Learn the yo-yo Trickladder

The yo-yo Trickladder is one of the most accessible ways to compete. It requires participants to perform a set of tricks and elements that start out easy and become gradually harder.

Since they start out easy and get progressively harder, they can also be used as a guide for people who are getting into the sport.

So even if you are still relatively new to yoyoing, you can still compete! All you need to do is learn as many tricks from the official Trickladder as possible and remember how to do them in front of a jury!

Our Dutch community members Alexander and Stijn worked hard to compile a complete list of tutorials for the Trickladder in Dutch. You can find the playlist here on YouTube so you can start today!

The tricks are as follows and should be performed in this exact order:

  1. Sleeper (3 seconds)
  2. Sideways around the world
  3. Eiffel Tower
  4. Rock the baby (3x back and forth)
  5. Elevator
  6. Brain Twister (1x around)
  7. Trapeze
  8. Split the Atom
  9. Double or nothing
  10. Mach 5 (5x around)
  11. Cold Fusion
  12. Pop n’ Fresh (2 pops)
  13. Skin the Gerbil
  14. Plastic Whip
  15. Eli Hops (3 hops)
  16. Boingy Boing
  17. Gyroscopic Flop
  18. Kwijibo
  19. Hidemassa Hook (Hook 1.0)
  20. Slackicide/Suicide Catch (2 times in a row)
  21. Iron Whip (2 times in a row)
  22. Kamikaze
  23. Spiritbomb
  24. Throwhand Grind
  25. Black Hops