# 7 months into yoyo'ing, not the greatest but getting better. **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Videos\ **Created:** [June 30, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531 "2015-06-30T23:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LeDave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ledave/32/1590_2.png) [@LeDave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeDave)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/1 "2015-06-30T23:35:13Z")
Hey guys, here is my 7 month progress. Substantially less “uber” than I had hoped for when reaching this mark. I even screwed up at the end. :-[ But here it is… Sengoku Nobunaga! I choose you! [www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps) ---
**Author:** ![\_RTD\_alecto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_rtd_alecto/32/1336_2.png) [@\_RTD\_alecto](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_RTD_alecto)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/2 "2015-06-30T23:38:41Z")
great job man…its good to see how far you’ve gotten… that eli hop is still a little funky so ill just call it a dave hop. ---
**Author:** ![yoyoboy224](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f14d63/32.png) [@yoyoboy224](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoboy224)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/3 "2015-07-01T02:32:10Z")
> [@alecto](#): > > great job man…its good to see how far you’ve gotten… that eli hop is still a little funky so ill just call it a dave hop. I just googled “dave hop.” _facepalm_ Yeah, you gotta get them shooting outwards, not up. Nice job! ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyJ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/johnnyj/32/94616_2.png) [@JohnnyJ](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JohnnyJ)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2015, 5:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/4 "2015-07-02T05:28:15Z")
Nice job man!! ---
**Author:** ![ThinkH2o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ThinkH2o](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThinkH2o)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 9:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/5 "2015-07-03T21:48:17Z")
> [@LeDave](#): > > Hey guys, here is my 7 month progress. Substantially less “uber” than I had hoped for when reaching this mark. I even screwed up at the end. :-[ But here it is… Sengoku Nobunaga! I choose you! > > [www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps) Anyway I can get a link to the video, my phone won’t show the video. Thank you ---
**Author:** ![LeDave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ledave/32/1590_2.png) [@LeDave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/6 "2015-07-03T21:57:04Z")
> [@ThinkH2o](#): > > Anyway I can get a link to the video, my phone won’t show the video. Thank you Thanks everyone! And sure thing mate! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHyY1BtOps) ---
**Author:** ![ThinkH2o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ThinkH2o](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThinkH2o)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/7 "2015-07-03T22:06:36Z")
That was alot for one throw. Very nice. I’m getting there, but not as smooth. Not sure if you seen my 3 months video, but its on here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![LeDave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ledave/32/1590_2.png) [@LeDave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/8 "2015-07-03T22:17:51Z")
> [@ThinkH2o](#): > > That was alot for one throw. Very nice. I’m getting there, but not as smooth. Not sure if you seen my 3 months video, but its on here somewhere. Thanks mate, I dug up your 3 month. I have no clue what you say when you said you’re not as smooth. I see that you are much smoother than I am. ---
**Author:** ![ThinkH2o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ThinkH2o](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThinkH2o)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2015, 10:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/9 "2015-07-03T22:38:56Z")
> [@LeDave](#): > > Thanks mate, I dug up your 3 month. I have no clue what you say when you said you’re not as smooth. I see that you are much smoother than I am. I don’t know about that. I’d say I still have a ways to go. I pretty much take my yoyo everywhere. The store, pharmacy, on a walk. At one point my fiance got tired of it. But I convinced her I need to get better. Then I got her into yoyoing. But it took awhile to convince her. How far are you on the YYE tutorial videos? ---
**Author:** ![Amdroid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/amdroid/32/476_2.png) [@Amdroid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Amdroid)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/10 "2015-07-06T16:48:18Z")
Nice video! You’re definitely doing way better than I was at 7 months ---
**Author:** ![LeDave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ledave/32/1590_2.png) [@LeDave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/11 "2015-07-07T00:31:55Z")
> [@ThinkH2o](#): > > I don’t know about that. I’d say I still have a ways to go. I pretty much take my yoyo everywhere. The store, pharmacy, on a walk. At one point my fiance got tired of it. But I convinced her I need to get better. Then I got her into yoyoing. But it took awhile to convince her. How far are you on the YYE tutorial videos? I don’t follow the video list of tutorials. I just watch and learn whatever I think looks cool. > [@Amdroid](#): > > Nice video! You’re definitely doing way better than I was at 7 months Thanks mate. ---
**Author:** ![ThinkH2o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ThinkH2o](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThinkH2o)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/12 "2015-07-07T02:01:27Z")
Oh okay, I’m kinda the same way, but I did my best to go through and try them out. ---
**Author:** ![\_RTD\_alecto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_rtd_alecto/32/1336_2.png) [@\_RTD\_alecto](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_RTD_alecto)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/13 "2015-07-07T02:30:15Z")
> [@LeDave](#): > > I don’t follow the video list of tutorials. I just watch and learn whatever I think looks cool. i did the same thing and nothing wrong happened to me… happened to me… happened to me… you don’t have to follow the list just do whatever you want… yoyoing is a personal journey that is different for everyone. thank goodness the community isn’t cookie cutter and we have such a large variety of styles. ---
**Author:** ![gijoey959](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gijoey959/32/7958_2.png) [@gijoey959](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/gijoey959)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/14 "2015-07-15T20:00:06Z")
Good job! I’m a month behind, but I’m hoping to post an update video soon as well. I did take a month off of learning tricks to teach a children’s yoyo class, but I don’t think it hurt me too much ---
**Author:** ![Buggot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/buggot/32/1534_2.png) [@Buggot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Buggot)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/15 "2015-07-18T12:40:07Z")
> [@Someone](#): > > I just googled “dave hop.” _facepalm_ > > Yeah, you gotta get them shooting outwards, not up. > > Nice job! What do you mean by outwards? ---
**Author:** ![Gym\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Gym\_Kirk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Gym_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2015, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/16 "2015-07-18T14:39:19Z")
Looks good! I don’t film myself enough. It’s a great way to evaluate how a trick looks. You’ll be a step ahead if you do that early on. I remember when I started. I thought, all I will ever need is this one Benchmark! And $60 for a Yoyo? That’s steep! Hahahahahahaha… I need another case. Keep up the good work! ---
**Author:** ![antonizick](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/antonizick/32/45948_2.png) [@antonizick](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/antonizick)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/17 "2015-07-22T04:54:26Z")
That looks amazing! On average roughly how many hours are you practicing do you figure? ---
**Author:** ![LeDave](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ledave/32/1590_2.png) [@LeDave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LeDave)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/18 "2015-07-22T23:43:36Z")
> [@antonizick](#): > > That looks amazing! On average roughly how many hours are you practicing do you figure? Thanks mate. It ranges a lot. Some day I will spend 30 mins, some days I will spend 3 hours. I need to have at least 30 mins of play time a day though. ---
**Author:** ![ThinkH2o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ThinkH2o](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ThinkH2o)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/7-months-into-yoyoing-not-the-greatest-but-getting-better/75531/19 "2015-07-23T03:52:22Z")
> [@LeDave](#): > > Thanks mate. It ranges a lot. Some day I will spend 30 mins, some days I will spend 3 hours. I need to have at least 30 mins of play time a day though. Sounds around the amount of time I practice now. But in the first 3 month for me I practiced around 4 hours a day.