Side Maneuver

Practice this move to help hone your trapeze skills. This picture is shown as if you were looking in a mirror.

Step 1

Start with a trapeze mount. Once mounted, turn your right hand so it is pointing you. You may have to bend your elbow.

 

Step 2

The picture to the right shows the right hand yo-yo finger pointing towards you (remember, this trick is shown as if you were looking in a mirror. So your right hand is shown as the left hand in the picture. Confusing, I know -- but only for text descriptions.). Now move your right hand in the direction of the arrow: over your left hand.

Step 3

You will now be in this position. Although I did not draw it, your right arm would be going in front of the strings hanging down. Now, move your right hand in the direction indicated by the blue arrow.

 

Step 4

Don't be intimidated by the picture. All you are going to do is a somersault by pushing your right hand pointer finger against the mess of hangings strings. When doing this somersault, however, just give the yo-yo a push and let it flip over.

 In this picture you see the right hand to the left of the left hand. When you end, you want the right hand to the right of the left hand. This sounds confusing but its not. Just think of it as "I want to flip the yo-yo to the other side of my right hand."

Preform the flip of the yo-yo by using your right pointer finger and following the blue arrows.

 

Step 5

You will now be in a trapeze position with your wrist bent towards you.

 

Step 6

Stick your pointer finger out on your left hand. Now it is time to roll the yo-yo out into a reverse one and a half mount. Move your left hand down and to the left. This is shown by the blue arrow.

 

Step 7

The yo-yo should begin to roll out and follow a path similar to that of the orange arrow.

 

Step 8

The yo-yo will wrap around your left hand pointer finger. At this point you may retract your middle finger on your left hand. The yo-yo should continue circling until it touches the red string segment as indicated by the orange arrows.

 

Step 9

 The yo-yo will continue finishing the reverse one and a half mount and stop where the x is. To make room for the yo-yo's landing, you may have to move your left hand closer to your right hand.

 

Step 10

Now you are in the reverse one and a half mount. You can now make your right hand face forward instead of pointing at you (green arrow on the picture is meant to make you take note your hand is facing away now). Move your right hand (the one with the green arrow) in the direction of the blue arrow until you are prssing up against the strings.

 

Step 11

Now, you are going to perform a somersault. This one will go the opposite direction of the last one. The concept is the same though. You want your hand to end on the opposite side of where it started by flipping the yo-yo over the hand. Do this flip by pushing against the string in the direction of the blue arrows. Stop at the blue X.

 

Step 12

You should now be in this position. You can make your right hand face away from you again.

Note - at this position, your arms are crossed.

 

Step 13

Now you are going to roll out the yo-yo. Start this rolling by moving your left hand in the direction of the blue arrow. Please note that your hands are crossed so if you are confused by the picture then just naturally dismount. This is basically the end of the trick.

 

Step 14

The yo-yo will roll out and you are done...well, maybe. If you want to, you can repeat this trick over by sticking out your middle finger, then rolling out to a trapeze and going back to Step 1.