Category Archives: 1A

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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This is a weird, subtle little trick that I’ve been sitting on for a long time and never figured out anything better to do with it. I feel like there’s somewhere it could go, but damned if I can tell you where that is. But you throw a double and catch the yo-yo on the front TWO strings….dropping the back string kind of binds the yo-yo and then it’s a back-and-forth with that one string segment holding the whole thing together. Once you get done, pull that seg back with your thumb and pop the yo-yo back out of the top and you’re just totally out of it. If you figure out something more interesting to do out of this, film it and hit me with a link, please!

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

www.365yoyotricks.com
www.yoyofactory.com
www.noidearecords.com

1/22/11

Hey Jensen…you aint bad, for a tapeworm.

Song is “You Are Loved” by Defiance, Ohio. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

Yo-yo used is the Northstar by YoYo Factory.

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www.noidearecords.com

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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(Filmed at Brigade)

1/17/11

In 2003, Johnnie pioneered rubbing the yo-yo off your arm quickly to start it spinning. In 2003, I pioneered making this very same trick unnecessarily difficult for the sake of maintaining my street cred among jugglers. Ha.

Hi, Johnnie.

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the One yo-yo.

Song is “Saturn In Crosshairs” by Rumbleseat. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

Today’s trick was filmed on location at Brigade, Cleveland’s finest contemporary clothing store!

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1/16/11

My theory on creating tricks has always been really simple. Do something wrong, and see what happens. I came up with this trick around 2000, and it’s built off the simple idea that you can’t really do a smooth Mach 5 sideways. So I started trying to do one anyway, and kept changing the mount. Finally I ended up with this weird 1 3/4 mount (as I call it, anyway) and a single rep that ends with a dropped segment and a “flip flop out”….my name for have a bound trapeze and doing that cross armed pop-out that you see at the end of the trick.

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the Die-Nasty yo-yo.

Song is “Hey Cool Kid” by Cleveland-based Cloud Nothings. They appear courtesy of themselves.

Today’s trick was filmed on location at Cleveland’s favorite indie record store, Music Saves. Stop in, buy some vinyl, and tell ’em Steve sent you!

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www.yoyofactory.com
www.facebook.com/cloudnothings
www.musicsaves.com

1/15/11

See, back in the day, “chopsticks” were just called “thumb mounts”. Back when I was still cool and Paul Escolar had spiky hair. Waaaaay back in the day. Hi, Neff.

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the Die-Nasty yo-yo.

Song is “Tour Of Bridges” by Die Hoffnung. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records and the overwhelming generosity of the gene pool that ushered them forth into this world. Mr. & Mrs. Marburger, I salute you.

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http://www.noidearecords.com

1/14/11

I love hubstacks. I love Planes Mistaken For Stars. Two great tastes that taste great together.

Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the G5 yo-yo.

Song is “Rhythm Dies” by Planes Mistaken For Stars. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.

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1/13/11

Another trick that’s at least 10 years old. I’ve got to admit, I’m having a ton of fun digging these out and re-learning them to film. Some of these tricks, I really forgot how much fun they are. Especially the ones like this…which are almost entirely useless.

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

Song is “Open Up And Wail” by Chuck Ragan. Chuck appears courtesy of No Idea Records and his own bad self.

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http://www.chuckraganmusic.com

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.

http://www.365yoyotricks.com
http://www.yoyofactory.com
http://www.noidearecords.com