Iâd second the Parlay for sure, havenât tried the Overture, but Iâd also recommend checking out the Edgeless by Basecamp is nice as well in my opinion.
Seconding the edgeless
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Yep! Just follow #russianyoyoing and youâll be happy.
What does it mean to say that a yoyo is powerful and fast but doesnât feel powerful and fast? Or that a yoyo is incredibly stable but doesnât feel incredibly stable. I mean, how can these properties exist in a yoyo without making themselves felt in play?
Thatâs how I feel about my Grasshopper GTX. It IS powerful and fast but feels otherwise. Itâs just my personal perception. I dunno. I confuse myself.
I feel like the beanie has this. Where it has a float and speedy feel to it, but seems to have a âhidden powerâ to it, where the yoyo feels like it should be almost out of spin but keeps chugging along while maintaining that light floaty feel.
How quiet are your Grasshopper GTX and Beanie, respectively?
Grasshopper GTX: It is tomb-quiet until the ting of the bind.
Okay, right. Well my theory there is that the silent bearing is doing all the work of âhidingâ the yoyoâs spin/power from you (its not the yoyoâs design doing that). You arenât getting the usual feedback that tells you how fast the yoyo is spinning, and consequently you donât âfeelâ its power (as much). I have two Grasshopper GTXs, neither of which have tomb-silent bearings, and I would not characterize them as feeling less powerful or stable than they actually are.
I too have a pair of GTXhoppers. Whether audible or not, you always feel their power and stability. They canât hide it.So smooth.
My logical brain says thatâs the only thing that makes any sense, i.e., if a yoyo has some property (power, stability, etc.) then you will feel it if all the usual feedback vectors are present.
A YouTube reviewer recently said:
âTo me the best designed bi-metals are the bi-metals that give you all that bi-metal performance but donât feel like youâre playing a bi-metal.â
I have no idea what he meant by that. It makes no sense to me.
It feels like youâre eating pizza but doesnât taste like youâre eating pizza. Mmm, yummy!
Thatâs how I feel about these
Stealth is like a budget GrasshopperGTX. Though not as powerful.
IMO
I have both and each have their own feel / personality just like any two mono metals would.
The shape is quite similar. But the weight distribution definitely contributes to unique feels. Stealth is more center weighted than the GrasshopperGTX. Neither have that on rails feeling that bimetal generally have from the SS rings. Thereâs also an obvious quality difference too, the rings on the Stealth seem significantly softer, the few dings Iâve had are actually visible. On the G they would have been scratches instead.
Both are good fun.
I can post this photo now that the YYE edition converges have been revealed.
I was briefly trying to keep one of each colorway of Mk1 yoyos releases. Unfortunately I decided this after already sending off my last blue fade diffractions to Jack Hudspath. I donât even have all of the colorways in this photo any more - all the blue fades have been mailed off. Iâll probably keep a blue from whichever next run I do.
Upper left: Diffractions (v1 and v2)
Upper right: Umbra (prototype and production)
Bottom: Converge (all production, I donât have any raw protos any more)
Iâve started to get more comfortable letting these yoyos go. Donât really need this many of each run.
General thought:
When Iâm really depressed I donât even pick up a yoyo. Better now, but thereâs been a recent stretch of days of no yoyoing. Depressing times on multiple levels. Glad to still yoyo though, it remains a source of joy.