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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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www.noidearecords.com
Sack of Hell Yeah – Steve Brown
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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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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http://www.chuckraganmusic.com