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Cosmic Yo-Yos Ultimate Trick Collection

Featuring: Brad Urani
Running Time: 206 minutes
2 Disc DVD
2003 Jumby Bay Studios and Cosmic Yo-Yos

The first thing I noticed when I watched the DVD was the clarity, there really is no comparison to video.  DVD blows video away.  Another benefit of DVD is the utilization of navigation menus.  The viewer can easily locate a specific trick they are interested in (on disc 1 anyway, see more below).

The Disc 1 menu includes tricks, yo-yo tips, about cosmic, and contact info.  The sub menu for yo-yo tricks includes tying the string, putting the string on your finger, winding the yo-yo, choosing a yo-yo, yo-yo styles, string tension, and partner practice.

Under the trick menu the tricks are sorted several different ways, by name, category, skill level, extreme freesstyle, and outtakes.  By name, the tricks are sorted alphabetically.  By category, the tricks are sorted by bonus trick (velvet rolls), combo tricks, extra manual, frontstyle basic, frontstyle advanced, and flying saucer style.  By skill level, the tricks are sorted from 1 thru 6 at .5 increments.   The extreme freestyle and outtakes are on disc 2.

Once you get to the actual trick menu, be it by name, category, or skill level, you are presented with several options.  You have the choice of viewing the trick in loop mode (repeating), or slow motion.  You can view the trick with an explaination (not available with slo mo), and you can view the trick from angle A, B, or both.  The loop mode feature is great because you can keep watching a trick again and again.  For some reason the slow motion feature on my DVD player doesn't work with disc 1 (it does with disc 2).  Some tricks didn't have explainations, even though I chose that feature.  And some tricks could have used a little more of an explaination. 

Disc 2 contains extreme style and the outtakes.  The outtakes are 6 minutes of Brad's bloopers.  The extreme style section was a bit disappointing, mainly because it didn't follow the same format as the tricks on disc 1.  The tricks on this disc are performed by Andrew Murray and Jimmy Peng.  The tricks are broken down into the following categories:  boingy boing, double A, freehand: basic and advanced, grinds, lacerations, offstring, single A/Andrew, single A/Jimmy, slack string, tournament, and whip.  There are no options for these tricks as on disc 1.  Once you choose a category all the tricks in that category are run straight through.  You can skip to the next trick, but there is no menu which lists each individual trick.   There are no explainations, and they are shot from only one angle.  The tricks are shown once, then repeated in slow motion. 

This DVD is good for beginners.  The use of DVD menus on disc 1 makes it much easier to learn tricks on this format when compared to video.  I would have liked to see a section dedicated to mounts.  Disc 2 should have followed the same format as on disc 1.  A printed trick list should have been included, especially since there is no individual trick menu on disc 2.

The trick list below was copied from the Cosmic Yo-Yo web site.


Interactive Trick Disk

Ambidextrous split the atom
Around the World
Around the World Trapeze
Atomic Baby
Backwards Around the World
Backwards Barrel Rolls
Backwards Braintwister
Backwards Ferris Wheels
Backwards Loop Sleeper
Backwards Pinwheels
Backwards Pullovers
Barrel Rolls
Behind the Back Trapeze
Bird in Hand
Bowtie
Braintwister
Braintwister from the Bottom
Braintwister Over the Top
Breakaway
Breakaway Loops
Breakaway Pinwheels
British Flag
Buddha’s Bounce
Buddha’s Revenge
Circus Baby
Circus Family
Confederate Flag
Cosmic Space Dust Ion Ray
Crazy Cradle
Creeper
Crossover Trapeze
Dizzy Baby
Double Braintwister
Double Cradle
Double Double Drop
Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing Cradle
Double or Nothing to Trapeze 1
Double or Nothing to Trapeze 2
Double or Nothing to Trapeze 3
Double Skin the Cat
Double Star
Double Trapeze
Dragster
Eiffel Tower
Elevator
Eli Hops
Exploding Volcano of Death
Ferris Wheels
Flying Saucer
Forward Pass
Full Twisting Double Around the World
Galactic Lawn Mower
Gemini Loops
Guillotine
Gunslinger
Homerun
Homing Pigeon
Horizontal Around the World
Houdini Drop
Hydrogen Bomb
Inside Loops
Jedi Backflip
Johnny Round the Corner
Joint Custody
Kick Orbit Launch
Kick the dog around the world
Lariat
Lunar Eclipse
Mach 3
Mach 5
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Man on the Trapeze & his Brother
Momentary Lapse
Monkey Climbs the String
Moon rocket
Oliver Twist
One Handed Star
Orbit Launch
Outside Loops
Over the Leg Trapeze
Pickpocket
Pinwheel Trapeze
Pinwheels
Planet Hop
Pulling Taffy
Pullovers
Quadruple or Nothing
Quintuple or Nothing
Rabbit
Ripcord
Rock the Alien Baby
Rock the Baby
Rock the Baby and throw it out of its cradle
Rock the Baby Combo
Rock the Baby on the Eiffel Tower
Rock the Baby on the Launch Pad
Rock the Baby on the Trapeze
Rollercoaster
Sewing Machine
Shoot the Moon
Shoot the Teacher
Shooting Star
Singapore Sling
Skin the Cat
Skyrocket
Slack Trapeze
Sleeper
Spiraling Pinwheels
Split Bottom Sling
Split the Atom
Stop & Go
Subway
Suicide
Swing Set
Tape Measure
Texas Cowboy
Three Leaf Clover
Throwdown
Time Warp (ATW, Planet Hop, BW ATW)
Trapeze Regeneration
Trapeze to Double or Nothing
Triple or Nothing
Two-Handed Spider Web
Two-Handed Star
Upside Down Trapeze
Velvet Rolls
Walk the Alien Dog
Walk the Dog
Walk the Dog & Jump him through a hoop
Walk the dog into the Future
Warp Drive
Waverider
Y is for Yo-Yo
Zero Gravity
Zipper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freestyle Bonus Disc

Suicides
Basic Suicide
Suicide to 1 1/2
Frontstyle Suicide
Lindy Loop Suicide
Suicide to Double or Nothing
Double or Nothing Suicide
360 Degree Suicide
Mantis Suicde
Mindbend Suicide
Mindbend to 1 1/2
Front to Back Suicide
Back to Front Suicide
Crossover Suicide
Wrong Way Suicide
Fakie Suicide
Buddha Suicide
Ghetto Fabulous

Whip Tricks
Iron Whip
Miracle Whip
Spirit Whip
Plastic Whip
Frontstyle Whip
One-Handed Iron Whip
One-Handed Laceration Whip
Magic Drop Hanging Whip

Laceration Tricks
Basic Laceration
Laceration from Trapeze
Double Laceration
Triple Laceration
One-Handed Laceration
Double One-Handed Laceration
Green Triangle Laceration
Laceration to Double or Nothing
Multifarious Laceration
D3 Combo
Laceration to Crossed arms
Laceration to 1 1/2
One-Handed Wrist Laceration
One-Handed Wrist Laceration Version 2

Boingy-Boing Tricks
Boingy Boing
Over Under Boingy-Boing
Double Boingy Boing
Sidestyle Boingy Boing

Grinds
Laceration Grind
Laceration Knee Bump
Trapeze Grind
Trapeze to 1 1/2 Grind
Laceration Hand Bump

Tournament Tricks
Kwijybo
Double Kwijybo
Skin the Gerbil
White Buddha
Poppin' Fresh
Matrix
Poppin' Boingy Mach 5
Slack Trapeze
Spirit Bomb
Spirit Bomb with Slack Bomb Mount
Black Hop
Shockwave

Single A Tricks - Andrew Murray
Wrist Mount Murray Madness
Andrew Andromeda
Hop in the Bucket
Chain Reaction
Candy Rain
White Buddha 2nd Generation
Superman
Shaolin Monk
Rancid Milk
Kamikazee
Orange Tulips
Space Bound
Rebound
Out of Bounds
Behind Head Eli Hops
Behind the back double or Nothing Catch
Good Vibrations
Xerber

Single A Tricks - Jimmy Peng
Hop in the Bucket
Gyroscopic Flop
Sea Sick
Boomerang
Mach 5 Slack
Slack Mount Twirly Bird
Breath-Style Combo
Jimmy's Gym Shorts
Peng-Pong


Slack String Tricks
The Snare
Frontstyle slack loops
Phaeton's Folly
Flatirons
Gomer's Folly
Beleriand
Soundcheck
Cheyenne Mountain
Circadian
Evasion
Eschelon
Forest Fire
Andrewsophila

Basic Freehand
Pengultimate Freehand Demo

Advanced Freehand
Aerial
Behind Back Aerial Catch
1 1/2 Mount Twirly
Likwid Ice
Terado Hand and Foot Kicker
Switch hand Boomerang
Switch Hand Suicide
One-Finger Spanish Rollies
One-Finger Bind Rolly
Push out under mount
Split Atom Side Ninja Chucks
Mach 5 Front roll out
Knee Catch Boingy Boing
Meltdown Combo
Two-Handed Meltdown Combo
Leg Wraps
Murray Meltdown
No-Hand regeneration
Freehand Combo

Offstring
Forward Pass Mount
Power Throw Mount
Trapeze Mount
Barrel Roll
Whip Catch
Offstring Rewind
String Release (suicide)
String Release to 1 ½ (suicide)
Offstring Regeneration
Head Bounce
Gyro Flop
Vertical Boingys
Horizontal Boingys
Palm Grind
open handed grind
Open Whip Catch
Off-String Heart
Grind Whip Catch
Schizophrenic Space Ghost
Pass Combo

Double A
Inside Loops
Inside Loops and Around the World
Shoulder Wrap
Crossed Arm Around the World
Criss-Cross

Bonus Tricks
Myndee's Mindbender
Canine Calamity
Scottish Terrier Tongue Twister


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