truly “lands” on the string vs being essentially pulled/guided. It will really all be in how it or any trick is played up.
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I’ll be surprised if he competes with soloham again, given how shafted he got on scoring.
I would totally believe it if for the past 4-5 years he’s been grinding 4a. I mean he got like 5 or 6 negatives for the end of his 2019 freestyle. If he really refined his soloham trickset, he may be able to podium.