How To Do The Matrix Yo-Yo Trick

Video Transcript

"The next trick we're going to teach you is called the matrix. This is a great trick. It's going to be your first full-length string trick. In my opinion, it takes a little more practice, but it's worth it. Let me show you what it looks like. The matrix actually starts with a double or nothing. You drop, roll, and swing back into double or nothing. With practice, you just put this all together and it looks like a really cool trick. You could do this for a while and people are going to be impressed. What you do is you start with a double or nothing. If you didn't learn double or nothing, go back and learn. You actually dismount from double or nothing like so back into trapeze. Instead of getting out of trapeze, actually from trapeze you go over your throw hand pointer finger, so watch. This is kind of weird, but go over you throw hand pointer, and you come back into double or nothing. We can even practice that separate. Start from trapeze. You go over your throw hand pointer finger and swing it into double or nothing. That's the first step. Try learning that part, and then you can throw it all together. Come over like that. Try it again. From trapeze, you come around, roll over like that into double or nothing, drop and roll. The only additional move that I'm doing. It looks really complicated when you do it because I'm doing fast and smooth, but the one extra move is actually one extra roll. The roll is this; after double or nothing, after I drop and roll, I take my throw hand I pull it around the pointer finger. Just like that. I take my strand, pull it around. Let me show you from this angle. I take it, I pull my throw hand around like that, and then I roll it just like so. Pull around and roll. What you do is you put that into the trick after you drop double or nothing. Double or nothing, you drop, roll, roll again, go back into double or nothing. Drop, roll, roll again, go back into double or nothing. That's the whole trick. When you put it together, watch how smooth that looks. Double or nothing, drop, roll, double or nothing, drop, roll, double or nothing, drop, roll. That's an unresponsive that I didn't bind with, so go learn binding. Double or nothing, drop, roll, double or nothing, drop, roll, double or nothing, drop, roll. That's the matrix."