# Who Invented the Trick? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [November 15, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225 "2012-11-15T01:04:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![andy569](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/andy569/32/1256_2.png) [@andy569](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/andy569)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 2:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/51 "2019-05-14T02:18:08Z")
Did Kohta Watanabe create the fingerspin? I know he was one of the original pioneers at least. ---
**Author:** ![Exmime](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/exmime/32/40143_2.png) [@Exmime](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Exmime)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 3:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/52 "2021-04-14T15:14:44Z")
Bump, @jakebullock just posted a screen shot of this thread and @vegabomb post on IG. Also this link is still hot after all these years [http://www.yo-yo.org/SpinWizard/SpinWizard/string\_trick\_list.htm](http://www.yo-yo.org/SpinWizard/SpinWizard/string_trick_list.htm) What would be some of the newer tricks to update this list? I notice no mention of horizontal play. I know @DocPop is all over it along with Paul Escolar. @Adam_Brewster has @yyfben2.deactivated listed for Cold Fusion but the Spin Wizard list has Cold Fusion as @YOHANS, maybe there is some YYF beef we don’t know about. fun discussion. ---
**Author:** ![YOHANS](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yohans/32/40176_2.png) [@YOHANS](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YOHANS)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/53 "2021-04-14T16:43:04Z")
@Exmime Cold Fusion was an assembly line of components created by quite a few people…and it all started with Bill DeBoisblanc. He was in Chico at the US Nationals in 1997 doing the “right under left under” and asking people “is this anything?” The next breakthrough came when the Turbo Bumble Bee came on the market. It was the first yoyo that had a bearing that allowed the yoyo to easily slip/slide on the string and easily return to the hand like a wooden yoyo. Julius walked off the plane at sky harbor returning from Singapore and said “hey look at this” and did a front bottom mount, leveled out his hands in front of him and zipped the Turbo Bumble Bee back and forth on the string between his distanced index fingers. I said “hey you should zing it forward and cast all that energy into a pinwheel around your finger it would look cool”. I told Julius he should call it the Zipper (didnt know that the Zipper name had been coined for a trick in the Yonomicon sorry Mark) Then I showed it to @yyfben2.deactivated Ben turned it sideways into a side mount and started piecing together the steps. Then Ben named the trick Cold Fusion and then named the YoYo (I sketched the logo) and marketing history was made. ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/54 "2021-04-14T16:44:36Z")
Credit @drewtetz with Kickflip Suicide, Makin’ Da Zines, and Dumptrucks just to name a few crucial modern 0a tricks! Also @yohans that is AMAZING! Only ever heard a fraction of that history. ---
**Author:** ![Exmime](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/exmime/32/40143_2.png) [@Exmime](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Exmime)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/55 "2021-04-14T20:55:06Z")
Looking more at the String Trick list from [Spin Wizards](http://www.yo-yo.org/SpinWizard/SpinWizard/string_trick_list.htm). I don’t even know what some of these mounts are? What would make a mount Wet? @Tricksyouforgot44 do you have any thoughts? Mounts: 1. 1 1/2 Mount 2. Behind the Back Bottom Mount 3. Behind the Back Split Bottom Entry 4. Behind the Back Trapeze 5. **Blair Mount** 6. Bucket 7. Bottom Mount 8. Cross Mount 9. Double or Nothing 10. **Double Wet Mount** 11. Double Wrist Mount 12. Houdini Drop Hold ( a.k.a. Kamikaze mount ) 13. **Into the New** 14. **Mirror Double or Nothing** 15. **Morbid Style Mount** 16. **Motorcycle Mount** 17. Over/Under Mount ( a.k.a. H-Bomb Mount ) 18. **Rabid Mount** 19. Reverse Double or Nothing 20. Reverse Wrist Mount 21. Rock the Baby Mount 22. **Sick Mount** 23. Skin the Cat Mount 24. Split Bottom Entry 25. Trapeze 26. Trapeze�s Brother 27. **Trapeze Twist ( a.k.a. Twist Style Mount )** 28. Triple or Nothing 29. **Wet Mount** 30. Wrist Mount I put the ones I have know idea in **Bold** ---
**Author:** ![Chriscatastrophe](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chriscatastrophe/32/111769_2.png) [@Chriscatastrophe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Chriscatastrophe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/56 "2021-04-14T21:03:58Z")
Thanks for bumping this thread super interesting . ---
**Author:** ![TheThrowingGnome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/thethrowinggnome/32/14231_2.png) [@TheThrowingGnome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheThrowingGnome)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/57 "2021-04-14T21:11:01Z")
> [@Exmime](#): > > What would make a mount Wet? Hmmmm… :thinking: ---
**Author:** ![Tricksyouforgot44](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tricksyouforgot44/32/65015_2.png) [@Tricksyouforgot44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Tricksyouforgot44)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/58 "2021-04-14T21:53:34Z")
Some of those are wicked old. The Duncan demonstrators had the string tricking abilities in the 50s and 60s. So trapeze, front mount, split bottom, brother mount, double or nothing, those are incredibly deep in the ether. Most of these I don’t know. Think only one I got off the top of my head is one of the spin doc club guys came up with the wrist mount, then Paul Escolar was the first to hit the mount and then do the standard trapeze dismount that everyone does. I think at one point I knew who on the bucket mount but blanking on that right now. ---
**Author:** ![Myk\_Myk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/myk_myk/32/63087_2.png) [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/59 "2021-04-15T14:28:35Z")
> [@Exmime](#): > > I have know idea Redundant? 😁 I no, typo… ---
**Author:** ![Tricksyouforgot44](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/tricksyouforgot44/32/65015_2.png) [@Tricksyouforgot44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Tricksyouforgot44)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2021, 8:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/60 "2021-04-18T20:21:52Z")
Rest easy Paul Escolar, he passed away today at an age too young. ---
**Author:** ![Biased\_Opinion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Biased\_Opinion](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Biased_Opinion)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/61 "2021-04-19T04:11:47Z")
> [@Tricksyouforgot44](#): > > Think only one I got off the top of my head is one of the spin doc club guys came up with the wrist mount, then Paul Escolar was the first to hit the mount and then do the standard trapeze dismount that everyone does. To think we were just casually talking about him 4 days ago then he passes away. Live life to the fullest, each day could be our last. ---
**Author:** ![aorear85](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/aorear85/32/632365_2.png) [@aorear85](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/aorear85)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/62 "2025-05-18T05:48:58Z")
Any idea who first did the trapeze stall that became the basic foundation of the modern responsive style? You and @drewtetz were the first people I saw doing this back in 2014 when I got started into the hobby. Most of the content I was watching back then was actually from fixed axle Friday stuff you two were doing a couple years prior. ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225/63 "2025-05-18T11:25:19Z")
I first did one accidentally in my kitchen in 2006 or 2007 on a No Jive. It had snapped back on me and landed on the string and in frustration I had swung it back down and regenerated it back to my hand. So I immediately tried it again and found I could (somewhat) control it. I had never seen that before and started doing them all the time but didn’t know what to call it. I started calling them stalls but was told at club by another player that in 2a stalls were already a thing when you kind of tap the yo-yo before sending it back out again. Later I learned that Lunar Landing (which is just a 1 hand trapeze stall off of Shout the Moon) had been around for years. So I def can’t claim to have “invented” them - just independently ran into one and let it completely take over my play style lol. Honestly it is such a foundational responsive trick that I kinda like that it doesn’t have a clear originator. I’m sure Bob Rule or Barney Akers did them as a standalone trick and probably had more fun names for it. But I guess no one before that late 00s period was really exploring how to push the concept so that’s kinda cool. [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-invented-the-trick/45225.md?page=2)