Between work and life how do you find time to practice? Any tips? What do you do?
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Just like Yoyo instead of play video games or watch tv etc.
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personally, i don’t so much find time to practice as much as WHEN i have free time, my hand picks up a yoyo. I’m also fine putting in an hour late at night after the munchkin is in bed because throwing relaxes me… most of the time lol
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Just like anything else I am interested in doing, I make time for it. Even if it is only for a few minutes, I try to get some throw time in every day. And when I can, I will put my phone on airplane mode, set a timer, put on some music, and get lost in the flow until my alarm goes off.
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Any chance I get lol. Between meetings, before bed, etc.
I do this dumb thing where I need to get up to use the bathroom or get a drink and I make myself hit a trick 3 times before I go do it.
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I throw casually like, maybe 5-10 mins a day. I don’t take it seriously, and I hardly practice. It’s more meditation for me. Despite not considering it practice, the repetition has yielded dozens of tricks and binds just from messing around for 5-10 mins at a time.
I think the longest time I’ve ever thrown in one sitting was like 20 mins.
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Funny you say that about the meditation piece. I will absolutely zone out and realize it’s been a whole hour
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i don’t practice. i make time to PLAY every day.
it sounds tongue-in-cheek, but it’s not. it’s way easier - in fact it’s something i NEED to keep me sane and effective. and it’s a difference in philosophy/attitude. if yo-yoing is an assignment - something i expect myself to work at and improve at… no thanks. but if it’s something i value because it allows me to get into a certain headspace and it infiltrates into the rest of my life, enhancing it… then i WANT to do it, and i improve organically.
i’ve played some yo-yo every day since 5/22/05. i have NOT found it to be difficult to keep up.
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this has become the way i view it. it’s something i can do that is both fun and meditative and gives me an escape from the weight of everything else. let the rest of life be serious, yoyo for me is just pure fun that requires only my hands and a yoyo, no power, no internet, and i can do it anywhere i can stand and even a few places i can sit. i am literally my only limitation
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I’m practicing 2a with a specific goal of competing. When not worried about competition, and just working on a trick there’s no time frame so I just play daily. But for actual practice I make sure I do 2 hours a day. Not 2 hours in one sitting usually. But maybe 1 hour here and one hour there, or whatever combo I need. But I stay focused on whatever it is I am trying to accomplish for the day ( or week).
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This reminds me of what Victor Wooten says about Playing and not Practicing.
(About 9 minutes in if you want the full scoop!)
I also spend a lot of time just, playing. I go outside in my backyard, and just yo-yo. Messing around, having fun. Yo-yoing isn’t really something meant to be practiced, just meant to be played.
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Just shave a little time off your other activities
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Victor is one of the most underrated bassist/musicians, was definitely a big influence for me
YEAH!!! I have been lucky to get to meet him a bunch and he’s one of my very favorite people, let alone musicians! Absolutely one of my key life inspirations (and yet I haven’t seen that interview, so I’ll def watch it now!)
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I really want to meet him someday. Also, gorgeous bass!
You got to play his bass?!?
Haha no that one’s mine. But I did see him at a clinic one time where he invited a beginning bass student on stage who was having trouble with rhythm and he just handed the dude his bass and had him play. Kid was sooooo nervous, but it was really inspiring and he got a lot out of it. I first got to meet him in 1993 when I was 16 and just starting!
And I definitely got that bass specifically due to his influence. 
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Oh gotcha 
it’s a beautiful bass. And that’s so cool, I’d probably be pretty nervous too holding his bass
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in one line the perfect advice.
It is all about time management and what you prefer to do but also “how you do it”, you can play for 10 hours a day but if for 10 hours you looking at your phone, stop for a drink, watch a serie and just casually throwing in the middle you not really practicing.
I think even an hour or half an hour of focused practice with goals can make more sense than 2 hours of distracted playing.
About find the time, I suppose you work 8 hours a day, 8 sleeping and the rest is pretty much time to spend, just maybe prioritize your duties and your actual free time, choose what to do.
I would say that if you have several hobbies you can “schedule them” or do every day something different, you do not need to yoyo everyday except if you want to reach a certain goal.
If you browse the forum or the shops at home, maybe use that time to play instead of talk yoyo and leave the forum and this similar stuff in bed or during pauses at work.
There are several ways to “buy” time, I have my days quite structured based on what I do, I call the time at work “dead time”, my life start actually at 3.30pm and from then I start to do my stuff
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I yoyoed for a few hours today atleast. 
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