Venturer Alex Curfman, now 20, is a yo-yo expert. He practices 10 or more hours a week and has excelled at tournaments. At the 2009 World Yo-Yo Championships, he broke the record for the longest Shoot the Moon, a complicated looping trick.
Here are some step-by-step instructions from Alex on how to do five yo-yo tricks. Take a look, and then check out the July 2011 issue of Boys’ Life magazine to find out more.
SLEEPER
1. Hold the yo-yo in your hand, palm up, with the string wrapping over the top of the yo-yo.
2. Bend your elbow with the yo-yo near your ear, elbow pointing forward.
3. Unbend your arm and roll the yo-yo off the tips of your fingers. Snapping your wrist creates more spin.
4. Let the yo-yo reach the end of the string and pause for a few seconds, then with a tug, return the yo-yo to your hand.
ROCK THE BABY
1. Throw a sleeper. With your opposite hand, pinch the string midway down the string and raise your opposite hand.
2. Pinch the string with your throw hand a few inches above the yo-yo.
3. Bring your throw hand back above your opposite hand, spreading the fingers of your opposite hand to form a triangle with the string.
4. Swing the yo-yo back and forth inside the triangle.
BREAKAWAY
1. Hold the yo-yo the same way you would to perform a sleeper, but point your elbow to the side of your body.
2. Throw the yo-yo straight out to the side.
3. Let the yo-yo swing down in front of your body and up to the opposite shoulder.
4. Return the yo-yo to your hand.
BRAIN TWISTER
1. Throw a sleeper.
2. Place your opposite index finger against the string between you and the string.
3. Push your index finger away from you while you move your throw hand between you and your other hand.
4. Bring your throw hand under and then in front of the yo-yo, threading the string into the gap of the yo-yo.
5. Perform a somersault with the yo-yo by pushing your throw hand into the strings and pulling down with your opposite hand. Repeat three or more times.
6. Return the yo-yo to a sleeper, then back to your hand.
Trapeze
1. Throw a breakaway.
2. As the yo-yo passes in front of your body, place your opposite index finger on top of the string as close to the yo-yo as possible.
3. Allow the yo-yo to loop around your finger and land on the string underneath it.
5. Pull your extended finger out of the string and return the yo-yo to your hand.
i can do all those tricks
those tricks are easy
SWEAT!!!!!!
I have 5 yomega yo-yos and I can do trapeze, double trapeze, brain twister, boing boing, hot potato, and I can also do three yo-yo tricks that I made up, they’re called static, switchninja, and bolas.
it was awesome
I like all the tricks except my own.
i dont care about yoyos im just looking for pedro
me to
me three
awesome
its the best yo yo trick ever
i have a butterfly yoyo by duncan,the one i got 2 years ago sleeped all the time…..my new one will not SLEEP!!!!!! WHY??????
Ur Yoyo won’t sleep because it doesn’t have a bearing, get the YOYO FACTORY VELOCITY
I have some yomega yoyos and I know brain twister,trapeze,and lotes more tricks but you are probably beter than me, but I practice every day for 1hour.
they r so hard lol lol lol lol lol lol
i have a cheap toy yoyo so it dosent work :C
thanks for telling me how to do the brain twister
sweet
SWEET!
i can’t do that i dont no why!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:(
wow bro
easiest tricks ever i learned these when i was 6
I learned these tricks when I was 5!
super COOL!
for all those that say trapeze is way to hard it is (in my opinion) the hardest trick here but it just takes practise (even i get it maybe 1 out of 10 times) and for all those saying easy well these are supposed to be easy
awsome!!! cool! I like it
wow
Yeah WOW!
now where is my yo-yo?
all of the tricks are easy especially the trapeze
that’s so easy I can do all of them in my sleep.
wow you can do all those tricks?
crazy~!!!!
THANKS FOR THE TRICK! I LIKE THE VIDEO!:)
to hard… TO HARD!!!
way to hard i tried 100 times trapeze is way to hard
most of the tricks are easy except the trapeze i tried like 100 times and the trapeze is way to hard
the trapeze is super hard
I got this rielly cheep yoyo that lights up and it broke right away!(even when I just did rockaby baby)