Beefhook. Hit it finally for the first time last night. Been grinding away at it today. It’s not consistent but it’s happening. It’s progress. I think I’m going to further expand my hook repertoire and start on 1.5 hooks…and that multifarious whip looks interesting too even if it’s an older trick. It’s still new to me 
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I personally try to work on 3 tricks at once at all times. I’ll do one for a little bit then i’ll get bored do the next until it goes full circle etc. Also what I did when I started out is when I learned a new trick I added it to a combo of every trick I could do. Good luck
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Just did a fun little combo with the basics I know so far.
Triple Or Nothing. unwind to a Trapeze, into the first part of Skin The Gerbil (the 2 flips(?) into a Double On Trapeze), unwind into a Trapeze And Brother, into a Double Or Nothing and finish with the Cold Fusion trick.
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Another fun one…
First part of Skin The Gerbil (2 forward rolls into double trapeze) unwind into Rewind…then on the triple or nothing, swing the yo back off your fingers once then swing back into a double or nothing (lol I fail at explaining this!) and finishing off with the Cold Fusion trick.
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Reverse Brent stole catch rate is at 66% - yuuki slack is at 84% - what should I learn next? A takeshi move?
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Also…I know the answer I think, just looking for reinforcement or something lol…
But is it normal to completely suck some days?
I was practicing my tricks throughout the day yesterday and dang I was having a hard time hitting anything xP. I only landed Rewind 3 times in 15 attempts. Nothing felt right!
Today things are smooth and I feel a really cool sense of control. Landed rewind 4 out of 5 times, and they were all very clean.
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Wow that’s impressive as hell! 
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totally. There’s probably some monk technique out there to recalibrate yourself or something tho
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I’m finally landing magic drop/shock wave pretty consistently, but I occasionally reject onto the outside string instead of the inside string. In the YYE tutorial, @AndreBoulay mentions that some tricks are based on rejecting onto the outside string. Can any of you please name a trick or two that do this. I’d like to be able to play it off like I meant for it to happen when I accidentally reject onto that outside string.
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I’m trying to do the Chinese Rock the baby from Steve Brown but I haven’t seen any youtube tutorial
Does anyone have a tutorial?
Here’s the trick
Minute 18:46
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I have been spending quite a lot of time doing regens lately, I really enjoy doing them even though I’m not very good
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Working on ghost binds mostly but polishing reverse brent stole, yuuki slacks and Kento’s GT
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I thought I was getting somewhere with snap starts. Really thought I was close.
/sigh
Think I’m going to stop trying for a few days. So frustrating!
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Now I have a couple of responsives I have been working on stalls. Man, what a fun and satisfying trick!
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Funny you mentioned this, I was just about to make a post about it. I got back into yoyoing roughly 10 months ago, and early on I tried doing snap starts but quickly just decided it wasnt worth it. Until today. I was throwing my Duncan Mayhem and messed up a trick, and for the hell of it decided to try a snap start. The yoyo spun, and I binded it, first try. I wont delude myself though, I can probably only do it on organic yoyos, and the Mayhem is just the right size for it to be easy for me. If you weren’t already practicing on your Mayhem (I know you have one), try it. Was easy for my at least (did it twice in a row, low effort) 
Im going to stop lying to myself. I really want to snap start now. Winding doesnt take that long, but snap starts are just better.
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funny bone
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Been working on Kamikaze…I’m only up to about midway through the trick…but I’m having a blast with it so far! This is one of the tricks 15’ish years ago that stumped the heck out of me…I couldn’t even figure out how in the heck to get into the kamikaze mount consistently.
I’m only a couple of days into practicing the mount and it’s already starting to feel natural! Feels damn cool haha.
The magic drop is what worries me…I remember having all sorts of issues getting this thing down!
I’m also continuing to work on consistently landing rewind, cold fusion and skin the gerbil. Sometimes I can nail rewind one after another…sometimes not.
I’m also really enjoying a simple combo I do…Start with the first bits of Skin The Gerbil (the 2 flip things into a double on trapeze) unwind into a trapeze + bro, then go into rewind and when you’re in the triple or nothing, kick the yo back off the string and let it pass back over both your fingers once, then swing it back into a double or nothing…then finish with cold fusion.
I’m doing a horrible job explaining…and I’m too scared to post a video of myself lol xP.
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oh and I’m trying to do mcbride’s roller coaster. I’ve got it down except for the bit where I have to roll into the triple or nothing. I can’t figure out how in the heck I land on just 1 string there…I’m going to do a search on these forums here to see if anyone’s posted some tips on this.
I remember this being one of the tricks I use to have down consitant…too bad I forgot how in the heck I was able to roll into that triple!!
I’m able to do regular triple or nothings…it’s the rolling into it that’s giving me fits.
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haha I’m such a doofus! I was doing this wrong, and I was thinking it was far more complicated than it actually is!
Instead of doing 2 full rolls around my fingers…I was doing 1 full roll, then a half roll around my non-throw hand then trying to land it ontop of a string. lol oops! xP
I have it figured out now…it’s super simple! I just roll twice.
I’m also now up to the magic drop in kamikaze which is cool! it feels so fun to be working on this trick! It’s challenging for me, and yet I can see the progress I’m making in just the last few days I’ve been working on it, and it’s just a nice feeling!
And magic drop is not at all feeling impossible! I’ve only worked on it for like an hour so far tonight…and I’m making some decent progress on it already! I’m starting to get the string to reject…the problem I’m having is landing the yo on the back string though.
But the trick is brand new to me…so I’m not even worried! I remember just a week or 2 ago when I started working on the 1.5 mount how foreign that felt and how tough it was to land. But I keep on practicing and it keeps feeling more and more natural. I’ve no doubt I’ll start landing on that back string in magic drop here shortly! Complete with the string rejection!
I know this is a simple trick for a ton of you advanced yoers…but this trick is a dream of mine. It caused me SO much frustration when I was younger…this and a couple of other tricks I couldn’t figure out ended up leading me to burning out and quitting this hobby.
When I finally land a complete kamikaze…it’s going to be so amazing for me!
Sorry for the huge posts. /sigh…I should really be asleep. I have things to do in the morning too! lol
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