Beginning Responsive vs. Unresponsive

[saintrobyn]

Here is the advice I gave someone looking for a yo-yo for his 6 year old daughter. Sort of goes along with this:

@saintrobyn

Get her something cheap like a Duncan Butterfly. You can pick one up at a grocery store for $3.

Young kids bounce from fascination to fascination, get her learning the basics and then go from there. I let my son play with an old Imperial that I had in the house and had him doing super basic tricks before we moved up to his current yo-yo, the YYJ Classic. He was happy at first just learning how to make the yo-yo go up and down.

In the end it all depends on the age and the comfort level. I find younger kids WANT to learn how to make it go up and down so a responsive yo-yo is a perfect fit. Quite a few of my students call the yo-yo in my classroom a cheater yo-yo because of the bearing and it is metal.

I have shown a couple Jensen and Haponik videos in my class and get quite a few staring in amazement.