I drove 3 hours to Va states to meet my first other yoyoers ever. I think I’ll be making that drive a lot now since they are getting a club together in Richmond.
I have one friend who got me into yoyoing, though I’ve been better than him for a while now. We do practice sessions together every now and then but other than that, I’ve been pretty isolated from the yoyo community.
I actually had a chance encounter with a local thrower at Quick Check today. He’s a younger kid who was there with his mom and sister. My girlfriend noticed a DMII on a holster around his waist, so I asked his mother about her son’s yoyo. Within a minute I was fiddling around with the yoyo and showing him and his sister a few things. I didn’t see him throw, but I get the feeling he’s pretty darn good! He recognized Yuuki Slack right off the back and seemed to understand how Multifarious was formed.
I gave him and his mother my phone number and YYE account name, so hopefully I’ll be able to throw with someone local soon!
Side note, but I was just thinking that “Forever Alone Throwers” is a great (even if vaguely sad!) name for a virtual community of geographically dispersed throwers.
Kind of like how Ditch Down are connected by something other than geography.
Then there could be FAT edition throws!
Except, well, we’d generally LIKE to meet other people to throw, so it’s a hard club to actually want to be a member of.