One Diabolo Tricks

Directory of  Tricks for one diabolo - See also Alphabetical Listing

Accessorize - Adding Spin - Around-The-Foot - Basics - Beginning Suns - Beginning Trapezes - Body Action - Chinese Suicides - Climb The String - Coffee Grinders - Cradles - Crazy Knots - Excalibur - Extras - Grinds - Japanese Whips -Knots - Loopers - Orbits - Over-The-Arm - Over-The-Arm Extras - Starts - Suicides - Suns - Terms - Trapezes - Under-The-Leg - Whip Catches - Yo-yo Inspired

	NAME	TYPE/PAGE	Instruction	DESCRIPTION
new	Grimley's Shotgun Grind	Accessorize		Launching from a Grind a different way.
1	Power Pulls	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Regular right stick pulls for adding spin
2	Sun Pulls	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Pulling with right after a Clockwise Sun
3	Power Thrusts	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Vertical high energy downward thrusts
new	Power Burners	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Outside vertical Chinese Whip Thrusts.
4	Chinese Snaps	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Short quick snaps of the wrapped diabolo
5	Chinese Whip Thrusts	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Up and Down Thrusts of the wrapped diabolo for spin acceleration
new	Orbit Thrusts	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Adding Spin by doing Orbits with a string wrap. Similar to Chinese Whip Thrusts.
new 6	Horizontal Power Whips	Adding Spin	Animated! Flash!	Left and Right Horizontal Thrusts to add speed.
new	Around-The-Foot Orbits	Around-The-Foot	Animated! Flash!	Orbits around the foot
new	Over-The-Foot Stall	Around-The-Foot	Animated! Flash!	Orbits around the foot trick
new	Around-The-Foot Wimdow Wipers	Around-The-Foot	Animated! Flash!	Left/Right bounces over the foot trick
new	Around-The-Foot Puppet Master	Around-The-Foot	Animated! Flash!	Orbits around the foot with only one hand.
new	Dave Move	Around-The-Foot		Around the foot move.
80	Right & Left Backside	Backside	Animated! Flash!	Unwrap and Recapture to the Backside of the string off the right stick.
new	Rolling Start	Basics	Animated! Flash!	Start on the floor, roll and lift to get the diabolo spinning on the string.
new	Half Sun	Basics/ Beginning Suns	Animated! Flash!	Sun starting from an over the shoulder position.
new	Forced Sun	Basics	Animated! Flash!	Beginning trick that makes the diabolo move quickly.
new	Finger Trapeze	Body Action		Doing a trapeze around your finger.
new	Nail Cutter	Body Action		Grind a diabolo on your finger nails.
new	Renegade Finger Curl	Body Actions		Incredible unusual trick with a Quicktime movie link.
new	Wrist Trapeze	Body Action		Doing a trapeze around your wrist.
7	Jump The Fence	Beginning Suns	Animated!	Returning from a clockwise (CW) Sun
new	Half Sun	Beginning Suns/Basics	Animated! Flash!	Sun starting from an over the shoulder position.
new	Side Sun	Beginning Suns	Animated!	Sun on the side between the arms
8	Side Hop	Beginning Suns	Animated!	Returning from a clockwise (CW) Sun
new	Leg Sun	Beginning Suns		Sunning around your leg,
9	Climb The String	Beginning Suns	Animated! Flash!	The diabolo rises in a string wrap (Elevator)
10	Right Trapeze	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	End-over or Stop-over off right side.
new 11	Wrapped Trapezes	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	More than one trapeze is done on the same stick.
new 12	Alternating Trapezes	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	More than one trapeze is done on opposite sticks.
new 13	Stacked Trapezes	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	Alternating trapezes on top of each other.
14	Trapeze Cradle	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	Pluck a string off a trapeze.
15	Trapeze Grind	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	Grinding from a trapeze start.
16	Chinese Suicide	Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	Let go of the stick and recatch.
new	Nail Cutter	Body Action		Grind a diabolo on your finger nails.
new	Renegade Finger Curl	Body Actions	Linked Movie!	Incredible unusual trick with a Quicktime movie link.
new	Finger Trapeze	Body Action		Doing a trapeze around your finger.
new	Stop And Go	Body Action		Simple ending and then beginning again.
new	Chinese Suicide	Chinese Suicides/Beginning Trapezes	Animated!	Let go of the stick and recatch.
new	Boliang's Left Chinese Suicide	Chinese Suicides		Chinese Suicide on the left side.
new	Boliang's Reverse Chinese Suicide	Chinese Suicides		Chinese Suicide out of an Inverse Trapese.
new	Firecracker	Chinese Suicides	Animated!	Double Suicide out of a rotating trapeze.
new	Ice Cracker	Chinese Suicides		A string wrap before a Chinese Suicide.
new	Double Ice Cracker	Chinese Suicides		Double wrap before a Chinese Suicide.
new	Fire And Ice Cracker	Chinese Suicides	Animated!	One string wrap before a Firecracker.
new	Inverse Slap Suicide	Chinese Suicides	Animated!	Reversing a suicidng stick with a slap and recatch.
new	Phantom Suicide	Chinese Suicides		Ending variation to the Inverse Slap Suicide.
new	Half String Suicide	Chinese Suicides		Suicide out of a half string trapeze.
new	Mega Cracker	Chinese Suicides		Double wrap before a Firecracker.
new	The Kevorkian	Chinese Suicides		Two person trick. Assisted Suicide.
9	Climb The String	Climb The String/ Beginning Suns	Animated! Flash!	The diabolo rises in a string wrap (Elevator)
new	Dixloos Elevator	Climb The String		A Climb The String Trick that starts out like a knot trick.
new	Ollie's Climb The String Release	Climb The String	Animated! Flash!	The diabolo rises, then falls, then climbs again.
new 83	Climbing Trapeze	Climb The String/ Trapezes	Animated! Flash!	A left trapeze that becomes a string climb.
new	Ollie's Up/Down Elevator	Climb The String		The diabolo rises in a string wrap and then releases at the top. (elevator variation)
16	Coffee Grinder	Coffee Grinders	Animated! Flash!	Traditional Coffee Grinder(similar to 'Stir The Pot')
18	Espresso	Coffee Grinders	Animated! Flash!	Quick way to a Coffee Grinder.
19	Dixon's Coffee Grinder	Coffee Grinders	Animated! Flash!	Quite a fancy lead into a Coffee Grinder.
new	Uncrossed Sun Grinder	Coffee Grinders		CW Sun into Dixon's Coffee Grinder.
new	Mystery Grinder	Coffee Grinders	Animated! Flash!	Variation of Dixon's Coffee Grinder
new	Atomic Grinder	Coffee Grinders		A Coffee Grinder similar to the Yo-yo Atom Smasher trick .
new	Crosskey Coffee Grinder	Coffee Grinders		Entering a Coffee Grinder from a Head Hop.
new	Double Coffee Grinder	Coffee Grinders		Creating a Coffee Grinder with double strings.
new	Ungrinding Coffee Grinder	Coffee Grinders		Undoing a clockwise grinding Coffee Grinder to make a counterclockwise Coffee Grinder.
20	Cat's Cradle	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	Sting cross making one 'X'
14	Trapeze Cradle	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	Pluck a string off a trapeze.
new	Wavelength	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	Trapeze Cradle variation.
21	Turn-Over Cradle	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	Pluck a string, flip, & a cross
new 22	Sanders' Cradle Combo	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	A Cradle in a cradle.
new	Double Cradle	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	Cradle following a Counterclockwise Sun.
new	Cross-arm Trapeze Cradle	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	A Trapeze Cradle from the Backside.
new	Cradle Knot	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	A Cradle turns into a Knot and then becomes an amazing Release.
new	Trapeze Cradle Knot	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	A Cradle turns into a Knot and then becomes an amazing Release.
new	Star Cradle	Cradles	Diagrammed!	Star sting cross using J-whip or Cat's Cradle intro.
23	Ronan's Cradle	Cradles		The sewing method of one 'X'.
new	Shackles	Cradles		A cradle you can reach into.
24	Tiger Cradle	Cradles		The sewing method of two 'X's.
new	Reinventing The Eiffel Tower	Cradles	Animated! Flash!	From reinventing the Wheel comes the Eiffel Tower (Double Cradle).
new	Flag Pole Grind	Cradles		Grinding out of a Scottish Flag
new	Joel's Cradle	Cradles		A cradle with extra loops on the bottom of the cross.
25	Fritz Release	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Two trapeze release
26	Single Fritz Release	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	A single trapeze release
27	Alternating Fritz Release	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	A left and a right trapeze release
28	Double Fritz Release	Crazy Knots		A four trapeze Fritz release
29	Half Spaghetti	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	First  two moves of the Spaghetti Trick
new	Odd Spaghetti	Crazy Knots		Spaghetti variation.
new	Spaghetti On The Side	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Spaghetti and a Trapeze.
30	Wet Noodle	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Addition to Half Spaghetti
new	Macaroni	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Spaghetti trick variation with a neat release ending.
new	Macaroni And Cheese	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Macaroni trick variation with a neat release ending.
new	Vanishing Bridge	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Roll out cradle to a bridge-like form with a surprise ending.
new	Justice	Crazy Knots		Half Spaghetti to a Cradle to Trapeze to a Release.
new	Nick's Knot	Crazy Knots		Combining a Waterfall and a 'Backward'Spaghetti for a nice release.
new	Sun Knot	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	Variation of Nick's Knot that ends with a Sun toss.
new	Snapping The Violin String	Crazy Knots	Animated! Flash!	A neat way into a Left Single Fritz Release.
new	Echo's Mystery Cradle	Crazy Knots		Create an axle-wrapped Cradle from an Inverse Trapeze and amazingly make it release.
new	Weaving a Rainbow	Crazy Knots		Weaving up a knot that releases into a Rainbow toss.
new	Excalibur Grind	Excalibur		Vertax (verticle) diabolo with a stick in it.
33	Minetti Whip	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Incredable Release
34	Double Double	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Releasing Combo (4 parts)
35	Triple Double	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Releasing Combo (5 parts)
new 36	Henry Hop	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Silly Diabolo Bouncing Trick.
new	Neck Trampoline Safety Catch	Extras		Bouncing the diabolo wih string wrapped around the neck into a grind.
new	Floor Rebound	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Bounce the diabolo and recatch.
new	Head Hop	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Bouncing the diabolo wih string wrapped around the neck.
new	Almost Double or Nothing	Extras	Animated! Flash!	An easy way to almost do the Double or Nothing trick.
new	Cup Grind	Extras		Catching the diabolo inside the cup with the stick end.
new	Fancy Minetti	Extras		Minetti Whip variation in opposite direction with fancier start.
new	Diabogo-Round	Extras		Wrapping up the sticks for several Side Suns.
new	Renegade Finger Curl	Extras	Linked Movie!	Incredible unusual trick with a Quicktime movie link.
new	Spaghetti Western	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Spaghetti start with a Fritz Release ending.
new	Pass The Spaghetti Western	Extras	Animated! Flash!	Spaghetti tricks inside Spaghetti tricks.
new	Over-The-Arm Duicide Stall	Extras		Two stick suicide over the left arm.
new	Garrote	Extras		Reach over your head and Scoop the diabolo into a Sun.
new	Samuel's Switch	Extras		Inverse Trapeze with a handstick trade off.
new	Shackled Trapeze	Extras		A trapeze all wrapped up.
new	Stemler's Fritz Wheel	Extras		Smooth flowing Ferris Wheel with a Fritz Release ending.
37	Andy's Jumprope	Extras		Jumping rope while catching and tossing diabolo.
38	Righthand Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Free spinning diabolo on a handstick
39	Grind with Whip Catch	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding diabolo tossed, then caught with a Whip Catch.
new	The Adam Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding from the onet handstick to the other. also called the Chopstick Grind.
new	Hop N' Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Hopping inbetween Grinds on the same handstick.
new	Pinball Grind	Grinds		Bouncing the diabolo up and down between both sticks in one hand.
new	X-Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding on 'X'd (crossed) sticks.
new	Waterfall Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding before releasing a Waterfall.
new	Twix Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Two sticks in one hand grind exchanges.
new	Upside-Down Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding on both sides of one stick.
new	Caged Grind	Grinds	Animated! Flash!	Grinding inside two sticks.
15	Trapeze Grind	Grinds/Beginning Trapezes	Animated! Flash!	Grinding from a trapeze start.
new	Bouncin' Grind	Grinds		Bounce the diabolo into the string and back onto the stick.
88	Grinding Sticktoss	Grinds		Grinding on one stick while flipping the other.
new	Switcheroo	Grinds		Switching sticks while tossing the diabolo off a grind, then catching in a grind.
new	Shooting Grind	Grinds		Shooting the diabolo from left to right off the left stick.
new	Tornado Grind	Grinds		Grinding inside the cups with both sticks.
new	Ochs' Grind	Grinds		Starting a Ferris Wheel trick with a grind.
new	Tail Grind	Grinds		Grinding on other end of the stick.
new	Friend Grind	Grinds		Grinding with a friend.
new	See-Saw Grind	Grinds		Grinding on both sticks end to end.
new	Easy Grind	Grinds		The First Grind trick to learn.
new	Japanese C-whip	Japanese Whips		Quick string snap to a Right Trapeze.
new	Japanese J-whip	Japanese Whips		Quick string snap to a Single Fritz Release.
42	Spaghetti	Knots	Animated! Flash!	A releasing knot between sticks.
new 44	Magic Knot	Knots	Animated! Flash!	A magical releasing knot off the left side.
new	Square Knot	Knots	Animated! Flash!	A magical releasing knot between the sticks.
new	Dot The I	Knots	Animated! Flash!	Fancy Spaghetti variation.
new	Pass The Spaghetti	Knots	Animated! Flash!	Fancy Spaghetti variation.
43	Al's Release	Knots	Animated! Flash!	A quick releasing knot off the left side.
new	Whirlly Bird	Knots	Animated! Flash!	Unusual Inverse Trapese variation. (was Flying Al)
new	Sun Chopper	Knots		Unusual horizontal suicide.
new	Infinite Inverses	Knots	Animated! Flash!	Multiple Inverse Trapezes with a nice release.
new	Cancelled Trapeze	Knots		Cancelling a Trapeze with two Inverse Trapezes.
new	Ian's Spaghetti Grind Over The Falls	Knots		Great Transistion of Spaghetti, Grind, and Waterfall tricks.
new	Half Spaghetti Flip	Knots		Half Spaghetti with a flip.
45	Loop And Cross;	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	Catch on a loop and make a cross.
46	Loop And Hook	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	Catch on a loop and hook it.
00	Loop And Hook Whip Catch	Loopers/Whips	Animated! Flash!	From a loop and hook it, to a Whip Catch.
47	Andy's Loop	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	Variation of Loop And Hook.
48	Grind, Loop, And Hook	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	Variation of Andy's Loop.
new	Flux Capacitor	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	String climb out of the Loop And Hook.
new	Tabias Gyro Wheel	Loopers		Catch on a loop and bounce back for a ride..
new	Double Loop and Hook	Loopers		Doing a Loop and Hook with twice the loops.
new	Dropshot	Loopers		Variation of Loop And Cross.
new	Trapeze Release Looper	Loopers		Tossing a trapeze off a Loop And Hook setup.
new	Double Sun Release Looper	Loopers		Tossing a double sun off a Loop And Hook setup.
31	Loop And Half Cross	Loopers		Hooking only one strick
32	Cross and Unhook	Loopers	Animated! Flash!	Reverse of the Hook and Cross.
new	Looped Trapeze Whip	Loopers		Add a Trapeze and a Whip Catch to Loop and Hook.
51	Coffee Grinding Orbit	Orbits	Animated! Flash!	Orbits around the stick.
52	Over-the-Foot Combination	Orbits		Orbits around the foot with tricks
new	Behind The Back Orbits	Orbits		Orbiting diabolo behind the back.
49	Open Orbit	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Orbits in front
53	Overarm Orbits	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Orbiting around the right arm.
54	Overarm String Bounce	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Bouncing the diabolo on strings
55	Overarm Scoop Catch	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Stall catch with the right
56	Overarm Scoop Sun	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Sunning out of the scoop catch to the backside.
57	Overarm Trapeze	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Left trapeze
58	Overarm Grind	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Spinning diabolo on the stick
59	Overarm Rubberarm	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Behind the back catch.
60	Cross-Armed Toss	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Tossing form the backside of the string.
new	El Fonce	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Release and Recapture from Armover Orbits with a snappy exit.
new	Arm-Orbit-Grind (AOG)	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	From Overarms to spinning the diabolo on the stick and back.
new	Overarm Puppet Master	Over-The-Arm	Animated! Flash!	Overarm Orbits with one hand.
new	Overarm Stick Hops	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Diabolo goes over arm then around to jump stick on left.
new	Overarm Stick Orbits	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Diabolo does orbit over stick inside Over-The-Arm Orbits.
new	Overarm Swoop	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Diabolo is caught as it falls and then swung right.
new	Armover String Wrap	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	A wrap of string on the right arm makes the diabolo loop around it.
new	Speed Loops	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	With wrap of string on the right arm the diabolo quickly loops around it.
new	Left Catch intro to the Armover String Wrap	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Beginning the string wrap with a left catch over the left arm. Touch 'Left Catch variation' to view.
00	Elbow Knot String Wrap Intro	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Tying a knot around the left arm to prepare for Armover String Wrap Orbits.
new	Pop Goes The Weasel	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated! Flash!	Fancy El Fonce variation.
new	Monorail	Over-The-Arm Extras	Animated!