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.
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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)
duncan metal drifter does not even do the trapeze.
I WISH I HAD A SLEEPER YOYO!
why does my yoyo come up even when i dont tug it up
That is cool, I wish I could do that.
If the yoyo isnt more than $15.00, then dont buy it. Those cheapo yoyos cant even do the simplest sleeper.
To: everyone that cant do even a sleeper.
Dont get yoyos from wallgreens! Get a duncan metal drifter or a dark magic 2 or any other butterfly yoyos that has metal things on the side.
I just bought a Duncan ProYo. Works great for a begginer like me!
I use a yomega saber raider
Well I use a Duncan Metal Drifter, and so far its the best yoyo I have ever gotten.
I once got a yoyo from wall greens and it did not work at all
My favorite yoyo is the yomega brain it works so well
i konw how to do all of them ther 2 esey
i can do that p.s sonic boom Yo-Yos are the best!!!
easy
haha! this dude goes to my church! he taght me how to do some of that stuff personally last summer!
That’s cool
that’s so cool
im practiceing looping with a peter fish dominater yoyo
He should go on AGT!
GROOVY
how does the yoyo come back up even though it looks like it stopped spinning? i did that and it wouldnt come back up it was stopped
i am thinking about getting the 0 – YoYoJam Fiesta XX Bryan Figueroa Signature Series #17161 . Wat do u think?!?
I think you should it works great
when the yo-yo gets to the bottem don,t jerk it just gentle raise your hand up
I LOVE YO-YOS!
cool