That’s wild to me. I’ve seen you do crazy stuff! I know how it is with some tricks though. And any cross arm tricks feel super awkward at first. There are lots of tricks on the “first 50” list that I landed once and never attempted again. Didn’t feel important at the time.
Might be fun to try to go through them again 
I think I might.
iwasawa tower(2 years). once I slowed down, studied the pov and actually paid attention, I landed it immediately. I was like “This took me THAT long??!!”
magic drop for sure,
rejections in general are very hard to learn imo
I came here to say boingey-boingey, I’m still working on getting it perfected. Sometimes it goes great sometimes it’s a flop.
Honestly, as “beginner” as its gonna sound…
The breakway throw/man on the flying trapeze. I simply could NOT land that throw back on the string to save my life for weeks.
Then, one day, it just started landing. I legitimately can’t tell what I did differently, some subtle difference in throw or hand position if I had to guess but, yeah.
That one throw took me a ridiculously long time to get the hang of.
I don’t know if this counts, considering I still haven’t figured it out, but Canadian Ladder Escape!!
I can’t get it consistently for the life of me!
Walk the Dog. Trick is easy enough. But it seems like I can’t allow myself to grind a yoyo on the concrete.
If I had to guess, your started keeping your hands more “on plane” together to keep the string and YoYo aligned, and catching closer to your non- thrown hand. Paying attention to those things have helped with my accuracy for sure
I wanna walk one of those Hollywood $30 Ti on concrete so bad. I played with one at yyc today and it was wonderfully terrible.
If anyone has one they wann let go of……
Wow $30 Ti? That does make for a good sparking throw. Probably torch it for a color change too. Hope you find one.
I actually hit this one super quick, but haven’t replicated since. Started the 0A journey recently, and of the tricks I saw that made me want to give it a whirl, was the stalling and holding the yoyo and restarting. Just looked so cool to me. I’ll probably hit this trick again when GTA 6 or the final Game of Thrones book comes out.
I highly recommend watching a bunch of tutorials especially the JD one
The yotricks tut over explains imo and makes the trick appear way more complicated than it is idk also the g2jake tut is pretty good
This is the kind of tut I needed! Thank you, Henry! Yeah, I think yotricks was the one I started with. Def over complicated. You a real one for this. 
I recently got back into throwing after many years away from the hobby and two bad habits came back on the trapeze for me. First one that causes me to miss is curling in my yoyo finger and the second, which I do the most, is not keeping my offhand finger parallel to my yoyo finger.
There are so many tricks I haven’t even tried yet so I know it’s going to change but my current bane is the wrist mount. Just can’t seem to exit it clean. I either get a knot or the string doesn’t slide off my yoyo hand.
This one isn’t a trick but keeping my yoyo hand finger and off hand finger parallel so the yo-yo doesn’t change angles as it wraps around my off hand finger.
I was five, red imperial yoyo, hit my first trapeze, best moment with a yoyo! Still remember it like it was an hour ago.
ugh, magic drop. why is it so hard? it’s so simple
Still chasing perfect Shoot the Moon.
The thread is about tricks that at first sight seem impossible when in reality sre pretty simple. Usually, you learn magic drop on the early stages. As a matter of fact this is the first rejection you learn. I think it is very hard to wrap your head around the concept early on.
Magic drop and wrist mount were the two tricks I was trying to learn around 2002 that made me quit trying to learn new tricks. wrist mount was a guaranteed knot on almost every attempt. How to get the rejection in magic drop did not make sense to me because i didn’t find any really detailed videos explaining it. i decided to just work on making the tricks i knew already cleaner and work on combos with the handful of elements i knew. i was still playing responsive, semi responsive so those tricks were arguably harder then. When i picked up the yoyo again 15 years later, i learned them using unresponsive yoyos faster than i expected. they are pretty tricky at first. Some famous competitors say it took over a year for them to learn magic drop.
