Variations to The Skin The Gerbil Yo-Yo Trick

Video Transcript

"This is Part 2 to Skin the Gerbil. Skin the gerbil one more time looks like this. It is a really nice smooth flowing trick. When you do skin the gerbil, one of the things that you really want to think about is get your ears spinning fast, get it smooth and keep it dead center on a string. A lot of people tell me they have a hard time getting through this whole trick. It is a longer trick and what makes it a little more difficult is you are doing a lot of side maneuvers and you are really swinging it around so the yo-yo has a lot of time to push into the string, tip over and stop spinning on you so it is real important to keep that string dead center when you are doing it. So we've gone this far. We hit the string, we went under, doubled up and brought it back around and we are here. The next step isn't too bad. You are actually just missing once and bringing it back over like so and undoing that. So what you want to do is get up to this point with me, over here and from here what you are going to do is unwrap that part and you are going to swing it around your non-throw hand point a. You are actually going to miss that string entirely and the next step you are actually going to come around and hit the string. You land on the string like so. So one more time, break that down for you. You do the beginning step that we went through in part 1. You come around and hit there; that's the end of part 1. You undo that and come around and miss. All you are doing is missing. You land onto the string. Very simple. Unroll, unroll, unroll and catch and then that is skin the gerbil. "