# What Is This Trick **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [February 23, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237 "2019-02-23T21:48:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/1 "2019-02-23T21:48:33Z")
@YoYoExpertGarrett @AndreBoulay What is this trick? ![Screenshot%20(29)](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/7/6/4/76454e808ce7ccf0bce051d653ad0371c07c0884.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/evan_the_yoyo_boy/32/65657_2.png) [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/2 "2019-02-23T21:48:59Z")
I’ve been wondering that too. ---
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/3 "2019-02-23T21:50:46Z")
Suuuuuure you have… _Quit lying Evan_ 😏 ---
**Author:** ![Jhonaker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhonaker/32/49024_2.png) [@Jhonaker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jhonaker)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/5 "2019-02-23T22:12:36Z")
That’s funny! I have seen that banner a thousand times and wonder what is was. It’s funny because as many times as I have visited @YoYoExpert and @YoYoExpertGarrett, I have never thought to ask. ---
**Author:** ![MarkD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/markd/32/40845_2.png) [@MarkD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarkD)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 10:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/6 "2019-02-23T22:20:17Z")
wait, you mean you don’t land in that when you do brent stole? 😁 ---
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/7 "2019-02-23T22:21:48Z")
I knew this looked familiar… Thanks @MarkD! haha ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/evan_the_yoyo_boy/32/65657_2.png) [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/8 "2019-02-24T02:21:28Z")
Why would I lie about that? ---
**Author:** ![smileypants707](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smileypants707/32/19045_2.png) [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/9 "2019-02-24T02:22:27Z")
Oh I don’t know lol. I was just being sassy ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/evan_the_yoyo_boy/32/65657_2.png) [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/10 "2019-02-24T02:22:59Z")
Oh, I took that seriously. :joy: ---
**Author:** ![noodles](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/noodles/32/36467_2.png) [@noodles](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/noodles)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/11 "2019-02-24T02:30:13Z")
By figuring out the player, we can figure the trick, is it @YoYoExpertGarrett or @AndreBoulay or someone else? ---
**Author:** ![Drakkar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/drakkar/32/230080_2.png) [@Drakkar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Drakkar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/12 "2019-02-24T02:57:52Z")
I believe this trick is called, “Ladder Escape.” If I’m not mistaken, that’s part 2 of the trick. Here’s a link to a tutorial: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOF1W9SwyI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDOF1W9SwyI) ---
**Author:** ![Marm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/marm/32/46204_2.png) [@Marm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Marm)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 3:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/13 "2019-02-24T03:34:07Z")
Not it chief ---
**Author:** ![Drakkar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/drakkar/32/230080_2.png) [@Drakkar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Drakkar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 4:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/14 "2019-02-24T04:20:28Z")
Here’s another tutorial of the same trick: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/e/b/3/eb32790540df54e43df8a192e470975d37d352c3.jpeg "YoYo Tutorial - "Ladder Escape" (English version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GttdSsQV2E) Skip to 3 minutes and 23 seconds into the video. You will notice that by adjusting the throwers hands a bit (every thrower’s hands will look slightly different while performing such tricks) you’ll get the same string formation as the one in the picture above. ---
**Author:** ![Myk\_Myk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/myk_myk/32/63087_2.png) [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 4:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/15 "2019-02-24T04:41:20Z")
^That’s not the same formation. ---
**Author:** ![NoT\_ATHROWER](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/not_athrower/32/14242_2.png) [@NoT\_ATHROWER](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NoT_ATHROWER)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 5:36am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/16 "2019-02-24T05:36:34Z")
pretty sure it is. IMO ---
**Author:** ![Myk\_Myk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/myk_myk/32/63087_2.png) [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/17 "2019-02-24T05:57:15Z")
> [@Drakkar](#): > > Skip to 3 minutes and 23 seconds into the video. Okay, after wasting all that time writing the differences in the formations (which can be found at the bottom of this post), I watched the tutorial to see if that formation happened anywhere else. I found it! I came back, and noticed the above sentence. Doh… I had paused the video at 3:23! The only difference is the twist on the thumb, and the TH middle finger being pulled back, but I think @Drakkar must have it. [![Imgur](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/0/8/e/08ee894607089e9254b97c60f393608c3d12cca1.jpeg "Screen Shot 2019-02-24 at 1.19.52 AM") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/8267124@N08/32251566737/) Disregard the rest, but I couldn’t bring myself to erase it… - In the 1st pic there is a single loop going around the NTH middle finger creating a singe quadrangle on that side. There are two loops there in the 2nd pic, and a triangle within a triangle. - The loop around the NTH thumb is not twisted in the 1st pic, like it is in the 2nd. - The top segment of the quadrangle around the NTH middle finger in the 1st pic, is looped over just the bottom segment of the loop over the NTH thumb. The top segment of the bigger triangle around the NTH middle in the 2nd pic, feeds over a twist that is forming the smaller triangle around the NTH middle finger. - If the TH middle finger was extended out in the 2nd pic, I think the TH side would match. ---
**Author:** ![YoYoExpertGarrett](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoexpertgarrett/32/1543_2.png) [@YoYoExpertGarrett](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoExpertGarrett)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/18 "2019-02-24T18:56:07Z")
Looks like you guys figured it out! That’s André in the picture and it looks like ladder escape. ---
**Author:** ![AndreBoulay](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/andreboulay/32/69662_2.png) [@AndreBoulay](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AndreBoulay)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-this-trick/299237/19 "2019-02-25T15:04:36Z")
Yep! Correct. Ladder Escape. I need to make an updated tutorial. 😊