Day 5: Its our first combo, the hand grind to whip.
You have seen the previous two separately but this is the beauty of the diabolo, the combinations. I have seen everything from 2-3 trick combos to 24 trick combos from the pros.
Watching the pros perform their combos is like magic.
Some tricks chain together nicely, some need you to end in a certain way to move seamlessly to the next one. There’s a neutral respect for those who make it look elegant.
Tag: diabolotricks
Dec 4: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 4: The Whip, love this trick. It sounds amazing and attracts a lot of attention. This is great but also bad when you miss the catch. Its also a real problem as there is almost no way to recover. See this bonus out-take footage of what happens when you get it wrong.
Dec 3: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 3: Little more advance trick, the hand grind. Always love this trick and quite like switching position with the fingers (maybe for another day). If you are wondering if it hurts, no because the axel is a bearing keeping it only running in one direction. However if you are not careful, when your finger does rub against the side by accident it does burn and hurt.
Dec 2: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 2: Little more intermediate trick, the stick grind. Always love this trick and quite like switching sticks (maybe for another day). I remember when I used wooden sticks with fixed axel diabolos. Those were tricky days.
Dec 1: Diabolo advent calendar
Day 1: Starting with one simple throw, the first trick most people learn quickly while learning the diabolo. Still like doing these while I think about what trick to do next, although higher gives more time.
My diabolo advent calendar
It was during a slack conversation with colleagues, that the concept of a kind of advent calendar came to mind. A diabolo advent calendar, 1 trick per day mentioned on my blog with a brief description.
I will try and record something new everyday but I doubt it will be possible with the winter season. I have recorded some bits in advance just in-case.
So look out for them…
New diabolo tricks with J-sliding
I’m still working out how to do a vertex as I wrote in my new years resolutions. But while looking for videos to help explain where I might be going wrong, I found a new category of tricks called j-sliding?
J-SLIDING is a new style of juggling with diabolo,
that enables you to do more tricks.
Its not quite the shift of the vertex before this, or the suicide before that and the grind before that. But interesting move forward regardless.