This trick is part of the Diabolo Trick Roadmap (also 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 slowcide is a cool stick release trick on its own, but it also unlocks a lot of other nice tricks.
In my opinion, it’s very important to learn it both ways (with an internal wrap and an external wrap).
Prerequisites
Step By Step Explanation
| Steps | Internal wrap slowcide | External wrap slowcide |
| 1 | Throw your right stick counterclockwise between your body and your left hand. | Throw your right stick counterclockwise in front of your left hand. |
| 2 | Catch the stick after the string has wrapped around the diabolo. You now have an internal wrap. | Catch the stick after the string has wrapped around the diabolo. You now have an external wrap. |
| 3 | Throw your left stick counterclockwise in front of your right hand. This will unwrap the diabolo. | Throw your left stick counterclockwise between your body and your right hand. This will unwrap the diabolo. |
| 4 | Catch the stick with your left hand. You are now back in the open string position. | Catch the stick with your left hand. You are now back in the open string position. |
| 5 | You can now repeat steps 1 to 4 for as long as you want/have spin. | You can now repeat steps 1 to 4 for as long as you want/have spin. |
What’s Next?
- #38 (1) Double slowcide
- #54 (1) Infinite suicide
- #55 (1) Slowcide start
- #57 (1) Stomp elevator
- #61 (1) Slowcide under the leg
- #66 (1) Pendulum
- #68 (1) Handstall to slowcide
- #80 (1) Slowcide stick swap
- #119 (1) Stick kick
- #150 (1) Continuous alternating mini genocides
- #166 (1) Jussi’s leg combo
- #190 (2) Sprinkler suicide exit
- #204 (V) Slowcide
