# How/when did your dad get into yoyoing?

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**Category:** Evan Nagao\
**Created:** [August 2, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-when-did-your-dad-get-into-yoyoing/291365 "2018-08-02T04:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![SpeedDemon97](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/speeddemon97/32/20108_2.png) [@SpeedDemon97](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SpeedDemon97)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-when-did-your-dad-get-into-yoyoing/291365/1 "2018-08-02T04:07:52Z")

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I want to know more about your family’s yoyo history.

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**Author:** ![Evan\_Nagao](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/evan_nagao/32/20047_2.png) [@Evan\_Nagao](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_Nagao)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-when-did-your-dad-get-into-yoyoing/291365/2 "2018-08-02T04:14:16Z")

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Super long story, but basically

> Dad gets into motorcycle crash  
> Sits in wheel chair for a year  
> Can’t do anything but fly kites  
> Quits engineering school to open a kite shop  
> Starts selling yoyos at this kite shop  
> Starts selling LOTS of yoyos at this kite shop  
> Sells over 30 million yoyos  
> ???  
> He profits.

> I’m born  
> I see yoyos  
> I play yoyos  
> I win contest  
> I win 2 contests  
> ???  
> profit

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**Author:** ![Nightsedge2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nightsedge2/32/49779_2.png) [@Nightsedge2](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nightsedge2)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-when-did-your-dad-get-into-yoyoing/291365/3 "2019-04-01T16:30:22Z")

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That’s cool, also so both of you got profit of of yoyos XD