# How Long have you been yo-yoing? What got you started?

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**Created:** [October 6, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing-what-got-you-started/69935 "2014-10-06T15:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![turtlecircle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/turtlecircle/32/1581_2.png) [@turtlecircle](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/turtlecircle)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing-what-got-you-started/69935/1 "2014-10-06T15:44:36Z")

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I’ve been yo-yoing for 2 weeks now. LOL

Just randomly picked one up one day and wondered what I could do with it after seeing my gf’s little brother playing with a dv888

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**Author:** ![AaronW](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/aaronw/32/49251_2.png) [@AaronW](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AaronW)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing-what-got-you-started/69935/2 "2014-10-06T16:19:10Z")

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I started around 1987 or 1988. My grandparents bought my cousin and I a Smothers Brothers YoYo Man yoyo. Soon after I got a Duncan Butterfly, don’t know what happened to that one. But the Smother’s Brothers (which I believe is a hummingbird with Smothers Brothers graphics) came with a trick book. Taught myself the basics. I’d play with it off and on, but around 1995 a friend brought a yoyo with ball bearings in it, a Tornado. He was showing me some tricks, and I got home got out my yoyos and started up again. Went out and bought a Tornado, which was my first yoyo with a ball bearing and started to learn more. I’d been yoyoing off an on since then. Found this site last year, which is when I learned about unresponsive yoyo’s.

Here is my first yoyo, the graphics are worn off, but you can see them in the right light.

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