Double Trapeze

Another historical Triple A trick... This is a perfect example of how a slight technique advance can make an impossible trick very possible. Jun Aramaki was the player who is widely recognized as the first master of this move and showed it solidly at Worlds '01.

As you'd expect, you start with two opposite break away throws arching into each other at the exact same rate. Whatís different from just doing two single trapezes is that you want to bring your hands a little up so that when the strings are about to hit your fingers, your hands are chest high.

You want your hands chest high because the move that brought Double Trapeze out of the realm of myth and into the doable world is a small down and out chop with your catching fingers as the strings come up on your fingers. What you're trying to do is be pulling the yos into the string as they are coming over to land on the string. In a single Trapeze the yo glides over and you can move your fingers to line it up and catch the yo (whether you realize you're doing it or not). With Double Trapeze, if you move one hand to line it up, you're throwing the other out of line. So for Double Trapeze we do a quick chop into the string during the catch to pull the yos in. I've seen Jun do this and chop so hard that when he actually caught the yos he was knee high.

And obviously bring your hands back together when you catch to give the strings the slack to hold the yos.