This trick is the Gyroscopic Flop, and it
looks like this. Just like that. The Gyroscopic Flop is any time that the yoyo
is going to be rotating on its axis like this. There are tons and tons of different mounts
that you can use to do it, I am actually going to show you three, but I am going to show
you the proper technique with the Gyroscopic Flop built off the Plastic Whip like I already
showed you. Let me show you the other two first. The first one is the easiest to get into. All you are going to do is get the yoyo on
the Trapeze, and then you are going to take your opposite hand and just go right under
the yoyo so that the string is wrapped around the yoyo. Then you just pull on the string, just like
this, and the yoyo will turn, probably about a half of a flip. That will actually set you up for a bind so
you can bring the yoyo right back to your hand. Even though that one is easy to get into,
it is actually not the best way to practice the Gyroscopic Flop because you do not have
as much control as you do with other mounts. A second way that you can get into it is actually
from your Kamikaze Mount. Instead of landing the yoyo right into the
mount, you get the yoyo and you pop it off, and you land it behind, you let it go behind
this string right here. Then you take these two fingers, you turn
them in, and then pull like this. You can see that you can get into a flop motion,
just like that. Then you can get the yoyo off and bring it
back to your hand. In order to do that you will need to learn
the technique I am going to show you with the third way of doing Gyroscopic Flop which
is to do it based off of the Plastic Whip. If you have not learned the Plastic Whip we
have another video that shows you how to do that. That will set you up to learn what I think
is the easiest way to learn how to control the Gyroscopic Flop. What you want to do for this, again, you want
to get a nice good Sleeper. You are going to lift up your string, and
you are going to do your Plastic Whip, just like you normally would. When you do that, if you turn your yoyo hand
to the outside, you will see there is these three string. This string right here, which is coming directly
off your thumb, is going directly into the yoyo. What you want to do with that string, is you
want to grab it with your opposite hand and then grab these other two strings with your
yoyo hand and then let it off your thumb. Then you are just going to pull your hands
apart. You want the yoyo to be right about in the
center. That will allow you to get into the flop,
just like that. When you are practicing this trick, the way
that it works, once you get it into the proper motion, sometimes it might be easy to think
that all you do is pull on the strings, and that causes the yoyo to rotate, but eventually
what you will see is that it stops its rotation unless you do something else to the yoyo. That is what I mean by controlling it, is,
there is a certain thing that you have to do in order to get the yoyo to continually
go around. Once you learn the method to control it you
can make it go faster or slower, there is all sorts of stuff that you can do. So that is what I am going to show you. Once you get the yoyo onto the whip, you grab
the string, you get it back here, you can see that towards you, you have two strings,
coming off the yoyo, and on the front of the yoyo there is just one string. The way the flop works, is if you push the
two strings into the side of the yoyo the direction that it is rotating, this helps
it continue to rotate that direction. You can see that I am making just slight adjustments
with my hands in order to continually touch the side of the yoyo with those two strings
and that is what allows it to continue to go around. Once you are done with that the double strings
are either going to be on the right side or the left side of the string and you are going
to have to look inside the yoyo to check. If they are on the right side then you are
just going to want to pull your hand off to the right and the strings will just fall right
off the yoyo, just like that. The same thing is true if they are on the
left side. You are just going to want to move your yoyo
hand off to the left. Give it a little bit of slack and you will
see that the yoyo just kicks the string right out. It rejects right out of the yoyo. Once you get all those techniques down, make
sure you get a good sleeper, you want to pull it tight, but you do not want to pull it too
tight or else that will actually make it rotate a little too fast. It will take a little while to get used to
touching the side of the yoyo with the two strings just right. You kind of rotate your hands in a motion
just like this in order to keep the two strings touching the yoyo in just the right place. Once you get it, as you saw me do, you can
just keep it going and going and going. It doesn’t even actually kill the spin too
much if you are just lightly touching it and it goes around slowly. It is just a great trick. Once you get that then you can use the Gyroscopic
Flop off the Kamikaze Mount, you can use the same techniques to get it rotating in that
one and you can use it in all kinds of different tricks. That is the Gyroscopic Flop.