More Variations of the Kamikaze Yo-Yo Trick

Video Transcript

"Next trick we're going to work on is kamikaze. This is a really cool trick, this is a really longer trick. We've broke it into three segments for you guys. Some of the maneuvers in it are really tricky, but we're going to break it down, we're going to step through it. Let me show you what the whole trick looks like first. Kamikaze looks like this. You'll notice there's a magic drop in it. So if you didn't learn magic drop, go back and check out that video, it's really important you can do a solid magic drop. For this first part I'm just going to start with the beginning. The first part you start with something called a Houdini catch, looks like this. The reason it's called the Houdini catch is it's actually over your thumb and then your pointers and if you do it as you catch it just drops, unless you catch both strings. So catch like that and you just drop it, it kind of looks magic, it looks like it just hits and drops, it's kind of a cool looking move. But in this trick we're actually going to hold onto that loop. So it goes over your thumb first, comes around and then you hit into, what looks like a double or nothing with the exception you went over your thumb. The next step is you're actually going to pop the yo-yo up into the loop that your thumb is holding. So it looks just like this; it pops up into that loop just like so. Let me show you from this side what you're doing. Coming around, taking my thumb and I'm popping the yo-yo up into that loop, it looks just like that. From there you're going to be in this hold and that's the first step. To get out of it, just drop it out, it shouldn't really get into a knot and we're going to move onto the second step. So the first step, put around your thumb, hold it out, it's kind of an awkward double or nothing with your thumb in there, pop it up into that loop and just drop it over. That's kamikaze part one."