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It took like 4 months but I understand Eli Hops now.

I really struggled with understanding the motion behind it, but today I accidentally got out at the wrong stop while going home. Since I'd have to wait like 2 hours for the next train and my car was only 1 hour away by foot, I walked the rest and practiced some yoyo tricks on the way. While just randomly doing trapeze stuff, I accidentally launched the yoyo up like you see here, but failed to catch it. So I spent the rest of the walk replicating that until I was able to get it semi-consistently.

Ofc I can still work on making the execution a lot smoother, but rn I'm just glad I can do it.

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Hey I'm new on tumblr, I've been learning yoyo tricks for a while now and used to post about it on twitter but I don't wanna just repost that, since I feel like that would be lazy, so here's a clip of me doing the man on the flying trapeze and his brother that I just recorded at 1 am in my kitchen.

Also I'm dressed up as the yoyo girl cause I like her and she's cute. I'm not confidemt with showing my face online tho (cause I hate it), so I'm wearing a facemask, hope you'll forgive me.

I don't get to record yoyo stuff that often so I'm sorry that I can't post yoyo tricks very consistently and idk if I'll cosplay more during it cause it's honestly a big step out of my comfort zone whenever I wear this costume, but I hope you like the clip.

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I haven't really practiced a lot of yoyo stuff for a while now due to lack of motivation, but I got myself to go and practice some more last week. This is the new trick I learned, it's called The Matrix, hope it looks decent:

It reminds me a lot of the flyaway dismount I usually do to get out of Double/Tripple or Nothing but you might notice that the yoyo is actually doing an aditional rotation around my left index finger. In order to achieve that you have to wrap the string around your index finger an extra time during the first rotation. The motion behind that gave me a lot of trouble cause I kept hitting my right arm with the yoyo, but I think I've got it more or less down now.

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Lately I've been in a gerbil kinda mood, specifically I wanted to be able to do it faster and more fluidly.

This is about as good as I've gotten at it.

I think if I work harder I can get faster at it tho.

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My new response pads came in the mail so my yoyo is usable again.

To celebrate, here's a new trick I'm learning called the Gyroscopic Flop:

It can be set up in a bunch of ways but the easiest is through Plastic Whip, I'm told. Hence why I'm working on it this way.

It's hard to do it consistently without killing your spin. You can see that the yoyo cames back pretty slowly here, which is cause there's a lot of friction between the string and the yoyo during the whole process.

It's a real balancing act to push the string against the yoyo with enough force to rotate it, but not to strongly to make it stop spinning.

I think I'm starting to get a feel for it, but I still need to improve a lot.