# Edcember with Waylon - Duncan Tournament
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/edcember-with-waylon-duncan-tournament/46268
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [December 7, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/edcember-with-waylon-duncan-tournament/46268 "2012-12-07T14:10:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/edcember-with-waylon-duncan-tournament/46268/21 "2012-12-20T07:01:05Z")
> [@edhaponik](#):
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> you picked a tough yo-yo to use for a month.
>
> i will say that anything you take out of a restrictive commitment like this relies on your ability to abandon preconceived notions of what the thing should or shouldn’t do. you might think that ‘at the end of this month, i’ll be able to hit x, y, and z’, but a big part of what you’re doing is learning to come to terms with and appreciate the significant inconsistencies inherent to the one you picked. if you decide to try again, whatever you use, i would rethink what you want to get out of it. things like ‘feeling appreciative during a trapeze hold’, ‘getting a more consistent skin the cat’ or hitting ‘snap-start to loop-out’ might be more meaningful goals.
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> in my experience with this, frustration arises when i approach it with a full cup; when i take the attitude of ‘this is what i want to do with you, yo-yo. this is what you SHOULD do… cooperate.’ no matter how you slice it, throwing a wood yo-yo is about ‘the pair of you’ coming to terms with each other and acting in harmony. sorry to hear it was an upsetting experience.
My main goals were simply to experience something truly old school, have fun, and enhance my yoyoing. I’m no stranger to wood, but this particular yoyo is problematic in ways that require a patience I do not possess. I know I was dismissive in an earlier post, but I did learn from the experience. I learned a new way to throw that keeps my finger from being sore. I learned that a little familiarity with the yoyo I was committing a month to might have been a good idea.
My brother once tried to read a book by Kafka. He didn’t enjoy it. He slogged his way through as much as he could. He hated the thought of leaving a book unfinished. A close friend if his told him ‘make a deal with Kafka, then. You don’t have to finish his book, he doesn’t have to write things that appeal to you’. That’s my deal with this yoyo. Maybe I’ll come back to it someday and find a way to make it work. For now, it’s not for me.
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### Author:  [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2012, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/edcember-with-waylon-duncan-tournament/46268/22 "2012-12-20T07:58:59Z")
I saw that ed posted in this thread and I really really really wanted his only words to be
“Man up, puss.”
Needless to say, I am saddened.
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### Author:  [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2012, 8:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/edcember-with-waylon-duncan-tournament/46268/23 "2012-12-20T08:13:09Z")
Those were his only words. Jhb8675309 changed it.
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