Tag: diabolotricks

Day 20: Diabolo stick suicide
One of the key tricks in the Diabolo world is the suicide.
I kinda skipped over it but in short if you let go of a sticks mid trick its a suicide move.

The stick suicide creates a suicide by crossing the sticks to control the speed of the trick. I have seen someone this trick turned into a infinite stick suicide.

Day 19: Around the arm combo to whip
Another more dynamic view of what I generally call the around the arm combo.

Day 18: Long bounce around the head to grind to whip
A much longer version of the bounce around the head to the music in my headphones but with a stick grind and nice little whip

Day 17: Orbit to duicide to mini orbit to duicide
Quite a combination of tricks and when its done correctly looks impressive. Its getting at the more difficult end of the scale for me now. Each trick is possible but together its a whole different kettle of fish.

Day 16: Falling from orbit catch
Every once in a while a trick goes wrong but there is a alternative/out which saves your butt/style. The orbit catch is perfect for when a orbit comes loose and goes off into the unaware audience or crashes the ground.

Day 15: Under leg grind to whip to duicide
Its a impressive trick, the under leg part is quite straight forward when you have the stick grind down. The tricky part is flipping up the diabolo high enough and getting the stick into position for the whip.
Its got to be done pretty quickly and then your pretty much straight into the duicide if you whip the diabolo hard enough and let it follow through.

Day 14: Cradle upwrap
Bit of change from the higher octane duicide tricks, here is another cradle.
A simple cats cradle which I tend to create while throwing the diabolo high. You can unwrap the cradle quickly which is handy.

Day 13: Up whip to 360 Duicide
So following the Upwhip and 720 Duicide, Here is the combo and I can’t tell you how much fun and impressive it looks.
The hardest thing is to get it on camera because its ground work then into a explosion in the sky with a high duicide.
High because you really need time to get into position and catch the falling diabolo.

Day 12: 720 degree duicide
When I first saw a Duicide, I couldn’t get my head around how daring it was.
I realise I haven’t shown any suicide tricks yet but I had to show this one.
Throw the diabolo and sticks in the air, then catch them before they hit the floor. Very difficult but during the pandemic I have gotten extremely good at it.
This one is a 720 duicide and it looks good in front of the sunset.

Day 11: The upwhip
If you thought the whip was hard, try the upwhip. Its a difficult trick and puts you in a difficult position for a combo.
I’m learning what I can do with it including a duicide.

Day 10: Dental floss
This trick is something you only want to pull off once in a while because the molars can only take so much. The less natural evolution of bounce around the head.

Day 9: Bounce around the head to stick grind to whip
Once you start doing combos, you have to actively stop yourself from doing them. I meant to do a bounce around the head but naturally threw the diabolo on to the stick and who doesn’t love a whip?

Day 8: Around the leg
Another classic diabolo trick and bit of crowd pleaser. Most can do it super close to the leg and with speed.

Day 7: The high throw
We had the throw and of course we got to have the crowd pleaser. I would add high throws are not too difficult to catch if you point the handstick at the diabolo. The problem I always have in the garden is the wind which will take the diabolo a good 3 meters if you are not careful. Those 3 meters could mean over the fence, although it hasn’t happened yet.

Day 6: Stirring the pot. This is our first cradle trick.
Theres many of them and stirring the pot is a nice simple one which you can do for a very long time with a solid spin. Here is another view of it.