I feel like we have to keep inventing a new vocabulary to express the ideas we want to share. I can't decide if that's pretentious or awesome. Regardless, a quick viewing of the video should render any obscurity moot. This week, I wanted to discuss my trick Zipper Stalls, but zoomed out a bit to include some "Stall Versions" of some other fundamentals from the 1a lexicon. An alternate title might be "So you're in a stall hold... What now?"
Kendama is all the rage now among yo-yoers. I had a dream the other day that it had completely supplanted yo-yoing, and that the world had devolved into a post-apocalyptic ruin where no one believed that Zach Gormley's "Superman" kendama trick had once actually been done with a yo-yo. Or something like that. In any case, one of the things I love about stall tricks (and Drew's in particular) is that, absent of the spin's rotational inertia, landing the yo-yo in any kind of static hold is insanely difficult. When a yo-yo's spinning, its angular momentum keeps it from swaying and bobbing about, but once you're in a stall, all that energy turns off. Hitting some of those Kickflip Transitions last week (or Stalled Magic Drop this week) takes precision... and knees. So if you've been grinding that ACL trying to hit Lighthouse, take a break, grab a woody, and see if some of these stall applications come a bit more natural.
