WARNING: the following post was not intended for the reading impaired or those particular individuals that don’t care And/or wanna whine no matter what I say…
Obviously, regardless of age, there can be a considerable variation in an individual’s hand size. Sometimes on the surface, certain specifications just kind of go under the radar without giving them a second thought.
One of the key design elements engineered into the whip was the actual size. To some people they would just say well of course is the size it is because it’s the size it is. I mean come on, it Has to be some size they have to decide on something so boom there it is it’s that size.
But dig a little bit deeper and a few things become apparent. The yo-yo is not too wide. The yo-yo is not too narrow. The yo-yo is neither too small or too large in diameter. That was arrived at for specific intent as follows>
Yo-yo factory arrived at the specifications for the whip yo-yo to optimize the ergonomics without sacrificing performance.
They knew they be dealing with a variety of hand sizes. They had to arrive at a size that would fill a hand in general without being so small it got lost in the hand or being so large that a person could not close their hand around it. If a yo-yo is too small in diameter it kind of gets lost in hand. If a yo-yo it’s too big in diameter and or with then you feel like you’re grabbing something that’s just too big to comfortably hold. When you go either too large or too small that can have a detrimental effect on learning to properly stroke and let the yo-yo roll off the hand on the throwdown. Throwing a grape down or throwing a watermelon down it’s going to give you two different feelings. So they arrived at a happy medium after extensive research on size and shape.
The whip yo-yo is not just a basic yo-yo. It is a yo-yo that was designed for optimal ergonomics and functionality based on extensive research in the field. Think of it this way. Yohans and Ben could’ve arrived at any specifications made a bunch of them and said this is a yo-yo for beginners. But they didn’t do that. quite the contrary. They did their homework on a worldwide platform. Based on years of research. Based on years of personally throwing yo-yos all over the planet. Based on a few decades of teaching kids with various yo-yos and seeing what worked and what didn’t work. There’s an old saying that there’s no substitute for experience. There’s also an old saying that everything you learn comes to serve you well. Yohans And then with the additional feedback the multitude of players from all over the World testing Proto‘s of the various models. When the smoke cleared the whip was finalized as a very efficient and cost-effective yo-yo trick learning tool.
For many many years now and the various things that I’ve taught people outside of Ewing of course. For example, I spent a few decades teaching people how to paint custom cars and custom motorcycles. I could tell them stories for hours I could tell them what I did for months. But my favorite thing was to just tell them, ‘I Can show you better than I can tell you’. Let’s get in the paint booth and you can see how it’s done. Sometimes a picture is worth 1000 words. And more often than not a few decades of experience in playing with yo-yos and teaching kids how to learn tricks has gone along way to give a very comprehensive amount of input information to allow yo-yo factory to decide what an excellent beginning yo-yo is.
I think the suggestion of a loop in yo-yo is a very good one indeed. I like the idea that was a loop in yo-yo like a 720 you can adjust the response. And a 720 throws down easy. It would be an excellent learning tool for somebody that wants to practice their stroke which is an integral part of the beginning of any trick. If you don’t have a good throwdown you’re kind of suck before you find out that you kind of suck when you think of it. You got to get that throwdown wired because that’s the first step in anything you’re gonna do after that. And I think it’s 720 is really excellent for something like that. But technically when you do run into smaller hand sizes the 720 or other loop in yours have a tendency to be larger in diameter than the standard loop in yo-yo. And sometimes with the smaller individual hands that may have a negative affect by filling to him too much and making the throwdown a little harder to dial-in. Of course that’s just my personal opinion.
Before I beat the horse completely dead and I start going around in circles like I’ve done occasionally here and there over the years. The bottom line is the whip is just not something they came up with. The yo-yo was finalized only after a whole Lotta research in the field decisions were made on the specs and here you got a yo-yo the cost around six bucks or so and will fit the bill for most beginners and that’s about it.
she also drags it on the floor saying she’s walking the dog so I was happy I didn’t spend over 2.99
