Yoyo Tricks

Yoyo tricks, demystified.

Yoyoing is a sport you can pick up today and keep mastering for the rest of your life. This catalog covers every recognized competition style — 0A, 1A, 2A, 3A, 4A, 5A, and picture tricks — along with the foundational moves the pros stack into thousands of combos. Start with a sleeper, work your way to a Spirit Bomb. Every trick begins with one clean throw.

0ABasic / Responsive

The starter style. You use a yoyo that comes back when you tug the string.

1ASingle-handed string tricks

One yoyo, usually one that does NOT come back on a tug. You land it on strings and move it through different shapes. This is the biggest modern style.

2ATwo-handed looping

Two yoyos that come back on a tug, one in each hand. Mostly looping tricks where the yoyos keep flipping back out without stopping.

3ATwo-handed string tricks

Two unresponsive yoyos doing string tricks at the same time, one in each hand.

4AOffstring

The yoyo is NOT tied to the string. You throw it in the air and catch it on the string, kind of like a diabolo.

5ACounterweight / Freehand

One unresponsive yoyo, but instead of tying the string to your finger, you tie it to a small weight (like a rubber dice). You can swing the weight around to do tricks.

picturePicture / String Figures

Tricks where you make a shape with the string while the yoyo spins below, like the Eiffel Tower. They are more about how you wrap the string than how the yoyo spins.