How to UFO/Flying Saucer [Learn to Yoyo With The World Champion] - Episode 10

Welcome to episode number 10 of Learn to Yo-Yo. Today, we're going to be learning the trick UFO. Check it out. For this trick, I'm going to be using the second yo-yo in the yo-yo master pack available on my website, Gentrystein.com. It's also on there by itself, so if you want to go check that out, hit the link above. To get started with this trick, we're going to think back to episode number two, where we learned all about our string tension. Now, the reason for that is because as we're practicing this trick, if we remember, just like when we learned about string tension, when the yo-yo spins around like this as we're practicing our throw, it actually twists up the string. Now, if you watch closely, As we do the UFO, it's twisting up the string in the same way. You can see my string's getting really, really tight here. So as we're learning this trick, we wanna think about which way the yo-yo's spinning. So there's gonna be two ways to perform the trick. One way is going to tighten the string, one way is going to loosen the string. So the first way we're going to learn the trick is by throwing it from our chest. So the way we're going to do this is instead of holding the yo-yo straight in front of us like this we're actually going to turn it sideways and the way that's going to look is this position right here. You can see the yo-yo is completely sideways in my hand and now you're going to bring your hand over across your body so it's right at your chest here and then what you're going What you're going to do is actually throw the yo-yo straight this way. And keep in mind, you want the yoyo to come out of your hand sideways, just like this. So it's very different from throwing it normally. We want to throw it sideways this time. Now, as we're throwing it, we want to bring our opposite pointer finger right here. So as the yoyo comes out of our hand, our opposite pointer finger is going to stop the string right here. And the yoyo is going to continue to swing out as our opposite pointer finger stops the string. So that might be a little confusing at first but just try a few throws like this and try to get your finger right there in line with the string and before you know it you'll be able to get something like this. And of course that's not what the trick looks like but that's the way we want to practice it to get started. So let's try that one more time. Hand across the chest, yo-yo in our hand sideways. Opposite pointer finger is going to be straight out in front of us and as we throw that pointer finger is going to intercept the string so it'll look just like this. And you can see it creates that little tunnel with the string. Now you may be wondering how do we get the yoyo back to our hand when it's spinning sideways. This is totally new we haven't tried this before. Well all you're going to do once you have it spinning here is just pull your opposite hand back and the yoyo will bounce back to your hand this way. So as the yoyo is spinning in the UFO all we're going to do is pull that opposite finger back And that's going to cause the yoyo to pop right back over to our throwhand side. Now let's think about string tension here for a minute. So as I'm doing that trick, remember the string's tightening up. So check out what happens. The string gets super super tight. Now the reason the string is getting tight is because I'm right-handed and so I'm throwing the yoyo this way. The yoyo is spinning. Around this way and that's going to tighten up the string as we're doing the trick. And so if you're left-handed You'll notice for you that throwing the first way here across your chest That's actually going to loosen the string. So if we do that a few times, I'm not very good with my left hand here So let's try it again if we do that Then this is loosening the string. So now I pull it back and check this out The string's loosened, it's the other way now. So, either way, if you're right or left handed, just keep the string tension in mind, and then what we're gonna do next to figure out how to fix it so we don't have to keep taking the string off our finger and fixing our string tension every time, is we're actually gonna learn how to throw it from the other way. So for those of you that are right handed, like me and watching, instead of throwing it from our chest, what we're gonna do to loosen the string, is throw it out from this way so it's kind of an awkward position but what we want to do is start just like a regular sleeper and turn the yoyo this way so that way instead of going here to our chest turn it here the opposite way and bring it out here and now like i said it feels kind of awkward but try to keep a loose shoulder and now we're going to throw it out this way and as you can see the trick looks the same but that time it's loosening the string so the same thing this way We're going to go here, instead of our opposite pointer finger being pointed up, here, it's going to be pointed down, so when we throw it, it stops the string, untwists it, same way, pull the yo-yo back, or pull our hand back, and the yo-yo's going to pop right back to our throw hand side. So, for those of you that are left-handed, When we're throwing across our chest, we'll be loosening the string. So what we're going to do is same thing here, turn the yoyo the opposite way, move out this way, opposite pointer finger is pointed down, throw straight out here, and now same way, pull it back. So the fundamentals of the trick, the way you perform the trick, is almost exactly the same except for the position of throwing, as well as which way your opposite pointer finger is pointed. So I know all of that may sound very confusing but I'm going to leave some time marks down at the bottom of the description of this video so that way if you guys want to go back and look to see which way to throw tightens the string or loosens the string depending on which hand you're throwing with you can check that out and just go back and watch the video and before you know what you guys are going to have this trick totally down it just takes some practice it's a super fun one it's definitely my favorite of the first 10 tricks that we're learning so with that That being said guys, thanks for tuning in for episode number 10 and I'll see you guys next time in episode number 11 where we're going to be learning the brain twister.