Genius Hour with Isaac

This Genius Hour went very well. I was able to find an expert this time (even though I haven’t met with them yet), I completed my end goal and even had a few extra tricks, and I hit most of my tricks during the presentation. I also learned a lot about yo-yoing that I didn’t know before and I am going to learn more yo-yo tricks on my own time. I had lots of fun doing this Genius Hour and I got to show my friends my yo-yo tricks.

I lost my yo-yo. Last week after Genius Hour I brought my yo-yo to gym with me. I had left it in the large gym next to my friend’s stuff while we went outside, but when I came back inside it wasn’t there. I bought another yo-yo on amazon and for now I have a different yo-yo. I haven’t been able to do much this week and I’m still waiting for a reply from my expert.

I have signed up for the one-on-one now. He got back to me but he wasn’t available so I am trying to find a different time to work with him. I was able to hit “loop the loop” this weekend and I tried “around the corner” and “over the falls” but I wasn’t able to complete them. I also rehearsed for the presentation a few times and made sure I was pretty consistent with all my tricks.

I haven’t signed up for the one-on-one but I am going to do it soon. I am hopefully going to learn “breakaway” with the expert but I am also going to try and learn “around the corner”, “over the falls” and “loop the loop” but I probably won’t have time for the final two tricks.

Two of the experts I contacted haven’t gotten back to me but YoYoExpert did. One of their employees has a website where he offers zoom lessons on yo-yoing. https://a2zscience.com/yoyo-one-on-one/

I’m getting really pretty close to getting a “breakaway” but I can’t get the yo-yo to come back to me. I still haven’t really practiced many new tricks. I hope the expert will be able to help me with “breakaway”.

Yo-yoing went very well this week. I’m very consistent at hitting the tricks but I still need to learn the other tricks. I tried “breakaway” and I’ve gotten better at it. The yo-yo goes around but I can’t get it to come back to me. I’ve found three experts, YoYoTricks, YoYoFactory, and YoYoExpert. I contacted them all about potentially getting lessons. I just contacted them yesterday so I haven’t heard back yet.

I have gotten better at yo-yoing again, the yo-yo is coming back up a lot more consistently and my sleeper is pretty good but it still isn’t back to where I used to be. The other type of throw, the forward pass, isn’t going very well. I can get it to come back but it’s hard to control and inconsistent. Today, I hit my first “rock the baby” since I slowed down at yo-yoing.

I haven’t been yo-yoing much this week so I have been getting worse at yo-yoing. The string of my yo-yo also gets tight way too quickly when I’m yo-yoing and it makes it harder to do any of the tricks. I have also been trying to do around the world/forward pass but the yo-yo can’t get enough power. It’s been frustrating because I was able to do it before, but I can’t do it anymore. I was planning to take a video of all the tricks that I learned but I can’t do that because I can’t do the more advanced tricks anymore. Even the sleeper, which took me a single day to learn the first time, I can only do some of the time. This night I am going to do as much yo-yoing as possible in order to try to relearn the tricks I had already learnt.

I haven’t had very much time this weekend to practice yo-yoing. I got in as much practice as I could to perfect the moves I already learned but I haven’t worked on any new ones. This Monday my elbow was getting a bit sore from yo-yoing a lot throughout these past few weeks.

I got a new yo-yo called a Yomega Fireball. It’s a ball bearing yo-yo and I’m able to do all the tricks in the video now. I also learned about two types of ball bearing yo-yos, responsive and unresponsive. A responsive yo-yo is the type I have and the type you probably think of when you think of yo-yos. It will come right back up if you just flick your hand while it’s spinning. Unresponsive yo-yos are able to do much more advanced tricks and can spin longer, but you have to do a special trick called a bind in order to make it come back up.

I also practiced and got pretty good at some of the tricks. I have completed “the sleeper”, “walk the dog”, “rock the baby”, and “around the world”. I tried “breakaway” many times but I can’t get enough spin on the yo-yo to make it come back to me.

I am going to try and find an expert to contact as soon as possible so I don’t run out of time like last time. I also need to adjust the string of my yo-yo as it’s a bit too long.