Speaking of which, I went to BLC last week and the YYF booth was selling Loop1080s for $30 a pair. I couldn’t pass up the deal. I got the clear body/white cap colorway. So now I have 4 1080 pairs in possession. I wish I also bought the blue body/pink cap though. I like stocking up on multiple loopers.
And I bought myself 20 Yomega Raider spacers to try it on my Loop1080s. And I must say that it works very well, almost to the point that it plays better.
Even when unsanded, the Raider spacers sits flush with the starburst. The stock 1080 spacers were a little smaller and yes, it affects play a whole lot.
If you’re curious, give it a try! Get yourself a set of Raider spacers [PM me where you can get it] and try it out.
Left hand is getting more consistent doing 5 inside loops. My goal was to be at 10 by the end of the week. I failed. I also lost that consistency too and that’s confusing me. Maybe I’m just having a little streak of weirdness. I am sure I’ll overcome this.
My right hand is 10+ inside loops consistently. 20 is my goal, and that’s not far off. Aiming for 20 with my left hand too.
Trying two hands at once is not something I’m worried about yet. I will do a throw or two here and there to make sure I’m throwing at about the same speed. If they go out and back at about the same time, I know I’m sufficiently close. Other than that, no two hand progress. That’s OK for now.
I know azunyan personally and he’s a cool dude. His offerings are not bad at all. He’ll buy the Raiders himself and mod it for your and ship it to you. Pretty good to me. Raiders cost $15 a pop and knowing the calculations of how much everything costs, he’s not making any profit for this. In fact, he’s losing money but he wants to help out 2A players, new or old, to have a sweet Raider in their hands too.
I recommend getting your Raiders bought and modded by him. You won’t be dissappointed
Anyway, I’ve been very motivated to practice. Normally I’d only yoyo 5-10 minutes a day even when I was playing mainly 1A. But now I could go for 30 minutes to an hour. It’s amazing, really. Felt very inspired to do something.
But I’ve always wanted to make a strict practice routine to get my basics locked down and to keep myself focused. So I downloaded a time interval (Seconds) app on my iPhone usually used for workouts and used that to help me lay out my 2A practice ‘workout’ routine.
I’d give a 2-5 minutes for each trick where I only do that trick and only that trick. For example, I’d set gravity pull for 2 minutes, around the world for 3, and left or right inside loops for 5
I put 10 minutes on each 2-handed trick.
In total of one hour I just went over all the basic 2A tricks.
If you have at least one hour to spare to work on your 2A, I recommend the same. Keeps you focused and it’s super productive.
I figured I’d also share my practice routine so you guys have an idea what I meant.
Gravity Pull - 2min
Sleeper [5sec] - 2min
Forward pass - 3min
Around the World[forward and backward] - 3min
Loop the Loop - 5min
Outside Loop - 5min
Hop the Fence - 5min
Outside Hop - 5min
2H loop [10]
2H outside loop [10]
2H milk the cow (10)
2H outside hop (10)
Feel free to adjust to your preferences and the tricks you’re currently working on. For me right now I’m just solidifying my basics before I move on to other tricks.
I try my best to practice every single day if my schedule permits it. School and work are kinda in the way of my practicing, but I try my best.
I just developed this practice routine a couple days ago so I still have a lot of work to do. Putting this to the test slowly but surely though.
Thanks though!
I bought another 100count 50/50 'cause my other pack is running low and I also got myself 100count 100% poly. Testing both types of string to see which ones I prefer. So far, I’m sticking with 50/50 but poly is fun to play with also.
Has anyone seen the special edition Fireball colors exclusive in Hiroyuki’s store? I think they look so good. Look it up.
Wow, I just realized that today is this thread’s birthday; I’ve created this thread exactly last year. Twenty two pages, over 9000 (no lie) views, and lots of useful information later, I am surprised and amazed by how much we have discussed in one year. I should probably keep tabs on the most useful posts and put links on my very first post for easy access for first timers…
Lots have changed since then, but I hope everybody is still keeping up with their 2A. I’m still here practicing, bought a ton more loopers, and I’m more motivated to play double handed than I am with 1A.
Thank you very much everybody for keeping this thread alive. This thread is the only reason why I make time to visit the forums even with my very busy schedule.
Here’s to another year and may more awesomeness to come.
I like it a lot. Blue/pink looks rad. For now, I like how it’s lighter than a raider… who knows if my preference will change as my skill increases . I’ve been playing with it how it came straight out of the package. Should I lube it up or do anything to the spacers or anything? Also still haven’t fiddled with the allen wrench/gap setting. Basically scared or unsure of what I should do to it lol
Also, getting two modded raiders from azunyan. Too good of a deal to pass up
EDIT: Check out the very first post on the first page! I put all the essential links a 2A player should know. More to come and it will be updated as much as I can.
I was disappointed when yoyoing.com went offline 'cause it had some useful guides there. I’ve finally found some archived posts of some of the best guides yet. They’re super old, but the information is still gold.
Hi guys!
I have a pair of loop 900s (Shaqler Edition) and Unleased. One of my 900s has gone whack. It literally shakes the string when I throw it. I’ve tried switching the guts with the other one, and it works perfectly. So I’ll just buy a new pair of spacers and a bearing. I’ll also pick up a 100 pack of 5050 string. I prefer the unleashed, I feel the response is better. I’m working on synchronizing my two handed loops. I can do them, but they’re super sloppy.
What up, J? The Shaqler 900s are amazing yoyos and I think they play better and are sturdier than regular 900s. Yeah, try purchasing a pack of Raider plastic spacers and plug that in to your 900s. It should play nice :]
How well can you do one handed loops of each hand? [as in, not doing 2handed loops at the same time]
1080 is a beast. I pretty much got infinite inside loops down without moving my forearm very much–hand/finger doing most of the work. Working on alternating inside/outside now as well as inside loops with my left hand. Idk why just basic loops are so addicting, but they are.
