# 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")
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### Author: ![yoyo\_cubicle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyo_cubicle/32/691750_2.png) [@yoyo\_cubicle](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo_cubicle)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/fixed-axle-friday-throws/294546/920 "2020-02-14T18:26:23Z")

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Happy Fixed Axle Friday, and Happy Valentine’s Day! A little over two years ago I made my first yoyo purchases at a local toy store that carries some Yomega models. They also carry the mass produced personalized wooden yoyos that many independent toy stores carry. It was cheap, so I picked one of them up. Here it is.

 ![woodyo1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/c/e/c/cec1cbab0d66ca56d9da657aa0cbb5bd51ee8124.jpeg)

I played with it for maybe five minutes, but it was no where near as good as the Raider I bought, so I put it away and never played it again. I did eventually pick up some nice wooden yoyos, but I never spent more than a couple of minutes with them. I wanted to learn how to land stalls, but when it didn’t come on the first few tries, I put it aside. I didn’t start throwing until 2 weeks before my 47th birthday, so I felt like I didn’t want to lose any time from playing 1A, which is my first love. This all changed when I recently acquired the Knack. I made the goal of learning how to stall during this Fixed Axle February, and I decided the Knack would be the throw to learn it on. On the first night, playing with the Knack, I was able to stall maybe 50% of the time. By the next day I could do Makin Da Zines. Thanks to the Knack my fixed axle journey is finally under way. After a couple of days, I pulled my other wooden yoyos out and tried them all again, including the one pictured above. It’s **much** harder to use than the Knack, but I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I could do any of the very small number of tricks I know on it. The last time I was in that toy store, I bought another one just to support them. Here it is still in the package.

 ![woodyo2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/4/b/5/4b56d2cd08c460eb589238865e93ceb242bfbd29.jpeg)

To celebrate, I’d like to send this yoyo to one of you. Maybe you’ve been keeping an eye on this topic, but you don’t have a wooden yoyo. Maybe you collect wooden yoyos, and you like the novelty of this one. If you’d like this yoyo for free, please send me a PM and I’ll send it to the first person who contacts me. This is for residents of CONUS only. I apologize to those of you who live outside CONUS, but I refuse to pay more for shipping than I did for the yoyo.

Update - The yoyo is taken!

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