Hi! I’m Chloe.

I help diabolo players with choosing the tricks to learn next so they can improve and create faster and easier.

Diabolo Trick Roadmap

The roadmap is a skill tree in book format.

It is designed to give you a personalized list of tricks you’re ready to learn, taking into account the tricks you already know.

You will get a list of 337 tricks from 1 to 3 diabolos:

  • 157 tricks with 1 diabolo,
  • 102 with 2,
  • 50 in vertax
  • 28 with 3 diabolos

The tricks are organised into 10 levels of complexity. Level 0 is how to start your diabolo and level 10 includes 3 diabolo tricks such as 531 high or FTS 2-3-22-3.

DISCLAIMER: The Diabolo Trick Roadmap does not include the trick tutorials (as I think it is way easier to learn from a video than from a book).
You can find the video tutorials at:
https://diabolodb.com/roadmap

It is the companion post to the book that links to the tutorials.

I’m in the process of collecting/creating the video tutorials. This will take me a while to complete, in the meantime, you can request tutorials by contacting me.

Tutorial requests

Where you probably are right now

  • You are frustrated with your slow progress at diabolo. Every trick you’re trying to tackle seems too hard or uninspiring.
  • Maybe you’ve watched dozen of diabolo videos to try to get inspired and find new tricks to learn, or you’ve found tutorials to follow but you’re lost in the sea of possibilities. You’re starting to wonder if you have no talent for diabolo.
  • You probably have wasted a lot of time and energy trying to figure out what trick to learn and second-guessing yourself instead of actually learning diabolo tricks.

I’ve been EXACTLY where you are. Like, literally working on the same tricks over and over again because I didn’t know what else to do, same feeling of being stuck, same frustration, same loss of motivation, same time and energy wasted. The only significant improvement I experienced was when I went to juggling conventions where better diabolo players gave me the next steps.

The 3 Big Problems With Diabolo Improvement

  • Problem #1: Diabolo isn’t a very popular hobby. Unless you live in a big city, you most likely train on your own. Not having access to a trainer or other diabolo players makes it very difficult to achieve fast progress and maintain motivation.
  • Problem #2: There is no curriculum guiding you to the next steps. Some tutorials give you the prerequisites for the trick taught, but there isn’t any skill tree/roadmap that links tricks together. It then falls on you to do the research before you can even begin to train.
  • Problem #3: You can’t be creative without technique. Creativity is the holy Grail for the majority of diabolo players, but creativity isn’t an innate talent. The more tricks you know, the more you understand diabolo and the more tools you have to be creative.

You want to be able to improve at diabolo faster.

But more than that, you want to enjoy and express yourself with diabolo, having fun without wasting energy having to reinvent the wheel:

  • Learning new tricks will help you create your own tricks and combos and develop your style.
  • You will be able to share your style of diabolo with others, expanding the possibilities of the discipline, inspiring and motivating people.
  • You will be able to have fun with diabolo, only having to work on the tricks you’re learning instead of wasting time researching which tricks you can learn.

About Me

I started juggling with diabolos in 2001 after watching an act from a circus show my mum recorded on a VHS. I found it so cool that I bought 2 diabolos the next day.

The only problem is that I am very UNtalented but I love diabolo and I am very stubborn, so I kept at it. I finally reach this level in 2009 after 8 years of struggling.

I was learning on my own (at least before I discovered juggling conventions) and without guidance, so I lost a lot of time and because of my lack of talent, I probably hit every roadblock possible.

I’ve had to learn all the baby steps to go from one trick to the next and I have become the embodiment of the saying “Those who can’t do teach.”

In my spare time (when I’m not juggling or thinking about diabolo), I like to pet my cat, play Stardew Valley and rewatch Firefly for the 1000th time.

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