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Boom, Crash, Repeat – Steve Brown
I love repeaters. Always have, always will. This one is based off a frontside Houdini Mount I came up with a looooong time ago, but just this morning figured out how to build into a repeater format. As with all good repeaters, it’s pretty easy to get the rhythm of and it feels really nice and relaxing to do.
Song is “America’s #1 Snackcake” by Army of Ponch. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
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Legend of the 7-Fisted Mantis – Steve Brown
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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Stuck In The Middle With You – Steve Brown
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.
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It’s Cold And I Can’t See Shit – Steve Brown
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.
Lighten Up, Francis – Steve Brown
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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Alternating Improbabilities – Steve Brown
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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I Put It In You – Steve Brown
365 Yo-Yo Tricks
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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Recurring Suicide – Steve Brown
Recurring Suicide
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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Aesthetic Boingy – Steve Brown
Aesthetic Boingy
1/11/11
I created this trick this morning. It took two or three minutes to lock it in. It looks terrible when you try to add any kind of over/under component to the boingys…trust me, I already tried.
This is very much how I used to create tricks…and I’ve got to admit, it’s super exciting to have my creativity just kick back into gear like it used to. One idea, one throw, two more tries to smooth it out and done.
Feels damn good. Happy Tuesday, y’all.
Today’s trick is brought to you by YoYo Factory and the DieNasty, my plastic throw of choice.
Song is “Devil’s Serenade” by Scouts Honor. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records and their own bad selves.
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Behind The Back Suicide – Steve Brown
Behind-The-Back Suicide
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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