Archive for January, 2004

The same set up as the Forward Pass, but instead of catching it, you push the yo-yo out a second time on the outside of your arm. See if you can do it several times in a row without stopping.

Tip:
- Be sure you can do a good Forward Pass before you work on the Outside Loop.

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Like Mile The Cow, but straight out in front of you.  Yo-yos must stay above your waist.

Inside Loops with one hand, and hop the fence with the other.  Funniest when you bounce up and down a bit while you do the trick so that it kinds of looks like you are riding a horse.

Two-handed Inside Loops with arms outstretched.

Two-handed Warp Drive with arms outstretched.

This is an Around the World done on it’s side.  Generally you do the throw over your head, swing the yo-yo around your head, and then bring it down below your waist so that the second orbit is low enough that you can either step over it, or hop over it while you yell, “Yahoo!!!” just like a cowboy.

Milk the Cow done straight up into the air.

Milk the Cow done straight up into the air with the yo-yos going alternately on the inside and the outside of your wrists.

Two-hand loops done with alternating inside and outside loops with both hands.

Do the Flying Saucer, quickly make a cradle with the string, and rock the saucer through the cradle before it stops spinning.  Almost always gets tangled.

Throw a good, fast Sleeper. Bring your yo-yo hand to your chest and hold your other hand straight out in front of you. Open your non-yo-yo hand so that your fingers are flat, and your fingers and thumb make an “L”. Drape the string over the back of your thumb and fingers, bring your yo-yo hand down and pinch the remaining string about halfway down. Bring your non-yo-yo hand down to be on the bottom, while bringing your yo-yo hand up to be on top. You should now have a triangle of string through which you can swing the yo-yo.

Tips:
- Practice the set up of the cradle without the yo-yo spinning. Just let it dangle down there until you are quick enough making the cradle that you can do the trick with the yo-yo spinning.
- Be sure not to swing the yo-yo around the legs of the cradle or you might get a knot.

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There are several ways to do Around the World. This is the safest of them.

Start the same way as the Breakaway, just throw the yo-yo a little harder, and swing it a bit so that it will go all the way around, over your head, and back down again so that you can catch it just like the Breakaway.

Tips:
- In order to really do Around the World the yo-yo must spin at the end of the string all the way around until you pull it back to your hand.
- Make sure you swing the yo-yo around fast enough so that there is no slack in the string. Slack can make the yo-yo come back before you want it to.

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