This is the trick Breath and it looks like this.
To start this trick you are going to set yourself up for a One-and-a-Half mount but instead
of hitting the top string and making the yoyo go around the index finger of your yoyo hand,
you are still going to hit the top string but you are going to make the yoyo go around
the index finger of your opposite hand.
There is going to be some requirements you are going to need to set yourself up for later
on in the trick.
Number one is as you hit this initial mount you have to start with having the string on
the base of your index finger of your yoyo hand immediately when you start to hit this
One-and-a-half-ish mount here.
The way to do this, is you are going to need to create some separation with the strings
because if you put it on the base of your index finger, these two strings end up getting
close enough together were the yoyo could hit both of them like this.
So to get it out of the way what you can do is from the throw and when you are setting
up for the One-and-a-half mount you will see that I take my ring and my pinky finger of
my yoyo hand and grab onto the string coming from my yoyo finger and that way when I go
into the One-and-a-half mount I then have enough separation with both of the strings
there.
The next part is we are going to make the yoyo rock to the other direction and it is
going to swing over to the yoyo side of your body and it is going to go over the top of
the index finger of your yoyo hand here and you are going to from there try to swing the
yoyo up and hit it like you are going to hit a One-and-a-half mount.
From here you are going to need to drop one of your strings from your opposite hand and
the way to make sure you drop the right string is to look at the two strings coming off from
the bottom of your index finger here.
You have one that is going directly to your yoyo finger and then you have one that is
going to the end of your index finger of your yoyo hand and you need to hold on to the string
that going directly to your yoyo finger, so you can even pluck it with the thumb of your
opposite hand and curl your index finger in to drop the other string.
To make this element look as good as possible what you are going to do is drop that string
off the index finger of your opposite hand as you mounting on the second mount here.
From here all you are in is essentially in a One-and-a-half mount, but you will be rolled
over with an extra wrap around the index finger of your yoyo hand.
So from here what were going to be doing is we are going to be setting up the first and
second slack of four slacks that are in the trick Breath.
So what we are going to do is we are not going to teach you the first slack right away, we
are going to be teaching you what the yoyo does first and then we will throw in the first
slack element later.
So what we are going to do is starting from our One-and-a-half-mount with the extra wrap
we are going to roll in the direction so that it undoes the extra wrap and then we are just
in the regular One-and-a-half-mount.
Once you are in the regular One-and-a-half-mount what you are going to do is take the thumb
of your yoyo hand and what you are going to do is you are going to take this string that
is coming from the index finger of your opposite hand and push it into the webbing of your
thumb so you can pinch it like so.
Once you have that pinch you can then set yourself up for what is a variation of the
trick Crazy 8.
Which is like that but we are going to be setting up the Crazy 8 variation a little
bit differently then you would normally do the Crazy 8 trick.
So, what you are going to do is instead of actually pinching both of the strings like
you would in Crazy 8, you are going to have the webbing of your thumb in here, but the
loop coming from the yoyo is actually not going to be pinched at all.
The tough part about this is we gotta somehow, during the Crazy 8 trick, make sure this loop
right here doesn't fall off your finger during the Crazy 8 portion of the trick.
One piece of advice I can give to you is as you swing it over, make sure you do the trick
as slow as possible but without stopping the motion of the yoyo.
So the way to do this as slow as possible is try to elongate your rolls in sort of a
flashy way rather than just making the yoyo roll with your wrist doing most of the work.
So make sure that you get your hands and arms involved and you can even roll it in such
a way that your hands end up at least eye level or even above your head.
So if you slow down the roll enough that will be just enough for you to make sure the loop
coming from your index finger will not end up falling off as you do the roll like so.
So once you end up doing the Crazy 8 and you learn how to do this element we can then try
to incorporate the slack into it.
The first step again is going to be, we are in the One-and-a-half-mount with an extra
wrap we will then unwrap it and continue going in that direction with the pinch on our thumb,
and what we are going to do is in order to incorporate the slack you are going to swing
the yoyo over to the other side as the first part of Crazy 8 and we are going to start
to throw the slack at this first part of Crazy 8 right here, and once we do that the slack
is going to carry around and you are going to extend the rest of your fingers out like
so.
Pointing to the opposite side of your body and that will swing the slack over to the
other side where you can then catch it with your opposite finger as the yoyo is rolling
on to the second part, exiting out of the Crazy 8.
Once you do that you will have exited out and you will be in a One-and-a-half mount
but with the index finger of your opposite hand curled in there like so.
That is the first slack of Breath there.
We need to now set ourselves up for the second slack of Breath so the yoyo still moving around
in this direction.
So we are going to continue to swing it around, but we are going to make it go overtop of
our hand and are going to intercept it with our thumb of our yoyo hand as well and we
are going to swing it like this where the yoyo ends up going inside these strings as
you roll around.
Then the thumb is a placeholder to make sure that the yoyo will go to the inside of these
two strings that are in between your two hands here.
Once you have that set up you can then do this trick in pretty much two steps and then
we will combine the two steps later so we will throw the slack around like this.
Where you are going to start from the outside and throw the slack to the inside and make
sure you twist your hand so you can allow the slack to carry around like so.
Once you catch it in this position here, you can then swing it then over into the One-and-a-half
mount.
To put that together, that is going to be, we will throw it over into this position,
then we will then throw the slack over and carry the yoyo over at the same time like
so.
Again, you are going to want to make sure that you move the yoyo in a constant motion
but as slow as you possibly can and that will allow yourself to have room in order to throw
and catch the slack as the yoyo is moving so make sure that you have an elongated motion
with your arm during the second slack as well.
From there we will finally be in a One-and-a-half-mount, and what we are going to be performing is
we are going to essentially take a roll out of the One-and-a-half mount.
But it won't actually roll to make an extra wrap around the yoyo.
It will end up rolling to the inside of this top string here, and then it will pretty much
go in between the two strings that you have in between your hands and it will be just
be a silly little roll essentially that goes around the index finger of your yoyo hand.
Once it goes around you can then curl your index finger in order to get rid of that extra
wrap.
Some tips in order to get this to happen is number one in order to go in between these
two strings, you should separate it out by taking the three fingers of your yoyo hand
and pulling the string out of the way like this and then you can also cheat with your
thumb as well so that way you have plenty of room in order to get the yoyo in between
the two strings.
That first and second slack sequence is really hard to get down and having the breakdown
will help but to really make this trick look good you are going to need to influence some
elegance on this trick by making sure the yoyo is fluid all the way through the first
slack and the second slack as well.
When you are doing this trick you should always be having the yoyo be moving to make sure
the trick to look as elegant as possible.
So from here is going to be probably the toughest part of Breath, is you are going to be in
that One-and-a-half mount but now you are going to be throwing a One-and-half mount
suicide and catching that suicide, and there is going to be a lot more parts to it as well.
But the important part is that when you throw and catch this suicide, you have to catch
that suicide absolutely perfectly.
The suicide is more difficult by default because you have less string to catch with it than
you do with a regular suicide.
One thing to work on is you are going to be really need to be paying attention to your
string tension, even though we have four slacks in here and that your string tension should
always be perfectly neutral for those slacks, is you shouldn't just be checking your tension
like this with the whole length of the string.
Since the suicide in this trick is dealing with the first five or six inches of the string,
you are going to need to be checking that area of the string coming directly from the
yoyo and seeing if that is twisted up and that will tell if you have the suicide loop
you need in order to hit it perfectly without any twists and make sure it will hit your
pointer finger as well.
The way to check that is get as close as you can to the yoyo, pull the string about five
inches apart, let this slack hang over here but just look at this slack here and see if
there is any twists as well.
That way you will know if you are ready to throw the suicide during the trick.
After you throw that suicide and you catch it, what you are going to be doing also instead
of just doing a regular One-and-a-half suicide is you need to set yourself up for the third
slack in Breath.
So you will notice that as I throw the suicide, I am doing something with my yoyo hand as
well where I am pinching a string in my thumb and then I am holding onto a slack as I throw
the suicide.
The way to do that is you are going to be letting go of this One-and-a-half mount at
the same as you pinch the string coming from this finger over top and putting it in the
webbing of your thumb and grabbing the string right there and make sure you pinch it to
set up for the slack.
Once you have that pinch set up you can then throw the suicide, and then now the slack
will be hanging right over here after you catch the suicide perfectly.
This slack is going to swinging back towards the yoyo side of your body and then it is
going to be swinging towards the opposite side of your body.
Then you are going to throw that slack into the yoyo in this fashion where the slack loop
coming from your thumb, that side of it has to go into the gap of the yoyo and then the
other part of the slack has to go to the outside of the yoyo away from your body and that will
set you up for the final slack in Breath.
So from here we are now ready to drop the string off of our thumb, and as we are doing
that we are also going to be curling in our index finger of our opposite hand and then
pinching the string with our thumb as well so now the yoyo is hanging underneath our
opposite hand, and we have the string hanging between our two hands forming a slack that
we are going to be using later.
As we are dropping the yoyo off of that mount, the is going to want to swing around our opposite
hand and so we are going to let the yoyo swing around the opposite hand and continue around
until it hits the index finger of our yoyo hand and let it drape over top like so.
One other thing you are going to need to do is you are going to want to let the string
slide in between the pinch a few inches, so that way you can have the yoyo not here, but
you want to change the hold so that way it is more lined up with these proportions and
that will help you hit the slack later on.
You are going to want to make sure you slide the string as the yoyo is swinging around
the make the trick look more fluid.
As you learn how to let the string slide you are going to have to learn how to transfer
the pinch so after you let the string slide as it is swinging around, you are also going
to be transferring the pinch not from just your thumb to your index finger but you are
going to transfer the pinch to your middle finger and your index finger of your opposite
hand by the time you reach this hold.
From there, we are going to now go for the actual slack once we hit that hold, so the
yoyo is still swinging around and we are going to let the yoyo swing to the opposite side
of our body, continuing its motion.
Now we are going to be picking the slack up from our thumb of our opposite hand and it
is going to be the string coming straight from your yoyo finger here so pick that up
and that will form the slack loop on your opposite hand.
You will then swing the yoyo to the opposite side and you will then throw the yoyo into
the slack like so.
Where the yoyo is actually going to be hitting the slack, pretty much like coming from the
outside and it is going to be hidden underneath your hand so you are really need to learn
how to position your hand.
To position it you are going to be moving your thumb forward and be pushing the pinch
of your index finger and your middle finger, you are going to be pulling that backwards
so that way the slack now not facing this direction but now facing this direction.
As it is facing that direction you can then throw it on the outside loop on the slack
facing away from your body.
Once you hit that slack you will end up in a mount that looks like this.
All that mount is, is just a trapeze where you pick up with the index finger of your
yoyo hand, and then you pick up with the thumb of your opposite hand on the string segment
coming from your yoyo finger like so.
That is the mount you will be in after you hit the slack.
So all we are doing from here is the final dismount of Breath which is you just simply
just you dropping those two strings off of your fingers that I just showed you that you
pick up.
So we are going to add some flare to it as well by making the yoyo pop up into the air
as well.
The first way to dismount it, is that you can pretty form like a bucket mount where
you separate the strings apart from your body so that way it looks like the two string segments
that are coming across here are actually separated out to the point where you can pop the yoyo
out in between them and then drop the strings and land them in the trapeze.
The next way is you can actually just drop the string from the index finger of your yoyo
hand and create what looks like a Chopsticks hold, pop the yoyo up in between your two
fingers and then drop it off with your thumb and end up in a trapeze like so.
Either way, you can do either dismount, just as long as you add the pop to add some flare
to it and not just simply drop the strings and that will make the dismount of Breath
look a lot better.
So there are plenty of different factors to Breath where it is going to be really difficult
to figure out, like the first and second slack, that is really hard to get a hold of where
the yoyo is moving as the slack is moving as well and you are going to have to get used
to that concept.
The idea of throwing a mini suicide while trying to throw a slack into it.
It is going to be hard to figure out and even that last slack is going to take a lot of
effort in order to master.
So there is all these different places in Breath where it is a good concept for you
to learn if you want to become an advanced yoyo player but it is also extremely frustrating.
This trick was invented really early in the yoyo days and it has been plaguing plenty
of the greatest players in the world, including myself.
Just really work at this trick, it is a really tough one to master so do not expect to always
be hitting it all the time.
You are just going to be able to hit it a few times once in a while but in any case,
if you can at least hit it with the fluidity that I showed you before then you are well
on your way to becoming a great yoyo player and that is the trick Breath.