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Archives for November 10, 2013

Fixed Friday: Mystical

November 10, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Welcome to Fixed Sunday! Sincerest apologies on the lateness, but we’re back with your weekly dose of fixed axle features. Before we get into the column, I’d like to call a little attention to two great recent entries to the fixie canon, Alex Curfman’s “One-Hand Wonder” clip and Ed Haponik’s “Mystic Dumps” trick. On with the show!

This week has a mix of concepts, but is intended to be a follow-up to my “Mystics” clip for LSFC last week, so you might want to check that out also. Before we get into the tech-y stuff, though… foot start to bucket stall! Preloading a mount and then propelling a dead yo-yo into it with your foot is a fun trick to add to your arsenal, simply because it’s one of the rare moves that’s easier to perform while sitting down.

The second trick in the video is what we’re calling a “mystic”, a gentle cousin to the kickflip transition and the dumptruck. The basic idea behind a mystic is to swing a stalled yo-yo off-plane so that it is turned upside-down and dumped onto another string. It seems like a fairly logical followup to dumptruck dismounts, but planebreaking transitions are still fairly unexplored terrain, so while traces of the trick were floating around there wasn’t really a name for it until Ed put out “Mystic Dumps”. This trick sums up the concept of flipping from one mount to another very succintly while simultaneously paying tribute to Paul Escolar’s classic magic drop trick, and I highly recommend learning it.

Having said that… I personally find mystic dumps a lot harder than the trick in this video, which is a mystic from a double or nothing stall to an inverted trapeze stall, so if you have a hard time sticking the landing on Ed’s try this one out. Throw a double or nothing stall, and then swing the whole formation forward as though you were going to kickflip or dumptruck out of it. As the yo-yo gets to be about horizontal, curl your non-throwhand finger and point both your hands in towards your body to guide the yo-yo onto the back string. This transition takes a little time to get the feeling of, but is a great way to mix up your stall transitions.

If you’ve already advanced past both mystic dumps and 2or0 mystics, trick #3 might amuse you: it uses the same chopsticks truck as my first trick in DCUS Chillin’, but lands on the string instead of dismounting, which somehow sets up a reverse GT stall. Trippy! Ten points to the first person to kickflip a reverse GT…

The trick at 30 seconds is a fun, silly whip. If you’ve been looking to get into stall whips but don’t know where to start, this one features a fairly easy setup and a nice delay before the landing. It opens with a 2or0 stall, followed by a dunk, which sets a ripcord up on the string for the whip. Take your non-throwhand finger out of the loop and whip the string around your throwhand into the gap… which is conveniently held in place with your free hand, because stalls let you do that. I enjoy this trick because it’s based off of the modern 1A grind/whip formula, but the “grind” portion is actually made much easier by stalls.

Next in line is another technical mystic, this time based on an old Jason Lee chopsticks combo (referenced also in Imperialism.) The opening sequence can be a little confusing: mount trapeze stall, and cross the string over your thumb as you dismount, which creates a wrap around your thumb as you mount a trapeze-bro stall. This trick departs from the other combos when you mount back in a stall over your thumb, at which point you swing back to the back string (as in 2or0 mystics) and then perform a second mystic onto the middle string, which puts you in that weird “i’m not actually a bucket” mount. My personal favorite thing to do upon landing a stall in this mount is actually another Jason Lee masterpiece, “wiggly thing”, though my wiggles aren’t as clean as his… but you can also dismount or do whatever.

The final combo is a recent favorite, “Boyfriendcat loves Sea Glass.” It opens with a pinwheel that lets me launch vertically before a 2or0 chopsticks stall, which adds a nice touch of drama. Dismounting to behind the head zines and then cross-armed 1.5 stall is a bread & butter combo for me, but it gets spiced up a bit when it’s swung upwards and pushed out into a horizontal pinwheel, naturally continued into a UFO. The benefit of launching from a 1.5 instead of a trapeze is that the string is naturally set up for a whip, and I put my concentration face on to catch the UFO in a horizontal whip… phew!

Anyways, that’s it for this week. Thanks for letting me be late. Beat’s available to download free on my Soundcloud. Go watch Mystics. Okay.

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: butterfly, drew tetz, Duncan, featured, fixed axle, fixed friday, mystics

Best of 2013 Czech Nationals

November 10, 2013 By Steve Brown

Jirka Klíma put together a nice “best of” clip from the freestyles at the 2013 Czech National YoYo Contest…dig in and enjoy this highlight reel!

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: czech national yoyo contest, Czech Republic, video

YoYoExpert Throwdown Contest Results

November 10, 2013 By Steve Brown

YoYoExpert ThrowDown Contest Results

We’ve got full results from the recent YoYoExpert “Throwdown” contest. Looks like a simple freestyle contest format, broken down by age groups. Congrats to Caleb Steiniger, Gabe Carter-Weidenfeld, Andrew Maider, and Michael Ferdico for taking home top honors in their divisions!

Age 10 and Under Division

Players Name Age  Overall Score Place
Carter-Weidenfeld, Gabe 10 34.13 1st
Cirincione-Lynch, Riley 10 25.01 2nd
Callan, Max 10 21.01 3rd
Ostrowski, Dylan 10 14.05 4th
Marshall, Jonathan 10 13.14 5th
Sipper, Larson 10 12.58 6th
Hammarlund, Shiloh 10 11.71 7th
Wagenheim, Aaron 10 7.89 8th

Age 11 to 17

Players Name Age  Overall Score Place
Maider, Andrew 15 96.62 1st
Mccallumore, Tylor 16 81.98 2nd
Devalpine, Nick 12 65.69 3rd
Kapinos, Doug 15 61.28 4th
Couture, Jason 13 55.40 5th
Baskin, Remy 11 44.03 6th
Wingell, Micah 11 43.73 7th
Lesser, Josh 13 43.49 8th
Munson, Louis 15 41.67 9th
Finch, Aaron 17 37.52 10th
Shields, Kevin 12 24.87 11th
Rice, Glenn 11 24.78 12th
Fuller, Jack 13 22.37 13th
Bauzile, Michael 13 21.73 14th
Winsor, Jordy 11 20.97 15th
Martin, Alex 12 19.85 16th
Federici, Anthony 15 18.53 17th
Von, Luke 16 18.19 18th
O’donnell, Shane 13 14.31 19th
Shannon, Liam 15 14.24 20th

Age 18 and Up

Players Name Age  Overall Score Place
Ferdico, Mike 19 85.15 1st
Sharib, Benji 22 67.89 2nd
Hodgkinson, Donald 18 59.51 3rd
Bein, Ethan 18 47.68 4th
Giroux, Matt 37 38.30 5th
Gumlaw, Nick 26 36.53 6th
Lord, Adam 39 29.12 7th
Gill, Biran 37 12.79 8th
Briney, Russ 33 7.74 9th

Also – Congratulations to Caleb Steiniger for taking home 1st place in the Beginner 10 and Under Division!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: Andrew Maider, Caleb Steiniger, contest results, Gabe Carter-Weidenfeld, Michael Ferdico, throw down, yoyoexpert

2013 Czech Nationals – Open & 5A Winners Video *UPDATED*

November 10, 2013 By Steve Brown

**Updated with 3rd – 5th Place videos in the 5A Division**

We already posted video of the 1A winners…now we’ve got video from the Open and 5A (counterweight) division of the 2013 Czech National YoYo Contest. Thanks to Slusny for getting this video up…no word on when they’ll have the rest of the 5A division uploaded, but we’ll add them to this post as soon as we see them.

1st Place – Open Freestyle – Carlos Braun

2nd Place – Open Freestyle – Grzegorz Wojcik

3rd Place – Open Freestyle – Kentaro Kimura

4th Place – Open Freestyle – Jan Hlinka

5th Place – Open Freestyle – Yixing Tan

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1st Place – 5A Freestyle  – David Molnar

2nd Place – 5A Freestyle – Petr Kavka

3rd Place – 5A Freestyle – Maciej Cwynar

4th Place – 5A Freestyle – Petr Mika

5th Place – 5A Freestyle – Jan Novotny

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2013 czech nationals, 5A, open, video

Greg Kennedy – Four Magnetic Squares

November 10, 2013 By Steve Brown

If you enjoyed Greg’s proof-of-concept video with two magnetic squares, you’ll dig his next evolution of the concept using four of his self-designed and built magnetic props.

Filed Under: Skill Toys Tagged With: greg kennedy, juggling, magnetic squares

Duncan Crew Worldwide 2013 – Chapter 2

November 10, 2013 By Steve Brown

Duncan Toys has released their second Duncan Crew Worldwide video, showing off the talents of their international roster of talent. This second volume features David Bolgarfalvy, Maya Nakamura, Sean Perez, Chris Makita, Mimi Makita, Ondra Sedivy, Adam Hříbal, Alif Izwan, János Karancz, and Gergő Domonkos.

If you missed it, check out the first one here: Duncan Crew Worldwide Chapter 1.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: Adam Hříbal, Alif Izwan, Chris Makita, David Bolgarfalvy, duncan crew, duncan toys, Gergő Domonkos, janos karancz, Maya Nakamura, Mimi Makita, ondra sedivy, sean perez, video

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