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 flair is a mix between a sun and a grind. The grind part of the trick is easier than the basic grind as the string helps stabilize the diabolo and prevents it from excaping.
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. Get the diabolo spinning quite fast and start in the open string position.
2. Start doing a sun to the right (anticlockwise), keeping the diabolo close to the right stick.
3. When the diabolo is above your right shoulder, stop the sun with your right stick, keeping the string taut (by pulling the left stick slightly) to help stabilize the diabolo. Your stick is pointing up and to the left at roughly a 45° angle, the diabolo is on top of the stick and your string is above the diabolo.
4. Use your stick to push the diabolo to the right, starting the motion of a sun to the left to go back to the open string position.
What’s Next?
Try the flair on the left or if you already know vertax you can try:
#209 (V) Flair
