Author Archives: 365YoYoTricks
Money Shot
2/21/11
This is a “payday” trick. When I do shows for non-players, I end with this trick and it kills ’em, every time. There are yo-yo tricks that yo-yo players love, and there are tricks that get you paid…this trick gets you paid.
Song is “Radio” by Gunmoll. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Kickstart My Heart
2/20/11
I made this trick up at the Cleveland Yo-Yo Club meeting today. With special guest cameraman Drew Tetz!
Song is “Twink” by Floor. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Claim Jumper
2/19/11
This is just the very beginnings of a trick, but I like where it’s going so I’m sharing a little early in the process. Fully expect to see this beginning mount turn up again later…
Song is “Unemployed” by Dillinger Four. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Rollover Suicide
2/18/11
Continuing yesterday’s theme of making things unnecessarily difficult just because I can, here’s a suicide to cross-armed Trapeze & His Brother, interrupted with a grind on the back of my throwing hand.
I love this trick. Feels good, and when you slow it down it looks amazing.
Song is “Dove” by Floor. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-Yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
www.yoyofactory.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Love Tap
2/17/11
One of my favorite things about watching skating are those super brief little bits that happen so incredibly quickly, and yet you know if they’d been off or slower by just a hair they would have completely wiped out.
For a while, I got really in to building tricks around the most subtle of elements….a grind that lasts just a second or two. But it makes a HUGE difference in being able to hit a suicide when you try and throw a grind in the middle of it, however brief. It’s a nice reminder that it’s the little things that matter.
Song is “Ch1-Ch2” by Deadsure. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-Yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
www.yoyofactory.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
First Date
2/16/11
When I first started messing with this trick last week I had no idea where it was going. It started off really awkward. I kept at it, smoothed it out, and came up with an interesting trick that I think works out fairly well and has lots of potential.
Hence….first date.
Song is “Colditz” by Die Hoffnung. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-Yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
www.yoyofactory.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Lancelot Link
2/15/11
Today’s trick is less a “trick” and more of a nice linking move to use to transition between a trapeze mount and an under mount. It feels good, and takes up a fair bit of space…which is always what I go for with counterweight tricks.
Song is “Met Her In A Cyclone” by Burnman. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Honeymoon In Vegas
2/14/11
I hate Valentine’s Day.
Always have….always will.
Song is “The Truth About Almost Everything” by Anniversary Club. They appear courtesy of Chris Stowe.
www.365yoyotricks.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
www.anniversaryclubmusic.com
Rockette
2/13/11
Sometimes, I make up tricks just to look good on stage. I don’t care how hard they are, I don’t care if other players like them…I just want them to look big and good on stage. This is one of those tricks. Crowds love it.
Song is “…Means You Have To Die” by The Holy Mountain. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com
Schadenfraude
In 2004, Takeshi sent me a Bootleg Monkey with free-spinning sidecaps. I broke it almost immediately. But before I broke it, I came up with this combo, a few more that I’ll get around to filming eventually, and some counterweight tricks that were the infant beginning of my 2007 Worlds routine. The burst of creativity I had with that yo-yo was absolutely insane, and I was pretty jealous (but excited) that YoYo Factory got a reliable yo-yo with spinning caps to market with a design that was infinitely better than the one I left at Duncan when I quit. (I still have no idea what they did with that design, since it’s never been released. Although they fired the engineer who was working on it shortly after I left, so it’s probably in the bottom of a desk drawer some where…or it just got thrown away.)
The day I first held a YoYo Factory G5 in my hands with T-Stacks was the day I realized I could never out-engineer Hans and Ben. It was also the day I realized I didn’t want to, and I was pretty content to just be the guy playing with yo-yos instead of trying to design them. That was a big day for me, personally, and I felt a tremendous weight lift off my shoulders.
Yo-Yo used is the G5 by YoYo Factory.
Song is “See You In Hell” by Small Brown Bike. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
www.yoyofactory.com
stevebrownismyhero.bigcartel.com