# Fixed Axle Friday Throws
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [November 2, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546 "2018-11-02T11:36:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 51
### Author:  [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1034 "2020-03-22T23:12:53Z")
Okay, guys, thank you. That alleviates my hesitations! I appreciate it.
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### Author:  [@adamantiumpops](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/adamantiumpops)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1035 "2020-03-23T00:07:08Z")
Just wanted to also say that I slammed a car door on my Ballsy (was hanging off my backpack I threw in the back seat) and I yelled a bad word that started with F so loud it woke my wife at 5am. It was fine. I was dumb.
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### Author:  [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1036 "2020-03-23T00:35:47Z")
Seriously, that is good to know. Thank you.
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1037 "2020-03-23T16:21:59Z")
slammed car door on…??? Please…the situation comedy crowd would love it 😆
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### Author:  [@Exmime](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Exmime)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 2:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1038 "2020-03-27T14:33:09Z")
This Friday I’m throwing this Maple TMBR [2012 MORRISON](https://www.instagram.com/p/H9wulnmsEJ/?igshid=1tbu26u4u2sdu) that’s 57.5mm in diameter x 29mm wide and weights in at 53 grams. One of my slimmest fixed axles, in Mark McBride’s Yonomicon it’s shape would be considered a midline. Initially realeased as a “Take on Traditional looping yo-yos” this skinny slimline can really jam. One of the reasons I really am a TMBR fan is how amazing @colinleland makes simple pure artistry.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJ8t4ffY_w)
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### Author:  [@Lukoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lukoyo)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 3:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1039 "2020-03-27T15:05:15Z")
ehKnown
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### Author:  [@Travelingyoyokid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Travelingyoyokid)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1040 "2020-03-27T17:57:54Z")
Hit my first kick flip today!
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### Author:  [@Travelingyoyokid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Travelingyoyokid)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1042 "2020-03-27T18:03:03Z")
What?
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### Author:  [@PCaliyoyos](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PCaliyoyos)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1043 "2020-03-27T18:23:19Z")
was it satisfying? 😃
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### Author:  [@pep65](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/pep65)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 6:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1044 "2020-03-27T18:29:34Z")
Thanks to you guys i’m now landing stalls, not everytime but its a start.
Thanks to all the above who took time to give pointers.
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### Author:  [@Travelingyoyokid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Travelingyoyokid)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2020, 6:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1045 "2020-03-27T18:31:06Z")
Very!
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### Author:  [@beeebon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beeebon)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1046 "2020-03-28T21:26:02Z")
So simple but so satisfying, right? 🙂
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### Author:  [@zslane](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zslane)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1047 "2020-03-28T21:27:25Z")
So since ProYos are fixed axle yoyos, only cotton strings should be used with them, right? Poly will melt or something?
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### Author:  [@Lukoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lukoyo)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1048 "2020-03-28T21:35:44Z")
I haven’t had a string melt before, but maybe I don’t throw as hard as some people. I do like the feel of cotton on my fixies or 50/50. I tend to use poly on my legend wing because I feel the response area is rougher and might cut anything softer.
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### Author:  [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1049 "2020-03-28T21:39:31Z")
The “poly melts” phenomenon is largely irrelevant with modern string.
Before “Brazilian” string launched the boutique market and mainstream large-volume string improved shortly thereafter, most poly string was thin, shiny, and… crappy. It was used sometimes because its thinness made unresponsive easier before yo-yo design caught up, but it broke quick and even melted under the excess friction of fixed axle.
Since 2008 or so, most of the poly people are using is crisper, thicker, and sturdier and it can hold up, certainly as well as type 8 cotton. Add to that, most modern responsive & fixed axle tricks are about short sleepers and/or stalls. Whereas in 2007 or so we were mainly still trying string tricks which kills string way faster all around. Cotton does FEEL different, and I vastly prefer the feel of it with wood to polyester.
With a ProYo though, it’s gonna be more about the feeling and response you prefer as opposed to concerns over longevity.
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### Author:  [@Lukoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lukoyo)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1050 "2020-03-28T21:42:15Z")
Happy birthday Ed!
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### Author:  [@anon5341354](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon5341354)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1051 "2020-03-28T21:42:52Z")
Modern fixed axle play is fine.
I tried to do Superman with a fresh ploy string in front of my class the other day.
Broke during the trick and flew at light speed into the wall.
Stick with cotton on your fixies is my advice.
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### Author:  [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1052 "2020-03-28T21:52:56Z")
To each their own. You def have to experiment. For awhile I was all about YYSL Type X (both for fixed and bearings). Just great string all around and I never broke one with fixed. But ymmv!
[https://www.instagram.com/p/BtUGONVBWpW/?igshid=1v3px8qig1pr8](https://www.instagram.com/p/BtUGONVBWpW/?igshid=1v3px8qig1pr8)
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### Author:  [@EOS44](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EOS44)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2020, 10:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1053 "2020-03-28T22:53:30Z")
I’ve used plenty of poly on my fixed axles. I’ve observed that on fixies in which the axle is “new”. poly can indeed melt and break. On well-used, smooth axle fixies (the ones which the axle is polished by string friction), poly won’t break.
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### Author:  [@Exmime](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Exmime)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/1054 "2020-04-03T16:15:38Z")
This Friday I’m playing a TMBR White Oak [Moxon](https://shop.yoyoexpert.com/products/moxon-yoyo-by-tmbr) set up in the Traditional Imperial shape with the following specs of 56.25mm diameter x 35.75mm wide and a weight of 52 grams. This beautiful throw feels so classical it inspires me to pretend and play like I’m a demonstrator from the 1960s with loops and moons sprinkled in with modern OA kickflips. Going to keep my collared shirt tucked in and my pants belted up to my waistband and do some Hula Hops like Grandmaster [Dale Myrberg](https://youtu.be/POgy3b8yH5c?t=130).
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POgy3b8yH5c&t=130)
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