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I’ve always been a fan of weird transitions, especially those where everything just comes to a dead stop. It’s mostly from hanging out with Jay Gilligan, as well as my love for Fugazi.

If you can figure out how those two things led to this trick, you’re well on your way to understanding everything there is to know about my style of yo-yo play.

Song is “Count The Needle” by the incomparable Gunmoll. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

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Full disclosure: I spent two hours trying to hit this trick outside with a nice, pretty background. But it’s 20 degrees and snowing really hard and my hands just wouldn’t cooperate.

This is one of those tricks that everyone oooh’d and aaaah’d over, and no on ever does. Why? Because it’s made up of 3 suicides, none of which are particularly easy to hit.

The mount is a Double Fisted Mantis Suicide. The pop-transfer is tricker than you would expect because the strings really want to fall off the front of your fingers. Then you have an unravel and re-mount and then a Single Fisted Mantis suicide (which isn’t hard, per se, just stupidly inconsistent because the loop lays against your wrist for most of it so it never really opens up), and then a pop backwards into a thumb segment, unravel, and throwing a weird suicide AWAY from you, which is just mean-spirited.

Have fun.

Song is “Bad Day” by Samiam. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.

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1/21/11

I think the trick title pretty well says it all.

Today’s trick is brought to you by too much friggin’ snow.

Song is “It’s So Cold In The D” by T-Baby.

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1/12/11

I first made up this trick in 2001. Couldn’t hit it consistently until 2002. Forgot about it until 2007. Filmed for your viewing pleasure in 2011.

My personal best for number of repetitions is 8 reps….it’s a really pretty little repeater of a trick, just not something you want to try and hit in a freestyle.

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

Song is “Robin” by Shores. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

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1/10/11

I spent a few months doing almost nothing but suicides. Seriously. This is one of my favorites from that time period…not because it’s the hardest, but because it’s the one that even non-players can dig.

Plus, it’s pretty damn hard.

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

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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.

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

1/4/11

For a few months, way back when, I got really excited about the trick possibilities of suicides. And, as most yo-yo players do, I immediately set about figuring out the hardest possible ways to throw a loop and catch it.

A Double Fisted Mantis Suicide is the mount for Legend of the 7-Fisted Mantis, one of the hardest tricks I’ve created. The invert version of this is a massive pain in the butt because it requires you to throw the loop, push the string with the finger that threw the loop, and then move your right hand around the back of the loop while in motion, coming around to stab it from behind. The regular version is actually easier because the movement your catching hand makes is actually more natural.

Yoyo used is the DieNasty by YoYoFactory.

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