Advanced Tricks

1. The lift
2. The cross
3. The Hop
4. The ping pong move
5. The Swinging stick
6. Criss Cross
7. The Whip

• First accelerate the Diabolo to a very high speed.
• Lift the left stick over your head.
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• Perform a loop with your right stick; the string is now rolled around the axel. pull the stick downwards.
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• Tighten the string with a flick of your wrist.
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• As a result the diabolo will spin its way up to the left stick; beware! once its up you'll have to unroll the string from the axel.

• Throw the diabolo in the air.
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• Cross your sticks and catch the diabolo!
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• Spin the diabolo fast, then step across the string and let it slide towards the right stick.
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• With a jerk, lift the right stick to throw the diabolo over your leg; it'll fall back on the string.
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• Now let it roll under your leg and start the figure again!
  Note: you can do the same using your foot.
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• This is one of the hardest figures!!
• First throw the diabolo in the air pretty high.
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• While its in the air, roll the the string around your neck, and catch the diabolo on one of the srings.
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• Then with small impulsions you can bounce the diabolo back and forth from one half string to the other!.
• Another way of starting this one is to let the diabolo slide a bit to the left/right (depending on whether you are a lefty or not) and to roll the string around the neck while the diabolo spins on the string, from then on the rest is the same as explained.

• Accelerate the Diabolo pretty fast;
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• Then swing the Diabolo to the right, keeping your sticks wide apart;
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• ...The diabolo will fall (if everything goes allright) back on the string, note how the strings cross!
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• Now throw the left stick under the right stick (not too hard otherwise it won't work, but don't just let it fall)
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• Here! it is Swinging around the stick be prepared to catch it! The best way to do it is to open your hand and wait for the stick to hit your palm!
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• Hey, now you can do it the other way!

• Throw the Diabolo in the air
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• Then cross your arms
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• Now catch the Diabolo with your hands crossed (that's hard!)
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• Ok now uncross your arms making sure that the string hits the stick! (see the picture...)
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• Now, pass the stick through the gap between the "strings", and open your arms gently
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• You can see the shape of the "weave" (at first you might want to practice the move without the Diabolo to get a feel of what it should look like!)
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• Here's the good part: tilt the sticks upwards and launch the diabolo in the air and catch it on the "X"
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• How to get out of this move?:simply point both sticks downwards letting the string slip off the sticks and you should find yourself back in starting position.

• Here's a pretty amazing trick (especially for the people watching you!). It isn't hard to do, but once you do it the diabolo will, in most cases (always for me), stop spinning and the string will twist; so there's no way out of this trick!. What I do is leave this trick as a "Grand Finale".
• Start by throwing the Diabolo in the air, not too high though.
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• Then grab both sticks in one hand and turn about 45 degrees to the left/right depending on which hand you are holding the sticks so that you face the axle of the diabolo. NOTE: you may want to put a finger between the sticks so that they remain separated.
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• Ok, now that your arm is well above your head, you are ready to whip!
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• Whip!! Note that you don't have to do the movement very fast, and don't need to aim in a special way, just point in the direction of the axle and let your arm fall, the rest is automatic... and pretty amazing: the first times you do it you hardly beleive it yourself!!.

Note: There are many other tricks, some even with multiple diabolos, and i'll try to update my home page as often as i can. But if you have good tricks not reported on this page please send me info about them and i'll post them!

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