This is the Saturn Flop, it looks like this.
This trick starts with a gyro flop from a
slack kamikaze mount, so make sure you check
out those two videos on our channel and familiarize
yourself with those tricks.
After you’re in your gyro flop you’re
going to pull your yoyo so it makes a one
quarter turn not a complete gyro flop, just
a one quarter turn.
And you’ll notice that I’ll start to ease
my hands up, and that will allow my yoyo to
spin on this plane, spin horizontally, like
this, for a little bit longer than if my hands
were pulled apart and I was tensioning the
string against the bearing inside the yoyo.
So once again, I’m going to get into my
gyro flop.
Once you’re comfortable with holding your
yoyo in this horizontal position leading with
my throw hand I’m going to make one half
turn around the yoyo and then another half
turn and if you’ll notice with every turn
of my hands each hand is flipping position.
What I mean by that is that if you look at
my throw hand, we’re going to lead with
the throw hand.
It starts off and it’s on top right now,
as I make my other rotation now my non throw
hand is on top.
Throw hand is on top, non throw hand is on
top.
The reason you want to change positions with
your hands as you’re orbiting around the
yoyo is that the string will wind around the
yoyo, it’ll twist up if you do the same
orbit over and over again.
So I’m going to do a couple of the same
orbits and if you look at my string now, it’s
all twisted up around the one side of the
yoyo.
The really beautiful part about this trick
is that as you perform every orbit it’s
actually undoing that twist so that after
you complete the trick, you can just finish
your flop and then exit your trick normally.
So some problems, the big problem that people
have with this trick is the unpredictability
of where the yoyo is going to spin on the
plane meaning like which angle it’s going
to spin at.
So in a perfect world your yoyo would spin
perfectly horizontal and flat like this, and
that would make it easy to wrap your hands
around it, but as you just saw me moving my
hands, my elbows go all over the place, my
shoulders move, and that’s going to change
the direction of plane in which your yoyo
is spinning.
So you have to adapt to whatever plane your
yoyo is on.
So whether or not it’s to the left or the
right, again, so if your yoyo is spinning
perfectly horizontally you’re going perfectly
around it like this, but say it’s tilted
to this way, you wanna adjust your arms to
rotate or orbit around the yoyo in this direction,
or vise versa if your yoyo moves in this direction.
The last tip is you want to make sure that
you have a very hard throw when you’re doing
the Saturn Flop because the faster your yoyo
spins, the longer it will want to stay on
plane it is on for see I just threw it really
hard and it just kind naturally stayed there.
If you have a really lackluster throw and
it’s not really spinning that fast, as soon
as you go to flop your yoyo and the string
touch it, it’s automatically going to want
to recenter itself and spin on an even plane
that it’s used it.
So you’re going to want to make sure again
to make sure you’re throwing really hard
so that way your yoyo can spin for as long
as it can on that sideways plane.
And that was the Saturn Flop.
