Tag Archives: 1A
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Veruca
My favorite thing about this project, hands down, is finding old tricks that are 10 years old, still rad, and I’d COMPLETELY forgotten about. Found this one on a 2001 Mid-Atlantic Regionals clip video that only has like 80 views on YouTube. So not only had I forgotten about it…I’m not sure anyone else even saw it.
Yo-Yo used is the Glow Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
Song is “Overconfident” by J Church. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
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Single Rainbow ALL THE WAY!
Inspired by Guy Wright. Like, instantaneous inspiration. I watched his newest video and immediately got up out of my chair and did this. Thanks, Guy!
Song is “Everyone’s And Idiot (Except For You And Me)” by Annalise. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
OH SNAP!
I love this trick. Absolutely love it.
When I first started playing yo-yo, back in 1995, the first yo-yo player I met was Dale Oliver. And Dale gave me two pieces of advice that have always stuck in my head.
1. “If you want to be a real yo-yo player, you’re going to have to get good at two-handed looping tricks.”
Ha ha ha ha…..how about I just make up my own style, get real good at that, and you can jam your 2A right up your arse? (I actually said that, exactly, to him much later and he laughed and admitted he hadn’t called that one.)
2. If you want to be a real yo-yo professional, you should learn how to snap-start a yo-yo. It looks cool, which is great, but mostly it’s going to save you a helluva lot of time when you’re teaching a class of 50+ kids how to play for the first time.”
Dale totally called this one right, and I remember the first time I did a big teaching session after I learned how to properly snap start. I’m pretty sure it cut out 3/4 of my winding time and I was able to get a LOT further in teaching the kids actual tricks and maintenance.
So the moral of this story is twofold:
1. Learn how to snap-start a yo-yo.
2. Dale Oliver is full of shit about 50% of the time.
Song is “Open And Shut” by Dillinger Four. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
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Snowpocalypse
This trick isn’t finished or polished by any means, but honestly I just couldn’t wait to share this mount. I think there’s a ton of potential here for smoother repeaters, and I just wanted to get it out there so everyone else could muck about with it. Enjoy!
Song is “Lil’ Bill” by Burnman. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
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Kerplunk – Steve Brown
I do love a nice, simple little thing like this. It’s absolutely useless as far as incorporating into any really fluid combo, and it’s nothing more than a little stand-alone…a relic of a time when a trick was a single thing and not 15 elements strung together for the benefit of a panel of judges.
Song is “Do What You Do” by Chuck Ragan. He appears courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
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www.yoyofactory.com
www.noidearecords.com