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Fixed Friday: Dumptrucks

January 4, 2013 By Drew Tetz

First Fixed Friday of the year! Is anybody gonna spend 2013 throwing only fixed axle yo-yos? If you’re anything like me you’ve already screwed it up with sweet, sweet metal, but hey, it’s Friday, so let’s get back to our roots and toss the bearings aside.

Rather than teaching a roots trick, though, I’d like to show you another new school original concept. This week’s trick is called Dumptrucks; it first appeared as trick #300 in the 2012 365yoyotricks lineup, and is a simple yet surprisingly versatile stall dismount. It could be best described as a z-axis half-swing that dismounts the yo-yo while resetting spin direction, but frankly that’s a lot of jargon and it’s a lot easier to just watch the trick. Check it out!

Okay, now that you actually know what it looks like, lets break some of those buzzwords down. First off, this trick moves on the z-axis: most conventional yo-yo tricks happen while the yo-yo is spinning, which means that the spin is keeping the yo-yo stable. This is great, because eli hops would be a whole lot harder with the yo-yo floppin’ around all over the place, but you do start to get used to the idea that yo-yos stay in one plane, and most of us take for granted that we have to build all of our tricks on a single plane. Of course, nobody told Christopher Chia that, but we’ll leave the horizontal tech talk for later. The z-axis is relevant in this context because stalls stop the yo-yo from spinning, effectively “unlocking” the axis, so you can just swing that guy around, do flips, off-axis suicides, whatever.

Next up, “half-swing”. Once you’re in a trapeze stall, it’s possible to just swing the yo-yo around like an off-axis somersault. I don’t think that there’s really a name for this, so I just call them “swings”. This hasn’t led to too many useful tricks (so far), since it just starts you back where you started from, but the half-swing is interesting – basically, when the yo-yo is at the top of the swing, it’s in an upside-down trapeze. If you push out a bit and let gravity dismount the yo-yo, that’s a dumptruck!

The final portion of dumptruck tricks is remounting the yo-yo on the string, usually in a similar stall that you dismounted from. In our past two installments, when we dismounted out of our stalls the yo-yo was spinning the opposite direction, which meant that if we wanted to re-stall it would have to be on the opposite side of the string. Not so with dumptrucks! Swinging the yo-yo and dismounting halfway actually means that the yo-yo flips, which means that the yo-yo will be spinning the same direction it was before you mounted the stall. This can be really useful as a transition move in stall combos, because it lets you break out of that “left side, right side, left side, right side” rhythm or move into other more technical stall tricks. It also just feels really cool, so, you know. Learn it! Once you get the basic trapeze dumptruck down, it’s easy to start applying it to different mounts and from different setups. One thing that I’ve been messing with lately is trying to do them out of gorilla style/inverted trapeze. Learn it, use it, tell everybody about your new moves in the Fixed Friday Facebook group.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What implication does z-axis movement hold for string tricks? Is there gonna be a new weird wave of genuine string transition moves based around swings? Could half-swings solve the spin direction “problem” keeping stalls out of competitive 1A play? When Sisqo said “Dumps like a truck, what what” in “The Thong Song”, did he really think that that was a quality compliment? I mean, c’mon dude.

Also, as a little bit of bonus theory, did everybody see that awesome Yoyojam Theory video with Ben, Grant, and Yoshi? While the whole thing is incredible, Ben’s amazing flip trick at 37 seconds is especially applicable to fixie tricks – who’s gonna be the first to work that into a stall combo?

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Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: 1A, butterfly, drew tetz, dumptrucks, fixed friday, stall, trick theory, Yo-Yo

Comments

  1. Spencer Berry says

    January 4, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    Using the z-axis to pre-flip your wind is utter genius yet seemed obvious once I wrapped my mind around it.

    Drew, these are the moves that are bringing fixed axle back to the forefront. I’m not sure it is a “fix” to any kind of problem with spin direction – but it certainly is a worthy addition to the stall repertoire.

    This kind of next level fundamental keeps the future mysterious and proves that innovation is not dead . Fixed axle is no longer a novelty handicap for the elite to show off their badassery – but a genuine division of yoyoing that writes its own rules.

    • Drew Tetz says

      January 4, 2013 at 3:01 pm

      one of the great things about fixed axle is what an equalizer it is; by shortening the spin time, you’re knocked down to the foundational level. while this seems limiting at first, it’s led to the discovery of new tricks that could be performed on any yo-yo (but just happen to be easier with old school responsive cruiser dudes.)
      i think you’re right on the money with the “novelty handicap” observation. while i personally would just classify most of the new school moves as 1A tricks rather than some sort of new breed unique to fixies, playing to these specific limitations has opened up avenues less likely to present themselves with bearings.

Trackbacks

  1. Fixed Friday: Huh? Wha? - YoYoNews says:
    April 19, 2013 at 10:25 am

    […] starts stalled in a double or nothing, but you flip your hands back (as though you were performing dumptrucks) and let the yo-yo fall back onto what used to be the top string. In the video, I follow it up with […]

  2. Fixed Friday: Sidewinders - YoYoNews says:
    February 7, 2013 at 11:59 pm

    […] example of how sidewinders can be executed into and out of string trick combos. Pairing it with dumptrucks is nice, because the flip effectively sets you up with a straight throw that can be regenerated and […]

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