# How long have you been yo-yoing?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [September 4, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675 "2011-09-04T22:22:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mr\_YoYo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mr_YoYo)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/1 "2011-09-04T22:22:49Z")
I’ve always considered myself to be relatively new at yo-yoing, but when I think about it, I’ve learned so much and advanced quite a bit. I’ve gone from merely asking questions to being able to actually answer some questions. I remember when siliconing a yoyo was for more experienced players than me, but now I can silicone my own yoyos. I remember when I only had one or two yoyos. Now I have ten. So I’m not quite so new to the yoyo community anymore.
So I wanted to see how “new” or “old” other people are to yo-yoing, and just to get a gist of the experience of the YYE community.
Ok, so before I start rambling:
How long have you been yo-yoing?
For me, it’s been about a year and half since I first picked up an unresponsive yoyo.
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### Author:  [@Jake\_Elliott](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jake_Elliott)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/2 "2011-09-04T22:25:12Z")
Well yoyos have been my favorite toy ever since I was probably 2-3. I can’t remember any time in my life when I wasn’t playing with yoyos on a semi regular basis.
As for modern yoyoing, that would be 3 and a half years ago.
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### Author:  [@nicholi2789](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nicholi2789)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/3 "2011-09-04T22:30:26Z")
I started in sixth grade ten years ago. My first throw was a duncan bumblebee and it was AWESOME then. I yoyoed in my schools talent show and sucked. Then i burnt out after a few months. I didnt pick up a yoyo again until March or April of this year, when i found my trusty, decade old bumblebee (ten years later) and now i havent looked back, I cannot believe how much this sports grown! I still have my old bumblebee, plus ten other metals and a few plastics.
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### Author:  [@Slade\_Riggs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slade_Riggs)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/4 "2011-09-04T22:54:52Z")
1 year and 8 months, getting ready for competition also.
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### Author:  [@DByoyoer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DByoyoer)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/5 "2011-09-04T22:55:13Z")
In fifth grade there were 5 or 6 people in my class that had yomega yoyos such as the brain, saber raider, or fireball; i ended getting a brain even though i wanted a FAST 201. I learned about modern yoyoing then but never got one because i didn’t know where to look.
Then this at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year i saw someone yoyoing at school, but i forgot about it. Then in early March 2011, I wanted to start to yoyo for some random reason. So i ask my mom for a velocity from amazon.
When i got the yoyo i thought, “This is smaller than i thought it would be.” The firaat thing i learned was how to bind then started to learned the intermediate tricks.
Now almost six months later I have learned all the way up to master level tricks and also making up my own tricks and combos. I have owned 5 yoyos Velocity, L3, yoyomamma onyx, Raptor and Griffin Wing but the raptor and L3 got stripped and the velocity needs pads and a bearing.
Long story short i have been yoyoing for 6 months.
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### Author:  [@JeiCheetah](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JeiCheetah)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/6 "2011-09-04T22:55:32Z")
A bit over 13 years.
Started August of 98
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### Author:  [@ShaunC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ShaunC)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 11:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/7 "2011-09-04T23:05:34Z")
Since 1992-1993
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### Author:  [@XLazyThrowerX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XLazyThrowerX)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/8 "2011-09-04T23:22:41Z")
Messing around with yoyos- 3 and 1/2 years.
Actually trying and learning/making up tricks- 1 and 3/4 years.
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### Author:  [@turtleyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/turtleyo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/9 "2011-09-05T00:22:28Z")
seriously for about a year
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### Author:  [@airpenguin](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/airpenguin)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/10 "2011-09-05T00:42:26Z")
8 Months 😛
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### Author:  [@yoyoguy4](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoguy4)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/11 "2011-09-05T01:04:19Z")
10 months. December, around Christmas will be the year mark. And no, i didnt get a yoyo for Christmas. (im Jewish)
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/12 "2011-09-05T01:43:55Z")
1 1/2
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### Author:  [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 2:37am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/13 "2011-09-05T02:37:46Z")
a long time (or the blink of an eye).
learned sleeper and loop the loop in 1986…
trapeze sometime before i moved in 1989…
split the atom on my first bearing yo-yo in 1999…
rancid milk 2005…
… lately i’m back into sleeper and loop the loop.
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### Author:  [@xcharger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xcharger)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/14 "2011-09-05T04:47:17Z")
i’ve only been yoyo’ing for 1 month!
this new hobby is very fun.
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### Author:  [@stephosh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stephosh)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 4:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/15 "2011-09-05T04:57:18Z")
> [@yoyoguy4](#):
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> 10 months. December, around Christmas will be the year mark. And no, i didnt get a yoyo for Christmas. (im Jewish)
Same with me, but I did get a cheap dollar store yo yo for Christmas!
I was hooked.
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### Author:  [@jasonwongzero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jasonwongzero)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 5:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/16 "2011-09-05T05:17:04Z")
9 months I think
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### Author:  [@\_Z1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_Z1)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 5:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/17 "2011-09-05T05:39:32Z")
My guess is about 15 years overall, I only say that because I honestly cannot remember at all!
Guess once you can’t remember is when you know you have been yoyoing far too long.
~Z
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### Author:  [@xaix](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xaix)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 9:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/18 "2011-09-05T09:50:23Z")
> [@jasonwongzero](#):
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> 9 months I think
same, but this is when I pick up unresponsive yoyo and got hooked
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### Author:  [@shmoe93](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/shmoe93)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2011, 3:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/19 "2011-09-05T15:36:37Z")
3 1/2 years
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### Author:  [@Nivo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nivo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-long-have-you-been-yo-yoing/29675/20 "2011-09-06T20:43:02Z")
On and off for about 1 1/2 … Not consistent But I love it!!!
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