# Does 5A stop being painful?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [April 25, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357 "2024-04-25T17:51:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 5:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/1 "2024-04-25T17:51:29Z")
Does 5A ever stop being painful, or is that part of why it’s less popular? :joy: Guess it doesn’t have a trick called “bee sting” for nothing.
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### Author:  [@bheinz63](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bheinz63)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/2 "2024-04-25T17:52:46Z")
as you get better at catching the counterweight, and better with your control it does become less painful.
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### Author:  [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/3 "2024-04-25T17:55:37Z")
You can cut your pain in half in 60 seconds.
The next time, right before you start your 5a session, Put on a motorcycle helmet and a pair of welding gloves.
Easy Peezy
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/4 "2024-04-25T17:57:57Z")
Get a Gummy Weight or a counterweight from Fairly Crystal Labs!
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### Author:  [@mable](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mable)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 6:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/5 "2024-04-25T18:07:41Z")
Soft counterweights help more with noise than pain imo. As you learn harder and harder tricks you’re going to constantly hit yourself in new and interesting ways. You can still take a wallop from a soft counterweight, and hitting yourself with the yoyo can absolutely happen.
In my experience 5A gets more painful the harder you try to push your tricks.
And Quoc Anh’s hands definitely confirm that to me lol
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### Author:  [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/6 "2024-04-25T18:26:20Z")
I made a rubber one myself that definitely helps a little, but not as much as I’d hoped lol. Maybe I just need to get good.
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/7 "2024-04-25T18:28:16Z")
if rubber rims on a yoyo taught me anything its that rubber hurts more being hit by than plastic…
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### Author:  [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/8 "2024-04-25T18:56:36Z")
True, but a counterweight isn’t spinning, so the friction won’t burn or pull at the skin the same way.
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### Author:  [@Mystik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mystik)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/9 "2024-04-25T23:00:54Z")
This looks like a picture of a dead persons hand.
Postmortem.
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### Author:  [@djinni\_cake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/djinni_cake)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/10 "2024-04-26T00:01:07Z")
10 points to everyone who remembers this one
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### Author:  [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/12 "2024-04-26T00:52:07Z")
I took martial arts for years. We did some pretty rough hand conditioning (punching 4x4 posts covered in rope, gouging a bowl full of gravel repeatedly, and knuckle pushups on concrete to name a few). Also did Ninja Warrior which involves a lot of climbing (i.e. skin tearing). My hand still never looked anywhere near that unhealthy.
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### Author:  [@Beverchakus](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Beverchakus)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 4:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/13 "2024-05-01T04:28:32Z")
No. It doesn’t. Each new trick is also a new way for something to go wrong and smack you in a new spot. Once you have a high level of control and you’re just flowin’ through the motions you can easily have long, pain free, relaxing session. Of course, a high RPM snag that sends a violently orbiting CW straight towards your face or near by breakable object can and will happen in the blink of an eye. At any time. 'Even more so when you’re pushing newer harder tricks like said above.
But hey, a really tight slip knot on your finger also hurts after a while.
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### Author:  [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 12:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/14 "2024-05-01T12:01:01Z")
IME getting rubber ball counterweights definitely helped lessen the pain vs dice. They can still hurt, but for me it was a lot less pain than the dice I had been using and made me want to play more. Worth a shot, they were like 3 for 5$ iirc
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### Author:  [@Scoogy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Scoogy)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/15 "2024-05-01T12:07:34Z")
> [@SlacKing](#):
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> Also did Ninja Warrior
I’m still doing ninja warrior. My class is pretty hard and my hands get pretty beat up afterwards.
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### Author:  [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/does-5a-stop-being-painful/399357/16 "2024-05-01T16:37:36Z")
The harder your knuckles are the less chance you’ll be in pain lolol. But seriously it does gradually start getting better as you get better. It’s inevitable you’ll still accidentally end up whacking yourself with a counterweight or even the yoyo but with experience comes knowledge and skill to avoid things.
P.s. Having hard knuckles actually does help :wink: