How To Improve Your Yoyo Flow (Like A Pro)
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Yoyo Flow. This is another one of those largely undiscussed topics within the Yoyo community. So I thought this would be the perfect topic for my next 'like a pro' series. So let's begin with a definition, what is flow?
From my understanding, flow is a term that is designed to describe tricks that are performed with an elegant fluency, each element leads seamlessly into the next. Some examples of players whom I think are awesome at flow are;
- Charles Haycock
- Takeshi Matsuura
- Mike Monty
- Daniel Kim
And countless others who don't immediately come into my memory. The way I see it is there are 3 important elements of flow.
1) Practice
This is the most important aspect, without practice, you won't get anywhere with flow. The more you practice the more your elements, the better they will transition and flow into each other. This is an absolute prerequisite for flow, but I'd argue that practice isn't sufficient on its own.
2) Trick Construction
Creating tricks that follow the 3 criteria:
a) Follow the same direction.
b) Change directions quickly and fluently.
c) Devoid of redundant or irrelevant elements.
3) Breaking flow
Flow is nice on its own and understanding what makes it happen allows you to break it strategically and create a very snappy element. Understanding flow, and what breaks it is also a critical component in harnessing the aesthetic nature of flow.
Hopefully, this video helps some of you out! I'm by no means an expert at flow, and flow is just one of the considerations I take into account when building tricks. However, this is what I know and I thought I'd share my thoughts in the hopes that it accelerates your learning journey.
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Hey guys! Been loving the video ideas for the 'like a pro' series. Keep them coming, I really love to make these videos where we breakdown nuances of yoyos that are widely discussed. Will try my best to do as many of the video requests as possible. Thanks again for tuning in everyone.
excellent breakdown of flow man!Love this video
Edit: One thing that I really find very interesting about flow is that everyone’s flow is different. You can never exactly mimic someone’s flow,like we can break down Charles’ tricks and learn it,but we can never really copy the exact way of how he does it or makes it look.
I think this is highly correlated to muscle memory and how we do or make our own tricks,like,everyone has it’s own different way of doing the same trick,such as timing or the emphasis they put into each element. So I like to think flow in yoyoing is identical to handwriting,everyone can do the same thing,but it’ll always look different due to the way we learned it.
DUDE! A comment from MR flow himself. I'd love to hear your thoughts on any other aspects of flow that could be broken down.
The Brandon Vu Edited with my opinion about it ;) Flow is a really interesting topic on yoyoing so I’m happy to see you break it down this well
Dude, this video came in the right time! I'm leaarning so many tricks but I was having trouble with my flow... Thank you!
You’re starting ‘like a pro’ series! Loving it bro!
Law Farrell ask and you shall receive ;)
I am still practising how to throw a breakaway like pro. I have been playing for 20years man since I was a teenager. After that video, I start taking video if my self playing to make sure I look like a ‘pro’. I am surprised I still lift my elbow quite high and looks hideous! Trying my best to do it the ‘pro’ way now. One thing about flow is when you perform to non-yoyoers, as long as you do a poker face and just do a pin-wheel when you miss a trick, it’s fine. They will still be impressed. One thing I would like you to cover is how not to play with a stiff shoulder and body. Even some pros do this and although you hit the trick or have flow, it still looks ugly. Do one need to take dancing classes?!
Man, I love these "like a pro" series. Awesome video! When you mentioned about break the flow, the first thing popped in my mind was like a beat drop in EDM. and that definitely hits the spot. Haha.
Haha! glad you're enjoying the content.
Does anybody have any other players in their mind that have great flow? I already love and binge watch players like Charles, Yuuki, Takeshi to an extent, Mikemonty, Markmont. Always up to discover new great players! Very glad you made a video about this, I feel a huge lack of flow when it comes to heavily tech-nutritious freestyles I see on most competitions.
That was very cool. Pls continue the pro series!
A video request I have is how to compete like a pro. The idea is to basically breakdown the entire judging system and how to understand how to maximise evals and whether something clicks or now.
Also nice room
Will work on that, thanks for the idea.
This is a big help for me thanks a lot sir Brandon
You are most welcome!
Really great video, I really want to see some another video about creating combos, I seen your video about it and your video about creating tricks and it helped me. I had some ideas and I created some combos, but now I am stuck about it and I dont know what to do so many times when I am creating combo I end in green triangle so many times and I dont know what to do next. I will be happy for any next video like this. Thanks before :)
EXCELLENT VIDEO!! I needed these instructions and I hope you make more!! Keep up the great work my friend! Your content is amazing and your skill / flow is 🔥!!
Thanks so much Travis! Looking forward to seeing more tricks from you.
Appreciate the video. I'm on month 2 of yoyoing and this helped me understand it a lot better.
That demonstration at 0:50 is me on my best day lol.
Thanks man! All it takes is a little bit of practice :)
This damn thing here. Exactly the kind of nuance based video we need more of, just like was commenting about on the throw like a pro vid you did. These are the kinds of things that not a lot of pros cover. I'm sure it's not easy for elite level players to try to remember what kind of things didn't always come to them naturally. I really appreciate that you go out of your way to find ideas like this.
Kinda funny, until this vid I had never noticed that every time I pick up a yoyo, first thing I do is the same super basic combo. Until watching this. Now I realize that as a novice, it's really the only combo I know that flows perfectly and that makes it not only a great warmup but also for checking if that yoyo needs any maintenance. Maybe now I can finally come up with a few other different warmups lol. Please keep these coming!
Thanks for the super insightful comment man! I do really enjoy breaking these things down. As a slow learner myself, I often need extensive breakdowns like these to fully understand what's going on. Keep me posted on any other warm up combos you may have.
@@thebrandonvu Of course, man! And really appreciate not just the time and care you take to explain, but also your honesty. It helps us see that hey, even pros need time to learn, and we can get there too.
Now that I think about it, one thing that maybe might help us think of combos would be to better understand what's out there. Like maybe a vid on how to more easily break a combo we see down to it's simpler elements? Or maybe a short list of like 10 or 15 building block tricks that make up a large amount of combos that are out there?
Single trick tutorials are the bread & butter of course. But would be cool to have that one vid to show these X amount of fundamental tricks we should all work on for recognizing or building combos. What elements create the right movement to more easily transition to many other elements. Kinda like following up this how to flow idea with "here are several elements that easily flow into tons of other stuff".
Nice video on flow -- I'll definitely keep some of this in mind while working on combos!
So yeah..., just getting back into yoyoing from a hiatus of grinding to learn new tricks/elements. I've noticed that a lot of the times when my combos have a green triangle, they are at the end. I know it's like an unwritten rule that like a triangle is that 'high risk high reward' structure to throw in, especially with suicides/rejections/slack tricks, but I've only ever kind of had triangles, again, at the end or near the end of combos -- and it seems a bunch the same for a lot of players: that usually a triangle will just be a the end of a combo or long segment. I suppose it's more of an *intermediate level* sort of suggestion, but I don't really know what the "options" are to continue with a combo off of a triangle (apart from just popping out of it to a laceration or something); I know it's not 'necessary' to keep things going after a triangle, but I feel like I'm just on auto-pilot to pop out and bind after entering a triangle when I'd rather keep it going -- maybe the bigger topic is like how to transition to-from structures mid combo instead of making it look like two small combos (i feel this way a bit for towers too)
(^basically had this thought on triangles after watching the last "banger" of a trick from Evan Nagao's 2019 world performance)
Very interesting idea. It sounds to me like this would be in a broader sense, how to keep your combos going like a pro... Or something like that. Definitely something I can look into.
Yo very nice video very informative asw I even took notes for this video asw lol. But its because im trying to improve my flow and trick construction in general, amazing vid Brandon
Awesome Fabian, thanks for the shout out on instagram. Hope you got a lot out of this.
Great video man!! This is neat brother!! Can't wait to see more!
Thanks for the support! Any other content you'd like from me?
@@thebrandonvu I always love the trick tutorials. Those along with the reviews are awesome!! The flow video are really cool as well. Your doing great!!
Thx this was really helpfull
This video really helped me out, I've been working on my flow lately to clean up my tricks
Perfect man! So glad it added value, keep me posted on the tricks you're gonna be pushing out.
Congrats on the new place looks nice
Man have you tried this C3 Speedo xx just did a video on it really fun throw if you haven't tried it
Loving this video keep it up
uria etgar thanks for the encouragement man!
Just one important thing to note: everything Brandon says is correct. But rules are meant to be broken ;)
Ryan Kim 100% ;)
Hey Brandon! where can I buy an Outlier? (other than Yoyoexpert)
Hey Brandon, Like the vids! How about a video on "how to Edit music like a Pro" I know you did a video on choosing music but how about one where you go in detail about what softwhere is the best to use and how to combine different song tunes to where it sounds good. And maybe touch on some of the tech stuff like how to save music once it is created and how to pull different tunes from youtube videos and put them on one continuous audio strand. A lot of people are not tech savvy and literally have no idea where to start. Just an idea.
That’s a great idea Katie! I’ll 100% look into that.
Hi Brandon. These's always a prolem that i face whenever i came up the stage ( sometimes it happened when i played in public ) . I always fee nevous and i litterly can't control myself. Although i have spent so many time on praticing. Everthing went super good when i praticed and especially i COULD CONTROL MY YOYO in speed. But it still happened, i tried to go slower but it still not undercontrol. What am i supposed to do ?
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Love your vids brandon
Thanks for the support Caleb, really appreciate it!
Hey Brandon - I noticed you didn’t reference any female players in your video - which do you reckon have good flow?
You should see Zach Gormley's 2020 Scales and Japan International stuff.
Yeah I saw it, it's crazy!
Nice breakdown of flow
How to score more points? How to plan a fs? How to "make a combo" ?
Kendrick Hu we need to get you on this channel to explain some stuff Kendrick.
Great video, thanks! How about how to practice like a pro?
Oooooo, good one. I've got a video on how I practice, I wouldn't put that in the 'pro' category tho. Let me take a look, perhaps it's time to dust off the Offset podcast.
Charles Haycock is like my yoyo idol
Can you show a slow mo tutorial of how you bind with the yo-yo going away to your right? You do it so casually and it seems I am missing something when I am binding it that way with a tail and weird catch.
Can you make a video about how many levels would be there in asian Pacific yoyo competition and how would be the competition level.....
Not sure I understand the question here. Do you want me to make a video on the stages of AP. Don't think that's out of the ordinary, it's just prelims, semifinal and final. Or were you asking something else?
@@thebrandonvu its about how many levels or performance should be done to reach finals in ap (for seeded player or other players)
Yuuki Spencer doesn’t care about this video😂😂.
I still love you Brandon❤️😂
Where do things like redirects and regens fit into this? I also feel like music has a lot to do with how well a trick is received, so intentionally breaking flow because it fits with a certain part of the music can really add to a routine.
xCrusader66x Excellent question. I’d say redirects and regens fit into fast and fluent direction changes. They absolutely look cool when done fluently and quickly.
are the reviews coming for the rest of the yoyos jonothan sent you?
Jean Skipper yup they are Coming! Recently moved and forgot my hard drive at my parents place, so filmed something new instead. But the rest of the reviews are coming.
@@thebrandonvu Looking forward to them :)
Would hella appreciate a video on how to break out of boxes/doing the same tricks over and over again. I'm finding it impossible to make new stuff even though I have the skill to do competitive level tech, I just can't seem to stop the cycle of doing the same stuff every day.
Also trick diversity and how to be meta without doing the same stuff as everyone else for competitions, if that makes any sense
Just forget your tricks and watch old yoyo videos for inspiration
@@glow2215 doesn't help in the slightest, I spend a good amount of time daily just rewatching old freestyles and videos and nothing helps no matter how good they are
This is such an interesting idea Ed. I'd imagine this would be along the lines of how to get out of a Rut. I can definitely make a video on this, thanks so much for the suggestion.
@@thebrandonvu Thank you so much man, you're a legend
Next is, how to string tech like Polo.
Yeah mike montey has mad flow
Yah, he does.
What is that trick that u mostly did that was based off a double or nothing?
Henry Freihoff it was an old hour glass combo I made up many years ago.
You should try a memento ...
That's been a big request in this video. Perhaps I should hit up Mike Monty.
@@thebrandonvu I'm super excited to see it..
@@thebrandonvu oh there u go
Can we get a review on the memento??
I'd be down, go and spam Mikes channel ;)
@@thebrandonvu sure thing..xD
Have u tried the memento yet?
I have not
@@thebrandonvu u should do a review on it.. I haven't seen u review organic yoyos since a while
BTW, Are you familiar with miyo strings?
Cyrian Roxas Nope, should I be?
I just realised Gentry has more snappy elements, may be that’s why his videos look more cool 💁🏻♂️
Yah, his tricks are super super flashy.
🙋♂️
What type of yoyo do you like more? Btw I mean responsive or not responsive.
Which yoyo is it ?
Outlier, version 1. Stay tuned for an Outlier 2 ;)
Hey B can you tell me what that awful trick is...? I wanna learn it now 😂
Matthew Lock HAHAH! Its literally an old hour glass combo of mine. Did you want a tutorial?
@@thebrandonvu yeah for sure that'd be awesome!
Who remembers the perils of yoyoing vids?
Legend V god, don’t bring those up
Your beautiful
You too, you too.
My yoyo sooo slowly 😭😭
Speed combos has a lot of filler elements tho
Lumpiang Togue yep, but they also make up for it with super fast and fluent direction changes.