I love how the diabolo community works. Take Jako’s integral suicide for example. Back in March 2005, Jako released a 3 part video which included insanely long combinations and cutting-edge tricks, such as his integral suicide. I have always liked the trick because of it’s uniqueness and simplicity. It was different from Eric’s popular integral suicide (a.k.a. Tomicide), which appealed to me, partly because I didn’t master Eric’s integral yet. I took the time to learn Jako’s integral and tweaked it to my own style. It still remained similar to the original though. After a while, people started exploring the trick a bit further and came up with great variations.
Last summer, I collected some material I was working on, filmed it, and put some time into editing together a practice video. “Dang-diggy-dang” was born. I then decided to release the video on the forum, as I hadn’t released anything publicly for a while. The last trick in the video was a 2 diabolo integral idea, which is basically Jako’s integral suicide applied to 2 diabolos. I thought of that trick about a year before, but only tried it every now and then. However, I lacked the technical skill to hit it – so I decided to put it out there and see if any of the new school kids were able to nail it. A few weeks after the release, two people had nailed the trick and Busk showed me a very nice variation at the EJC. Busk was playing around with his own slowcide variation, inspired by Stefano’s (a.k.a. P5yk0) sun variation on Jako’s integral. Inspired by my video, Busk then applied his slowcide integral to 2 diabolos.
Here’s a short montage of the evolution of Jako’s integral suicide and it’s variations — as a tribute to Jako the originator, the trick and our community. I included some of my favourite variations which I could get my hands on. I’m sure there are a lot more variations I’m not aware of though, so please feel free to share your own findings!
Pretty neat how this community-thing works, huh? Like they say; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Sometimes you have to share your ideas and open them up to the public, before you will see them being explored way beyond your imagination.
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