I cant make tricks from wrist mount. It feels like such a dead mount to me. Like it looks like there would be a lot to do in it but i just cant avtually do much haha
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Same here man 
So much untapped potential.
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I have one trick that starts from there and thats it. Where i double on and then roll back into a magic drop sorta thing while in the mount and go from there. Thats the best i could do with that mount in the past 2 or 3 years lol
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LMAO
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Yeah, I feel like original tech can be done in a smaller mount and be better.
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Cool topic, this was/is my today… finally played my Vayder alongside my stargazer 2.
(Full disclosure: midsize is my jam and the stargazer 2 has been my fave throw for a long, long time; never thrown a TiWalker, own a skywalker; been throwing almost daily for over a decade)
Just gonna say that I’m thinking about selling the rest of my collection now, and that’s not an idle comment… look out for my bst lolz
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Today’s thoughts…
1a is hard. How did I get so good at this. I AM good, all these IG folks are just gods idk. Even if someone played everyday for 8 hours I’d be extremely impressed if they were at my level in 6 months. Wait that’s over 1500 hours… how much time have I put into this toy over the years? The amount of time it takes to get good at this is ridiculous. But I guess to be fair probably only 10-20% of my playtime actually went into active practice. Where would I be if 80% had been put into practice 
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I found the speed of my yoyoing is greatly increased through music, so I guess pandora is my life now.
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Yea dude, it’s crazy. Ive been playing for almost a year now and am nowhere even near your level. I feel like im a really bad player until I watch beginner videos and realize how much smoother I am than someone who has only been playing for a couple months. When I first started yoyoing, all I wanted to be able to do was a few basic tricks like Buddha’s Revenge to be able to show off to friends. Double or nothing was actually a trick to me back then, lol. I am now much better than I planned on being, but it isnt enough and I want to get even better.
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haha that’s how I feel…I’ve been at it for 4 or 5 months and I feel like I’m just a super slow learner or something.
But then when I step back…I realize I’m pulling off some pretty cool stuff TBH. Whips and slacks and hops (eli hops, kwyjibo, working on black hops, etc).
I wonder if I’ll ever be at a point where I truly think I’m ‘really good’.
I will say though…that I’ve been having a ton of fun with this hobby. And as I’m working on more difficult tricks (for me)…the more satisfying it’s getting.
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Just think back in time to when you had to struggle to throw a clean breakaway and thought trapeze was somewhat tricky to nail. I still feel like I kinda suck, but It takes hundreds of hours by pretty much anyone to get to the point of where I am now, so it’s something at least.
And I just looked up black hops, and it isnt at all what I expected it to be (I was thinking something Eli Hops in a brother mount). I have to learn it, looks fun!
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It’s super fun…one of my favorite beginner’ish tricks is rewind…and black hops kinda reminds me of that but on steroids! lol
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I haven’t done rewind in a long time, and just tried it out again, and it turns out I suck at it, lol. I use all of those string configurations in one way or another with my tricks, but I dont flow into them like rewind. Guess I gotta practice before learning the black hops. I can do it, but I’m sloppy and mess up sometimes when going into some of the brother mounts. I think I forget the proper finger to wrap around. Going to have to watch a tut.
Edit: actually I’m getting it now I think.
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After a year at this I am still pretty bad at it. Progress has slowed to something of a crawl, so while I have a handful of decent tricks under my belt, there’s not enough in my repertoire yet to put together anything resembling a 3-minute “beginner freestyle”, not without repeating every trick I can land at least five or six times along the way.
Much of this has to do with the very limited amount of time I play/practice. I am not addicted to yoyoing so I don’t seek out opportunities to sneak in play time (at work, at home, whatever). I play when the mood strikes me and there is time and space available. Turns out that isn’t all that often, and so naturally my progress is glacial.
But dang if I don’t love these lovely, spinny things anyway…
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Well if it’s any consolation, I am going on three years [come February], and I don’t even have enough tricks under my belt to create a 3 minute beginner freestyle… It doesn’t bother me in the slightest either.
Which brings me to my contribution to the actual topic at hand:
It dawned on me the other day, that gyroscopic toys are just absolutely fascinating to me. Yoyos, spintops, frisbees [think about it… gyroscopic force is what makes them behave the way they do in the air… It’s a trip…].
Try doing anything with a yoyo that isn’t spinning, or a top that isn’t spinning, or throwing a frisbee without putting a spin on it. Gyroscopic force is what brings these things to life!!
These things are so intriguing to me! I experience so much genuine fun when playing with gyroscopic toys.
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Gyroscopic force is also what keeps you upright on a bicycle when you aren’t doing the “keep my balance” dance while not moving.
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It is! I love riding bikes too! haha
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I feel like Humpty-Dumpty’s bigger brother on a bike. >.<’
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I feel the same way and I’ve been throwing since 1999 haha 
. For me it’s just hard to find time to learn new things, I probably play a lot more cause I do have a throw on me wherever I go, but any throwing away from home is just having fun playing around and also repeating the tricks I already know a lot. I am a super slow learner so when I want to learn something I have to have some freetime where I can actually focus on what I’m trying to learn.
The good thing about this for me is I rarely forget whatever I’ve learned since there’s so much time in between new tricks, I tend to repeat what I know so much that it’s pretty cemented in muscle memory by the time I try something new.
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Bro, as Chad said, I’m 3 years into this, and have nowhere near 3 minutes of tricks on me.
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