How To Do An Under Whip Yo-Yo Wrist Mount Trick

The history of the Yo-Yo is a long and sordid tale, beginning in the Philippines sometime before 500 B.C. Once possibly used as a weapon, the Yo-Yo developed into its modern form in 1866 when it was patented under the name “whirligig”. With a ridiculous name like whirligig, it's no wonder the dizzying disks didn't take. Finally given the respectable name of Yo-Yo, the children's toy achieved ridiculous heights of popularity in the 1920's and then again in the 1960's. Advances in Yo-Yo technology in the 1990's saw yet another resurgence of Yo-Yo culture, sparking the World Yo-Yo competition held annually in Florida to showcase a variety of Yo-Yo tricks. Yo-Yo's can also be seen in film and television, though most often as weapons for small, animated children.

In this free instructional video our expert will demonstrate some very advanced Yo-Yo tricks and techniques. Now that you've mastered the basics of Yo-Yoing, it's time to move on to expert tricks like the double suicide, the under whip wrist mount and the reverse trapeze tricks. Our expert will give step-by-step instructions for these Yo-Yo tricks and more in this video series. So grab your Yo-Yo and start practicing!

"So next we're going to work on some more wrist mounts. It's actually the same mount, there's three cool ways to get into it and I'm going to bring you through each one of those ways. The first way is to do an under whip, I'm going to show you what it looks like first and then we'll bring you through how to do it. So if you don't remember this is a wrist mount, this is how you normally get into your wrist mount, you usually just go over. Spirit bomb is a great trick, if you haven't learned it yet, go learn it because it's really worth learning and then you can throw these cool variations in. The first variation is if you pinch the string, I'll show you what it looks like. You throw it over and it goes over your hand, then you can actually throw the yo-yo into that and you're in a wrist mount. Looks just like that. Let me show you how to get into that now. So what you do is you pinch like I was saying, non throw hand pinches that pointer and thumb and what you do is take your throw hand and throw the string over. You don't want it to hook on the yo-yo, you actually want it to hook around your hand like so. So have your hand ready there as it's coming over to do so. So it looks like this; you throw it over and it comes right over your hand like so. Let me show you one more time. My hand is going to be here waiting for that loop to come over like that. Sometimes you actually can even reach over and hook it, so it's like that and it comes right over. Now you'll notice you have your triangle already, you've got the string coming over to the center, you'll land through to there, you're in a wrist mount and you're already to do complicated tricks like spirit bomb. One more time, it's the under whip wrist mount. It's also been referred to as a cheese whip."