# How to make a string ball ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\ **Created:** [March 22, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821 "2014-03-22T09:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Vu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@Brandon\_Vu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Brandon_Vu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 9:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/1 "2014-03-22T09:43:18Z")
String balls are awesome ! They allow you to reflect on how much you’ve yoyoed and also give you soothing better to do with your dead strings than to throw them away. Personally I used to gather them up in a pile, and burn them, but ever since I stumbled upon the popular “string ball” I have since changed my ways. So here is how I make them, I know some people wrap the string up and utilise that as the ‘base’, but this is how I go about it. How large is you’re string ball ? How long have you been growing it ? [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/9/0/e/90eca5e183c48a367bf1dce05a091562eb41e6b9.jpeg "How to make a string ball") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-LPtpPQUs) ---
**Author:** ![stuarttw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/2 "2014-03-22T12:58:39Z")
…if you keep wrapping and wrapping and wrapping, you will eventually get something like this… That part was kind of funny. ---
**Author:** ![Pajamas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pajamas/32/1486_2.png) [@Pajamas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pajamas)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/3 "2014-03-22T20:10:15Z")
I’ve always untwisted at the end of a string and pulled the next string through there, then make the slip knot, giving me one continuous piece of string that’s being wrapped around. I’m going to wait until it’s ~basketball sized and then unwrap it just to see how long it is. Also; you eat apples incorrectly ====\> [So Apparently, We've Been Eating Apples All Wrong [VIDEO] - FoodBeast](http://www.foodbeast.com/2013/05/02/so-apparently-weve-been-eating-apples-all-wrong-video/) ---
**Author:** ![Brandon\_Vu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@Brandon\_Vu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Brandon_Vu)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/4 "2014-03-22T23:02:35Z")
WOW, I really have been eating apples wrong, thanks for that ! ---
**Author:** ![Pajamas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pajamas/32/1486_2.png) [@Pajamas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pajamas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/5 "2014-03-23T01:00:51Z")
No problem. I discovered that little gem a year or two ago and have been trying to spread the word ever since! ---
**Author:** ![mr.nightshadow95](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mr.nightshadow95/32/1093_2.png) [@mr.nightshadow95](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mr.nightshadow95)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/6 "2014-03-25T17:18:11Z")
Really liked the video, I’ve never been explained how to do it so that is great. I think I might have to wait til I have like 20 more dead strings to start, but I certainly want a string ball :wink: ---
**Author:** ![Jgarcia05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jgarcia05](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jgarcia05)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-make-a-string-ball/64821/7 "2014-03-28T16:56:41Z")
Geez, the ball that the guy made in the YouTube vid in the upper post was crazy huge!