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Start as if you are going to do a regular throwdown, but lie the yo-yo down flat in your palm. Throw the yo-yo down and at an angle (about 45 degrees) across your body. Once it gets to the end of the string, quickly move your hand so that it is above the yo-yo, and the string will start to flutter. Now pick up the middle of the string with your free hand and watch the UFO fly.

To get the yo-yo to come back to your hand, pull up on the string in your free hand so that the yo-yo pops ups into the air at about eye level. At the same time bring your yo-yo hand out to the side so that the string makes a straight line from your hand to the yo-yo. If the yo-yo is still spinning fast enough it will wind up sideways and go back to your hand.

Tips:
- You don’t have to pick up the string with your free hand, but the UFO will fly longer if you do.
- Skilled players use this trick to tighten and loosen the yo-yo strings. Just remember “Righty Tighty, Lefty Loosey.” In other words, when you throw the yo-yo to your right the string will tighten, and when you throw it to your left the string will loosen. This is true for both right and left-handed players.
- It will be very difficult, if not impossible, to do this trick with an unresponsive yo-yo.

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First make sure you can throw a good, long Sleeper. Once you can do that, all you have to do is throw a fast sleeper, very gently set the yo-yo down on the ground, let it walk in front of you, and then give it a tug to bring it back up to your hand.

Tips:
- Make sure that you start walking the yo-yo right next to you, or in front of you. If you start it out behind you, as the yo-yo walks forward there will be slack in the string and the yo-yo could come back up too soon.
- Set the yo-yo down on the ground gently so it doesn’t pop right back up.
- The faster the yo-yo is spinning, the farther it will walk. See how far you can go.

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