Hold the yo-yo correctly in your hand and curl your arm up like making a muscle with your hand next to your ear.

Bring your elbow down with a snap as you release the yo-yo out over the ends of your fingers.

The yo-yo should arc out and down. As soon as the yo-yo reaches the bottom of the string, turn your hand over and the yo-yo will climb the string and return to your hand.

Start with your arm straight, angled behind you about waist-high with the back of your hand facing forward.

Keeping your elbow straight, release the yo-yo while gently swinging your arm forward to waist-high in front of you.

The yo-yo should go down, out, and return easily to your extended hand.

Start the loop with a forward pass.

As it returns, instead of catching it, roll your hand in a backwards circle with your wrist and the yo-yo will go out in another forward pass.

See how many continuous loops you can do.

TRICK 2

Spinning Tricks -
Single Looped String (pt 1)

Hold the yo-yo correctly in your hand and curl your arm up like making a muscle with your hand next to your ear.

Bring your elbow down with a snap as you release the yo-yo out over the ends of your fingers.

The yo-yo should stay spinning at the end of the string. Before it slows down too much, turn your hand over (palm down) and give it a slight upward jerk to bring the yo-yo back to your hand.

Throw a fast spinner. Gently lower the yo-yo until it barely touches the floor.

The yo-yo will start walking forward.

Be sure to jerk the yo-yo back to your hand before it runs out of spin, or you will do the "dead dog."

Starting with a fast spinner, swing the yo-yo out in front of you as far as you can reach and put the yo-yo and your hand on the floor at the same time.

Give the string a slight jerk and the yo-yo will bounce back along the floor into your hand.

Throw a fast spinner. Put your hand in the "I swear" position, and move your elbow around in front of the string.

Keeping your elbow high, lower your hand to the string and give it an upward jerk.

The yo-yo will climb the string over your arm and drop in front of you where you can pull it back to your hand.

Practice making the cradle with a dead yo-yo before trying it with a sleeping yo-yo. With the yo-yo hanging at the end of the string, hold your yo-yo hand up like a policeman saying "stop."

Reach between your thumb and first finger with all four fingers of the other hand and pull the string back down until it forms a triangle.

Swing the yo-yo through the triangle a couple of times. Drop the string and the yo-yo will return to your hand if it is spinning fast enough.

This is a flashy adjustment trick. Throw a spinner at a 45 degree angle diagonally across your body.

While the yo-yo is on its side, catch the string above the yo-yo with the other hand, lift to yo-yo to a level above the yo-yo hand, and release.

The yo-yo will wind back to your hand.

Note: Throw the yo-yo to the left to loosen and the right to tighten the string.

Make a muscle with the yo-yo on your shoulder. Throw a spinner out to that side.

Swing the yo-yo so that it rotates in front of you from shoulder to shoulder.

When it reaches your other shoulder, give the yo-yo a quick tug and bring it back to your hand.

Hold the opposite hand waist-high with the index finger pointed forward. Make a muscle with the yo-yo on your shoulder.

Throw a spinner to that side and swing the yo-yo across your body and over your extended finger so that the yo-yo hits the string about 1-2 yo-yo lengths from your finger.

To return the yo-yo to your hand, pull the extended finger out of the string.

Use your free hand to hold the unwound yo-yo with the thumb in the string groove with the string bent around the end of your thumb. The yo-yo hand should be held above and slightly behind the yo-yo.

By pulling upwards with the string at the same time as letting the yo-yo roll off the end of your thumb, enough spin is generated to start the yo-yo up the string. Once started, you can "yo-yo" it up and down until it reaches your hand.