Superyo Renegades play a big part in modern yoyo play as a lot of hugely influencing trick concepts were developed on them.
They were also the first yoyo I ever got as a kid that truly made me feel like a “pro” and boosted my trick making ability.
Shown here are :
Pre production prototype, first run black with hex nut, second run white, two marble special color ways, final run of superyo before rebranding.
Love these things. Also, if anyone has a glow version you would sell, let me know!
I had one of the white ones growing up but must’ve given it away in a trade or something b/c I can’t find it anymore. Definitely a fan of the throw, was one of the first nice yoyos I got, I remember picking it out of the Infinite Illusions catalog in like fifth or sixth grade.
I’ve got about half a dozen regular Renegades all told, mostly with hex nuts.
Everyone should have a SuperYO! Renegade in the collection, its a classic, mine is a Marbled Blue
I like to cut em up🤓
Those 2 ‘modded’ Renegades were machined for press fit Viper hubs. Stock blue and the other stripped and polished at least 15 years ago(at least).
Since Mo busted out the mods… figure I’ll show my collection, plus my middle school attempts to mimic his talents.
I love these yo-yos so much. They give me a huge nostalgia hit.
I had a cosmic spin when I was a kid and I got to play with a Renegade a few times. I lost everything to a house fire in 2014. Since then I have only bought one other yo-yo till recently. I was looking for a Renegade and I never thought they’d become rare to the point where they’re all held by collectors.
After years of not thinking about yo-yos, and then wanting to come back to it I’m honestly shocked.
Never tried one but looks fun
I recently completed a trade for a black renegade and it made me want to look up more info on the different runs. I was reading the wiki page and saw in the photos, “from Dave Schulte’s collection”. https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/SuperYo_Renegade
I had gone to Dazzling Dave’s BBQ in 2008 and 2009, here’s me in the orange and my friend Paul in the black.
At one of those BBQs, Dave had some of his collection for trade. And for the life of me I cant remember what I gave, but Dave traded me for a Renegade. Today, I looked at the photos on the Wiki and realized… That’s my Renegade!
I love this weighty, tug responsive legend.
20 something years ago in my infamous modeling days I used to cut renegades up all day long, lol
I finally were perfect modder fodder…. But tweet properly played OK pretty much stock and we’re very popular at the time.
Back that many years ago, I kind of went overboard machining renegades fitted to viper hubs. They actually played pretty good. And I thought they look pretty good. As a matter, fact, two of them were in the national yo-yo museum. So I guess somebody else thought they look pretty cool too.
You must consider the fact that even today after all of these years, I still consider myself a casual, yo-yo player and basically sort of an average skill level.
So the reality is that way back then I was customizing cars and motorcycles as a hobby and part-time occupation, so customizing yo-yo’s was just something I did like customizing everything else I touched basically.
At first I just cut things up for looks because I seem to be kind of a natural Dr. Frankenstein kind of guy, lol. Notice the resemblance ?
https://yoyo.fandom.com/wiki/DXL_Crew
Being an original DXL member gave me immediate access to some of the best players in the game at that time.
Matter fact when I was working with Dale Bell, owner of yo-yo jam, the MiniMotrix was basically designed specifically for the type of yo-yo tricks that the legendary Jason Lee was doing way back then. As a matter of fact when I got the first finished, working model of my first signature yo yo-yo with yo-yo jam, I gave it to him because he’s the guy that inspired deeper thinking on my part about performance modding.
I’m really happy that you’re still around after all these years. And I’m really happy to hear that anybody can reminisce about the renegades because I remember when they came out, they were very well received.
I wish someone that had nothing to do but burn up a little money could start a little boutique, business and design an upgraded high-performance renegade, that looks almost identical to the one you posted an image of, but would internally kick some butt.
I remember many many years ago when a yo-yo craze would have its seven years cycle. Popular would go up stay for a while and then go down… Until demonstrators start going around the country and getting some new people to wake up and start throwing again.
Fortunately, once yo-yo playing and yo-yo videos, both performance and instructional combined with the worldwide Internet, the seven year cycle was basically broken as we all know. I’m not saying that yo-yo popularity still doesn’t go up and down. But it’s obvious that it’s not obscure anymore because the Internet connection always makes content concerning yo-yos in all aspects available 24 hours a day seven days a week.
So here we are, and if anybody is reading my little historical speech at the moment, I’m sure they aren’t all in California or in the western United States or in the United States. There are probably at least a few people from several different countries, that follow this forum and any given time. And that keeps the yo-yo’s rolling.
I remember many years ago when Toys “R” Us decided that the yo-yo boom at the time was over, they put the black Superyo Renegades, up by the cash registers and we’re selling them for like two dollars apiece… Something like that?
So I mapped out the Toys “R” Us stores in my area here in Southern California, and I went to each one and bought whatever renegades they had. I spent a couple hundred bucks and ended up with about somewhere between 80 and 100 black renegades.
I would just give them away to people to help them get started. I would give them a renegade and a handful of string. Give them a couple of tips and wish them the best. I’m not even trying to say that anybody ever stuck with it, but they had a better chance of at least having the experience if they had a yo-yo. And I was obviously no hero of the people. Because the string that I gave away was probably worth more money than the two dollar yo-yos. I was given away that I think retail at the time for like maybe 15 bucks thereabouts. For me it was an economical way to share the love,
And then one day a few years later, after giving away dozens of black renegades, I decided to throw a stock one around myself. If I remember correctly, I just had a standard fat cotton string on it. No lube no shims no modifications… Just a dead stock black renegade.
I felt kind of bad because in stock form for me anyways the yo-yo didn’t play for beans. And I knew I wasn’t horrible, but I certainly wasn’t any good. So then I start thinking maybe I should’ve given away better yo-yos to anybody that I thought might have a chance of sticking around for a while, lol
Maybe a tiger shark or a team Losi cherry bomb or Duncan wheel or some other thing that people would use way back then?
I probably have at least a dozen of the black ones left, and I have somewhere around a half a dozen brand new glow in the dark renegades just sitting around in my collection. Honestly, I don’t even wanna throw them. But sometimes when I have a few minutes to waste, I open up a file cabinet drawer, the one with the renegades, and I just stare at them and go back in time.
I don’t wanna transport back in time and be younger again… I live through life just like all of you are living life now. There’s no backing up. But that being said I like to remember back of all the great times that I personally have had related to yo-yo’s.
I wouldn’t trade the memories for 1 million bucks.
Anybody, and everybody that says messing with yo-yos is a waste of time and a silly hobby in any other negative thing they can think of, just doesn’t get it and probably never will.
I’ve met more people from around the world. I’ve been the contest and places I would’ve probably never gone. And made friends with so many people. It would take me a while to remember them all. I’ve showed people a lot of stuff and a lot of people have showed me more stuff that I never would’ve known. Had it not been for falling into the yo-yo hobby.
Yo-yo are a great vehicle for enhancing or advancing your communication skills. They bring people together. They allow people to see the best on others simply from sharing. You have people getting together that may never would’ve met otherwise. There are shy people that don’t get out of the house much in the end up and a yo-yo meet or contest and instantly realize that they can make friends easier than they thought. That they can share a trick or they can learn a trick. Or they can just keep your positivity up by being in a group of people that are there to have fun. Whether it’s at a local club or major contest, most people just kinda open up and feel the positivity around them.
I will always have a sweet spot for Superyo Renegade’s. A yo-yo that inspired so much for me, is pretty much etched in my mind.
Thanks for originally bringing that up, Josh… obviously, before Jesse posted and brought this thread to the top, I had already posted up a few pics of some of my black Renegades and a few Viper enhanced Renegades. But, when the subject hit the top of the page again, my brain fastracked back to when we were both a lot younger, lol
….Josh was a quiet kid. But Josh was a secret weapon, lol. Turns out he was in a small, select group of yo-yo players known as the Ironmen. Josh could enter 1,2,3,4, and 5A and do every style pretty darn good, lol. All of a sudden, it was like… who is this kid?
Grant Johnson was another Ironman. If anybody ever watches any of Josh’s instruction videos, it’s pretty obvious he thinks waaay outside the box like Doc Pop and Zammy Ickler and a few others.
PS….. my concise answer to the original question would be>>> Yes..
Whooooooie! What a deal.
I remember Grant Johnson made it out to MWR he cleaned up the 2A category cleaner than John Narum did 4A. And he was a beast. I met John at my first state contest, I’d only ever thrown a flying panda for 4A so I asked if i could try his Aquarius, and he handed it to me and said I could have it. Absolutely one of the yoyo moments I will never forget. Thank you for your write-up, Now I gotta go watch some old Josh and Zammy vids…
I recently obtained a black star bolt renegade and I’m loving it! Was a little worried how it would play responsive due to its weight but it just plays with a little bit of authority for 0a play.
