Learn the Trapeze to Double or Nothing yoyo trick with a video and description.
Like with all string tricks, it is easiest to learn with a butterfly style ball bearing yoyo. Good choices for string tricks include the Turbo Bumble Bee GT, the Team Losi Cherry Bomb, Spintastics Tigershark, Cold Fusion GT, BMT Monarch and Custom Reactor. Once you get the trick down with a butterfly, then work up to doing it with other yo-yos.
There are two main methods of performing this trick that I am familiar with.
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First Method (Trapeze into a Backwards Double or Nothing):
1. Start with a standard Trapeze. (Throw a Break Away to the side and catch the yo-yo on the string, allowing it to land and sleep there.)
2. Next, pull your hands apart like with a regular Trapeze fly-away dismount. But instead of letting the yo-yo wake up and wind up into your hand, you want it to keep sleeping.
3. The yo-yo will go up in the air and start going back around in a counter clockwise direction. You want to keep your two fingers in the same position that you had when you caught the yo-yo on the Trapeze.
4. As it starts to go back around, you’ll notice that you already have one string of the Double or Nothing. As the yo-yo swings back over your yo-yo hand, it will create the second string of the Double or Nothing.
5. Now you just need to catch the yo-yo on the string again and presto, you’re doing a backwards Double or Nothing!
6. From there, you can either do a standard fly-away dismount where you pop the yo-yo up into the air and catch it, or you can try to keep going and go back to a Trapeze again! (You can keep going back and forth as long as your yo-yo will sleep and you can catch it on the string.)
Second Method: (Trapeze to a Standard Double or Nothing)
1. Start with a standard Trapeze. (Throw a Break Away to the side and catch the yo-yo on the string, allowing it to land and sleep there.)
2. Bring your hands together while the yo-yo is still sleeping on the string. It should be sleeping at the bottom and look sort of like a Braintwister.
3. Notice how the string is configured at this point. On your yo-yo hand, the string is tied to your middle finger. From there, it goes down and back up and around the index finger of your non-yoyo hand. The yoyo is sleeping on the string in a normal Trapeze configuration.
4. Take the index finger of your yo-yo hand and bring it in between the two strings that are hanging down from your non-yoyo hand index finger.
5. You’ll now have yoyo string draped over both of your index fingers. (The string is going from the middle finger of your yoyo hand down to where the yoyo is sleeping on the string, and back up and over both index fingers.
6. Think that’s complicated? Well, then get ready, because it’s about to get worse!
7. Bring the index finger of your non-yoyo hand down where it is still in-between the two strings, but about halfway between your yoyo hand (which is on top), and the yoyo (which is sleeping on the string at the bottom). On your yoyo hand, your index finger and middle finger should be slightly apart, sort of like you’re pretending that they are scissors.
9. Right now, you could theoretically take away the index finger on your non-yoyo hand, and you’d basically have a Trapeze that you are holding with just one hand. Get it? But don’t take out that non-yoyo hand index finger. I’m just explaining!
10. Now, you’re going to flip the yoyo up and over the non-yoyo hand index finger, and back onto the string. The yoyo should flip in a clockwise direction.
11. There are two different strings that it could possibly land on right now. You want to land it on the string that’s farthest away from you.
12. Once you land the yoyo on the string farthest away from you, you’ll suddenly notice, “Hey! I’m doing a Double or Nothing! How’d that happen!?” Don’t ask me! I still don’t understand WHY it works, I just do it.
See the video
Demonstrated by Lars