The Gravity Pull is performed by holding the yo-yo palm down and releasing it, letting gravity pull the yo-yo toward the ground. Described here is the throw to the front, starting a frontstyle trick. The same things apply to a sideways throw called a Breakaway.
Before you throw, it is essential, that you hold the yo-yo correctly. The winding has to be such, that when you throw and flick your wrist, the yo-yo is flicked in the direction it wants to unwind. In the two pictures, this is counter clockwise. Step 1: Most beginners just hold out their arm, and jerk their hand downward. Do not throw the yo-yo downwards! Instead flex your arm, put your elbow up, hold the yo-yo over your shoulder and imagine throwing it at an object lying on the ground two meters six feet in front of you - that is where you should aim.
Hold the yo-yo so that it will unwind counter clockwise in our picture, i. Step 2: Now throw the yo-yo quickly, swinging it up. Yes, you heard correctly, even though this is a Throw Down , you first throw it upwards an then sling it away from you. The slinging motion is what keeps the yo-yo straight. We have all kinds of yoyos for players of all different skill levels.
We suggest that you check those out. The next type of yoyo is, you may have gotten a fixed-axle yoyo. The Lightening Yoyo , this is a wood yoyo that we carry on YoTricks, this is a fixed-axle yoyo. Any yoyo that has a wood axle, also your Butterfly yoyo, your Imperial yoyo, your inexpensive, common Duncan yoyos. Not all Duncan yoyos, but the less expensive ones that you might find at a drug store, or a grocery store, something like that. These yoyos, if you get one of these, they should be able to sleep.
A lot of times when you first get a yoyo like this it sleeps and it is just fine, and then as you are using it and as you are using it over time, all of a sudden it will just stop sleeping. What may have happened is your string may have gotten too tight. You can know if this is what happened if the string has gotten like this.
What that means is that the string has gotten wrapped so tightly around the axle that it is no longer free to spin freely. We have a trick called the UFO that you can learn that can help you loosen the string so that the yoyo can sleep again. Just like that. Another way that you can deal with a string that is too tight, especially if you are a beginner, is you can just take the yoyo right off your finger and you can just pull the string out like this and let the string hand at the bottom.
You can see it is untwisting. When you bring it back together you will see, most of those twists are out. The yoyo should be able to sleep after that. Make sure you do not get lube onto the response pads, because this can cause it to stretch out and stick out of the yoyo a little bit, and if that happens, most likely they will need to be replaced.
Unresponsive ball bearing yoyos have a sleep threshold of 10 seconds — 2 minutes or more. So, with just a drop of the yoyo it should sleep seconds no problem. With even a weak throw that is still straight, a second sleeper should be relatively easy to get as well.
If you cannot even get that much out of your yoyo there might be a problem. You can always open up the yoyo and make sure that the bearing can rotate. If it can not spin, you should try cleaning it, we have a video that shows you how to do that. If that does not fix the problem you probably need to replace the bearing.
Now, when testing the upper threshold for your yoyo, the biggest variable affecting spin time besides your own throw, is the bearing itself. What I mean by that is, if you have 10 bearings that are identical, and you tested them all, there is a pretty good chance that one of them might perform substantially better than all the others.
Maybe the balls just fit in there just right compared to the others, or it maybe has been blessed with the pixie dust of some random bearing fairy.
Who knows? The point is, when we test for the upper threshold on yoyos, we generally stop counting after about the 2 minute mark, because really, when learning tricks the maximum sleep time for a yoyo is not nearly as important as just having good technique. Even if one yoyo has a maximum threshold that is twice as high as another, if your technique is bad during tricks, the friction caused by the string pushing into the side of the yoyo will kill the spin time on each just as quickly.
Because honestly, who wants to do this all day? What is more common with unresponsive yoyos is that they are not sleeping as long as they used to. Now, this can happen if you have had a yoyo for a while, but you have never lubed the bearing. It can start to feel a little gritty and that will negatively affect spin times. Also, if you notice that sleep times have diminished after lubing your yoyo with thin yoyo lube, you may have put in a little too much. You can break in that lube in pretty fast by performing a bunch of pinwheels quickly with a lot of force.
Doing aggressive pinwheels like this for throws might solve the issue completely, and as you play with the yoyo even more it will even out the lube and work better and better. If that still does not help, even after an hour or so of play, then most likely you waaaaay over lubed the bearing. In this case, you will need to clean it.
Now, if you have an unresponsive yoyo, and it passes the Drop Test, and you can get it to sleep for at least a minute, but it is just not sleeping as long as you think it should, then that might be a different problem. To figure out what the problem is here, try putting a new string on each yoyo, and switch yoyos, doing a long sleep test.
It may be that one of you just throws better than the other. Some Yo-Yos will tolerate this if you are careful, other Yo-Yos will immediately 'bite' and freeze up. What does "on the string backwards" mean?
The string is wound around itself about 7 to 9 times per inch at neutral, depending on the type of string. That wind is directional like a one way street. If you have a sensitive touch, you can feel that the string slides more easily through your fingers from top to bottom than from bottom to top.
The Yo-Yo spinning at thousands of R. When the Yo-Yo rides on the 'Sweet Side' of the string, i. But when it is put on the string with the spin going against the grain of the string wind, you have a potential disaster. This function is actually used in the trick 'Thread the Needle' and 'The Shotgun'.
Many yoers who were trying to learn Brain Twister' from written directions were continually frustrated by unwittingly putting the Yo-Yo on the string 'backwards'. What most players don't know is that the same scenario holds true for the single strand of string that goes around the axle. This 'single' string is actually 6, 7 or 8 individual threads twisted together to form the string. It is this unidirectional twist that causes the string to wind around itself those 7 to 9 times per inch.
This unidirectional twist also creates the some type of 'grain' or 'sweet side' experienced with the doubled string. The Yo-Yo will actually spin easier and longer in one direction than the other. I have seen this phenomenon cause problems in every contest that I have ever witnessed. A contestant will 'test throw' their Yo-Yo until it sleeps and then try the trick only to have the Yo-Yo return to the hand without sleeping.
They will take another test throw and the Yo-Yo sleeps easily. Back to try the trick again and once more the Yo-Yo doesn't sleep. The trick is to throw a sleeper on the test throw, then take another test throw to put the Yo-Yo back on the 'sweet side' of the string for the attempt that counts.
When you are on the 'sweet side', the Yo-Yo not only sleeps easier and longer, but string tricks run smoother also. I actually use a bi-colored Yo-Yo and set it up so that I know which color needs to be on the right for the 'sweet side'. Remember, it's the string not the Yo-Yo so if you use this bi-color method, when you change a string and test it, you may have to remove the string and put it back on the other way to match the color you want to use as a key. It's best to always use the same color as the key so you don't have to stop and remember each time which is the 'sweet side'.
For transaxle players, the sweet side can have an effect too, but in reverse. One of the biggest problems in using a transaxle yo-yo is getting it up at times. The sweet side that makes a standard yo-yo work better will make a transaxle harder to get up Also in this vein, most transaxles can be adjusted to be more responsive by varying the number of wraps around the axle. The more wraps, the more responsive. You'll also give up some smoothness at the same time but for some tricks, it can be worth it.
The question that I get most often from advanced players is "How do you do good consistent repetitive loops? I consider the 'simple' inside loop to be in the top five hardest tricks to master. OK, here we go; 1.
Practice only good loops. The instant they wander, stop and start over. When you get really good at them, then you can correct and recover, but until then, you need to train that hand and arm to do the same right thing over and over until it becomes automatic. This is a control tilt which keeps the string in contact with the side of the yo-yo.
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