brace yourself for a long read, but thanks in advance to anyone who replies!
Little about me:
Started playing back in ~1994 I think. Played until just before High School graduation in 2000.
Havent played much since then, but every now and then I do pick up my old throws and play for an hour. Probably not more than ~20times over the past 11 years. I’m rusty, but I can still do all the tricks I could do then, which is basically all of the Intermediate tricks on this site and a handful of the Advanced 1 & 2 tricks. Some of these I’ve just never heard of and they certainly werent possible for me back then with the yoyos I had and still have.
What I’ve got;
BC Rainbow, cameyo mondial, handquake 1.4b, kuhn sb1 and sb2, no jive 3-in-1, playmaxx bumblebee, aerobie aerospin, a few technics, and some other things. Basically, I’ve got what was hot as of 1998. Dont really have a favorite of the bunch, I like them all for different resons, but theyre all setup responsive. If I was pressed to pick, I’d probably have to say 1.4b, then mondial, then sb2 for the bearing models and without question the technics and bc rainbow for fixed axle looping.
A good friend of mine recently bought a yoyo and brought it over to my place, and got me wanting to play again. I was surprised to see how much things have changed and how different everything has become. This had me in search of my first purpose built unresponsive in an oversized \ wide H-Shape. I know my mondial, handquake, and sb2 can be made unresponsive’ish, and I’ve been fooling with them in that regard, but I’m certain getting a purpose built throw will be a game changer and open some doors I didnt know even existed until recently. I also feel that these old yoyos are just more fun playing them responsive.
Now that we have all of that out of the way, I wanted long spins, high stability, and a “middle of the road” feel so I could try to figure out what I wanted if I were to want anything else. Not interested in grinding, never was back then. Intruiged by hub stacks, but not at the compromise of smoothness. My intent here was to find one yoyo and just one. I dont want to build a collection again. Not yet anyway.
I’m also intruiged by 5a, so maybe thats in my future now too. Looks really fun.
To that end, I started seriously looking at a yyf superstar or genesis. Then I got swayed by all the glowing reviews about CLYW, but those are impossible to get being sold out, and im impatient and wanted something sooner rather than later, and I also didnt mind buying new. That led me down to some very favorable comments about OneDrop. I liked the idea of side effects to help me figure out what weight I liked, so I ordered a Code 1 a couple days ago, should be here soon.
Well, I continued reading, and it seems like the consensus is that the Burnside is the better one between these two even despite (or rather because of) the lack of side effects and a slightly heavier base weight. Then I also like what I see on paper and read some pretty nice things about the Spyy Solaris. Looks similar to the others.
So, did I make a mistake by pulling the trigger on a Code 1?
Should I have gone burnside and got the one that was truly designed around ONE weight?
Does the Code 1 baseweight make too much of a compromise in order to get a nice weight range with the side effects?
Am I over thinking this? (i usually do with these things)
I feel like maybe these are just diminishing returns at this point for someone like me.
thanks for any input