For me, it’s been a long while since I decided to pick a tutorial and follow through with learning a trick in its entirety. Lately (as in the past 3 months or so) I’ve been watching tutorials and cherry picking elements from it or just tinkering around with “what if I land the yoyo on this string segment instead of that one?” or “what happens if I roll onto that segment over there…” kind of things. Also just watching yoyo videos (especially in slow motion) is a great way to spark up some ideas.
I am in the process of (slowly) picking up Ladder Escape as I’ve been itching to actually pick up an entire trick, I think my last one I learned back in August was And Whut.