SPOT FRAKKING ON. You worded it much better. This is it guys. The soul of the throw.
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Awesome. I’m glad I got it. I also take it that this very reason is why I don’t really see you posting around here anymore basically at all aside from the out-of-the-blue battle request.
Pretty much. 
Buuut.
I love you
I love you too, Q. XD
I wanna get sponsored so someone will make me sandwiches on request 
Thatd be awesome. Especially at contests.
This makes me happy.
This is why you have a gf.
Imean
thank you, all in all
if you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong
if having fun means competing so be it, if it’s representing for a company, so be it, if it’s teaching others, so be it, if it’s just to go out there and throw naked in the woods, so be it
the only “wrong” way to throw is when you stop having fun.
I think the original point is that some kids give the impression to be too “serious” about it, i.e. forget about the fun part in benefits of competition/sponsorship aimed grind.
it’s ok to focus on competition or getting sponsored as long as you still have fun doing it, if you stop having fun, you’ll probably fail achieving your goal.
I think grinding for sponsorship or competition is more about the trip than the destination, some will have amazing skills and will naturally be competitive and interesting to sponsors. others won’t just have what it takes.
I yoyo just for the fun of it… I’m not using all my time to learn new tricks, I do it to have fun. I know I am not good enough to compete, but I don’t want to anyway. The only reasons I’d go to a competition would be to buy yoyos or hang out.
That statement is still wrong. I yoyo all the time to relieve me of some stress or anger. Am I having fun? NO. Is it helping me get over things that are hindering me of having fun? Yes. Stop telling peole that if you don’t have fun yoyoing then you are doing it wrong. That makes you wrong.
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Forgive me for being sceptical, but i just wanna voice my opinion here. It seems rather unlikely that anyone is going to view this thread and say “Wow, i’ve seen the light! I’m going to stop yoyoing because this person says i should.” Honestly i agree with you to a some extent Zach, yoyoing should be done for fun, but every time I see a thread like this it makes me wonder if people really change because of it. The only people i ever see responding or giving thankyou’s are people who seem to have already come to ponder such thoughts. And when you think about it, it’s hard to yoyo for the wrong reasons. You say you shouldn’t strive to become sponsered just to get free yoyos. Well, it seems to me the only reason someone who would want free yoyos is because they enjoy yoyoing, or for some reason icthus said such as to relieve stress. Apparenty, getting sponserd just to socalize with other people is “the right reason” because it sounds less greedy than “to get free yoyo’s”. It’s true that the former probably has more capabilities for helping people, but getting free yoyo’s could still be used to help other people. Giving them away or letting other people borrow them comes to mind immediantly. So thats what I think, but i’m not a phyciatrist or an expert (in fact a probably spelled phyciatrist wrong) but these are my thoughts.
~M²
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No one should ever tell anyone to quit yoyoing.
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Oh, you really think that, huh tough guy? Well here goes then… stop… eating that bagel. /fail.
In all honestly though, I think that the real message should be don’t try to only get sponsored for selfish reasons.
Or if you do, at least have an excuse handy to placate the nosiness of non-involved people whose business it isn’t.
I thought this from the beginning, you should/shouldn’t yoyo for whatever reason you want. I don’t know if I always have “fun” while yoyoing, but what I do know is that if someone told me to stop yoyoing because I wasn’t having any I’d be annoyed. Some people yoyo to relieve stress, so? How does that affect you? If someone only wants to compete, that’s fine with me. You shouldn’t be able to tell them to stop. If they have a reason, and it doesn’t harm you, then leave them alone. Wait. Even if they don’t have a reason, leave them alone.
“Don’t you just love the way parsley looks?”
“You should never like parsley at all for any reason other than taste! How could you call yourself a chef?”
There is no way to yoyo wrong. Upside down, in space, underwater, you name it, it’s still yoyoing.
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TL;DR : Its good to throw for your own reasons, just don’t go overboard and become a gyroscopic Darwinist. 
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Well, one reason I feel that some may flock to yyf is because they’ve seen Paul Han, Chris Fraser etc. since they first started throwing. I don’t know about you, but I’d love to be on a team where I can hang out with my role models on a constant basis. Then again, I’m 30 minutes away from Eliot Jackson’s place, so…
Well, last time I checked, yo-yo didn’t have a “point.” If someone wants to shoot for a team, let them. It’s not like they’re going to be “moved” by someone telling them to quit. People will do what they please. I’d suggest you drop it for the good of sanity and flame wars.
I think you guys within the last page must have skipped over a good bit of this thread. As Zach and I spoke about on the previous page, this thread isn’t really about throwing for sponsorship versus fun. It doesn’t matter if you throw for fun or for competing or seeking sponsorship. It’s about all these people on here who need to ditch their uber-competitive and condescending attitudes toward other forum members which directly results from not having “fun” per se and taking the whole deal way too seriously. That’s the real message.
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I like yo-yos, yoyos are fun, ponies are fun too, Go hug a newborn kitten
End of discussion