Impressive Intermediate Tricks?

I haven’t totally followed this thread, but I would like to mention that Rancid Milk and Vector are really awesome tricks.

I don’t know about Vector, but Rancid Milk hardly qualifies as an “impressive intermediate trick”. It’s firmly in the Advanced category, and it’s hard to say if spectators would find it as impressive as even a simple gondola. Gondola is magic to them. Rancid Milk is mostly cat’s cradle to them.

I LOVE that trick, but it’s a yoyoer’s yoyo trick for sure.

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I thought I was the only one.
This one gets mentioned all the time, but it’s definitive not easy, and it’s not as impressive to non throwers.

I would expect comments like “Yeah, but can you walk the dog?”

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Wow, I thought this was a yoyo community. ???

Any trick done smoothly and well will look good!

If you wanna impress people just get smoother! Make it look effortless, some speed but not like you’re trying.

I see a lot of people just check tricks off the list without getting close to doing it smoothly. Its not just the tricks it’s how you do them!
thats my 2 cents, and I’ve been wooing moms in the grocery store for yearrrrs.

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The haddock.

I think that classic Yuuki concepts counts? Its not really that hard, and the slack elements make it look very cool.

Of course it is. :wink: All conversation. Imagine we’re at a soda shoppe in a group. Our buddy says, “Dudes, what’s an impressive intermediate trick?” After a few suggestions you go “Rancid Milk?” and we all look at you funny for a second, then ball up our napkins and start throwing them at you. “Get outta here! Intermediate?” we ask, in disbelief.

“What?” you say, hopefully smiling as you remove a balled-up napkin from your hair. “Seems intermediate to me!”

People can disagree with each other and still be friendly and part of a community together. I needn’t have said “yup, yup. That’s a good intermediate trick!” if I didn’t agree!

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This is, by far, the funniest thing I’ve read on the entire forum. Balled up napkins. SPITBALL FIGHT!

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Kevinm suggested this one and I really like it.

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I just re-read this thread looking for some new trick ideas and realized that Zorro and Greg had the same rancid milk discussion twice two months apart!

I didn’t realize rancid milk was that controversial, maybe I’ll learn it after all :smiley:

Haha, I was wondering why that felt like deja vu, but I assumed it was a whole other thread!!

Zorro does have the tendency to NOT take information to heart. Even after two conversations I’m sure he would still call Rancid Milk an intermediate trick without thinking twice. Now, he’s within his rights to categorize a trick however he wants, despite the majority disagreeing. The part that makes me chuckle from time to time is the “without thinking twice” part.

Haha yeah,
I thought it was funny that he’s so much better than me that to him, it probably is intermediate :smiley:

Try some CLYW cabin tutorials. After i did a few of the long string tricks on yotricks I got bored with that site and moved to cabin tutorials. The easiest ones are peacocking and pa pong.

Thanks!

As a lot of the others said, Vector and Rancid Milk are both impressive, but may be a little advanced to call them intermediate. I will say that Vector was a trick I learned early on to work on throwing slack around, and was really helpful.

Further advice: If you like Branding, look up Underwater Basket Weaving. There’s a few elements that are similar to Branding, but it’s a little more impressive with the slack at the beginning, especially when you get it down so that you can flow through it quickly.

Last note: Gondola is an awesome trick. I like using it in combos. One really cool way to use it is when you pop it out at the end, throw it like an Asian Pop, land it back into a Trapeze, and then move to a new trick. I’ve been throwing Gondola into an Asian Pop, then straight into Vector. It’s pretty epic. :wink:

Great idea… I need to try this!

Non-yoers seem to really like Gyro Flops, and they can be used to change spin direction, and transition into off-axis.

What about Spirit Bomb? Or, does that fall into the “everybody suggests that” category?

Seasick and PopnFresh are really cool looking tricks, but for me they’re difficult. Seasick is anyway, haven’t worked on PopnFresh much, but I think I will.

Pop’n’Fresh took me a while to get, but I had a friend that learned it as one of his first tricks. I can see how it’s squarely in the “Intermediate” category.

Seasick is fairly universally regarded as a difficult trick, though.