Yo-yo innovation will certainly continue based on new developments in materials and manufacturing. The most obvious outcome is higher quality at ever lower prices. A tangential track would be lowered prices making more experimental or niche designs feasible to produce.
Then there are possibilities that stem from new manufacturing techniques being invented or made cost effective for yo-yos that enable designs that are currently impossible.
Whether these innovations can improve performance is uncertain.
Being the baseball guy I am I had to respectfully chime in lol. The average person is only gonna hit a metal bat about 5 feet further than wood, especially nowadays where metal bats have been “nerfed” so to speak. And wood has gotten really really good. (Back in my day metal bats were stupid good, the sweet spot was literally anywhere on the bat lol). If you have nice swing, good contact and follow through you’re gonna hit it just as far with wood. Now for younger kids you can absolutely argue that because they’re still developing a swing and good mechanics, plus wood is usually a lot heavier. Sorry for the off topic response!
Hades my favorite Yoyo. I play it all the time. It just feels disingenuous to say it plays as fast as my lighter yo-yos bc it doesn’t. I don’t know maybe that’s user error tho. Hah! I will keep practicing osss
This is off topic but Wilson will soon release their new airless basketball. I wonder if it will take off and become a new basketball that can replace the current basketball design. Airless Basketball Prototype | Wilson Sporting Goods
Just wait until you guys see my new cutting-edge, dark-matter yo-yo. This thing literally changes gravity. Add to that my dark-energy powered bearings; and you have something so fabulously revolutionary that it hurts my head to even think about it.
that will require…innovation. technological innovation.
which was the point of this thread, no?
we don’t have them now, but this is simply a theoretical ponderance on whether or not there is still innovation that can be achieved with respect to this hobby. i say yes.
Why not take it to the extreme tungsten rims. It’s not gonna be cheap and no idea how that’s gonna get machined but it’ll be the heaviest non radioactive and lightest material your gonna throw on a yoyo lol.
However I’ll go in on the aerogel copper 000 too lol maybe a fluvia too.
Coward! Lets use the densest radioactive material possible, make it oversized, and name it the Elephant’s Foot. Come on, a lil radiation’s worth the sick tricks right?
