3 / 7. Bicycle

Below you will find our step-by-step GIF series, and at the bottom of the page our tutorial video.

1. STARTING POSITION

2. Making steps with it

Place the flowerstick lengthwise in front of you. Place one handstick on one side of the flowerstick’s far end and the other under the flowerstick’s nearer end.

Lift the closer handstick and pull the farther one towards you… repeat this again and again. This is how the flowerstick will start to make “steps”.

3. Rolling in the air

4. Reversing the roll

While “making the steps”, raise your hands and roll the stick in the air. At this point, you should be playing with the handsticks in the middle of the flowerstick. This will slow down the rotation.

At the beginning, you won’t be able to roll in one direction for long, so it’s a good idea to reverse the direction of the roll after a few rounds. Back and forth.

1. STARTING POSITION

Place the flowerstick lengthwise in front of you. Place one handstick on one side of the flowerstick’s far end and the other under the flowerstick’s nearer end.

2. Making steps with it

Lift the closer handstick and pull the farther one towards you. Repeat this again and again. This is how the flowerstick will start to make “steps”.

3. Rolling in the air

While “making the steps”, raise your hands and roll the stick in the air. At this point, you should be playing with the handsticks in the middle of the flowerstick. This will slow down the rotation.

4. Reversing the roll

At the beginning, you won’t be able to roll in one direction for long, so it’s a good idea to reverse the direction of the roll after a few rounds. Back and forth.

3# Tutorial video - Bicycle

About the Bicycle

Use both hands to turn the stick, but in a completely different direction than the Helicopter.

It’s relatively easy to learn the basics, and at the same time, it improves your movement, so if you practice it, you’ll gain a lot of useful experience in other areas too.  However, to build it impressively into your game, you need more experience. Until you can’t combine the two-handed spin with other tricks, the flowerstick will always fall down after a few circles. Still, we love the trick for its simplicity. 🙂

Common mistakes:

  • Bad starting position. It’s important to get it right, so if it’s really not working, check again.
  • After raising your hands, you are still spinning it at the end (near the tassel) of the flowerstick. This way, after a few rounds, the stick will always fall down as it will become too fast.
  • You want to spin it in one direction for too long. Don’t want to! Even at an advanced level, this is not always easy. Change direction!
IMPORTANT

It’s OK if the stick always falls down after a few rounds. If you’re a beginner with the stick, it’s natural that it’s harder to get the hang of it. To spin steadily in Bicycle and combine it with other tricks, you need more playing experience.

Advices that work for every trick

  1. If you can (also) play with the flowerstick slowly, you will also be able to do it quickly. The other way around is not necessarily true.
  2. The closer you play to the centre of the flowerstick, the slower you are able to play. The closer you play to the end of the flowerstick, the faster you play.
  3. If you want to play slowly, you need to play with the flowerstick closer to the centre of it (with the handsticks). At the same time, you also need to be more subtle with the handsticks. Flex your hands more. The handsticks should rather guide the flowerstick than hit it.
  4. For most tricks, it can be said that the handsticks should not be facing the ground. Instead, they should be horizontal or even slightly pointing upwards.
  5. Apart from a few extra advanced tricks, always hold the handsticks by their ends. This way, you’ll have more playing surface on them, and on the other hand, they won’t restrict your wrist movement. A loose (moving) wrist and hand position are very important parts of the game.
  6. One or two tricks can be learnt relatively quickly with a few repetitions. However, to repeat it many times over and over again typically requires a lot more learning. But that’s not what’s important. Instead of repetitions, try to combine the current trick with other tricks. You will learn a lot from it.
  7. If, despite lots of practice, you still can’t learn one or two movements or tricks, don’t be disappointed. Try something else for a few days and you’ll see that you’ll get better at what was difficult before. 
  8. This is most common in younger children (6-8 years old), but it can also happen at much older ages when they play only from the wrist or forearm. When this happens, their elbows do not move, and they simply cannot lift the flowerstick enough to turn it over. Or they may swing from the wrist so much that the stick flies away. The lesson is to get your whole body involved in the game, rather than just one or two parts of it.

 

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Additional - recommended - tricks

If you’re already good at this trick, or just want to practice something else, try the following tricks

1. Helicopter
Flowerstick-devilstick-tricks-tutorial-1-helicopter-mainGIF.2-big

The most important basic moves of the flowerstick game are in this trick. Lift, catch/ stop the stick in the air while spinning it.

2. One-Handed Spin
Flowerstick-devilstick-tricks-tutorial-2-onehandspinning-mainGIF.2

One of the basic moves of the game: Spinning the flowerstick in the air with a handstick. Doing a few hoops is not difficult at all, yet spectacular.

4. Throwing
Flowerstick-devilstick-tricks-tutorial-4-throw-mainGIF.1

One of the most spectacular elements of the game, but to really impress your audience (and yourself), it’s important that you can do the Helicopter and the One-Handed spin with confidence.

5. Foot-Tricks
Flowerstick-devilstick-tricks-tutorial-5-footgame-mainGIF.3

The first steps of the trick are not difficult. Feel free to start your flowerstick learning right here. But to make it a spectacular part of your game, you’ll need to know more tricks (especially the Helicopter and the One-Handed spin).

2. Helicopter
Flowerstick-devilstick-trick-tutorial-1-helicopter-mainGIF.2-small

The most important basic moves of the flowerstick game are in this trick. Lift, catch/ stop the stick in the air while spinning it.

2. One-Handed Spin
Flowerstick-devilstick-trick-tutorial-2-onehandspinning-mainGIF.2-small

One of the basic moves of the game: Spinning the flowerstick in the air with a handstick. Doing a few hoops is not difficult at all, yet spectacular.

4. Throwing
Flowerstick-devilstick-trick-tutorial-4-throw-mainGIF-small.1

One of the most spectacular elements of the game, but to really impress your audience (and yourself), it’s important that you can do the Helicopter and the One-Handed spin with confidence.

5. Foot-Tricks
Flowerstick-devilstick-trick-tutorial-5-footgame-mainGIF-small.3

The first steps of the trick are not difficult. Feel free to start your flowerstick learning right here. But to make it a spectacular part of your game, you’ll need to know more tricks (especially the Helicopter and the One-Handed spin).