How Do You Do Vertical Punch Yo-Yo Tricks?
“ANDRE BOULAY: So, the next trick I’m going to be showing you today is vertical punches or vertical loops. I learn them as vertical loops. Some people call them vertical punches but it’s pretty much the same trick. What you’re doing is — you want to learn shoot the moon first. You want to learn the shoot the moon motion to get the yoyo to raise up in to the air because the next step to this is actually to keep that yoyo in the air in that same direction. So, this is what vertical loops looks like. You’re repeatedly shooting the yoyo back up over your head. It’s not going back down in front of you. It’s just going straight up over and over again. To do this, you want to have a strong shoot the moon motion just like so. And what happens is as the yoyo comes back down, instead of just letting it continue back out. Watch my hand here. I actually just make a quick flicking backwards motion. This is what helps keep the yoyo up in the air, just like that. Just repeat this. It’s almost kinda
