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Binds

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It is absolutely vital that you can do a PROPER bind if you are using an unresponsive yo-yo (which is what you need for new-school tricks).  If you don’t do the bind right the yo-yo won’t wind as well, leading to reduced spin time, and you will dramatically increase the chance of getting a tangle when you throw.  Tangles lead to yo-yos colliding with your head very hard when you make your next throw.  It hurts.  Bad.  Learn to do the bind right.

 

Standard:  On a regular throwdown you do a reverse bottom-mount, pinch the string with your free hand, and then pull up with your dominant hand.  Follow these instructions exactly and you will get a nice wind that won’t tangle.

 

Side-style (Poyzer Bind):  On a trapeze throw you unmount the trapeze, bring the string into the gap, pinch the string with your free hand, and then pull up with your dominant hand.  You can also get into the mount by doing a reverse trapeze.  It’s all the same in the end, because really both types are the same thing, it’s just that you get into them a little differently.

Flying Saucer

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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.