Kwyjibo

07/31/2009

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Tricks referenced in this tutorial
Trapeze           Eli Hops          Cross-Arm Trapeze          Double or Nothing
About this trick
It might take a bit for you to understand where your hands are supposed to go after each hop, but keep at it, it'll click.

Also, for the first hop, grab the string going from your throwhand middle finger to the yoyo with all four of your throwhand fingers except for your index.  This will help keep it out of the way when you're trying to land the Cross-Arm Trapeze
 


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rashed link
08/25/2010 3:29pm

sick tuts man keep them up

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Kyle link
08/29/2010 11:21pm

Thanks man, I'll try. :)

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Nick70
03/06/2011 11:42am

Hi Kyle, I guess what's missing in this tutorial is different angles and slow motion for the second hop, which seems to be by far the hardest part. You make it look so simple, but I stopped counting the kinds of different knots that I managed to make :-)

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Kyle link
03/10/2011 9:14am

Hey Nick,
Yeah, sorry about that. My older tutorials really are not up to the level of quality I'd like. I'd love to be able to change them, but unfortunately there's no way to add anymore clips to the video when it's already online, as you probably know. In the past, I've thought about remaking some of the older tuts that need a bit of help, but it'd be a big project and I'm a little short on time these days. We'll see where things go.

If you'd like, send me a contact form submission under "Contact" in the navigation bar. I can give you a bit of help through that.

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taylor
03/17/2011 7:25pm

Kyle, dude you make this trick look so smooth its sick its like magic lol! thx for making these tuts. :)

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Kyle link
03/24/2011 10:32am

haha, thank you Taylor! Oh, and you're welcome. :)

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Mike
03/27/2011 11:24pm

Its all a matter of practice, if you've been practicing Black Hops, or just working on hopping from trapeze to trap and bro, to double or not, to triple or not and then back(Black Hops), the second hop is not too bad.
Just put this all together tonight,I had been practicing different elements of it for a bit.
One little note,first pop, I pop from trapeze and catch like Kyle, but then roll CCW into a 1.5 and then spread my hands apart, pop, into the double or not.
Its the same movements, just a bit different way to think of it(credit where due: I learned that first bit from Gerard Amento).
Now I just gotta get is sikly smooth like you Kyle.
Thanks as always.

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Kyle link
03/30/2011 12:30pm

lol Mike, I still can't do Black Hops... if you can do it, then Kwyji shouldn't be an issue for you at all! But yeah, that is actually a good way to think of it. Gerard is a major reason I make tutorials these days. It was inspiring for me to see just a regular player teaching so many people... so I figured, why shouldn't I?

Anyway, keep learning, Mike, you seem to really be soaking it in. :)

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Nick70
04/03/2011 5:51am

Wow, after lots of practice on the second hop, I closed this trick at last!

The crucial thing for me was to pull the string on the index finger of the FH to the base of the finger, and to open the thumb of the TH, in order to move the string out of the way. This helped me hit the single string and land on DoN instead of always landing on two strings as I was doing before...

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Curt
08/17/2011 11:27pm

I've been trying to do this trick for weeeeeekkksss. After watching ur vid ONCE I finally picked up how to do that first hop and finished the trick in a few hours.

Thanks a bunch

P.S.
I've been trying to watch ur vids for a while and for some reason I couldn't...upgraded flash player today and VOILA. Thanks again

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