# Are you more of a yoyo collector or a player?

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [July 19, 2021, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/are-you-more-of-a-yoyo-collector-or-a-player/341903 "2021-07-19T08:22:02Z")
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### Author: ![eternalmetal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/eternalmetal/32/44877_2.png) [@eternalmetal](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/eternalmetal)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2021, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/are-you-more-of-a-yoyo-collector-or-a-player/341903/38 "2021-07-20T08:24:00Z")

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Idk, im probably a collector compared with how seriously I take the trick game to some, but I only buy yoyos for how I think I might enjoy playing them. My collection only grows because I basically just buy and not sell, and this is how I prefer it. I remember the anticipation I had when buying every yoyo I have, and continue to enjoy them whenever I choose to play my less played yoyos. The variety in yoyos is what keeps me coming back for more; can I land a trick I just learned on this one? Lately ive been on a Spirit Bomb crusade and enjoying the various feels of how my yoyo lands the ‘drops’.

> [@nightshadow](#):
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> I’d like to see more of the middle aged guys with $5,000 collections slaying some horizontal combos.

I think it is the time constraints brought upon by living with full employment and responsibilities. When I hear about someone who practices an hour + a day on yoyo, I think to myself that they are either a kid or barely employed. When I got back into yoyoing a few years ago, my original thought was that I would have enough fun with it if I was good enough to show off a couple tricks, like barrel rolls and maybe a kwyjiibo to show off. For the most part, these tricks tick those boxes and are fun to perform, so I was mostly right, but I still want to learn more advanced tricks. Now I can do kwyjiibo with my eyes closed and am on to bigger tricks, but horizontal is out of reach for a long while for me. I personally don’t need the adrenaline rush of throwing a yoyo sideways to perform tricks against gravity to be something I need out of yoyo, and am perfectly content with smoothly executing regular tricks. Ive heard people mention mastering Skin the Gerbil is one of the pre-cursors to horizontal. I think I skipped over that trick for one reason or another. Any advice on getting a guy in his 30’s to landing some horizontal?

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