How to Do Yo-Yo Tricks

Transcript The next trick I am doing is called Milk the Cow. It utilizes the trick, Hop the Fence. You have to actually master Hop the Fence before you even attempt this trick so make sure you do a least ten times with your right hand, ten times with your left hand, consistent, kind of …

Transcript What I’m showing you now is two-handed wraps. Basically, it’s different elements of wrapping the yo-yo around your arm and body from two-handed loops. This is a version of a body wrap. I’m going to use my right arm to wrap while doing loops with my left hand. Here’s another version of wraps utilizing …

Transcript For this trick, I’m going to teach you guys how to do Double Around the World. I taught you before how to do around the world with one hand, but now I’m going to teach you how to do it with both hands, and different variations from it. So, first you’ve got to master …

Transcript The next trick we’re doing today is called The Grind. With this trick, you have to have a really, really long sleeper, so you’ve got to throw it fairly hard. And with the grind, you basically have the yo-yo grind on your skin, basically either left or right hand. And there’s different variations you …

Transcript The trick we’re doing right now is called two handed loops. For this trick, it’s pretty difficult, it’s considered an advanced or expert trick. You’re utilizing two yo-yos, right hand and your left hand. Basically with each hand, you’re doing both loops, so you have to master both looping left handed and right handed. …

Transcript So when it comes to competitions, the different styles of yo-yos are separated into five different classes; 1A all the way up to 5A. And each style is not necessarily more difficult than one another, but it’s just different elements you do with the tricks and the different yo-yo. Such as 1A, it’s a …

Transcript The trick I’m showing you now is called, “Velvet Rolls”. This trick utilizes two yo-yos at the same time and it’s from a style called 3A. First off, you have to throw a good sleeper with your left hand. You want to make sure the yo-yo is straight. If it’s crooked, it will mess …

Transcript This trick is called a Double Trapeze. And to do this trick you’ve got to master not only Trapeze with your right hand, but also with your left hand. So first I would recommend just practicing landing consistently with your right hand. Trapeze. And then practice with your left hand. Once you get that …

Transcript So, when competing there’s basically two types of yo-yo’s I like to use. For 2A, I like a yo-yo that’s light, and fast, and responsive. So if you look at this yo-yo, this is what I would use for a competition, and for 2A. And it’s really light, compared to a metal one, and …

Transcript Hi my name is Paul Yath and I am a professional yo-yoer. I own a company called Crucial and I’ve been yo-yoing for about 13 years. And yo-yoing is not just my job, it’s my passion, my hobby, this is what I love to do. I love traveling, I love going to places and …

Transcript The next trick I’m showing you guys is called Black Hops. It’s called Black Hops because it was invented by a Japanese player named Black, and he’s a very creative player and had some really cool tricks. And it starts off of a breakaway. Basically, this is from the Man on a Flying Trapeze. …

Transcript This trick is called the UFO, and this is a pitcher’s trick. And there’s a lot of different techniques you can do with this too, and this is how you do it. When you throw it, you want to throw the yo-yo at an angle, at a sideways angle. So you want to get …

Transcript The next trick that I’m teaching you today is called Hop the Fence. And like Loop the Loop, it involves a repetitive motion. As you see it’s going in a different direction, the opposite direction from Loop the Loop. When you throw the yo-yo down, the yo-yo comes right back at your hand. As …

Transcript This trick is called the Brain Twister and is one of the first string tricks that you should learn. You start off with a throw down, and you’ve got to have a really good, strong sleeper, because this trick is kind of a long trick. With your left finger you push the string in …

Transcript This trick is called a Plastic Whip and it involves an element called Slack Style. To do this trick, you basically want to start with a breakaway throw, have it sleeping, and basically you want to carry the string over and have it slacked to the right side, and you whip the yo-yo with …

Transcript This trick is called the Skyrocket. You start off with the long sleeper, and when the yo-yo’s spinning, take the string, the loop, off your finger and you give the yo-yo a little tug. And when the yo-yo comes up to your hand, you don’t catch it, you have it go by your hand. …

Transcript For this next trick, it’s called Split the Atom. For this trick, I’m going to teach you a different mount, other than the Brain Twister mount. This is called the Split Bottom mount. Now this mount is really important, because it’s a mount you use for other tricks as well, so to master this …

Transcript This trick is called the Pop ‘n’ Fresh. And it’s kind of like the Boingy Boingy, as you’re popping the yo-yo. But it’s a little different in that you utilize a different kind of mount. We start off with a split bottom mount, and like the Boingy boingy, you come down with your left …

Transcript The next trick I’m showing you is called the Break Away. This trick is really important because it sets up the yo yo at a sideways angle, so you can do sideways style tricks. As you can see, the yo-yo’s positioned at a sideways angle, and from here, you can do a lot of …

Transcript This trick is called Kwijibo. To start off this trick, you want to start off with the Trapeze. From there, you’re going to pop the yo-yo up in the air. When you pop it up in the air, you want to cross your arms, right over left. And when you cross your arms right …

Transcript For this trick, it’s called Man on the Flying Trapeze. You start off this trick with a breakaway throw, like so. And with the yo-yo swinging, you want have the yo-yo hop over your left index finger. When it goes over your left index finger, you will want it to land in the string, …

Transcript The next trick I’m teaching you, is called Loop the Loop. This trick is a repeater trick, as in you could keep, keep it going over and over. When holding the yo-yo, you want to toss it forward, like this. When the yo-yo comes around, you don’t want to catch the yo-yo, you want …

Transcript For this trick, it’s called the Warp Drive. It’s basically another looping trick. It incorporates different elements like Around the World, loops, and I’m going to tell you about a new trick called the Regeneration, that has to do with it as well. So, the Warp Drive, first you start off with a loop …

Transcript When you think of yo-yoing you think of Walking the Dog, one of the most iconic tricks other than Rock the Baby. When walking the Dog, you’ve to have a good sleeper so that the yo-yo will stay spinning, and come back to your hand after you do the trick. Make sure you have …

Transcript This trick is the Gyroscopic Flop. This trick is really interesting, as it’s not really a string trick. It rotates the yo-yo around its axis. To do the Gyroscopic Flop, you start off with the Trapeze. You pinch the string right above the yo-yo, and basically you whip the string around to the outside …

Transcript The next trick is called the Mach Five. And this trick is really cool looking, and it utilizes different tricks I’ve showed you earlier, such as Split the Atom and the Split Bottom mount. So basically, you have to have a really long sleeper for this. You do the Split Bottom mount, and you …

Transcript The next trick I have for you today is called the Barrel Rolls. Like the Brain Twister, you mount it the same way, except you add a couple moves into the element. So you mount the yo-yo, same way, stick your right hand into the string, right in the middle, and you want to …

Transcript This trick is called Boingy-Boingy. Just like Split the Atom, you do the same mount, the Split Bottom mount. Instead of doing the underpasses like Split the Atom, you only do one underpass with the left hand. When you do this, the yo-yo sits between the two strings. As you can see the yo-yo …

Transcript This trick is called Double or Nothing. You start off with a breakaway throw. Like the Trapeze, you swing it over your left index finger but instead of landing a string, you go completely around over your right index finger and you swing it around twice onto the string. So it’s like you’re doing …

Transcript The next trick I’m teaching you guys, it’s called Rock the Baby. This is one of the most iconic tricks when it comes to yo-yoing. To start off with Rock the Baby, you have to have a really good, strong sleeper. With the yo-uo sleeping, you want to grab the string with your non-throw …

Transcript The first trick I’m teaching you today is called the Throw Down. And this is a really important trick to master, because it is the basis of all tricks to come. Before starting out the Throw Down, you want to have the yo-yo positioned within your palm correctly. With your palm facing up, you …

Transcript The next trick I’m going to teach you is the follow up to the Throw Down, it is called the Sleeper. The Sleeper is a trick you use for other tricks. Basically, you start with a Throw Down, and the yo-yo stays spinning. And that is called a Sleeper. With the Sleeper, the stronger …

Transcript The trick I’m showing you today is called Around the World. With the yo-yo in your palm, you want to turn your wrist over. You want to toss the yo-yo in front of you, and when it hits the end of the string you want the yo-yo to carry, and the momentum to carry …