The "YoYo" Paradigm Shift

Skating certainly has its highs and lows - kind of like a Yo Yo at times. It can string you along for awhile; it can move smoothly for quite some time before taking a twist and turn that is totally unexpected. 

We have lived the Yo Yo life for 25 years now.The names even seem somewhat like subtitles to the various chapters of our lives:

• Man on the Flying Trapeze - Start learning sidestyle with this simple mount.
• Double or Nothing - A breakaway that goes around twice before landing on the left finger like a trapeze.
• Reverse Trapeze - Looks like a Trapeze but is something else.
• Under Mount - Simple fronstyle mount.
• Over Mount - Under Mount the other way round.
• Over and Under - A simple trick combining the two mounts.
• Braintwister - A fundamental trick from Undermount.
• Barrel Rolls - Great effect, infinite underpasses.
• Split the Atom - A Braintwister but with one more underpass.
• Atom Smasher - Split bottom mount followed by tosses and underpasses.
• Mach 5 - Split bottom mount trick that makes the yo-yo seem like it is floating still while the hands are spinning.
• Pop N Fresh - Split bottom mount trick involving a lot of "pops". Hence the name.
• Boingy Boing - Split bottom mount rhythmic trick.
• Spirit Bomb - nice trick using the Wrist Mount
• Chop Sticks - string tricks, that are done between the fingers of one hand.
• Folds - a loop of string is folded around the yo-yo. Very nice effect.
• Double Green Triangle - a not so difficult variation on Green Triangle
• Triangle symmetry - A very good looking trick for freestyles
• Kwijibo a difficult trick consisting of many hops 

During the past quarter century, we have been tossed and turned. We've been toyed with, tested, beaten and battered; sometimes we're completely unstrung.  

Has it always been fun?

Recently, I've resembled all of those things, and usually within a "New York Minute." First, I'm feeling loose and carefree; the next I'm defining my experience as shackled and constricted. 

But when it comes down to the final definition of Yo Yo, you can choose to feel like 
Randy Jackson and use it as an intro to a diatribe on what's right or wrong with something... ("Yo-yo, listen up..)

OR...you can choose to use it the way we do in our family..

     Y-you're

O-on

  Y-your

  O-own

 

Paradigm Shift: 

"A theory or a group of ideas 
about how something should be done, made, or thought about."