To get the Brain-Scrambler, what your going to need to do first is perfect the front mount. When your learning this trick it may be easier to learn the trick first if you just use your opposite hand to lift the string up and then set the yo-yo right on the string and this will set you up for the rest of the trick.
Eventually you’re going to want to learn the basic mount. Just like the Man on the Flying Trapeze where you don’t move your finger on your opposite hand; it’s the same thing. You just want to point your finger off to the right (assuming your right handed) and just leave it there. Next you’re going to throw your yo-yo, once you’ve got a good spin, then you swing it forward, and on it’s way back you pull up with your hand and then immediately pull it back down. That’s going to cause the yo-yo to land right on the string. If you’re missing one way or the other and you haven’t been moving this finger, you know the problem lies with your yo-yo hand.
Once you’ve got a good mount what you want to do is to take your yo-yo finger and put it just under your first finger of your opposite hand. You’re going to use that finger, swing the yo-yo forward, to just push it around. Just like that.
The brain-scrambler can be done a whole bunch of times if you want. Once you get it mounted onto the string you want to push it, again, with your yo-yo finger, and then you keep the motion going with your opposite hand. You see that the string keeps wrapping around your yo-yo finger, that’s normal.
To dismount, all you do is take your opposite hand – swing the yo-yo forward – and pull down and the yo-yo will come right off. I’ll show you that again; swing the yo-yo forward, pull down, the yo-yo will come right up. If you really want to finish it off nicely you can give it a little loop at the end.
That’s the Brain-Scrambler.
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