Even now my left (non-dominant) hand is still usually the cause of dropping a set of loops or milk the cow.
Keep working at it! Practice makes progress!
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Repetition is all you need. You have the technique down. You hold it together until the left hand gets a little behind and once you focus on correcting it the right hand gets off. The more you repeat, the longer youāll go before losing it and eventually youāll be able to correct either with ease. Then your well on your way to one million repetitions. Youāre light years from where I am. I am honestly not sure if Iāll ever be able to get my left hand to work right. I have a very difficult time focusing my attention on anything really and that left hand of mine is quite unruly.
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I was thinking that we needed to give a shout out to @Tricksyouforgot44 Connor for placing at the Nats. I havenāt been able to find it if someone can link it. I really dig his style would love to check it out.
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I donāt think they have all the individual videos up quite yet, but if you subscribe to yoyovideoarchive on YouTube theyāll get posted eventually.
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You can check it out the video from the live stream also. Time is around 3h56m30s
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After one or two false starts I finally committed to getting my left hand working. Swapped the halves of these Duncan Imperials and now, a week and a half in, I can actually throw better, cleaner, more consistent loops with my left hand than my right.
This, btw, is not boasting ā I am truly amazed!
Initially, the yoyo felt utterly alien and as though it would be impossible ever to have it loop but I practised forward throws, attempting to loop it periodically and now it feelsā¦well, almost natural (though I notice my right hand is āghostingā the movements of my left without my realising).
What I absolutely canāt do yet, is to loop both hands at the same time but all in good time. I genuinely thought it would be impossible for me to loop the left hand.
For anyone holding back, I echo all the great advice I read here: give it go, it can be done!
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I was playing the AllYoYo Loop 720s today when I had an epiphany that I already owned this colorway in another yo-yo.
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The new color Loop 720s look awesome! I really donāt need a 4th pairā¦
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Cool stuff. I saw the gold and red the other day. Its a looker. The gold and silver are coated and will chip. I got a set of unknowns for Fatherās Day last year.
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Well that got me looking around and Sochi has some cool new colors and an LED model. C3 has some new initiator colors also.
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Looping the Raiders today. They have Loop 720 red spacers and double looped strings. One responds pretty well, maybe a little slow for my taste, but the other keeps snagging the string in the gap and not sleeping. Iām trying to break the string in more to see if itāll sleep better.
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I have found that if instead of double looping the string you can do a single loop around a loop 720 it will work much better.
I single loop all my Loop 720s, but the stock Raiders are too unresponsive for me, even with the red spacers installed.
I was just playing. I know youāve been chasing them for a while. I hate it when you canāt get the same response. Arenāt the reds the thickest? Shouldnāt you use blue?
Oh I see. I missed the joke 
I believe red are the thickest so the gap between spacers is the smallest while the overall gap remains the same? My goal was to make the throws more responsive than stock and Iāve succeeded in doing that Iām just still not happy with them.
The axle on those have a sharp ledge at the end of where the threads are cut and it only allows them to screw together so tight. I have a pair I did the same as you did and I actually filed the red spacers down to narrow the gap even further. People used to ācrankā them. The axle screws into a lock nut so once itās tight you turn it back 1/4 turn and youāll notice it will then tighten further than it did prior. You can do this a few times, HOWEVER, this can result in broken Raiders if you take it too far. Itās a delicate process to be done at oneās own risk. I only mention this because for many, this was common practice since Raiders first came out. Those are some beautiful Raiders!!
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Thanks! Iāve been trying to avoid breaking the Raiders. Iāve heard you can get a shorter axle and plastic spacers to close the gap without cranking, but the only ones available online are in Japan and would basically double the cost of the throws 
Iāve considered filing the axle and spacers but only have access to hand tools, so I havenāt given it a try yet.
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See a bunch a talk about Raiders, so Iām doing some reps with mine today. I have the SUNRiSE Spacer And Bearing Kit in mine, which is a YoYoJam B Bearing. Iām also using 100% Cotton strings which adds some response and was the OEM string back in the late nineties. Just for historical context poly strings didnāt become a thing until the middle aughts and their acceptance wasnāt immediate, hence the stories of starburst melting strings. When and If I do use poly on the Raiders I typically use a Fat Bulk. However, since Raiders are a little heavier I like the spring I get from fresh cotton. I have also broken Raiders trying to over tighten them to squeeze the gap, so Iām a little careful with these as they are becoming vintage, the SUNRiSE kit helps with this as well.
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