I haven’t done any diabolo for quite a while really. However, with the weather outside worsening, I’m probably going to start doing more of it. For example, I spent my lunchbreak today practising. I was getting bored, and just about to pack my stuff away, when I decided to try to pull off an infinite suicide.

Needless to say, that didn’t go exceptionally well. But I spent about half an hour trying, and once or twice I managed to get it to work. Woo!

Trouble is, I keep ending up with the diabolo far too close to the ground. And then my free stick hits the ground, and won’t pass under. More to the point, it seems trying to pull up doesn’t really lift the diabolo, but does accelerate the free stick, throwing my rhythm off and usually resulting in a complete unwrap. Oh, and once or twice I’ve managed to put the diabolo into a trapeze without actually meaning to. Man, I couldn’t do that if I wanted to…