Omgness I finally had that “ah-ha!!” moment with what I was doing wrong with pop’n’fresh. So cool when you experience that with tricks! When something just clicks and you suddenly realize what you need to do.
And just like that…I’ve landed several full pop’n’freshes!
I’m also getting more and more consistent at landing the yo on the back string in magic drop. I stopped working on kamikaze over a month ago and have been working on drop…but starting tomorrow I’m going to start working on kamikaze again!
And I’ve got rewind down consistent…I can usually do 2 or 3 of them on a single spin now. Love that trick.
I’m highly considering getting a tripod or something for my phone. At this point a lot of my yoyoing is just pure freestyle with a lot of the trick elements I known thrown together, and when I come up with new elements I tend to forget them if I don’t repeat them a lot. I’m hoping recording will fix that and encourage me to nail down some consistent combos.
I have a list of tricks I do each day I keep track of. I do x number of each everyday and log it in a little notebook.
Each Sunday I make a new list for the week.
Anyone else do something similar?
I’m loving it. It keeps me focused, and even though I’m only doing a few of any certain trick each day…I’m definitely seeing improvements with them…even though it is a bit slow.
Also, it keeps me motivated as it’s really rewarding to be able to check off each trick everyday.
In the last 19 days I’ve only skipped 2 days of doing this.
The amount of tricks and elements I’ve forgotten over the years…
I’ve had to relearn tricks and combos before. I think there was even one time I was watching one of my old videos and trying to relearn one of the combos from my own video
Yeah, now that you mention it…it really is a very satisfying little trick.
Deceptive though! It looks SO easy haha.
Did you struggle to get it down consistent? Or is it one of those things that just came to ya?
You can get them pretty cheap, it would definitely be worth the cost.
@G2_Jake made a great video with some tips and tricks to shoot better quality videos. Even if you don’t want to share them publically, you’ll have great videos for personal use.
Yeah that’s a great idea (recording yourself). There for awhile I was recording myself once a week so I could keep track of my progress.
If you’re shy (like me!) you don’t have to upload them online or show anyone. You can totally use them for your own benefit.
Anyone have suggestions on the best tricks to approach learning horizontal? And maybe some good horizontal bind videos?
I understand the basic concept that the yo-yo needs to keep moving to maintain the plane it’s on and can do a short mini skin the gerbil. But anything more than that is tough particularly binding if I do anything incorporating my throwhand and not just the offhand.
I also get that the best approach is to practice the combo normally first. I’m just looking for something that if I get it down covers most of the basic horizontal techniques.
Well I’m currently focusing on learning useful tricks and flashy combos so in the future I have “inspiration”. I’ve been trying to make my own tricks but I’m not that experienced so I decided I should learn a lot first. Currently I’m working on a consistent reverse Brent stole to ninja vanish rejection, consistent beefhook and the first part of a trick called “Pinchin’ Strings”, with a lot of slacks that I think are useful. I also come up with a kind of kamikaze mount to green triangle combo which I’ve been smoothing lately!
I’m working on trapeze.
I was trying this quite awhile ago and kinda gave up as I was getting frustrated with it.
I know its import as loads of tricks start from it, so I do want to nail it.
Previously I was using a YYF one, but was advised by another forum member it’s not the best to learn with due it it being a bit small. But I persevered for a while anyway.
I’m now using a metal magic yoyo and I am catching it more often on the string, however I’m not consistent. (Also pleased I’ve learned a simply bind return).
I’m pretty sure I’m not throwing it “straight” across my body, probably more diagonal.
Any tips on ensuring a straight throw ? (parallel to my body)
