Loved my velocity for transitioning to unresponsive. Found it great for response play. The small bearing does make it slightly grabby, but I was doing matrix and rewind on it no problem. Learning binding takes a lot of practice initially, especially to develop consistency. You’ll get there.
So I’ve been working at it and it’s still tilting. But not the way that image shows it. I’m talking it tilts side to side EVERY throw since I got it. I’ll try and draw it in ascii. lol
Let’s say this is a back view of a normal yoyo (view from your knee): | | | |
Mine, every throw since I got it, goes crooked sideways. So a back view of it looks more like this: \\ or ////
Not a top view. That’s from the front or back. Every throw.
Yes that was what I meant, tilting, as in tilting your head, not turning like car wheel.
It’s a complex matter to explain that has something to do with precession. Basically precession works 90 degrees after the initial action, or when you want your yoyo to tilt, you turn the string instead, then “turning” works 90 degrees later which translates to “tilting”.
To better explain this, do a trapeze by throwing a breakaway (right handed), if you move your left hand forward and right hand backward, the yoyo will NOT turn right, but instead it will tilt forward further from you. Why don’t the yoyo turn right? it’s precession. Initially the yoyo “wants” to turn right, but because it’s spinning, the effect comes 90 degrees after (in the sense of the direction of the spinning yoyo). What is 90 degrees after turning right? tilting forward.
If you do the opposite (left hand back right hand forward) it will tilt the opposite way, if the yoyo spins the opposite the effect will also be the opposite.
If you’re interested in this matter, simply Google “precession” and you’ll get tons of detailed information. I am not a physician hence not qualified to say much about this. All of this can come from practice naturally so you don’t actually “need” to know it. I know this much (little) because I like yoyoing this way, by trying to understand things.
To sum this up, technically controlling the tilting of the yoyo works by acting 90 degrees “before” the intended direction, because the spinning yoyo is affected by some kind of advanced law of God called precession.
Don’t complicate things, precession isn’t something you need to worry about at all when you’re learning… it’s not even something I worry about now, and you definitely don’t need to study it unless you’re truly interested in the science behind it.
It sounds like he’s saying the yo-yo is tilted right when it hits the end of the string on the throw. That is not caused by precession anyway, it’s caused by improper technique. It helps to really pay attention to how your hand/wrist is moving when you throw - Watch how quickly you turn over your hand after a throw, how you release the yo-yo, or how you flick your wrist; these seemingly unimportant motions you make can all cause your throw to be a little bit off.
Check out some of our beginner learn videos on how to throw a strong sleeper, watch other yo-yo players technique, and just keep practicing - You’ll get the hang of it.
This. I remember I had the same problem when I first started yoyoing and most of the time I was using a YYF Supernova Lite, which is a fully unresponsive metal (with a CT bearing I might add). Every single throw and breakaway I did was crooked, no matter how much I tried to keep it straight, and I just couldn’t figure out why.
As Garrett said, it is just one of those things that comes with practice. I don’t know at what point it clicked and I was able to throw straight, it just sort of happened over time. Just keep at it. 