Brothers in stripes.
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These are my fixed axles. Not just on Friday. I take ‘em out to play every day. I’m still a rookie but I’m trying to get better. I would like to add a currier to the collection but emails to Hildy have not been answered.
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My first time truly participating in a Fixed Axle Friday. My only fixie is the Butterfly but I love it. Today I landed a trapeze, to brother, back to trapeze stalls into a kickflip. There is something really fun about fixed axles, it almost begs you to try that trick one more time, then one more time, and so on lol.
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After playing the Zipline Wood-Z Cherry XL all week I’m in tune with my light finesse throws. Going to take @bheinz63 lead above and get back to Butterflys this Friday. This one is from the mid 2000 when we first see Made In the USA replaced with World’s #1, as this one was made in Mexico. Out of all the incarnations of Butterflies this one may feel the cheapest in the hand, with a weight around 42grams, a softer plastic (compared to today’s), and a slimmer and sharper profile. But these have the nice oversized Foil label that are reflective and are the Butterflies I have the most play millage on. For 1A these can be a little bit of a struggle to get spin time, however for pure 0A stall play these are highly responsive and easy flippers. Today I nailed my first Brent Stole Dead Whip, since these are probably the most popular Yo-Yo with non-yoyoers not here on these forums, its always fun and impressive to shred on The Original.
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really like the look of the foil logo, the silver paint on mine isn’t the highest quality by any means.
I genuinely did not expect to have as much fun with the Butterfly as I’m having. I’ve probably had 12 of these yoyo’s over my life span (mostly as a child), and after learning unresponsive yoyoing and actually getting pretty decent at it, I never though the Butterfly could be as fun as it is.
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Thought about playing another Butterfly, but when someone declares an Orphan Day, I’m always happy to play.
and might as well watch a favorite fixed axle clip with Jensen and turn my speakers up!
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Love Oversized. This is another favorite:
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Was riding the train home with my dad and he grabbed a video of me messing around with my awesome SW plastic fixed. Thanks again @Glenacius_K. Nothing fancy but these are the cleaner clips.
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This arrived from @vegabomb just in time for some fixed axle Friday action! I’ve wanted a sb1 for a long time and I’m really digging it so far!
I’ll be getting the polish out soon, but it’s hard to put down!
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I had this one as a kid!
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What string do you use in your butterfly? I recently grabbed some type 10 cotton from YYE, and I feel like the yoyo isn’t quite as snappy responsive as when I was using the (albeit quite poor quality) duncan 50/50 blend.
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I’ll typically use just cheep white 100% poly like Duncan Bulk or YYE 100% Poly. I’m also a fan of YYE Slick 6, but I use this more on retro metals or responsive bearing throws. I also have some vintage Duncan string packs of 100% cotton, depends on what I’m trying, l have had the starburst melt Kitty regulars when throwing hard 1A style tricks consecutively, but throwing 0A is all finesse and throwing soft so its not and issue for me.
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Interesting, I’ve heard (and you kind of confirm) that the starburst will rip poly string. I burned through a string a day using 50/50 cotton/poly from Duncan which is why I grabbed the type 10 cotton.
Another thing I’ve noticed with the butterfly, I feel like I have to throw/tug it harder than I would expect to get it to play/respond as I want it to. I’ve been playing a lot with the day tripper lately, and that thing is just so responsive and controlled, I can basically do anything I want by letting gravity do its thing and maybe some light string manipulation during tosses (i wont use the word throw, because I don’t throw the day tripper lol).
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