Category Archives: 5A
Woodchuck’d – Steve Brown
Another nugget from my 2007 World Yo-Yo Contest. This one is more of a combo, and uses several of the elements that I think are important to building counterweight tricks that utilize any of the increasing number of yo-yos available with free-spinning sidecaps.
First, there’s the pullstart. You get a faster spin and way more stability this way, so get used to it. Then there’s a pinch from an existing mount. There’s a degree of familiarity there…you already know how to do the mount. So adding a pinch is, presumably, a fairly simple matter. Lastly there is the holding of the caps while you place the yo-yo on the string into a move.
Yeah, the trick looks pretty basic and straightforward. But try getting it smooth. There’s more going on that you think, but about half of it is probably just difficult because it’s unfamiliar.
Today’s trick is brought to you by No Idea Records.
Song is “Off-Track” by The Blacktop Cadence. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Today’s trick was filmed on location at designRoom Creative. They have excellent hard-wood floors. This does not aid in yo-yo play, but it’s worth nothing because they’re ever so lovely.
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Snake Oil Salesman – Steve Brown
1/19/11
Snake Oil Salesman
(Filmed at designRoom)
Another nugget from my 2007 World Yo-Yo Contest freestyle, whereupon I baffled the judges and made the Japanese players bellow that “Oh! Oooh! OOOH!” sound that they always do at yo-yo contests.
Today’s trick is brought to you by No Idea Records.
Song is “Road To Nowhere” by Whiskey & Co. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Today’s trick was filmed on location at designRoom Creative. They have excellent hard-wood floors. This does not aid in yo-yo play, but it’s worth nothing because they’re ever so lovely.
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Hubtrap – Steve Brown
(Filmed at designRoom)
1/18/11
Counterweight tricks: whereby a small weight is attached to the end of the string which may be released during yo-yo play in order to create a second movement variable, opening up a vast new array of possible movements.
In 1999, I came up with the idea of counterweight yo-yo play and made up a whole slew of really neat shit. In 2007, I added it to someone else’s idea of free-spinning sidecaps on a yo-yo and made a whole slew of really neat shit that looked really easy but was actually really hard.
This is one of those.
Sadly, in order to show you counterweight tricks I have to say goodbye to a sponsor, due to a bunch of legal bullshit that’s almost as boring and irritating to talk about as it is to deal with.
Today’s trick is brought to you by No Idea Records.
Song is “Her Majesty’s Midwestern Islands” by Defiance, Ohio. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Today’s trick was filmed on location at designRoom Creative. They have excellent hard-wood floors. This does not aid in yo-yo play, but it’s worth nothing because they’re ever so lovely.
www.365yoyotricks.com
www.noidearecords.com
www.designroom.com
FH Wrist Wrap – Steve Brown
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FH Wrist Wrap
1/1/11
This first trick is an old wrist wrap I’ve been sitting on for 9 years. It’s a nice flourish you can throw in at the beginning of a side-style combo, or anywhere you find yourself coming out of a meltdown-type move.
Song: “Foil Monkeys or Bread Monkeys, Either One” by Army of Ponch