# Accidental off string
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [June 14, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230 "2015-06-14T22:16:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Heero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Heero)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/1 "2015-06-14T22:16:14Z")
So today during work, I took a break and went outside to throw a little. Messed up on spirit bomb and yoyo went into a UFO. The yoyo fell off the string and spun on the concrete for a second before I stopped. Now I have a bunch of pin pricks on one side. Has this happened to you? Is this a common occurrence or just a freak accident?
By the way it was a day old to me gradient. Really upset about it. Had to tell someone
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### Author:  [@Erik\_kerber](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Erik_kerber)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/2 "2015-06-14T22:21:08Z")
I’ve had that happen before. If you UFO long enough the string will completely unwind and the yoyo will fall off the string
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### Author:  [@DKiminator](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DKiminator)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/3 "2015-06-14T22:41:12Z")
Doing UFO loosens the string tension. When you do it for too long, the string unwinds enough for the yoyo to fall off the loop. Since UFO is sideways, the chance of the yoyo falling off the string is much greater
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### Author:  [@yoyoboy224](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoboy224)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 10:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/4 "2015-06-14T22:46:09Z")
I got a brand new $85 dollar metal throw, the Fidalgo.
First thing I did was walk the dog with it on concrete. I’ve also done this with my confetti Bonfire.
There. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Erik\_kerber](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Erik_kerber)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/5 "2015-06-14T23:31:47Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> I got a brand new $85 dollar metal throw, the Fidalgo.
>
> First thing I did was walk the dog with it on concrete. I’ve also done this with my confetti Bonfire.
>
> There. 🙂
Is your name Steve Brown by any chance?
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### Author:  [@NathanC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NathanC)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/6 "2015-06-14T23:52:59Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> I got a brand new $85 dollar metal throw, the Fidalgo.
>
> First thing I did was walk the dog with it on concrete. I’ve also done this with my confetti Bonfire.
>
> There. 🙂
lmao posts like these are pathetic. So cool man. You probably worship Steve Brown and Jensen Kimmitt too. Nothing says alpha like intentionally damaging yoyos just to show how much you don’t care. Almost as bad as people who refuse to throw yoyos for fear of damaging them.
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### Author:  [@Heero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Heero)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/7 "2015-06-14T23:54:39Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> I got a brand new $85 dollar metal throw, the Fidalgo.
>
> First thing I did was walk the dog with it on concrete. I’ve also done this with my confetti Bonfire.
>
> There. 🙂
[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/le-miiverse-resource/images/c/cd/Disappointment\_gif.gif/revision/latest?cb=20141007222046](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/le-miiverse-resource/images/c/cd/Disappointment_gif.gif/revision/latest?cb=20141007222046)
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### Author:  [@Junior626](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Junior626)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/8 "2015-06-15T00:05:30Z")
That’s why I open the loop big enough to fit the bearing only. I don’t like stretching my string to go on the yoyo while its screwed on. Unscrew yoyo and barely twist the string to get that perfect small loop.
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### Author:  [@Buggot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Buggot)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/9 "2015-06-15T00:08:41Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> I got a brand new $85 dollar metal throw, the Fidalgo.
>
> First thing I did was walk the dog with it on concrete. I’ve also done this with my confetti Bonfire.
>
> There. 🙂
That’s a little tơ far even for you ;D
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### Author:  [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/10 "2015-06-15T00:14:32Z")
I did this with my Y-Factor, but was adjusting string tension via split bottom mount. I went a bit too far and it did a “runaway dog” on me. Fortunately I was on grass so it just rolled a few feet ahead of me and just spun in place until it died out. No marks due to soft landing.
I’ve done UFO’s in the past with my Butterfly yoyo and went too far to where it did a face plant on the ground so fortunately I was aware of things like this happening come 11 or so years later 🙂
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### Author:  [@EricBell](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EricBell)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/11 "2015-06-15T00:18:14Z")
> [@Junior626](#):
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> That’s why I open the loop big enough to fit the bearing only. I don’t like stretching my string to go on the yoyo while its screwed on. Unscrew yoyo and barely twist the string to get that perfect small loop.
That loop gets bigger or smaller due to string tension, regardless of how you put it on the yoyo. It doesn’t “stretch” the string at all to open it up, but unscrewing your yoyo every time you need to put a new string on is definitely one way to wear out the threads really quickly.
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### Author:  [@Pineapple\_Jumpsuit](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pineapple_Jumpsuit)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/12 "2015-06-15T00:35:33Z")
> [@Erik\_kerber](#):
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> Is your name Steve Brown by any chance?
or Jrod?
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### Author:  [@Yoyordy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyordy)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/13 "2015-06-15T00:49:03Z")
> [@NathanC](#):
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> lmao posts like these are pathetic. So cool man. You probably worship Steve Brown and Jensen Kimmitt too. Nothing says alpha like intentionally damaging yoyos just to show how much you don’t care. Almost as bad as people who refuse to throw yoyos for fear of damaging them.
Ouch geez
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### Author:  [@Junior626](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Junior626)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/14 "2015-06-15T00:54:44Z")
Not if you screw it on gently without any screeching 🙂
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### Author:  [@Heero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Heero)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/15 "2015-06-15T01:28:56Z")
I feel like I need to buy a new gradient to have a nice pristine one. This purple one can be a beater. Anyone wanna get me a nice present for Father’s Day? I’ll teach you how to ride a bike or take you fishing or something
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### Author:  [@Junior626](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Junior626)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 3:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/16 "2015-06-15T03:03:10Z")
^ hahaha
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### Author:  [@Sergio](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sergio)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/17 "2015-06-15T03:53:24Z")
> [@NathanC](#):
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> “So cool man. You probably worship Steve Brown and Jensen Kimmitt…”
I do…
Too many yoyos have dies at the wrath of my hands. 😃
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### Author:  [@yoyoboy224](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoboy224)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/18 "2015-06-15T04:13:06Z")
> [@NathanC](#):
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> lmao posts like these are pathetic. So cool man. You probably worship Steve Brown and Jensen Kimmitt too. Nothing says alpha like intentionally damaging yoyos just to show how much you don’t care. Almost as bad as people who refuse to throw yoyos for fear of damaging them.
But you have it completely wrong, I 100% care, I just do it to get over the fear, equalling less worrying and more enjoying. I have no intention of being “alpha.”
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### Author:  [@Heero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Heero)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/19 "2015-06-15T05:18:12Z")
> [@Someone](#):
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> But you have it completely wrong, I 100% care, I just do it to get over the fear, equalling less worrying and more enjoying. I have no intention of being “alpha.”
i see where you’re coming from but it’ll get beat when it happens. Gonna happen eventually.
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### Author:  [@mysteriousyoyoer\_par](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mysteriousyoyoer_par)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2015, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/accidental-off-string/75230/20 "2015-06-15T09:09:11Z")
This ufo getting the yoyo out. Thing gets a point to my mind.
That when you threw horizontal and you know that the yoyo is about to come out and you land it in a finger spin and then bind it like an offstring. That would be super cool.
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