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1A Championship Trick list

1. Three Seven
2. White Buddha
3. Shock Wave
4. Suicide Catch
5. Kwijibo
6. Eli Hop
7. Slack Trapeze
8. Spirit Bomb
9. Black Hop
10. Iron Whip

The tie-breaker will be trick 3: Shockwave. See the trick description for further details.

1. Three Seven
(Same as the Pop N' Fresh/Boing/Mach 5 but 7 reps each)
Start with a "Split Bottom" mount. Go directly into a "Mach 5" hold by performing two underpasses with your freehand index finger (no string shortening somersaults allowed). Now perform seven (7) Pops. The seventh Pop will leave you in position to go directly into "Boing-E-Boing". Perform seven (7) reps of Boing-E-Boings (back and forth counts as one rep). Now go directly back into a "Mach 5" hold by performing two more underpasses with your freehand index finger, then perform seven (7) full "Mach 5" revolutions, unwind to a "Skin the Cat" hold and lower to a sleeper and then return yo-yo to hand (no binds allowed).

2. White Buddha: (full version) - video>>
Throw the beginning of one-and-a-half mount. After the yo-yo hits the top string, just let it bounce off immediately and land on the bottom string. Now go into a one-and-a-half mount hold with your Freehand directly above your Throwhand. Next, flip everything by moving your Freehand down and your Throwhand up flipping the yo-yo as well counter-clockwise. This is just like Buddha's Revenge. Now spread the string with the thumb and index finger of your Throwhand and flip the yo-yo out of the bucket. Immediately flip the yo-yo back into the bucket. Now flip the yo-yo clockwise over your Freehand and Throwhand.
Once again flip the yoyo out of the bucket but this time flip it out in front of the string furthest from you. Let the yo-yo swing around your Freehand index finger counter-clockwise over your Throwhand index finger onto the same string. Drop the outermost string segment off your Freehand index finger and then rotate the yo-yo counter-clockwise around your Throwhand index finger into a Trapeze and his brother hold (note that your must simultaneously unwind a twist during the rotation with your Freehand index finger.) Flip the yo-yo clockwise over Throwhand index finger and catch the yo-yo in a one and a half mount.

Next flip the yo-yo back counter-clockwise over your Freehand and Throwhand, and flip the yo-yo over your Freehand index finger onto the double string. The yo-yo should now be held in a "V" with your Freehand crossed slightly over your Throwhand. Now drop the string loop from your Throwhand index finger into the yo-yo groove in front off all the strings. You will now be in what looks like a trapeze hold but it is not. The yo-yo is being held in this hold by a "bind" caused by the dropped string loop...pause and show the hold. Then pull string with Throwhand releasing the bind. The yo-yo will drop out of this false trapeze hold and will be hanging over the outside of Freehand index finger. Flip yo-yo back into a trapeze hold and end trick with a Ferris wheel dismount. Note that the bind hold does not have to be held for any specific time and the trapeze does not have to be held in a 2o'clock position.

3. Shock Wave (3 reps) - video>>
Trapeze mount. Next press your throw-hand thumb and index finger together forming a "V" over the string, and wrap the string under your thumb and over the outside of your index finger by rolling your wrist towards your body. Now perform a "Magic Drop" by opening the "V' as you let the yo-yo roll down the string under and over your throw-hand index finger onto the string segment nearest your body. You will now be holding the yo-yo in a modified trapeze mount with the string going over your thumb and throw-hand and with your index fingers spreading the string segments of the trapeze. Now, while making sure not to drop the string off your throw-hand index finger, let the yo-yo roll back down the string under and over your freehand index finger landing on the string nearest your body. Now let the string drop off your throw-hand index finger and also let the outer segment drop off your freehand index finger. You should now be back in a trapeze hold, repeat twice more. End the trick with a Ferris wheel (no binds allowed). This trick will be used as the tie-breaker. Complete as many repetitions of Shock Wave as possible on one throw, the yo-yo may spin to extinction. The second part of the tie-breaker, if necessary, will be to complete as many repetitions of Shock Wave as possible follwed by a successful return of the yo-yo to the hand with a ferris-wheel dismount - again, no binds allowed.

4. Suicide Catch (2 reps) - video>>
Trapeze mount, two Suicide catches back into Trapeze hold, ending with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed). All Suicide throws must be from a Trapeze hold over the throwhand and must be caught on the index finger only of the freehand. To be performed exactly as seen in video. Please note that this is a reduction in repetitions from what was orignally posted. The video still shows 3 repetitions.

5. Kwijibo (1 rep)
Trapeze mount, then perform an upward Pop into a wrist-crossed "One and a Half" mount hold (with throwhand over freehand), then roll throwhand over and under freehand into a wrist-crossed "One and a Half" mount hold (with freehand over throwhand), then Pop to a Double or Nothing hold, then Pop to a Trapeze hold. End with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed). (Note that yo-yo must be popped upward on all three Hops, not to the side, and on the first Pop the throwhand must be clearly crossed over the freehand so that the yo-yo is caught in the middle of a "close to" horizontal wrist-crossed One and a Half" mount hold.) Note that all pops must go above the player's head. To be performed exactly as seen in video. Please note that this is a reduction in repetitions from what was originally posted. The video still shows 2 repetitions.

6. Eli Hop (7 reps) - video>>
Start with Trapeze mount and perform seven (7) Hops (or Pops). Hands must touch during each of the seven Hops. Must end with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed). To be performed exactly as seen in video.

7. Slack Trapeze (1 rep) - video>>
Throw a Trapeze. Pop the yo-yo off the Trapeze, and pinch the string between the fingers of your freehand. With the throwhand, throw the string over the freehand arm, forming a "U", and allow the part of the "U" furthest from you to mount itself onto the yo-yo. Swing the yo-yo clockwise over the freehand and throwhand, and you will be back in Trapeze. End trick with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed). Please note that this is a reduction in repetitions from what was originally posted. The video still shows 2 repetitions.

8. Spirit Bomb - video>>
Start with a wrist-bucket mount. Pull your Freehand out of the hold so the yo-yo is hanging in the mount over your Throwhand. Now perform a double pass under with freehand index finger, Pop yo-yo up, bring throwhand under and catch yo-yo on outermost string segment, Pop yo-yo up, uncross arms, and catch yo-yo over freehand index finger back into Wrist-bucket Mount (Note that the yo-yo has to pass through the triangle formed over your throwhand and land on bottom string segment), perform two pass unders with freehand index finger onto back string segment and pull into Trapeze, end with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed). Please note that this is a change from what was originally posted, the slack mount/cheese whip mount has been eliminated. The video still shows the trick with the previous mount.

9. Black Hop - video>>
Start with Triple or Nothing mount over both index fingers (note that you can not throw the Triple or Nothing over your thumbs or other fingers to spread the strings apart), hop down to Trapeze in 4 hops then back to a hold similar (but not quite) to a Triple or Nothing in 4 hops (more like undercuts). After all 8 hops pull your Throwhand index finger out of the hold and rotate the Yo-Yo 2 revolutions into a Trapeze hold, end with a Ferris wheel dismount (no binds allowed).

10. Iron Whip (2 reps) - video>>
Throw a trapeze mount, grab an open loop with throw-hand, pop yo-yo out of trapeze, lasso yo-yo with a whip catch with the open loop, roll back to a trapeze hold. Perform a second rep. End with a Ferris wheel dismount and catch the yo-yo. Please note that this is a change from what was originally posted. The reps have been reduced and this trick will no longer be used as the tiebreaker. The video still shows the original version of the trick.

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