Morning everyone! I got a question for you all, when you got your first professional quality/more expensive throw how often did you throw it? Did it become your main throw or was it more brought out to hit tricks you knew you could land without fear of damaging it?
I don’t want the fear of dinging it to cause me to use it less but I also don’t want to be irresponsible with it by using it to learn riskier stuff if that makes sense I’m currently leaning toward learning on my koi and ultracut and when confident in the tricks picking up my Contrast.
But I also don’t want to not use my new fun throw so just curious how others tackled this or if I’m way overthinking it
As long as you’re over carpet or hardwood even you’re fine. Tile and concrete can bite, but if you’re inside you’re probably fine. Yo-yos were meant to be played with! The first ding makes it okay for all the other things and then you’ll just bring it everywhere.
I have gotten most of my dings from watches actually
That makes me glad to hear I mainly throw over carpet and yeah for me I realized I can’t wear my wedding ring if I want to throw, avoiding any and all damage if I can help it comes first
as a chronic overthinker myself, this is the answer imo. i still struggle with the idea of damaging certain throws. im coming to the conclusion that i will do my best to play over carpet or grass where possible but dings happen. if you have a yoyo that means a lot to you and you can’t bear to damage it, just play it over something soft. the first metal yoyo i got i babied until one day my daughter knocked it off the picnic table onto concrete and the world didn’t end
now i have yoyos im more ok with damaging if it happens. the rest i play at home over carpet
At this point I’m just gonna echo what others have said. Most of my yo-yos were bought second hand, so they already had a bit of damage. This helps me not feel as bad when a ding does happen.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too, and nothing lasts forever, so I strive to take good care of what I own while still using it for its intended purpose. I think I’d regret losing a yoyo I had never thrown more than one I got some good play time out of.
When I prepared for my first competition (which went very well), I made a routine, then tried it on all my yoyo’s. And I have a lot, including fancy pants bimetals. There were 2 yoyo’s I got the least amount of mistakes with and one of them was a 25 USD mono metal.
Currently if I were to prepare for competition I would probably use a cheap mono metal.
There is no justification for spending lots of money on a yoyo. But there also is no need for it. If you want a toy and you can afford it, go for it.
My bimetals rarely leave the house so I get more enjoyment from my mono metals too. It is nice to be able to cherry pick what yoyo I wanna practice a certain trick with in a big collection cause some yoyo’s do certain tricks better. But that also has nothing to do with a price tag.
You probably end up doing the same as me. Practice with Bimetals on carpet and use the other yoyo’s more.
I’m more asking how often someone found themselves using their new more expensive throw compared to slightly lesser valued ones due to fear of ruining it, no way am I saying that you need one to compete, but let’s not pretend like their isn’t more expensive/models sold and marketed as “professional grade yo-yos” I’m not trying to argue the semantics just seeing how people found themselves actually using or not using their more expensive purchases because of overthinking
When I get a new YoYo I play it all the time (at home) because it’s the new Shiny. I’ll baby it for a while, rarely bring it out of the house, but I do play it bunch.
You’ll find over time that even though nobody wants damage, your favorite yo-yos are the ones that travel with you the most. That get played the most. I don’t advocate trying to get damage, but I try to avoid thinking of them as precious. Yoyos are meant to be played. Play careful if you want but make sure that thing gets use! That’s how it is for me at least.
The less you use a certain yoyo the longer it will take to to “get to know” it. If I am really feeling a certain yoyo (no matter what the price) on whatever day I will put it in my pocket and throw it when I feel like it - over concrete, , gravel, hard tiles, whatever. It may get a scuff or ding. I don’t like it when that happens but oh, well. I rarely notice the scuffs or dings later on unless I put my reading glasses and do an inspection. Do what feels right for YOU.
One of the best (but most painful/cringe) things is that this is what happened the day my brainier came. New response pads, slippy bind, smash into the edge of pavement, while I was standing by grass. But, that made be go “oh well, I know it’s not perfect anymore” and I’ve put so much time in on that yoyo since, and the combination of “Hakuna matata” and “wow this yoyo feels like easy mode, but comfortable” made it be my edc. Reminds me of on markmont’s website describing his MCMO, where he says something along the lines of “just get a ding in it so you can really play this thing.” Lotta truth to it.
I’m currently leaning toward learning on my koi and ultracut and when confident in the tricks picking up my Contrast.
