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Insta-Bounce – Steve Brown
There are already bounce tricks with counterweight yo-yos, but they’re usually just off a hold or an aerial. This is one you can do right off a throw, so you get into it quick. Works well with contest freestyles or stage routines where you don’t want to spend a lot of time getting into or out of anything. When you throw it over, keep your hand outwards and let the string lay over your hand…that keeps the proper distance and momentum so that you aren’t just throwing it over your shoulder and away from you.
Song is “Hey, Let’s Spend The Night Together” by True North. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Filmed on location at ORD Camp in Chicago, IL.
Wally – Steve Brown
1/28/11
This trick started life in my old apartment in Tallahassee, FL. It was originally meant to be a ceiling bounce…the counterweight equivalent of a “flat” throw with clubs. You throw an aerial and have both the yo-yo and the weight hit the ceiling at the same time so the whole thing drops down flat. But not being able to count on ceiling heights makes the trick kinda irritating, so I started doing it on walls instead….as originally seen in the “How To Be A Player” video from that company in Ohio.
Song is “No Exception” by Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Filmed on location at ORD Camp in Chicago, IL.
Flim Flam – Steve Brown
Another nugget from my 2007 Worlds Freestyle of Confusion & Doom. This one is a personal favorite, because it feels a lot like old yo-yo tricks…it’s one “thing”, and then you’re done. I still love that.
Song is “If You Don’t” by Fiya. They appear courtesy of No Idea Records.
Kerplunk – Steve Brown
I do love a nice, simple little thing like this. It’s absolutely useless as far as incorporating into any really fluid combo, and it’s nothing more than a little stand-alone…a relic of a time when a trick was a single thing and not 15 elements strung together for the benefit of a panel of judges.
Song is “Do What You Do” by Chuck Ragan. He appears courtesy of No Idea Records.
Yo-yo used is the Die-Nasty by YoYo Factory.
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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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Bye, Jensen – Steve Brown
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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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.
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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