Switch-hand Curl
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The start of this trick is the same as the
Two Hand Curl trick. You have to
free up your left hand at some point. At the point where you lightly
grasp the tip of your right hand stick in the Two Hand Curl, you
need to get a really good grip this time because you're going to release your
right hand grip from the hand stick. As soon as you do, you begin a
left-handed curl under the left elbow. The devil stick is always doing
a clockwise curl, and you choose the hand with which to do it. To
switch back to a right-hand curl, you grasp the end of the handstick
just as the left-hand curl is descending back towards the under the
elbow position.
These two tricks (Two Hand Curl and Switch-hand Curl) are closely
related and can be mixed together quite nicely. I usually try to do one
regular curl, then a two-hand curl, (and as long as I've already got
the other handstick in my mouth!), then I move to a switch-hand curl,
after which I retrieve the other handstick and go for a behind the back
curl. It's a long sequence and you need to keep the flow going nicely.
Feels great when you pull it off in front of a large group of people.
Thanks again to Matt Hall for also showing me this trick and submitting
the write-up.
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