Hi, my name is Sam and I am going to teach you, how to do the basic tricks in playing with the Diabolo.
First, you need a Diabolo and two sticks and string made in nylon. To start the Diabolo spinning, you drag it across the floor and start pulling the stick in your right hand upwards and letting it drop again like this.
To get the Diabolo spinning faster which is the key to all Diabolo tricks. You pass the right stick under the Diabolo like that. So, it might move around the Diabolo, increasing the friction making it go faster.
There is another way to make it go faster, your right stick behind the left stick and then in front of it again. You got the Diabolo spinning fast; you are now ready to do some tricks.
The first trick I am going to teach you, today is the throwing and catching trick. So, this you have to hold the sticks together and then take them out, pull it apart so the Diabolo goes up into the air like this.
To catch them, you catch them on the right side of the string and tilt the string into an angle so that it gains any speed that is lost once you have thrown that. You need to get the Diabolo spinning extremely fast.
To do the elevator, you need to take the right stick onto the Diabolo and pull the sticks forward. Here is the elevator once more, here is another trick I called it the foot in the string trick.
So this trick, you have to put your leg on the string, push it down and catch it on the other side trick. I am going to do is pull over the floor.
First, to do this trick you put the right stick into the left piece of string like that and to get it back over. You just do a searching on this with the right stick; I will show you this once more.
My last trick; I am going to do, the cross and catching trick. To do this trick, you just do the simple throw and catch trick that both— just cross the stick to catch it like this.
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