Dinging your yoyos makes you show that you love them
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Dont play nice/your favorite throws over cement/blacktop. Dinged my new Genyo Hatrick 2 this weekend. Tbhā¦ i never learn my leasson.
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I donāt have many throws, but Iāve learned to let it go a bit. I have a few āspecialā ones that my wife purchased me, and while I still play them, I take very good care of them. Others I just play, and live and let live.
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I have common, uncommon, rare, cheap, and expensive yoyos. I only have one I have never played with.
I wonāt hesitate to open it if I have a chance to connect it to another one.
I feel a yoyo should be played with as long as it is in a playable condition.
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I wanted to yell at you for not playing with something this awesome lookingā¦then i scrolled far enough to see your last words. If i ever find one, i know who to call 
I play over carpet and grass and when i was using my plastics i only tagged the ground a coupe times. Got my firsr metal and in the first hour i literall threw it straight into the floor like 5 or 6 times, 2 times where right in a row 
I remembered what people said about yoyos being for playing with, shrugged and kept going. If i ever end up with a yoyo i cant stand to damage, ill put it on a stand on not play with it. Heck think about cars. We spend exponentially more on them and still drive them knowing theres a chance we can destroy them irreparably.
If nothing else just remember, absolute worst case scenario is you break your yoyo. Fortunately there are always more yoyos in the world.
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Well, you can do this:
- Get yourself a big, nice display shelf, and put there all your expensive yoyos. This is your investment now. In five (or more) years many of them can worth a pretty penny.
- Buy a bunch of plastic yoyos, there are quite a lot of them out there in the market, for any taste. Put them everywhere, into your drawer, at your desk, take a couple to work. These are your actual toys now.
- Thrash your plastics as hard as you like, anywhere you like - at home, on the street, etc.
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I always think about Kevin McCallister and his story about his rollerblades. They were so nice that he didnāt want to ruin them by using them, then he his feet grew and they didnāt fit anymore.
Plastic degrades. Metal rusts. Nothing is forever.
Enjoy what you have now. No one got better by looking at a yoyo on a shelf.
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Iām not into the whole āding will set you freeā mindset. I like to keep my favorites in good shape and I donāt feel like it affects my playing. Itās not like Iām babying them or anything, I just donāt drop them very often. I dunno, maybe itās because my play style is more chill and less extreme than others. 
I do have certain ones Iāll take with me if I know Iāll be potentially playing over a concrete surface, usually because theyāre already damaged and are more pocket friendly.
Honestly, 99% of my play time is in my house anyway. I guess thatās one way to stop worrying about dings. Just donāt leave the house 
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i bought a second hand pragma for 30$ no scratches no dings, i baby that thing until i dinged it a few days later, then i donāt care about any damage after that, the first ding always hurts, after that itās just another ding
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I just donāt. I do my best to be careful but life comes at you pretty quick. What? Me Worry???
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Of course, and I also take care of my guitars and cameras too. These hobbies are expensive.
Kit
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I feel ya. My guitar never leaves the house. My camera has itās own bag. It goes everywhere.
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No oneās ever going to play this yo-yo. NO, donāt even touch. Donāt even look at it. Time to look away now
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I have some throws that I baby and am careful with, and some that I donāt worry about at all. I do my best not to damage them and throw over carpet or grass at home and in public I just bring yoyos that I donāt worry as much about. Still got some minor dings and one ding from falling out of my pocket onto concrete 
which upset me more because it wasnāt from play it was just carelessness. Finding the correct string length for me and getting to a certain point with technique also makes it very rare for me to hit the floor doing 1A.
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maybe you can use shorter strings or get those rim protectors. But honestly, I donāt think it is that big of a deal because you will ding them eventually.
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most of the time yoyo companies make a big deal about dings and scratches to get you to buy more. and a little vibe will never really hurt (I like vibe so I can feel how much spin I have left)
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get a 3rd or 4th one 
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Yeah to protect the spare!!
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This seems shady. Who have you seen doing that?
yeah