It sounds silly now, butā¦trapeze. I had a yoyo when I was a boy and could do things like walk the dog and rock the cradle. But I watched Tommy Smothers do his yoyo tricks and seeing him land the yoyo on the string was amazing to me, like he was made of magic or something. I had just your normal old Duncan yoyo and tried for DAYS to get that skinny gap to land on the string. I couldnāt even HIT the string with the yoyo! I remember I actually did manage to catch the string one time. The yoyo immediately snapped back at me and almost gave me a heart attack. Never even came close again after that.
Anyhow, fast forward to me being a grownup. I see this kid in my Sunday School class with a plastic grind machine. He showed it to me and the first thing I thought was āIf I had a yoyo like thatā¦I could do the trapeze trick!ā So I went online and ordered my first modern yoyo, a Legacy.
First trick I learned was trapeze. Made me quite happy.
I seriously thought Atomic boing boing (now called boingy boingy) was impossible.
I worked on that for like a year and āgave up on itā many a time.
Then one day, it just kinda clicked.
You said a while ago sometimes itās best to walk away from a trick and then revisit it later. Case and point right there.
I can do Drop In the Bucket, or, maybe I should say I have done drop in the bucket. Odd, the first time I did it, I nailed it flawless and smooth. Consistent? Forget it. Smooth? Not even. Iāll come back to it later.
Right now, Atomic Bomb is starting to click, then I tried it with my new dv888. Itās like learning it all over again. Oh well. Just shows Iām not as good with it as I thought.
Was boingy boing but I can do that now, not flawlessly, but I can do about 10 reps before it starts getting off track. For now I think Eli hops. Just canāt do it.
Well,the trapeze was actually the hardest trick for me to learn.
I quit yoyoing for a couple months becauuse I couldnāt get it,
but now I see people do it on their third of forth try.
Sure, it bums me out at first,but it makes me feel like a good teacher.
I used to think that Brent stole was completely amazing, then I finally saw a tutorial that actually explained how it worked. Then I realized it is easy. Same with Eli hops.