This trick is part of the Diabolo Trick Roadmap (available on Amazon) which is a skill tree (containing 337 tricks from 1 to 3 diabolos) designed to give you a personalized list of tricks you’re ready to learn, taking into account the tricks you already know.
The sun between the arms can be done clockwise or anti-clockwise. If you are right-handed, doing this trick clockwise will accelerate your diabolo, and doing it anti-clockwise will slow your diabolo down (and vice-versa if you are left-handed).
This tutorial explains the clockwise version.
As always the tutorial is described for righties, so if you are left-handed, switch right and left in the step by step explanation.
Prerequisites
Step By Step Explanation
1. Point your left stick away from you (like normal) and the right stick towards you. You can face towards your left to make it easier at first, moving your body 90° on the left. With practice, you’ll be able to do the sun between the arms from the normal position, facing your diabolo.
2. Swing the diabolo to the left (clockwise) as you would do in a sun.
3. When the diabolo comes back down, you want to make sure it goes between your sticks. If you’re doing the sun anti-clockwise (swinging the diabolo to the right in step 2), the diabolo passes between the sticks on its way up and comes back down normally.
4. At the end of the trick, your diabolo should be in the open string position, because the diabolo went between your arms, you don’t have the sun knot. You can therefore do this trick multiple times in a row.
What’s Next?
- #70 (1) Jump over the sun
- #81 (1) Loop sun
- #135 (2) Sun
- #139 (2) 31 high
- #207 (V) Between the arms sun
- #227 (2) Vortex
- #239 (2) Anti-suicide
