docpop, to random
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I love this video by Fabian Adhi today and wanted to share it around. Rad tricks and nice editing. I can't wait to see more of Fabian's vids.
Original video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6Sr1TiSaQK/

A video of a young man in a wheelchair, doing yo-yo tricks. The video is shot in a really nice looking indoor mall and the video cuts and changes the location frequently, but it does it in a way where the tricks all line up and make sense. Even though the location changes, the moves are consistent. The yo-yo tricks are intricate string tricks with slack elements.

docpop, to random
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I posted a new tutorial for . This one explores some new concepts that happen when you blend responsive tricks with an unresponsive yo-yo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJo5XzyPqVw

docpop, to random
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I like the way this flows. Using a Weekender .

A man playing with an orange aluminum yo-yo in his living room. The lighting is very dramatic, most of the room is dark, but there is a bright orange and pink light pointing at the yo-yoer. He does tricks with a very responsive yo-yo that has a counterweight on the end of it. The man is me (Doctor Popular), a 46 year old white guy with a beard and black framed glasses. I'm wearing a black t-shirt with a white lightning bolt printed on it.

pfefferle, to random
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@docpop can you recommend a yo-yo to start practicing? and/or a shop to buy it from germany? 😏

docpop,
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@pfefferle the Shooting Star by iYoYo could be a great fit for you. It can be set up as responsive or unresponsive, and it comes with a online tutorials. https://www.yo-shop.de/Package-Deals/Beginners-Set-SHOOTiNG-STAR::591.html

Responsive yo-yos are the ones that come up with a quick tug. Most yo-yos these days are unresponsive, which requires learning how do a "bind". Once you learn how to bind, everything becomes much easier. This can be set up for either style.

docpop, to random
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I posted a short interview with Miguel Correa about his history in yo-yoing, what he loves about 5A, and a quick tutorial of Tunnels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eZh_0Ln6I

docpop, to random
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Freegen: a mid-air regeneration with a counterweight 🪀.

Me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. I throw a breakaway throw and then let go of the end of the string. The yo-yo flies in the air and sucks the string and the counterweight back into its body, then kicks the counterweight and string back out again for me to catch.

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"Yo-Yo" by Toru Shimizu.
https://docpop.org/2023/03/ukiyo-e-yo-yo-by-toru-shimizu/

docpop, to random
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I animated some tricks.

Video of me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. I'm using a very responsive yo-yo with a counterweight on the end and doing original tricks. Throughout the video, glowing lines and drawings appear on the screen and audio effects are heavily used. The video starts off with some slow motion footage, during this slowed down section I do intricate tricks while the audio creates the effect of time slowing down and a "woosh" can be heard as the yo-yo moves. Then the video returns to normal speed with a record scratch sound effect, before going into cool jazz music. My glasses get filled in to look like shades. The jazz stops and an animated ufo appears on screen over my freehand as the yo-yo spins on it's side on the pointer finger of my other hand. A cow is animated over the spinning yo-yo, giving the look of a yo-yo floating over a cow. The string between the two hands looks like a tractor beam coming from the ufo and lifting the cow up. The ufo goes off screen and I finish my tricks with the sound of a crowd cheering in the background.

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Having fun with my PLTPS

Me using a yo-yo in my living room. I’m doing tricks with a slim green yo-yo and a counterweight. The music is a logo hip hop beat by The Heavy Twelves.

docpop, to random
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DNA Switch with a PLTPS and counterweight.

Me in a bright orange shirt standing in my living room and doing yo-yo tricks. I hold the yo-yo horizontally between two of my fingers and pull the string like a ripcord. This makes the yo-yo string on it's side on the tip of my finger. I then toss the yo-yo in the air and catch it on the pointer finger of my opposite hand. I also let got of the counterweight on the end of the string and catch it with the opposite hand too. Basically this trick is doing a "DNA" trick on my right hand, then switching to a left-handed DNA.

docpop, to random
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Yoyofactory are doing their annual A-May-Zing sale all month. Each day are new deals. As far as unresponisve suggestions, I like the Edgeless a lot. If you buy an unresponsive yo-yo, you'll need to know how to bind, which isn't difficult to learn. If you are looking for a classic responsive yo-yo, the Arrow might be a good fit.
If you have any questions, feel free to hit me up and I'll try to help. I don't work for YYF and haven't used most of these models.
https://yoyofactory.com/collections/all-products?filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&sort_by=created-descending

docpop, to random
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Dropping science with a .

Me wearing a mad scientist costume (lab coat, safety goggles, and a white wig) while yo-yoing. I'm doing counterweight tricks with a responsive yo-yo for about 20 seconds. The video is shot in my living room and the music is relaxing ambient music made on modular synthesizers.

docpop, to random
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This morning's combo. Using a Populist yo-yo and music by Cartoon Violence.

A man doing yo-yo tricks in his backyard with a purple aluminum yo-yo. The tricks are semi advanced and flow together. The music is lo-fi pop music with clunky casio drums and a simple melody and the video is shot from a gopro mounted on a the player's head.

docpop, to random
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Pedro Flores, the Filipino American immigrant who is known as the "Father Of Yo-Yo", was born on this day in 1896. So I made this drawing to celebrate his birthday.

The (also known as the bandolore) had been around for centuries, but Pedro created a new method of attaching the string in the 1920s that allowed the toy to "sleep" when it reached the bottom of the string. Up until his invention, yo-yos only went up and down! In 1932, Pedro sold his company to Don Duncan.

A timelapse of the drawing being made. It shows light blue lines in the figure of a man standing up, and then becomes the final black and white drawing Pedro Flores.

docpop, to SanFrancisco
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was an extremely talented yo-yoer and artist who passed away in 2021. Though I met him through , I was a huge fan of Paul's illustrations and line work. The dude was a genius with a sharpie.

I'm excited that the folks at Method Made are putting together a show based on Paul's work. The show opens tonight, April 20th, at 4:20 pm at 2544 Mission Street in .

More details and artwork here https://www.tmmdl.com/collections/paul-escolar-in-memory

A self-portrait of Paul Escolar walking past a line of people. The people are all in corporate attire and looking at their phones. Paul is in a t-shirt and looking ahead hopefully and relaxed. The artwork is black and white. Paul's character pops out from the busy background by giving more black fills to his hair, pants, and shoes.

docpop, (edited )
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I had always hoped to film an interview with Paul about his art and the influence he had on the community, but I never had the chance. I regret that, but I was able to find a rare interview with Paul about his art. Thanks to The Method Makers for allowing me to republish it here in its entirety: https://doctorpopular.com/the-method-makers-interview-with-paul-escolar/

And here is a great video about Paul's influence on yo-yoing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxydxqdvw

docpop, to random
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This morning’s combo while waiting for coffee.

Doc playing with a yo-yo in a coffee shop. There are people in background reading books or standing in a line waiting to order. Doc is wearing a denim jacket, orange beanie, and black KN95 face mask. He does a long spinning yo-yo combo for about twenty seconds, then shows the yo-yo (a titanium butterfly shape model) to the camera.

docpop,
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Here's a tutorial for "Path Of Totality". A slack/branding/repeater that's in the above trick video https://youtu.be/Z4CoYbxjedo

docpop, to graffiti
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Imagine my surprise when I heard my name mentioned 13 minutes into a freight train graffiti documentary from 2005. https://docpop.org/2024/04/getting-a-yo-yo-shout-out-in-the-middle-of-a-graffiti-dvd-from-2005/

docpop, to random
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A friend of mine used his Icarus as a pinhole projector during today’s . Folks always ask me why I put so many holes in this yo-yo. Now I finally have a good answer.

docpop, to random
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Today's batch of tricks

Me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. The music playing is Prefuse 73's "Desks Pencils Bottles", which samples acoustic instruments like beatboxing and pounding on a desk.

docpop, to random
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Eeby Deeby: a fun tutorial for my friends

docpop, to random
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A few bangers.

Me playing with a yo-yo in my apartment. I perform some original yo-yo tricks that occasionally land in an "Eiffel Tower" picture trick.

docpop, to random
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Have fun! New color PLTPS now available with this special engraving inside. https://doctorpopular.com/shop/patreon-pltps-yo-yos/

Me playing with a yo-yo. The yo-yo is white and red and attached to a white counterweight. At part of the video, I take the yo-yo apart to show that it has laser engraving on the inside that says "have fun!".

docpop, to random
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Filmed some tricks and an interview with Harrison Lee (a 3x Canadian National Champion) on Street today.

Harrison Lee yo-yoing on a street in San Francisco. Many people walk or bicycle by while he is doing his tricks.

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