few terminology questions what is a float yoyo?
A “floaty” yoyo is a yoyo that feels very light on the string. IMO you have to be very careful when using the term “floaty” because what you perceive as “floaty” can be totally different than what another person thinks as “floaty” so it could lead some people off track.
Technical tricks are tricks that involve many strings in intricate formations.(I think. U will have to check with someone else.)
Hope this helps!
Yeah, a floaty yoyo will feel more like it “floats” compared to other yoyos.
That’s right; technical tricks are ones that involve a lot of complicated string formations and movements.
I believe that I catagorically answered this question a while ago:
I call this one… “The Rock”:
But tie a string unto this rock,
I feel that everything should now be clear.
I decided that in order to find the answer, we had to go back to the beginning. Turns out the first use of the word “float” to describe the play of a yoyo on the YYN forums was on April 3, 2006. In describing the Yoyofactory 401k Espionage:
Simply stunning yoyo. Got mine today and messed around with a bunch of settings and strings before bliss. I cleaned the bearing, which is the best duncan sized bearing I’ve ever used (and I’ve tried them all), and have one side at 8 with a thin dif, so almost fully recessed, and one size at 5 with rubber bursts, brasilian poly. This thing is perfect now. Handles everything with ease, and there’s just something about it that makes it float around my fingers with more ease than my other yos. The only yoyo I’m not sure it’s better than yet is my oxy4, but it’s definetly giving it a run for its money.
So there we have it, the birth of floaty. The 401K Espionage must now become the yard stick for float, the scale by which all others are measured. Perhaps the reason why yyfben2 is so coy about the whole thing is that he secretly knew all along that YYF invented float… well Ben, I’m afraid the secret is out!
Float - The degree to which a yoyo plays like the Yoyofactory 401k Espionage.
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If that ain’t enough for you, then look here:
We’ve all heard it. “Despite it’s weight, this Yo-Yo feels very floaty” “I’d say this Yo-Yo has a decent amount of float… not much, but it’s there” “When I tried this Yo-Yo I was surprised by it’s floatiness” Right. Does anyone actually have a...
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If it’s information on float that you want, then that’s the place.
Simply put, nobody knows what float is, and nobody knows if it truly exists or not.
