What trick are you working on? (Pre 2025)

I’m working on a couple new tricks at the moment. We’ll see how I feel about them when I feel they’re done.

flip your NTH to split the strings?..

You mean have my NTH palm up instead of Palm down when swinging from the trapeze?

I’m stuck on boing e boing give me some tips

  1. Do not try to start the boing after getting into position like André’s tutorial. It might work for some people, but if it’s not working for you try this instead: learn that rolling into position is your first boing and that you should use that momentum. Starting from being still never worked for me.

  2. Since you’re already using that momentum, try “just going for it” a few times. Don’t worry about whether you’re hitting the strings or not, just do some vigorous “up/down”… this will help you get a glimpse of how it’s supposed to work, even when you’re not hitting the trick. During that mess of the yoyo going in unexpected directions, you MAY have an “aha!” moment when you understand the motion.

  3. Think of the up/down not as a pair of equal movements, but as just one movement: The UP is the “trigger” for the boing, and the down just allows you to reset for another trigger pull. Then you need to recognize that you need to “pull the trigger” for EACH direction. Pull up to send it forward and then “reset” it as it’s going outward. Then when it’s time for the direction change, you Pull up (the trigger) to send it backwards. Then reset as it’s going backwards, getting ready to pull the trigger for going forwards again.

Thx that helps a lot

0:56-57 I keep getting a snag

Already done with the rest of this trick, but having to use a different entry is still phailin’

Amazing you can learn so many of his tricks…
I learn part of them then rage quit

Whereas I look and go, “I can’t even…” and then never bother. So I don’t get the rages. :wink:

Genious…
Saves time and rage…

If failing caused me to rage, I’d rarely stop!

Failure is my tutor.

Working on 720 lasso currently with lots of fails, getting closer though.

Got any tips for single lasso? Hey, I’ve been working on the Chia 1.5 rejection again thanks to your tutorial btw. Finally got it consistent to do as a semi-repeater. :smiley:

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For a simple lasso, find first where the widest point of your loop normally falls at (with me it s immediately in front of my NTH), pop the yoyo up in that exact direction, then as soon as you catch the loop draw it back towards the yoyo.

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Awesome! That trick feels like magic to me.

Well, it turns out that the way I do it makes it harder to land the 720 so I’m in the middle of changing my technique. My previous technique relied on too much assistance from my left land in creating the loop, sorta nutty timing, and a rhythm established first in my mind at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrNACxQ14Sk

Here is the way I’m learning now for the 720 lasso which actually seems easier, but I already have a bad habit so it is messing me up with my regular lassos now. Now I can’t land the inverse (cross arm) lasso now unless I don’t look. Pfffffft.

So I thought this could be an easy trick to end the day with but I couldnt have been more wrong. The final step could easily make top 3 hardest tricks I ve ever attempted (excluding Chris Chias stuff of course).

While I have not thrown a yoyo in 3 days, I have pretty much memorized everything I need in order to do the Creepin GT as taught by Charles Haycock. I’ve watched it on repeat and practiced it in my head a whole mess of times already.

Zachs double hanging slack (left)
Cant get the last part flipping into the final GT (right)

Yuukified Poutine Bucket

Are you just trying to learn this from watching his nationals performance or is there a tut up that I can’t seem to find?

From this exact video in 1080P.
I still cant get his last step, but just found a way to land a RIBS there instead and im fine w that. There is also a similar trick near the beginning in Takeshi’s nationals, so I might eventually take a look at that to gain some insight, or watever.

I dont normally look specifically for tuts because I d need to download the video and slowmo it anyway