Tag Archives: dienasty

1/9/11

I gotta be completely honest: I don’t remember a damn thing about creating this trick. I remember being really stoked about all the possibilities of the Water Mount (which is the initial mount for the trick…it’s like a split bottom with an extra segment) and working out a few things with it, but moving along to other stuff and never really exploring it as much as I should have.

But Water Bomb and Chinese Water Torture are two of my all-time most requested tricks…so here’s the one that started it.

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the DieNasty, my plastic throw of choice.

http://www.yoyofactory.com

1/7/11

The laceration to pinwheel at the beginning I stole from Andre Boulay (http://www.yoyoexpert.com). I honestly can’t remember if it’s a direct pinch, or if it’s just really similar to something of his but I know that’s where it came from….because I made it a point to show this combo to Andre first because of it.

The grind is…well, a grind.

The pop to a thumb hold is mine, something I’ve been doing for years and years.

And the throw over to a suicide is so old that I have no idea where it come from…could have been me, could have been any of a dozen other people.

But the combo is mine, and it’s really irritating to hit consistently in a contest or performing environment. It’s a lot of tricks that aren’t *super hard*, but they’re the kind of tricks that sometimes just don’t want to land.

I showed this to Andre at Nationals after coming up with it the day before, and he got way more excited than anyone else. Thanks, Andre. 🙂

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the DieNasty, my plastic throw of choice.

http://www.yoyofactory.com

Song is “Fever” by The Hot Rails – http://www.thehotrails.com/

365 Yo-Yo Tricks

1/6/11

Confession: I’m really lousy at learning tricks by watching videos. I’m an “in person” learner. So when Spencer Berry dropped “Breath” on all of us, I was crushed…I wasn’t going to see the kid for a while and it was such a beautiful trick. So I set about trying to figure it out from the video, and ended up with this. I knew it wasn’t all of it, but I thought I at least had the beginning.

Caught up with Spencer at the next BAC and said “Hey, I’m stuck on the first part of Breath, can you help?” Showed him this and he said “Whoa! What the hell was that?”

“The first part of Breath?”

“HA HA HA HA HA HA HA no.”

“Damn.”

I never did learn Breath. But I still love this trick.

Yoyo used is the DieNasty by YoYoFactory.

Song is “0:38” by Discount

http://www.365yoyotricks.com

1/5/11

Many, many moons ago I was wandering around New York City with Doctor Popular. As two people such as us are wont to do, we were throwing yo-yos all around us and using bits of scaffolding from a construction area to do some oddball “apparatus” tricks. After I got home I realized I would probably never be prepared / motivated enough to build and maintain an apparatus, let alone ever remember to bring it with me. So it started trying to figure out how to use my catching hand as a “dead stick” and re-create some of the stuff we were fiddling with in NYC. This is the only trick that survived. Doc may have some, but he lives on the wrong coast and I never see the dude. Pffft. California, indeed.

Yoyo used is the DieNasty by YoYoFactory.

http://www.365yoyotricks.com

1/3/11

Another trick that won’t win any contests but it sure feels nice to do. It’s also a slightly tricky little catch, but you’ll get the swing of it.

Yoyo used is the DieNasty by YoYoFactory.

http://www.yoyofactory.com