hello fellow yoyo people,
what was your first throw?
(mine was the k1)
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Duncan Imperial
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Yomega Fireball
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My first few throws were no name auldeys.
I recently revived one of them with a wood bearing blank to play it as a fixie!
Plays well!
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A translucent red butterfly xt, and then a Banana First Base
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nice i like the first base
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A Duncan Pro Z. It frustrated me to no end haha. I however lost it and would like to revisit it so I’m hoping to find one next time we go to town.
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Picture this,
It was the late 1900’s. I won a cheap yo-yo at Kennywood amusement park in Pittsburgh Pa.
Yes, cheap but I got pretty decent with it before we left the park.
On the way home my dad bought me a Duncan Imperial at place called K-Mart.
He said this one will “sleep” not like that tied axle piece of ####.
After I learned to make it sleep, he taught me how to Rock the Baby
The rest is history.
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The first one I remember is a bumble bee gt.
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for me it was a Duncan hornet 
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I think it was one of those NED yoyos from a school presentation.
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Plamaxx Turbo Bumble bee.
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My first was a Duncan Butterfly when I was a kid in the 90’s. I got a Sage from YoTricks to start learning 1A in 2019.
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As a kid (4th - 5th grade) every boy had an Imperial. I had a Butterfly then too. String broke or got too knotted so I tied rubber bands together to make a new string. Didn’t work well! In 2015 I tried an Imperial. Within a month I had 15 or so yoyos. I still can’t do much more than gravity pull with an Imperial! One day as I hover my hospital bed I will hear a doctor say “he’s STILL unresponsive.”
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Duncan Butterfly back in the 90s. I got you to Split the Atom and Rollercoaster on it.
Upgraded to my first bearing yoyo, Tornado 2.
Got a Fireball and SaberRaider Then Bumblebee GT.
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Duncan Imperial. It was hard to find a Butterfly and those were the only options available.
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A Duncan wooden model (unknown) over 60 years ago.
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Yomega brain > fireball > fast eddy imperial (thanks yoyo man school assembly)> fast 201 > customyo reactor > yyf G5
My journey from a baby boy throwing rock the baby with toystore throws to a 10 y/o throwing Buddha’s revenge getting into collecting with the Bluestar vers of the G5 from yoyoguy
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My first yo-yo was also a pro z. I still have mine. Plays like crap. Then I got a yyf arrow. Also played like crap because I didn’t know how to lube it.
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Super-cheap Imperial knock-off from Woolworths when I was a kid in the 1970s – it wouldn’t sleep.
ProYo when my kids got into throwing in the 90s during the YoHans-led craze.
Duncan Butterfly when I got back into it 18 months ago.
I hear you @ChrisFrancz, my all-time favourite throw is the good ol’ Duncan Butterfly but I like to switch to an Imperial every so often to really sharpen my reflexes – catching it on the string is not easy!
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