# A Guide to change your String Tension
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493
**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks
**Created:** [September 12, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493 "2009-09-12T14:55:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@AeroSlaYa](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AeroSlaYa)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/1 "2009-09-12T14:55:45Z")
Here’s my final Guide for all the beginners:
Getting your string tension just right is essential to Yoyo play. Too tight and your yoyo will get reponsive.Too loose and your yoyo will fly out of the string!!! Here’re some vid and tutorial. Again Thnx to all:
By Andre himself.
> **[YoYoExpert.com - Intermediate - String Tension](https://yoyoexpert.com/learn/017-intermediate-string-tension.php)**
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> Learn how to adjust the tension of your yo-yo string at YoYoExpert.com.
> **[YoYoExpert.com - Basics - Flying Saucer UFO](https://yoyoexpert.com/learn/015-basic-flying-saucer-ufo.php)**
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> Learn the cool looking yo-yo trick UFO also known as Flying Saucer that will help with string tension at YoYoExpert.com
> **[YoYoExpert.com - Intermediate - Side Winder](https://yoyoexpert.com/learn/025-intermediate-side-winder.php)**
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> Learn the yo-yo trick Side Winder, useful for adjusting string tension, at YoYoExpert.com.
By other people in this forum:
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQfcll1PLQ)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccAm3rlIUe0)
[flash=200,200][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJwHP1AXYQ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJJwHP1AXYQ)[/flash
[http://www.youtube.com/v/RwYGRBIU8GU&hl=en&fs=1&](http://www.youtube.com/v/RwYGRBIU8GU&hl=en&fs=1&)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUEWqXFwh8&feature=channel\_page](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUEWqXFwh8&feature=channel_page)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9teMsKeoCg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9teMsKeoCg)
Please check out my Binding guide.
> **[A Guide to Binding](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,6880.0.html)**
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> Well in the 1 month I’ve been here I’ve seen so many people asking for help to Bind so I decided to write a guide for all you beginners: Ok binding is a technique where you return an unresponsive yoyo to your hand. Normally, in a bind you...
And my Hand Starting Guide.
> **[A Guide to Hand Start a dead Yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,6881.0.html)**
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> Snap Starting a yoyo is a hard thing to learn, but pays off in the end. It look more proffesional than hand winding and is a lot quicker. Here are some turoials and videos to help the learning process. Please visit my String Tension...
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### Author:  [@Samad](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Samad)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/2 "2009-09-12T17:47:53Z")
IMO, I don’t think these guides are necessary. They are all covered here in the trick section. But, that’s only my opinion. Don’t let it stop you :wink:
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### Author:  [@yoyomaster242](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyomaster242)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/3 "2009-09-12T18:55:08Z")
Just because they may not be necessary does not mean that they are not helpful
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### Author:  [@AeroSlaYa](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AeroSlaYa)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2009, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/4 "2009-09-14T19:49:28Z")
i wrote these guides in hope to help beginner’s quickly find what they need. when they ask in these forums, other people will give them some technique’s but some are just better than others. i got these vids from some recent posts and most of them are different from each other. so even if yo say they’re unnecessary, i agree with yoyomaster, they are helpful
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/5 "2009-09-18T08:20:51Z")
Fedya for the win! 😃
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### Author:  [@Emptysea](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Emptysea)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/6 "2009-09-18T18:38:53Z")
I like this thread because its everything I look for in one spot. It’s helpful to myself yay!
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### Author:  [@yoyomac888](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyomac888)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/7 "2009-09-18T18:41:18Z")
> [@yoyomaster242](#):
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> Just because they may not be necessary does not mean that they are not helpful
Yup
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### Author:  [@king825](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/king825)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2010, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/a-guide-to-change-your-string-tension/6493/8 "2010-02-12T12:51:03Z")
I think these are helpful. Since I cannot do a UFO or a rattlesnake to loosen tension because of unresponse, I can do the washing machine, which I had never heard of.