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This trick is called Slack Trapeze, and it looks like this.
Just like that. Slack Trapeze, what you are going to do to start is just get the yoyo
onto the Trapeze, and then just hop right back off. Then you are going to pinch the
string right here which is going to open up all this slack to swing over your wrist. You
can pinch that any way that you like. You can pinch that in-between your two fingers,
you can use your thumb and your middle finger, your thumb and your first finger, whatever
works for you.
Once you pinch the string, then you will swing the string over your wrist and hopefully get
it into the groove of the yoyo. When you do that, when you swing the string across - obviously
you are going to have these two strings right here - you want to swing the outside string
into the groove of the yoyo. As you swing it there is going to be some momentum, and
that momentum - if you hit the yoyo - will actually carry it right under, and at just
the right time you need to release the yoyo so that it falls (into the string). That timing
can be a little bit tricky to get used to at first.
As you are working on the trick, there are a couple of things that will make it a little
bit easier to hit. First of all, when you swing the string across, you do it in a big,
kind of a slow motion. That will allow the string to have time to catch up and then get
down under into the groove of the yoyo. The other thing is you want to start with your
hands pretty much equal distance from your body. You are going to want to end up with
your yoyo hand a little bit behind your opposite hand. What that will do is it will allow the
string to drape just over your wrist. That will separate the strings so that both of
them do not go into the groove of the yoyo.
Once you have the string in the groove of the yoyo and you have allowed it to fall back
down, then you will need to get the yoyo to come back around into the Trapeze. What you
do to accomplish that is you are going to swing the yoyo over both of your hands, like
this, and that is going to get you into your Trapeze. What you don't want to do is you
don't want to swing it just over your opposite hand. What that will do is it will put a wrap
around the bearing. The yoyo won't actually be in a Trapeze, even though you might think
it is. To keep that from happening, again, you just bring your hands together and allow
the yoyo to go around both, and that will open up back into a Trapeze.
Just like any slack trick this takes a lot of finesse, it takes a lot of discipline to
get everything just right. Another thing that really helped me out when I was working on
perfecting this trick, is I would take my yoyo hand and I would start palm up. As I
whip I actually turn my palm over, and that seems to get a little more action out of the
string, it gets a little bit more motion. As you are practicing the trick you will find
different things that work for you. Keep remembering those and focussing on it and eventually you
will be able to get it almost 100%.
That is Slack Trapeze.