Yep, you’re right. The fear goes away quickly tho. Once you learn a couple of tricks that include a GT, they result to be not as tough.
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does “Organic” mean like, a natural comfortable shape, that dosen’t put stress, or awkwardness on your hand?
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Organic means that the yo-yo has a round or mostly round shape like this. 
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thanks bro.
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@Mystik you totally messed me up! i was doing my Spelling for school, and it wanted me to spell “Mystic”, but i’ve only ever seen it written “Mystik”!
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You got me. It was my plan all along! 
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Gasp.
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can you spin Delrin on a Lathe, and make a yoyo?
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Yes, it’s done quite frequently.
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Balisong anyone?
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I know a few tricks that I learned on my friends blade, I’m planing on getting one soon
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i’m planning on getting a pack of two trainers, one silver, one black. a guy at my church has a live blade, and he’s really good, but i think i should get some tricks down, before asking him if i can use his live one, and cut myself right off the bat, lol.
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Part thought and part question really: How much does the string you use effect the feel of the yoyo? I think I saw Coffin Nachtmahr say on Facebook recently that it is a factor a lot of people don’t really consider (or something to that effect) and I didn’t pay much notice at the time. Maybe this is because I don’t like the thought of having to shell out loads on string to make my yoyo play nice. However recently I have been using yoyostringlabs Ammo on my Unspoken Murmur and the two combined improve my eperience of both string and yoyo, they feel perfect together!
Any thoughts?
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I agree, not every throw plays well with Kitty Fat also. Finding the right combination is tricky. I have found boutique yoyos often need the boutique string, but larger batched throws shine with bulk. Some of my older yoyos play best with slick 6. Some yoyos and their response are designed around the current meta of string, G2’s use to be tested with Kitty Fat now they are tested on Zipline, I think it does make a difference.
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i feel that many moons ago, string would not have impacted an individual’s experience as much. as we’ve progressed to tighter tolerances, more higher performance throws, techy tricks, and stellar throwers, the tiny tweaks will bet magnified on the string.
i started out back when grabbing bulk cotton string for my responsives, ripping through it… progressing to unresponsive, i’d still just grab whatever poly. until, i picked up a package deal of throws and strings and i had yysl plutonium coming out my ears, and that’s all i used for a while - and i was in love. perfect thickness, texture, softness (the fancy toilet paper of string!). well, it’s gone, and pretty expensive. i figured i’d give some other string a shot, so i’m doing trial runs on some different strings right now. and, i’m finding that - using kitty as my baseline here- i’m using different weights to get consistent experiences. whereas before, i felt i could slap the plutonium on just about any of my (unresponsive) throws, and knew what i was getting into.
my experience only
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Higher quality string is definitely better. I use airetics now after only bulk poly for the first 10 years of my throwing career, and am fortunate enough to be a representative for them.
Different strings will play different. That being said, I think the length of the string had a greater impact on how the yoyo “feels” more than what kind of string it is.
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Imo, significantly. And for the sake of discussing “feel”, I am going to ignore the bind part of the equation (while extremely important, it already gets discussed quite frequently). One example of string experimentation that pops out at me is with my Banshee. I strung it up with one of the newer nylon/poly blended executive class Ziplines and it played very bouncy and floaty. Then I threw on a Markmont night moves string and it played like a precision beast, very fast, not very floaty. It completely changed the feel of the yoyo. Another example I have is with my YYF Edgeless. With regular Ziplines it plays quicker and somewhat unstable, but when I threw on some Plutonium, it felt much bouncier, alive, and I gained a bit more stability. I actually enjoy trying to find the perfect string match for each of my yoyos. It really can bring out the strengths of a yoyo and/or hide its weaknesses. Of course you can just use Kitty on everything, but I think you are missing out on the nuanced feels of different yoyos and string combos.
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Anybody know what strings come packaged with YYF?
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Yes I entirely agree with the point about string length!
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Probably that’s true. But I like consistency, so I usually put the same string on all my yoyos xD
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