# Help me choose a first yoyo for my niece

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**Created:** [October 11, 2020, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-me-choose-a-first-yoyo-for-my-niece/328246 "2020-10-11T15:23:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![anon5341354](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@anon5341354](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon5341354)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 5:12am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-me-choose-a-first-yoyo-for-my-niece/328246/21 "2020-10-13T05:12:17Z")

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I wouldn’t buy a yoyo for a child turning 3.

Most kids at that age learn 2 tricks:

- ‘Drag the dog’
- ‘Helicopter’

So glad I made my kids under 5 some yoyos…

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**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 12:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-me-choose-a-first-yoyo-for-my-niece/328246/22 "2020-10-13T12:22:57Z")

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> [@anon5341354](#):
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> Most kids at that age learn 2 tricks:
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> - ‘Drag the dog’
> - ‘Helicopter’

Those are the tricks my neighbors son learned when I gave him a Spinstar. He’s 5. I tried to teach him gravity pull but I think he’s too short or the Spinstar is too large and keeping the string really short makes it difficult. I have several Whips and Ones but I am afraid he’d hurt himself.

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**Author:** ![beezy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/beezy/32/161690_2.png) [@beezy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beezy)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-me-choose-a-first-yoyo-for-my-niece/328246/23 "2020-10-13T13:30:45Z")

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haha! Those are absolute classic tricks, though. Don’t correct me if I’m wrong, but I recall that these are part of the “trick step-stool”.

And my niece is careful and serious. After all, she asked for yoyo lessons so she might be into really giving yoyo a try. If not, no problem, the small investment is worth it even if the end result is ‘drag the dog’.

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