Wraps, friction, and pain

This comes up time and time again. When I started with the diabolo I wish someone had shown me this, so here it goes:

Accelerating your diabolo with a wrap on it is good. It lets you get up to speed quickly; however, wrapping a diabolo without getting a mouthful of rubber requires a simple technique: you need to angle the string. Think about it, put a wrap on a diabolo, look at the bottom, and adjust your hands as needed.