# General Yo-Yo **URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/c/general-yo-yo-forum/5.md?page=29 [Latest](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/categories.md) **Page:** 30 --- ## [What would you name your yoyo company?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-would-you-name-your-yoyo-company/422932)
**Author:** [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 28, 2025, 1:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-would-you-name-your-yoyo-company/422932 "2025-04-28T01:18:00Z")
In light of recent memes, I thought I’d ask: what would you name your hypothetical yoyo brand? The last thread for this is five years old and got seriously derailed, so I’m starting one from scratch. I’d go with Happy H… --- ## [Cursed yoyo ideas cont'd](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cursed-yoyo-ideas-contd/382631)
**Author:** [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)\ **Replies:** 70\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cursed-yoyo-ideas-contd/382631 "2025-04-26T04:35:00Z")
I don’t know if it was me or someone else who made a thread about bad ideas for yoyos, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a thread about it before. Here are more contributions related to that. Feel free to share your own dubi… --- ## [Anno color question: clear vs silver](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006)
**Author:** [@washyjoshe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/washyjoshe)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 26, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anno-color-question-clear-vs-silver/420006 "2025-04-26T00:14:21Z")
Okay, looking at one drop yo-yos, sometimes there is silver anno, and sometimes I see clear. Is clear like a clear coat? And is silver really silver? I feel silly asking this, but to people who have compared them, are th… --- ## [Where is all the OT?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/where-is-all-the-ot/423765)
**Author:** [@Ironwindow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ironwindow)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/where-is-all-the-ot/423765 "2025-04-25T18:56:42Z")
I’m sorry if this has been asked already but where is all the OT at? Ross had some yellow at modern so I ordered a couple of bags but I would really like to get some pink also and it seems like everyone is out of OT. --- ## [Which fh model](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/which-fh-model/413402)
**Author:** [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/which-fh-model/413402 "2025-04-25T01:39:52Z")
wanna check out what the whole freehand thing was about. whats the best (non mg…lookin at you @Snoopy lol) fh model to get feet wet? tia! --- ## [Why do some in BST request F&F only?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-some-in-bst-request-f-f-only/423638)
**Author:** [@LordKingOf](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LordKingOf)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-do-some-in-bst-request-f-f-only/423638 "2025-04-25T00:15:05Z")
If someone is willing to cover the fees for G&S why does it matter? I feel like I’m missing part of the reasoning here. --- ## [Help: problem solved, pls close the topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-problem-solved-pls-close-the-topic/423450)
**Author:** [@abnfmpnk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abnfmpnk)\ **Replies:** 44\ **Last updated:** [April 25, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-problem-solved-pls-close-the-topic/423450 "2025-04-25T00:01:27Z")
So, I recently bought a new, sealed Duncan Freehand One from a friend from Brazil who came on a trip to London and in less than a week it broke in half. I’m really upset because the yo-yo hasn’t suffered any impacts, it’… --- ## [How many yoyos do you acquire in a 30 day period?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-many-yoyos-do-you-acquire-in-a-30-day-period/423584)
**Author:** [@NuroVolt7](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NuroVolt7)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-many-yoyos-do-you-acquire-in-a-30-day-period/423584 "2025-04-23T15:45:26Z")
As I’m wandering the forum, I can’t help but notice that one of the threads that updates the most is the “What did you get in the mail?” thread. The question begged here is in the title. The most I ever got in a month w… --- ## [Must try looper?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/must-try-looper/399332)
**Author:** [@Halnxck](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Halnxck)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 23, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/must-try-looper/399332 "2025-04-23T02:23:34Z")
Started with loop 720 then bought sochi loop spinners. My favorite has been a set of initiators until last week when I tried a hornet. Have a jpl loop up I should try again. Any other loopers that are worth trying? --- ## [Yoyoing and mental health](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyoing-and-mental-health/323422)
**Author:** [@Yo-yoislife](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yo-yoislife)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyoing-and-mental-health/323422 "2025-04-22T22:39:44Z")
Hey guys! I ran across this video and thought I would share it! I think all of us can agree that yoyoing has had a big impact on our lives. For me, yoyoing has given me a relief from anxiety, and a higher … --- ## [The Stooges Podcast](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-stooges-podcast/423515)
**Author:** [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 22, 2025, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-stooges-podcast/423515 "2025-04-22T00:08:05Z")
Have yall ever wanted to hang out with four regular dudes and talk yoyos? We thought you would Let’s Ride Yall are gonna like the way you look --- ## [The Razorback Yo-yo Academy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-razorback-yo-yo-academy/423387)
**Author:** [@MattC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattC)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-razorback-yo-yo-academy/423387 "2025-04-21T12:40:12Z")
Im sure yall have heard of it. If not classes open March 69th --- ## [Tungsten or Osmium rimmed yoyo?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tungsten-or-osmium-rimmed-yoyo/79714)
**Author:** [@yomega\_fan\_335](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yomega_fan_335)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tungsten-or-osmium-rimmed-yoyo/79714 "2025-04-21T10:55:10Z")
I know that a Tungsten rimmed throw has been done before. --- ## [BobParty’s Player Profile: James Heder - YoYoFriends](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bobparty-s-player-profile-james-heder-yoyofriends/407529)
**Author:** [@Bobparty](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bobparty)\ **Replies:** 309\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bobparty-s-player-profile-james-heder-yoyofriends/407529 "2025-04-20T21:53:13Z")
Hey All, Over the last few weeks I’ve been thinking hard about how I can make a contribution and give back to the community that has given so much to me. When I was growing up one of my favorite things was the “player … --- ## [Imperial Shape yoyo Appreciation Thread](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/imperial-shape-yoyo-appreciation-thread/423429)
**Author:** [@kretzschmar](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kretzschmar)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/imperial-shape-yoyo-appreciation-thread/423429 "2025-04-20T13:21:42Z")
Show us your Imperial shaped yoyos. Share clips of you doing tricks on an Imperial design. Fixie, modern and unresponsives welcome. Our forefathers would be pleased to see we are still rocking the classics in our mode… --- ## [Looking for someone who is skilled in CAD, experienced at making yoyos, and is willing to help bring a few designs to life over the next year or so](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/looking-for-someone-who-is-skilled-in-cad-experienced-at-making-yoyos-and-is-willing-to-help-bring-a-few-designs-to-life-over-the-next-year-or-so/423361)
**Author:** [@Yo-yo\_Power](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yo-yo_Power)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/looking-for-someone-who-is-skilled-in-cad-experienced-at-making-yoyos-and-is-willing-to-help-bring-a-few-designs-to-life-over-the-next-year-or-so/423361 "2025-04-19T19:19:56Z")
I’m hoping to find someone who can help bring a few ideas to life. I’m needing help with the CAD design. I would like to start the process of bringing a few variations of a flagship model to life. I have tried to do it s… --- ## [Some vintage yoyos that my parents thought to drop by for me today](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-vintage-yoyos-that-my-parents-thought-to-drop-by-for-me-today/423320)
**Author:** [@Danissl](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Danissl)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-vintage-yoyos-that-my-parents-thought-to-drop-by-for-me-today/423320 "2025-04-19T14:47:39Z")
As the title says, my parents went antique shopping and since I’ve been into yoyos lately, they decided to grab me some and stopped by my place after work. They seem to range from around the 1950s up to 2013 for the one.… --- ## [I'm looking for a Guy Wright video](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/im-looking-for-a-guy-wright-video/422788)
**Author:** [@Chaman](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Chaman)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/im-looking-for-a-guy-wright-video/422788 "2025-04-18T10:25:11Z")
Hello everyone! I’m hoping anyone can help me find the video of Guy Wright with a orange Skyy Chaser of SPYY,that played this song: I tried to search for it on YouTube and I can’t find it anywhere … --- ## [When do replace/retire a bearing?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-do-replace-retire-a-bearing/423031)
**Author:** [@Bobparty](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bobparty)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [April 16, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-do-replace-retire-a-bearing/423031 "2025-04-16T02:41:38Z")
I feel like I’m really bad at this. I’ll do the paper slip method and soak a bearing in acetone for hours, several times before I’ll decide to replace it with a new one. I wondered what’s everyone criteria or breaking … --- ## [Help to choose YYR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-to-choose-yyr/423133)
**Author:** [@Positron](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Positron)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2025, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-to-choose-yyr/423133 "2025-04-15T19:07:28Z")
Hey buddies I gonna pick the one of yyrs Bae,toru 0.9,toru 0.99 If anybody has all three in collection let me know what is the best one and what difference between them in play --- ## [Yoyo Giveaway! To celebrate Sleeper's first ever yoyo release!](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-giveaway-to-celebrate-sleepers-first-ever-yoyo-release/422990)
**Author:** [@Rhythm162](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Rhythm162)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-giveaway-to-celebrate-sleepers-first-ever-yoyo-release/422990 "2025-04-15T15:38:02Z")
I’m releasing my first ever yoyo! :partying\_face:. And there’s going to be 3 ways to enter, first by commenting here your favorite tutorial of mine and by tagging 2 friends, you can do that on Instagram @sleeperyoyo and … --- ## [Complete Beginner](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/complete-beginner/422569)
**Author:** [@Mj0028](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mj0028)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/complete-beginner/422569 "2025-04-13T18:49:11Z")
Hello there, good day, I’m a beginner and a newbie in this site. I’m using yoyos from the brand, Magicyoyo. I use their K2 Crystal, I sometimes yeet it to the floor, and I just recently bought their Yo3 Hertz. I don’t … --- ## [Would you buy an anime waifu yoyo?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/would-you-buy-an-anime-waifu-yoyo/413138)
**Author:** [@Rhythm162](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Rhythm162)\ **Replies:** 63\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2025, 6:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/would-you-buy-an-anime-waifu-yoyo/413138 "2025-04-13T18:15:58Z")
poll Im curious how many people in the yoyo scene would be interested in anime yoyos and such since there doesnt appear to be a lot but feels like a no brainer to me that it should exist. Personally id love to have a col… --- ## [How to make a wooden fixed axle yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-wooden-fixed-axle-yoyo/422790)
**Author:** [@dragonfruitea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dragonfruitea)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 12, 2025, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-wooden-fixed-axle-yoyo/422790 "2025-04-12T09:51:51Z")
hey all, im curently in a woodworking class, and for our final project, the teacher said that we could do whatever project we wanted. (within reason ofc) but i chose to try to make a fixie. i kinda need help just tryinm… --- ## [Terrible Amazon yoyos! Help!](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/terrible-amazon-yoyos-help/422685)
**Author:** [@YoungSinatra](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoungSinatra)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/terrible-amazon-yoyos-help/422685 "2025-04-10T12:56:27Z")
I love my family. But when Christmas time or my birthday comes around they know I’m not yoyos so they go onto Amazon and they buy a yoyo that looks cool to them and they think I will like. everytime it is a washiboo or w… --- ## [Anybody own or tried the New Protostar with the Ti weight rings?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anybody-own-or-tried-the-new-protostar-with-the-ti-weight-rings/422644)
**Author:** [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 9, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/anybody-own-or-tried-the-new-protostar-with-the-ti-weight-rings/422644 "2025-04-09T00:01:53Z")
Any thoughts if you have? --- ## [Mighty flea string/what's compatible](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/mighty-flea-string-whats-compatible/422702)
**Author:** [@TyrantHive](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TyrantHive)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/mighty-flea-string-whats-compatible/422702 "2025-04-08T23:34:36Z")
So I got a mighty flea for my birthday and it was bought second-hand. The problem is that it came with only one string, and it’s become pretty gross. What strings are compatible? I’ve tried using my smallest strings but … --- ## [What’s your travelin’ yo?](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-your-travelin-yo/412601)
**Author:** [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [April 8, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-your-travelin-yo/412601 "2025-04-08T12:54:16Z")
Do you have a particular throw that you have dedicated to being your “can’t leave home without one” Yoyo? What makes it your travel buddy? --- ## [Banshee T52 Giveaway](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/banshee-t52-giveaway/421977)
**Author:** [@bheinz63](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bheinz63)\ **Replies:** 88\ **Last updated:** [April 7, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/banshee-t52-giveaway/421977 "2025-04-07T19:14:49Z")
Hey yall, been sitting on this one for a while and I’ve got this BEAUTIFUL Electric Lagoon Banshee T52 ready for giveaway. I bought two at release specifically because I wanted to do this. The T52 has quickly shot to the… --- ## [My Local Aldi Had YoYo Cases!](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-local-aldi-had-yoyo-cases/421610)
**Author:** [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-local-aldi-had-yoyo-cases/421610 "2025-04-06T17:33:31Z")
For ten bucks! Okay they’re allegedly tool organizers, but come on, look at these things! Even has a an FOV adjacent feature. They’re coming for you, Jake!! Used this for keeping my preciouses secu… [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/c/general-yo-yo-forum/5.md?page=28) [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/c/general-yo-yo-forum/5.md?page=30)