# How do you react to dings in your yo-yo **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [November 16, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953 "2010-11-16T20:51:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YoYoAce](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoace/32/194274_2.png) [@YoYoAce](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoAce)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/21 "2010-11-17T21:42:24Z")
When I ding my Maverick I just shrug. If I were to ding one of my CLYW’s (it hasn’t happened yet) I’d probably get this terrible sick feeling in my stomach. I would then proceed to put the Yo-Yo down and try and remember the wonderful days when it wasn’t dinged. ---
**Author:** ![d4rqk0n3](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/d4rqk0n3/32/411_2.png) [@d4rqk0n3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/d4rqk0n3)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/22 "2010-11-17T21:47:30Z")
I am usually fairly accepting of my dings/scratches/flat spots because I wear a tungsten carbide wedding band and I am left handed. If you don’t want dings then either buy Polycarbonate yoyos or don’t play with them. Back when I considered myself a collector (not anymore) I would buy two of each yoyo I ordered, one for display and the other for play. IT gets expensive but hey at least you have the peace of mind, right? ---
**Author:** ![yosuf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/5daacb/32.png) [@yosuf](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yosuf)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/23 "2010-12-01T15:58:43Z")
I feel realllllly guilty about buying an expensive yoyo,and dinging it.Immediately after that i want to buy another yoyo! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![YoAaronD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoaarond/32/153_2.png) [@YoAaronD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoAaronD)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/24 "2010-12-01T18:10:30Z")
For anybody who thinks he might be lying, I threw that MG in Chico in 2009. I distinctly remember thinking, and maybe saying, “playing 5A with an MG is something I didn’t foresee in my day when I woke up this morning.” I used to get upset when I dinged yos. I don’t now though. I usually say a swear word or two and keep playing. No big. It doesn’t matter to me anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Yummy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yummy/32/14065_2.png) [@Yummy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yummy)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/25 "2010-12-01T20:18:44Z")
meh, I guess I’ll keep yo-yoing. ---
**Author:** ![shmoe93](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shmoe93/32/239_2.png) [@shmoe93](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/shmoe93)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/26 "2010-12-01T22:39:02Z")
I don’t react. ---
**Author:** ![quinton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/quinton/32/376_2.png) [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/27 "2010-12-01T22:51:28Z")
If ANYBODY posts the video of steve brown on this thread, I will FIND YOU. Anyway. Dings don’t matter. It makes the yoyo mine. Humans aren’t human without a few scars ---
**Author:** ![dcs937](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/dcs937/32/258549_2.png) [@dcs937](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dcs937)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/28 "2010-12-01T23:01:42Z")
> [@yoyoFRReeak](#): > > Haha^^^ imo i think a ding is just making your yoyo one of a kind. > > It happens and when it does theres nothing you can do about it so you might as well live with it and keep playing. Thats how I’m starting to feel. Once it has too many dings just get a new one. Only get mad if its discontinued or something. The dings make the yoyo more yours. Kind of like buying a car instead of leasing it you can do what you want with it ;D Mines leased \>:( ---
**Author:** ![quinton](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/quinton/32/376_2.png) [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/29 "2010-12-01T23:02:46Z")
> [@dcs937](#): > > > [@yoyoFRReeak](#): > > > > Haha^^^ imo i think a ding is just making your yoyo one of a kind. > > > > It happens and when it does theres nothing you can do about it so you might as well live with it and keep playing. > > Thats how I’m starting to feel. Once it has too many dings just get a new one. Only get mad if its discontinued or something. The dings make the yoyo more yours. Kind of like buying a car instead of leasing it you can do what you want with it ;D Mines leased \>:( I’ll sell ya mine ---
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/30 "2010-12-01T23:16:28Z")
> [@""](#): > > smile, keep throwing, make some more. > a yo-yo that’s held at a distance from the world is, to me, separated from its true purpose. i don’t see how one can play with abandon and be simultaneously fearful that one’s shiny new toy may be mussed. > [@""](#): > > I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. ---
**Author:** ![yoyo53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/9de0a6/32.png) [@yoyo53](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyo53)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/31 "2010-12-01T23:51:07Z")
i stare at the yoyo and throw it at the ground and days later ill pick it up then use it ;D ---
**Author:** ![yoyofoot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyofoot/32/602_2.png) [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/32 "2010-12-02T00:01:53Z")
> [@YoYoAce](#): > > When I ding my Maverick I just shrug. > > If I were to ding one of my CLYW’s (it hasn’t happened yet) I’d probably get this terrible sick feeling in my stomach. I would then proceed to put the Yo-Yo down and try and remember the wonderful days when it wasn’t dinged. I dinged my campfire, which had a slight vibe, and then it was completely smooth. I mean SILENT. Of course, it didn’t have that amazing CLYW color pattern that most do, so… Well, I really don’t mind dinging yoyos anyways. Unless, of course, someone took my hypothetical 28 stories peak and walked the dog around my driveway, drove over it, and left it outside during acid rain for a week. ---
**Author:** ![smartboy3456](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/smartboy3456/32/510_2.png) [@smartboy3456](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smartboy3456)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/33 "2010-12-02T03:33:38Z")
> [@Schnayke](#): > > > [@Beginner11](#): > > > > Don’t react or don’t ding them? > > > > I mean if you don’t react then imagine you just dinged a Yuuki Spencer edition Superstar. Not enough to effect play but you can feel it on grinds if the grind isn’t well placed. > > Don’t react. This is a picture of my MG, it is a proto double reccessed. Cost me 250 ish bucks. > [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/Schnayke/yoyos/IMG\_1056.jpg](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/Schnayke/yoyos/IMG_1056.jpg) > It is a toy don’t worry about it. I know it is a lot of money for kids and all. It was a lot of money for me, but all I play is 5A, dings happen daily. It is how it is. I have never had a yoyo that got so beat up it wouldn’t play just fine. Not saying I haven’t beat a lot of yoyos. I have a whole case of yoyos I have “Personalized”. > > I look at this way. I worked hard for my money got what I wanted, so I use it the way that makes me the happiest. Which is why I don’t worry about it. I am having fun that is what I do this for. > How ever I do take good care of any yoyo I think I may want to sell, or trade. Once I know I want it for good it is just another yoyo I use to play yoyo. what ever that means. > > All o this said, there was a time I did cringe when I dinged a yoyo. Those times are long in the past though. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/a/8/f/a8f51fae06443a23cd930a2b604d8246c3507be7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![gee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@gee](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/gee)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/34 "2010-12-02T17:25:45Z")
Immediately sniff it. Don’t know why but I like that sulfurous smell you get after a good ding. Other than that, I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![d4rqk0n3](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/d4rqk0n3/32/411_2.png) [@d4rqk0n3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/d4rqk0n3)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/35 "2010-12-02T18:52:16Z")
> [@gee](#): > > Immediately sniff it. Don’t know why but I like that sulfurous smell you get after a good ding. Other than that, I don’t care. Haha, I thought I was the only person who did that. But then again I loved the smell of freshly burnt gunpowder as well. I miss my rifle ☹ ---
**Author:** ![stevenjamesleda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@stevenjamesleda](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stevenjamesleda)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/36 "2010-12-02T18:58:44Z")
I start slapping myself in teh face and scream WHYYYY!!! And all those pics are nothing comapred to what i did to my dv888,i was yoyoing at the bustop and it slipped from a bind and diiiing in the floor ☹ ---
**Author:** ![johnny\_le1494](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/johnny_le1494/32/479_2.png) [@johnny\_le1494](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/johnny_le1494)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/37 "2010-12-02T21:25:39Z")
well if its an all metal yoyo then i curse if no authority figure is near by. i like keeping my yoyos in good shape, but if they get dinged they get dinged. doesn’t mean i love them any less. ---
**Author:** ![OMLORyoyo69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e36b37/32.png) [@OMLORyoyo69](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/OMLORyoyo69)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/38 "2010-12-02T21:26:52Z")
i spaz 😃 ---
**Author:** ![res01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b5ac83/32.png) [@res01](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/res01)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-do-you-react-to-dings-in-your-yo-yo/20953/39 "2010-12-03T03:10:17Z")
i get mad. Even if its plastic. Then I try not to let it happen again ---
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