# Your "Default" Trick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [May 26, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093 "2013-05-26T05:12:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/1 "2013-05-26T05:12:23Z")
Going through the 365 archives, and came across this one: > **[Default - 365YoYoTricks](http://365yoyotricks.com/2011/07/13/dayoneninetythree/)** > > Everyone has that one trick that is always the first thing their hands do when they pick up a yo-yo...their default trick. This one is mine. The topic is more important than the trick. Steve feels we all have a “default” trick that we throw whenever we pick up a yoyo. For the sake of the intention here, let’s not bother being picky about whether it’s truly the FIRST trick you throw when you pick up a yoyo, or even that you throw it every single darned time you pick up a yoyo… But what trick do you tend to throw almost subconsciously most of the times that you pick up a yoyo? I think for me it’s Zipper. Lately I’m also always throwing Spirit Bomb almost as soon as I pick up a yoyo, but it’s a “I’ve newly mastered this trick” thing… maybe the next cool string trick will replace it. But Zipper endures. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![bazz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bazz/32/1383_2.png) [@bazz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bazz)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/2 "2013-05-26T05:16:39Z")
I highly agree with the “Newly Mastered Trick” thing. Always throwing the newly mastered trick along with whatever else is sticking at the time. ---
**Author:** ![bazz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bazz/32/1383_2.png) [@bazz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bazz)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/3 "2013-05-26T05:39:15Z")
Ah yes, I have this move I like to do, as I started yoyoing again recently, ‘new’ moves started popping up that I used to make when I was 14. One of them I have been doing incessantly. The move can be seen in my Boston Yoyo video. (0:10),(0:24) when in trapeze, you do a backwards somersault into a lindy loop, undo lindy loop and use that momentum to do a somersault in the opposite direction, let the string wrap around your free hand (hard to explain) and then release your freehand string as the yoyo… really it’s easier understood from my video, and I prollyy do the trick like 3 times in that video. It really is a favorite of mine, and I held it close at the time since it surfaced from my memories of old. here’s the video for reference: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjEj6SWrjts&t=24s) And when you finish the trick, you end up in trapeze & his brother and are free to do whatever you want. ---
**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 26, 2013, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/4 "2013-05-26T11:28:14Z")
Yup, for me its skin the gerbil and rewind, those are the 2 I always do, a lot of times I even forget my other tricks for some reason so a I just do those until I remember xD ---
**Author:** ![yuki\_onitsura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yuki_onitsura/32/1162_2.png) [@yuki\_onitsura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yuki_onitsura)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/5 "2013-05-26T11:30:51Z")
I usually go kwyjibo into skin the gerbil into a brother mount and bind. Yuki ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Yoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/big_yoyo/32/1032_2.png) [@Big\_Yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Big_Yoyo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/6 "2013-05-26T12:58:07Z")
I always do kwijibo into gramma kimmet sandwich. I don’t know why, but I could do that all day 🙂 Sent from Ice Cream Sandwich Eatin’ Optimus V ---
**Author:** ![DrAwesome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/drawesome/32/1139_2.png) [@DrAwesome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DrAwesome)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/7 "2013-05-26T13:14:31Z")
Kwijybo matrix and wrist mount green triangles for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![crazyshanky2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/crazyshanky2/32/1340_2.png) [@crazyshanky2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/crazyshanky2)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/8 "2013-05-26T16:06:08Z")
Brother Slack to Wrist mount variations. ---
**Author:** ![ArchersAxe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@ArchersAxe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ArchersAxe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/9 "2013-05-27T07:33:41Z")
I’ve been doing a double or nothing into chopsticks as a repeater. I’ve been calling it “Chop Flop” because of the dismount from chopsticks over the thumb. Fun, basic, gives a good feel for the weight (disputably the feel, not really weight) and speed of a throw. And on the “Just got it down” list I’ve been doing [Wrister](http://365yoyotricks.com/2013/05/25/wrister-steve-brown/) and some Black Hops here and there. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/10 "2013-05-27T07:41:07Z")
> [@ArchersAxe](#): > > I’ve been doing a double or nothing into chopsticks as a repeater. I’ve been calling it “Chop Flop” because of the dismount from chopsticks over the thumb. Fun, basic, gives a good feel for the weight (disputably the feel, not really weight) and speed of a throw. > > And on the “Just got it down” list I’ve been doing [Wrister](http://365yoyotricks.com/2013/05/25/wrister-steve-brown/) and some Black Hops here and there. Nice. I don’t know enough about chopsticks to visualize that, but anything that serves as a litmus test for yoyos is a good thing. 😃 Mainly commenting because of the name: I stole a trick from [Grawrd.com](http://Grawrd.com) in the “gyroscopic flop” tutorial called a Chop Flop… plastic whip (the chop), then hook front two strings with NTH thumb and push forward, while grabbing single string with TH and pulling back to start a gyro flop (the flop). Chop Flop! It’s the gyro I always throw while breaking in bearings (because dropping the loop causes a bind. :D). ---
**Author:** ![yoyo143](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo143/32/1384_2.png) [@yoyo143](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo143)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/11 "2013-05-27T07:56:22Z")
> [@GregP](#): > > Going through the 365 archives, and came across this one: > > [365YoYoTricks Default - 365YoYoTricks](http://365yoyotricks.com/2011/07/13/dayoneninetythree/) > > The topic is more important than the trick. Steve feels we all have a “default” trick that we throw whenever we pick up a yoyo. For the sake of the intention here, let’s not bother being picky about whether it’s truly the FIRST trick you throw when you pick up a yoyo, or even that you throw it every single darned time you pick up a yoyo… > > But what trick do you tend to throw almost subconsciously most of the times that you pick up a yoyo? > > I think for me it’s Zipper. Lately I’m also always throwing Spirit Bomb almost as soon as I pick up a yoyo, but it’s a “I’ve newly mastered this trick” thing… maybe the next cool string trick will replace it. > > But Zipper endures. :wink: Haha, i like zipper. But my defult has to be man on the flying trapeze and his brother slack. Half the time i pick up a yoyo for fun (not showing off a trick or anything) i get into a double or nothing, dismout (or make the yoyo pop up and land it on a trapeze like that) and do a bro slack. I find it Incredibly fun for some reason! LOL! ---
**Author:** ![ArchersAxe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@ArchersAxe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ArchersAxe)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 8:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/12 "2013-05-27T08:00:29Z")
> [@GregP](#): > > > [@ArchersAxe](#): > > > > I’ve been doing a double or nothing into chopsticks as a repeater.  I’ve been calling it “Chop Flop” because of the dismount from chopsticks over the thumb.  Fun, basic, gives a good feel for the weight (disputably the feel, not really weight) and speed of a throw. > > > > And on the “Just got it down” list I’ve been doing [Wrister](http://365yoyotricks.com/2013/05/25/wrister-steve-brown/) and some Black Hops here and there. > > Nice. I don’t know enough about chopsticks to visualize that, but anything that serves as a litmus test for yoyos is a good thing. 😃 > > Mainly commenting because of the name: I stole a trick from [Grawrd.com](http://Grawrd.com) in the “gyroscopic flop” tutorial called a Chop Flop… plastic whip (the chop), then hook front two strings with NTH thumb and push forward, while grabbing single string with TH and pulling back to start a gyro flop (the flop). Chop Flop! It’s the gyro I always throw while breaking in bearings (because dropping the loop causes a bind. :D). Hmm, can’t say I’ve heard of [Grawrd.com](http://Grawrd.com)…  I’ll have to check that out!  I’ll have to find something else to call it… As for visual, it’s relatively simple: [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/9/4/6/9466fdbc5fc49264c242b0daa85a59394ae51ceb.jpeg "Chopsticks Intro - Thumb Mount Yoyo Trick") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNkUmQepOFs) Thumb Mount (or Chopsticks) and then use the momentum from the dismount to pull into a Double or Nothing.  You can see the entire thumb mount dismount in the first 10 seconds of the video posted. From the Double or Nothing, you can dismount to a Trapeze and pop straight back into a Thumb Mount. Sorry if my description is hazy, but that’s all there is to it.  ;D ---
**Author:** ![augmentedloyalty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/augmentedloyalty/32/1218_2.png) [@augmentedloyalty](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/augmentedloyalty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/13 "2013-05-27T14:02:07Z")
Ethier ladder escape or plan d ---
**Author:** ![abby1371](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/abby1371/32/1075_2.png) [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/14 "2013-05-27T14:03:40Z")
For me is skin the gerbil and brent stole. ---
**Author:** ![Nemyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nemyo/32/14407_2.png) [@Nemyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nemyo)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/15 "2013-05-27T14:17:56Z")
Ehh, I usually just do my most recent combo I am working on, but there was a time when I had this one flawless combo that’d id do as my default trick. My default trick generally changes about very week though (I usually make a twick every week) ---
**Author:** ![nardcopter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nardcopter/32/1335_2.png) [@nardcopter](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nardcopter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/16 "2013-05-27T15:30:47Z")
I always do this. Always. You throw a trapeze and dismount, swinging into a brother. Pinch the loop with your throw hand and swing the yoyo counter clockwise, giving a yuuki slack effect. Catch the slack with your whole non-throw hand, and you are back in a brother. Perform a ninja vanish right out of that brother, into a GT. then I like to play the GT a bit with suicides and stuff before dismounting. ---
**Author:** ![groan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/groan/32/1337_2.png) [@groan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/groan)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2013, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/17 "2013-05-27T23:02:12Z")
I always do a wrist mount followed up by a green triangle. Mostly it’s the two tricks I know best… Did I say best? It’s the two tricks I know. :-\ ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/18 "2013-05-28T01:01:34Z")
> [@groan](#): > > I always do a wrist mount followed up by a green triangle. Mostly it’s the two tricks I know best… Did I say best? It’s the two tricks I know. > :-\ > > HD Haha! But you’re really good at those two. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![crococorey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/crococorey/32/1380_2.png) [@crococorey](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/crococorey)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/19 "2013-07-07T03:05:06Z")
Now its gotta be cold fusion. (Sorry i know this is old but i really liked reading this thread when it was happening) ---
**Author:** ![redneckyoyoer3826](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@redneckyoyoer3826](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/redneckyoyoer3826)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093/20 "2013-07-07T20:12:26Z")
LOL, I seriously considered making this same thread a day or two ago. Anyway, for some reason I ALWAYS find myself doing Brother Slack, usually to Houdini Mount after I do it. Then I do one of the many tricks I know from the Houdini Mount (such a versatile mount). [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/your-default-trick/54093.md?page=2)