Diabolo Trick Roadmap – Level Up Your Skills

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This blog post is the companion to the Diabolo Trick Roadmap

Where To Get The Roadmap

You can get the roadmap as a PDF by signing up here :

Or get the roadmap as a workbook on Amazon:

ERRATA

The 1st edition of the book (before February 2026) contains errors. Download the corrections here.

How to use the roadmap?

Before the trick name, I put:

  • (1) for 1 diabolo tricks
  • (2) for 2 diabolo tricks
  • (3) for 3 diabolo tricks
  • (V) for vertax tricks with 1 diabolo

The Diabolo Trick Roadmap will help you create and update a list of tricks you’re ready to learn, find the fastest way to learn a specific trick and record your trick repertoire.

Video tutorial coming soon.

Short Videos Of The Roadmap Tricks

If the trick names don’t mean anything to you, here is a video playlist of the tricks in the Diabolo Trick Roadmap to help you visualize them:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdrrmc1OVm6F9JckyxmgcShcIAtFMK8l3

Trick Tutorials

#1 (1) Rolling start + tug acceleration

#2 (1) Throw and catch

#3 (1) Sun

#4 (1) Waterfall

#5 (1) Wrap and unwrap

#6 (1) Whip acceleration

#7 (1) Correction tipping

#8 (1) Correction turning

#9 (1) Spin start

#10 (1) Milking the cow

#11 (1) V catch

#12 (1) Trapeze

#13 (1) Darkside catch

#14 (1) Loop

#15 (1) Trampoline

#16 (1) Grind

#17 (1) Half-spaghetti

#18 (1) Elevator

#19 (1) Arm stall

#20 (1) Orbit

#21 (1) Suicide

#22 (1) Between the arms sun

#23 (1) Back to front suns

#24 (1) Slowcide

#25 (1) Chinese acceleration

#26 (1) Umbrella

#27 (1) Big sun

#28 (1) Side suns

#29 (1) Pincer start and stop

#30 (1) Walk around

#31 (1) Hand throw start

#32 (1) Wrapped tug acceleration

#33 (1) Bicycle

#34 (1) Knee roll start

#35 (1) Crossed stick sun

#36 (1) Simple stick swap

#37 (1) Arm scisor

#38 (1) Double slowcide

#39 (1) Genocide

#40 (1) Tie

#41 (1) Finger grind

#42 (1) Spaghetti

#43 (1) Leg orbit

#44 (1) Arm orbit

#45 (1) Throw 180

#46 (1) Fritz release

#47 (1) J-whip

#48 (1) Cat’s cradle

#49 (1) Al’s release

#50 (1) Chinese suicide

#51 (1) Duicide

#52 (1) Overhand whip catch

#53 (1) Circle acceleration

#54 (1) Infinite suicide

#55 (1) Slowcide start

#56 (1) Loop knot

#57 (1) Stomp elevator

#58 (1) Grind toss

#59 (1) Crossed arm magic knot

#60 (1) Double trapeze

#61 (1) Slowcide under the leg

#62 (1) Flux capacitor

#63 (1) Snapping the violin string

#64 (1) Coffee grinder

#65 (1) In and out suns

#66 (1) Pendulum

#67 (1) C-whip

#68 (1) Handstall to slowcide

#69 (1) Darkside catch under the leg

#70 (1) Jump over the sun

#71 (1) Bridge

#72 (1) Flair

#73 (1) Stick throw start

#74 (1) Sharpener grind

#75 (1) Arm reverse scisors

#76 (1) Over the head orbit

#77 (1) Magic knitting

#78 (1) Duicide cradle

#79 (1) Underhand whip catch

#80 (1) Slowcide stick swap

#81 (1) Loop sun

#82 (2) 2 low hover start

#83 (2) 2 low wrap start

#84 (2) 2 low throw start

#85 (2) 2 high hover start

#86 (2) 2 high wrap start

#87 (2) 2 high throw start

#88 (V) Vertax

#89 (1) Leg 180

#90 (1) Suicide to half-spaghetti

#91 (1) Body orbit

#92 (1) Ping pong

#93 (1) Levitation

#94 (1) Mini-genocide

#95 (1) Floor slowcide start

#96 (1) Tie scisor

#97 (1) Tie magic knot exit

#98 (1) Infinite suicide magic knot exit

#99 (1) Cradle isolation

#100 (1) Arm orbit monorail

#101 (1) Arm orbit backcatch

#102 (1) Rabbit

#103 (1) Legocide

#104 (1) Two arms orbit

#105 (1) Whip catch to duicide

#106 (1) Knee unwrap

#107 (1) Throw slowcide start

#108 (1) One-handed leg orbit

#109 (1) Grind under the leg

#110 (1) Alternating leg orbit

#111 (1) Darkside arm orbit

#112 (1) Duicide stick swap

#113 (1) Unwrapped infinite suicide

#114 (1) Infinite suicide 180

#115 (1) Trash’s web

#116 (1) Pendulum integral

#117 (1) Infinite suicide genocide exit

#118 (1) Grind ping-pong

#119 (1) Stick kick

#120 (1) Golf whip

#121 (1) Leg Fritz release

#122 (1) Arm orbit big sun exit

#123 (1) Eiffel tower

#124 (1) Star

#125 (1) Leg monorail

#126 (1) Slowcide butterfly

#127 (1) Ankle orbit

#128 (1) Whip catch to jump over the sun

#129 (1) Big slowcide

#130 (1) Alarm clock

#131 (1) Arm orbit wrap snake

#132 (1) Genocide stick swap

#133 (2) 31 (low)

#134 (2) 2 high to 2 low

#135 (2) Sun

#136 (2) Sprinkler

#137 (2) 2 in one hand

#138 (2) Left trapeze

#139 (2) 31 (high)

#140 (2) Slowcide start

#141 (2) Anti start

#142 (2) Rocket start

#143 (V) Stopover

#144 (V) Throw start

#145 (V) Tipping start

#146 (V) Spin start

#147 (V) Throw stop

#148 (V) Isolation

#149 (V) Half pirouette behind the head

#150 (1) Continuous alternating mini-genocide

#151 (1) Body scisor

#152 (1) Body 180

#153 (1) Finger grind to slowcide

#154 (1) Ollin kick-up

#155 (1) Tomicide (integral)

#156 (1) BTB grind

#157 (1) Darkside arm snake

#158 (1) Right handstall integral

#159 (1) Body reverse scisors

#160 (1) Mini-genocide start

#161 (1) Darkside arm orbit sun entry

#162 (1) Grind ping-pong toss

#163 (1) Continuous right mini-genocide

#164 (1) Eight

#165 (1) Darkside arm orbit recapture

#166 (1) Jussi’s leg combo

#167 (1) Leg rollercoaster

#168 (1) Butterfly mini-genocide

#169 (2) Simple catch stop

#170 (2) Corrections

#171 (2) Wrap acceleration

#172 (2) Hover acceleration

#173 (2) 330 high

#174 (2) 420 high

#175 (2) Leg stall

#176 (2) Grind

#177 (2) Mini columns

#178 (2) Ping pong

#179 (2) 2 low to 2 high

#180 (2) Suicide

#181 (2) Arm orbit

#182 (2) Leg orbit

#183 (2) Over the head orbit

#184 (2) Fast start

#185 (2) Sun to armstall

#186 (2) Crossed sticks sun

#187 (2) Big sun

#188 (2) Contorsion shuffle

#189 (2) Sprinkler big sun

#190 (2) Sprinkler suicide exit

#191 (2) Double sprinkler

#192 (2) Continuous suns

#193 (2) Sprinkler pirouette exit

#194 (2) Loop

#195 (2) S fan

#196 (2) Infinite suicide start

#197 (2) Knee roll start

#198 (2) Double magic knot

#199 (2) Arm scisors

#200 (2) Arm reverse scisors

#201 (2) 441 high

#202 (V) Suns

#203 (V) UFO grind

#204 (V) Slowcide

#205 (V) Simple stop

#206 (V) Throw and catch

#207 (V) Between the arms sun

#208 (V) Duicide

#209 (V) Flair

#210 (V) Body wrap

#211 (3) 3 low hover start

#212 (3) 3 low wrap start

#213 (1) Helicopter infinite suicide

#214 (1) Kanno’s duicide

#215 (1) Freddycide

#216 (1) Body scisors with BTB sun

#217 (1) Darkside neck orbit

#218 (1) Popcorn

#219 (1) Kick integral

#220 (1) Rewrap mini-genocide

#221 (1) Integral continuous right mini-genocide

#222 (1) Body orbit sun exit

#223 (2) Feed the sun

#224 (2) Right trapeze

#225 (2) Anti shuffle

#226 (2) 3401 high

#227 (2) Vortex

#228 (2) AC fan

#229 (2) Internal wrap transfer

#230 (2) Ping-pong start

#231 (2) Chinese acceleration

#232 (2) Continuous wrap acceleration

#233 (2) Hover corrections

#234 (2) Left to right suns

#235 (2) Side suns

#236 (2) Al’s release

#237 (2) Leg stall to double trapeze

#238 (2) Body orbit

#239 (2) Anti-suicide

#240 (2) Internal wrap to left armstall

#241 (2) Knee unwrap

#242 (2) S fan to mini-genocide

#243 (2) Loop mini-columns

#244 (2) Loop mini-genocide

#245 (2) Herr flick

#246 (2) Double armstall

#247 (2) Sprinkler stick swap

#248 (2) External wrap transfer

#249 (2) Wrap grind pirouette

#250 (2) 2 throws start

#251 (2) Double grind

#252 (2) Arm backcatch

#253 (2) Double sprinkler double suicide exit

#254 (2) S fan magic knot exit

#255 (V) Al’s release

#256 (V) Umbrella

#257 (V) Genocide

#258 (V) Flair suicide

#259 (V) Body wrap suicide

#260 (V) Whip catch

#261 (V) Body scisors

#262 (V) Hula hoop

#263 (V) Finger UFO grind

#264 (V) Fritz release

#265 (V) Half-spaghetti

#266 (V) Blind throw

#267 (V) Pincer stop

#268 (V) Continuous slowcide

#269 (V) Grind

#270 (V) Darkside catch genocide

#271 (3) Leg orbit

#272 (3) Sun

#273 (3) Mini columns

#274 (3) Box

#275 (3) 42 (low)

#276 (1) Forte

#277 (1) Integral rewrap mini-genocide

#278 (1) Scrat’s integral

#279 (2) Sun combos

#280 (2) C fan

#281 (2) Vortex suicide

#282 (2) Right trapeze to left armstall

#283 (2) Tanincide

#284 (2) AC fan with FTS

#285 (2) Single stuck

#286 (2) Double stuck

#287 (2) Elevator to armstall

#288 (2) Right handstall to suicide vortex

#289 (2) Magic knot stick swap

#290 (2) Feed the back to front sun

#291 (V) Fritz stop

#292 (V) Double genocide

#293 (V) BTB genocide

#294 (V) Unwrapped infinite suicide

#295 (V) Leg wrap suicide

#296 (V) Slapback

#297 (V) Body scisors pirouette

#298 (V) Ping-pong

#299 (V) Jump the flair

#300 (V) Al’s release to half-spaghetti

#301 (V) Body flair

#302 (V) BTB Al’s release

#303 (V) Mini flair suicide

#304 (V) Finger grind

#305 (V) Half-spaghetti to whip catch

#306 (V) Continuous genocides

#307 (3) 3 low 1 throw start

#308 (3) 3 high 1 throw start

#309 (3) 3 high 2 throws start

#310 (3) Hover acceleration

#311 (3) 42 sun

#312 (3) Suicide

#313 (3) Sun to right handstall

#314 (3) Reverse cascade

#315 (3) 522 (low)

#316 (2) Tomicide

#317 (2) Fan 360

#318 (2) Tainan innovation

#319 (2) C fan suicide vortex exit

#320 (2) Sprinkler to C fan

#321 (2) Trash’s armstall

#322 (2) Single stuck big sun

#323 (2) Jump over the double stuck

#324 (V) Genocide slapback

#325 (3) 3 high to 3 low

#326 (3) 42 high

#327 (3) FTS 23

#328 (3) 3 low to 3 high

#329 (3) Cascade

#330 (2) Staircase

#331 (3) 441 (high)

#332 (3) Sun to double handstall

#333 (3) FTS 2323

#334 (3) FTS 123

#335 (3) 4440 (high)

#336 (3) 531 (high)

#337 (3) FTS 2-3-22-3

Do You Have A Request Or Question?

This roadmap is a work in progress, so if you’d like me to prioritize a specific tutorial or if you have any diabolo related questions, you can contact me at chloediabolodb[at]gmail[dot]com

Acknowledgement

This diabolo trick roadmap wouldn’t have been possible without the help and knowledge of these incredible diabolo players:

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