So i made this freestyle for a online contest with the goal of making the highest scoring freestyle ever. I wanted to beat Gentry’s freestyle that he did in this video.
let me know what you click them!
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Yo, nicely done man that was a killer freestyle!
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Heck yeah bro!!! That was awesome!!
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as in it scored the highest?
Wow! So great? Are you competing at Worlds?
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yes thats the plan!
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Good luck. You’re gonna kill it.
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Thanks!
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That one is beyond my estimation. I have no idea on scoring. I can say you packed an awful lot into 1 minute. And it all looked great.
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Man, i wish i could yoyo like dat :(.
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Maybe i could do the opposite… the lowest scoring routine ever 
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Dude great work! Solid freestyle construction. Can wait to see you on stage
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I don’t know if this is the highest, but mir kim breaks the scoring system by completing intensely difficult elements giving him multiple points for single tricks.
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I’m not going to be able to click accurately enough to tell you one way or another.
Not particularly helpful to you, but I’d like to say I’m impressed! I’m sure you’re disciplined in your practice, and I look forward to seeing you on stage.
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Mate if I can be honest with you, while you killed it (so congrats for your skills) and it will score very well, probably is not a winning freestyle.
It really lack on originality, all the elements are the “contest stuff” one after another but they miss “you”, pretty much every contest player (and not) is able to perform those elements.
I would say if you want to participate at world, start to create your own elements that can be inspired to those, you get what it clicks and what not so I would work toward it, if you think pretty much every world champion bring it’s own style and win in that way, bringing some innovation or new tricks, even Miura every year bring a new 3a freestyle with elements never seen before.
It is useless to just write you “yeah great job man, amazing” and leave it in that way, I preferred to write you a little critic which in my opinion can help you, you have great skills and the knowledge, now just start to make your own and propose to the public, if you would like to become a contest player that is the way, than there are some elements that obviously you can propose and use (for example horizontal behind the back is a classic) but it can become old very quickly!
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Thanks for the advice! I only started yoyoing 4 years ago and i do this thing where i learn other people’s freestyles and do them on YouTube so I see how my trick set could be mostly other people’s stuff. what I do in creating my own combos is I take what someone else does and I ask myself what can I do to make this score higher and be more difficult. take the whip combo at 0:32 for example, I took Evan Nagao’s whip combo and added more risk to it. Evan’s 2022 whip combo clicks 14. the one I do clicks 21. in my mind doing something with that much more risk and the combo having neck stoles in it was my own trick. like I’ve never seen anyone else do the dismount from the neck stole that I do, among other things. Right now, I am practicing for Nationals and Worlds. After those happen, I plan to look back at my trick set and make it more original.
Again, thanks for the feedback. I really appreciate having other Yoyoers giving me feedback and taking the time to help me out.
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Originally has no effect on the scoring. Trying to create original tricks will likely not help him in competitions.
From WYYC site
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Yeah, so this is one reason I don’t really like prelims, and of course, the dreaded 30 second wildcard.
They’re just click fests.
If you had enough different variations, you could literally just sit there and do hooks the whole time, and have a really solid prelim.
So, if this clicks high enough, it could very easily be a winning freestyle.
BUT, of course, if he was to advance to subsequent rounds, he’s definitely going to need some more original material.
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If originality isn’t part of the scoring equation then how does having more of it help a competitor advance to subsequent rounds?
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