I just recently had the same epiphany with branding.
Some random combo that ends in an iso triangle
Takeshi Matsurra’s slack triangle
That trick is a lot of fun. Which part are you learning?
I can pop the slack and swing it. But getting to the crossed over trapeze & brother mount from the slack. That’s killing me.
Really been getting into wrist mount based tricks as I’ve learned multiple ways of getting in, out, and back in them, as well as neat finishers/dismounts.
This is one I began developing this afternoon.
https://instagram.com/p/BLSU6hZjakm/
I am currently not happy with what’s going on mid trick. While it’s fun to swing the yoyo around, it doesn’t really have a purpose. In process of doing a few other moves before I dismount the wrist mount into that tower-like thing.
That trick looks great. I always sucked at wrist mount tricks. Any chance you would do a tut for it when you get it to the level you consider finished. This would be a great addition to my wm repertoir.
I’m working on the trick ladder for GSYYC: Rules/Tricks
I need to get Hook, Suicides, Kamikaze, and Black Hops.
See you there
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Can’t wait to try out one of your yoyos?!
OK, so I learned Kamikaze. I can hit the Hook, but usually the strings are twisted wrong. I’m finally getting the 2-in-row Suicides (hate that name)… sometimes. Going through the ladder, I now realize I need to do Spirit Bomb about 200 more times. Black Hops? Ugh!
Black Hops is brutal, but going piece by piece, not worrying as much about landing on the strings at first (you can place them correctly after miss to get the hang) helps. I have done the trick perfectly a couple of times before, but making no misses at all is not easy. String spacing and keeping your fingers upward tilted on the rebuild are key.
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I just landed my first finger spin yesterday. My new Skyva is certainly helping. When it finally landed on my finger and started spinning I had no idea what to do, I’ve never had it just sit there before. The first time I let the string drop too low and it tangled. The second time I kept the string high and the spin lasted a few seconds before it popped off my finger. That was fun!
Great! Next is the return!^
Double on spirit bomb
https://instagram.com/p/BMA3x_7DzmG/
Working on this techy move (until I blew out my bearing), though it’s pretty rough at the moment. Figuring out different techniques to improve my trick execution as well as figuring out the next move.
I’m simply working on new binds and trying to add more precision to the tricks I already know. Got my suicide working finally so I think I’ll go back to boingy boing next.
Kick flip suicide
I’m still working on the 1a trick ladder. I can do every trick on it (Well, I’ve landed Black Hops once…), but boy does it take a lot of repetition to lock everything down! Sometimes I miss a trick that I thought I was tight with, over and over. The most frustrating have been:
- Eli Hops- Why do I miss!?
- Kwijibo- I hit this trick right away when I learned it, but now I keep missing the pop to Double or Nothing.
- Hook- Strings are usually twisted in a Green Triangle formation.
- Suicide Catch- Ugh! Never have been good at this one, and have tried it on and off since it was first created. Sometimes I hit it 3 or 4 times in-a-row, but then miss over and over.
- Iron Whip- I often catch the wrong string.
- Kamikaze- Need to get a higher percentage on the Magic Drop.
- Spirit Bomb- the typical trouble hitting the last pop through the triangle
- Black Hops- the typical difficulty hitting the last two chops
There’s a kind of paradox with working on these. Sometimes when I practice an element over and over, I’ll keep missing it in the same fashion. I feel like I’m actually strengthening the mistake. As a drummer friend of mine says about this phenomenon in music, I’m learning to do it wrong; really well! Then it makes it all the more difficult to break those habits. I’ve got to make sure I’m changing what I’m doing, to make sure I don’t fall into that trap too much.
This has been alternately, fun and boring, but I feel I’ll come out of it a better player. Plus I’ve learned a couple of new-to-me tricks.
I’m having a hard time learning the trick magic drop got any tips
I can’t always land it, but these things help:
someone here posted to open the “L” as the yoyo is on the backside, I believe, of the throwhand. It helps it to reject. Also, give it only enough swing to nearly stall right above your hand. Spreading out the strings helps to land on the back one (Mr Yoyothrower has a great view of this on his magic drop youtube video). Figure out the “L” angle that works for your yoyo. Not all work being just straight or just angled down, in my experience. Hope this helps.
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