Training list for yoyo players

[Adam Brewster]

EDIT:
After 4.25 hours of work tonight, I finally made this into something useful... here ya go folks:

Some of you may have seen when I posted this a loooooong time ago in another forum... but it's been a while... and it's not over here yet... so I thought I'd bring it over.
I also updated it a litttttttle bit from what was originally posted, but I think it should do the job.

the 2 sub-lists (List 1-B and list 2-B) are some easier tricks to work on if you're having a hard time with some of the tricks on the regular list, so that way you can keep practicing and learning new stuff, and not just do the same stuff over and over again.

ALSO
If you can't do everything on list 1... don't let that stop you from trying to learn stuff from list 2.

If you can't do everything on list 3... don't let that stop you from trying to learn stuff on list 4... you get the idea.

feel free to email me or ask me anytime you've got questions about any of these tricks...

I think if people work at this fairly regularly that they could be up to list 4 within a year quite easily.

And REMEMBER! this is just sort of a vague guideline as to where to get some ideas when you want to learn a trick and aren't really sure what to learn next.
This is in no way comprehensive, or official... or anything special.

This list isn't much... but one thing this list IS though... is old.
All these tricks are a good 3-4 or more years old.

WALK OFF THE MAP A LITTLE! don't let this list in any way restrict you... it's just there to give you some ideas of mounts, transitions, and nifty things you can do w/ a yoyo.


FORMAT:
- 4 lists + 2 sublists

- notes marked by *, **, or ***, (full notes at the end of the list)

- If a trick has 2 links, usually the first is a text description or illustration, and the 2nd is a video. (some exceptions - most at the top of the list)

- this list is kind of old now and as such many of the original links (where I learned the tricks originally) have expired and are now replaced by links provided in from the “wayback machine” as such, these links may prove troublesome - I hope not though.

- Also take note of the links… many of the pages have links to lots more tricks than what are provided here in the list… bookmark them and visit them later to learn even more!!


List 1 - A:
1. Throw 1
2. Front Mount***
3. Bottom Mount***
4. Front Mount Bind*** (note: front mount bind is just a variation of the “dave bind” not performed side style)
5. Trapeze***
6. Somersaults***
7. Trapeze bind somersault style***
8. Double or nothing 2
9. Split Bottom Mount 2
10. Mach 5 fronts 2
11. Triple or nothing
12. Houdini drop hold*** 2 - just the first step/mount
13. Wrist Mount - just the first few steps and the dismount
14. Drop In the Bucket
15. Drop In the Bucket then hop to back string, into Green Triangle - no link

List 1 - B: (struggler's/supplemental list)
1. Rock the Baby
2. Eiffel Tower
3. Two-Handed Star
4. Dizzy Baby
5. Around the World
6. Pinwheels
7. Split The Atom  2
8. Braintwister  2
9. Dr. Strange*** 2
10. Ripcord 2

List 2 - A:
1. The Matrix 2
2. Trap Door***
3. Houdini pop into mach 5 side style - just the first few steps
4. Red Clover Hop into Houdini drop
5. Rewind 2
6. Absolute Zero
7. Kwijibo 2
8. Mondial
9. Pop 'N' Fresh 2
10. White Buddha * 2
11. Cold Fusion * 2
12. String Twister
13. Plastic Whip
14. Iron Whip ** 2
15. Suicide ** 2

List 2 - B: (struggler's/supplemental list)
1. Magic Drop * 2  3
2. Trap Tower
3. Ripcord II. a.k.a. Wormhole 2
4. Buddha's Revenge 2
5. Magic Drop Hanging Whip * - windows media Quicktime
6. Eli hops 2
7. Boomerang 1-2-3-2-1
8. Leg Wrap Trapeze *
9. Boingy Boingy * 2
10. Skin The Gerbil * 2

List 3:
1. Rice Burn 2
2. Spirit Bomb * 2
3. Kamikaze * 2 3
4. Double On Suicide (steps 4-6) [url=http://www.yo-yo.org/stringsattached/yoyo/tricks/suicide.html]then do this 2
5. Laceration * (the bad way) Vs. Laceration ***(the good way)
SIDENOTE: A true laceration starts in a mount, (never from just a sleeper) throws slack to create a loop which is then caught. (much like a suicide) If your “laceration” looks almost anything like the first video… it’s wrong. You don’t start from a sleeper, and you don’t “chop” into the mount, you catch it. Thank you.
6. Double/Triple/Quadruple Plastic Whip (often called one-handed lacerations) but add rotations a la Brent D., Alex B., John N., etc.
7. Reverse Whips But change the direction of the whip (clockwise/counter-clockwise depending on which hand you use)
8. Red Clover (right handed) lefty   3
9. Under Whips
10. Porcelain Whips
11 Reverse Suicides or click here (except clockwise vs. counter-clockwise - unless a lefty)
12. Hitchhiker * 2
13. Suicide to 1.5 mount
14. Pepto Bismol * (right-handed) lefty   3
15. Yuuki's Slack

List 4 - The Good Stuff:
1. Yellow Airplanes  2
2. Orange Tulips (right-handed)   lefty 3***
3. Pure 143 * 2
4. Breath (right-handed) lefty   illustration     video
5. Rancid Milk 2
6. And Whut? * And while it’s not labeled as “And Whut” it is available in a video here
7. Seasick 2
8. White Buddha 2nd Generation 2
9. Superman 2
10. Havoc - video only


*'s are for tricks that are easy to get and hard to master. keep practicing.
Although, it should be said that this was only for me... in all reality, ANY trick will be easy with enough practice... I think it just might be that these are some of the ones I wound up practicing a whole lot...
You may do  just as well to ignore the *

The **'s are tricks in which their hardness has been hyped.

The ***’s are links to bigger clip videos and include more than JUST the trick mentioned in the link

Final notes:

List 2 might seem really hard when you're a total newbie... but don't give up... try it and you'll be surprised as to what you can pull off!

List 4 has some stuff that's just plain hard.
the insta-mount for Havoc and all of Breath in general still give me trouble to this day.

Have fun everyone!

[NenMaster]

ok, i will try and get all these tricks learnt

nice list 

[Pat_Cuartero]

niiiiiiiiiiice

i'll follow your path since you rock so much

[Adam Brewster]

psh-aw..

If I do actually rock, it's only 'cause i try to be like you Pat!!

But thanks for doing that!
It means a lot to know that I could influence you that much!

[jakep]

I know almost all the trick on lists 1 and 2, but does anyone know where I can find  vids of the tricks on lists 3 and 4?

[MOyo]

cough*sticky*cough

[Darkheie]

This is a very nice guide you wrote here! It would be even better if you had a link to a ws that showed a video...But thanks anyways, I guess I'll go practice these tricks!

[yomaniac009]

I like the lists and can do one or two on List 4.  Still, how do i go about finding the vids for those tricks?

[Adam Brewster]

it's been updated - yay-ness and such

[Sottle]

And good work shall be rewarded.

Thou hast been stickied.

Two comments.

1. List 3, trick 5....I love you.

2. Can you remove the "these tricks have been hyped" part? I don't think it's really neccesary. I mean a lot of people do have a lot more trouble with Iron Whips and suicides than the other tricks in the same list, especially to get consistently. So that's not really hype is it, it's just a general opinion.

[weber]

Adam!! I haven't forgotten about you! I'll finish up the page soon!

[Nick]

I just noticed that if you change the link to the Web Archive service that is used in the link for the Havoc video to just http://web.archive.org/web/20040514054828/phalanx.spindox.org/ then it takes you to an archive of the whole Phalanx site. If you follow the link to "Videos" it has videos for a load of tricks that I've been struggling to find videos for, i.e. 7 of Spades, Wonder Woman, Enigma, etc...
So much to learn, so little time!
Enjoy.
Nick.

[Doubleyou]

Nick you are so awesome!! Thank you for linking us to these tricks!

[Adam Brewster]

Sottle, Thanks - the whole laceration thing really shouldn't be THAT important to me, but that's how pet peeves go right? haha.

I also just sorta made an addendum on the note for the * instead...

Weber, I didn't doubt it for a second... I'm not too concerned right now either I mean, it's not until june 3rd haha.

Nick, Thanks for pointing that out to everyone, I tried to highlight that fact in the message that goes with the list, but it does get kinda wordy after a bit and seeing as that link only goes to the one trick it'd be easier to overlook.

Lastly, thanks to everyone for the words of encouragement.
Let me know if there are any problems with any of the links or anything like that.
--Adam

[Paul]

all the links i try to use are dead (in the last list, i know basically the other lists)

[Adam Brewster]

hmm, it looks like one of my "friends" from school went in logged in as me and edited some of the links - you'll see that a lot of them have the word "bacon" in the link.

I'm kinda p.o.ed right now.
I'll try and re-find the right links and replace 'em.

sorry this happened guys.

I don't even know how it happened.
EDIT:
Hmm... it looks like (as far as I can tell) that the word "bacon" might be a censor for the word "yoyoing"?? no guarantees it will work for every link, but as far as I can tell, that's the common denominator.

[jojoyam]

Yes. Replace "bacon" with "yoyoing" as needed.
Nice work Obadiah, I was going through it as a checklist and I'm up to the middle of list 3 right now. Thanks! 

[weber]

Alright sorry bout this - going to take off the censor!

[Adam Brewster]

No worries!
As a mod on an other board, I understand the protocol quite easily.
thanks though!

[David_Ung]

'cause it's censored, and the site is a jojoing.com site. So it turns jojoing.com into bacon.