How to Do the Flying Trapeze Yo-Yo Trick

If you want to advance to more intricate yo-yo tricks, you will need to practice and master the Flying Trapeze because it is part of several other complex tricks. The Flying Trapeze yo-yo trick is definitely one that will impress your audience.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

1. Throw a Breakaway. This is when you bring up your right hand up to the side by your ear and throw it to the side across your body at a 45-degree angle.

2. Hold your forefinger of your left hand out.

3. Let the yo-yo string wrap up and around the forefinger as it gets close to the end of the string.

4. Position the yo-yo so that it falls on the string onto the axel as it falls over your forefinger. It should be spinning as it hits the string.

5. Move the forefinger up so that it is even with the right hand and the yo-yo is spinning in the middle of the strings.

6. Bring up the yo-yo by pulling both hands apart, popping the yo-yo up. Pull your forefinger off the string as it goes back into your open palm, which you should have held upward at the bottom.

Tips & Warnings

• The higher you bring your arm up to your right before you throw, the slower the yo-yo will go, which will give you more time to catch the yo-yo.
• Bring your forefinger as close to the end of the yo-yo string as possible, which makes it easier to catch the yo-yo on the string.