# How you got your first yoyo. **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [November 23, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925 "2011-11-23T19:59:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Justin77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/justin77/32/950_2.png) [@Justin77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Justin77)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/1 "2011-11-23T19:59:14Z")
This is my story: ``` I was in my house and my brother was yoyoing and I went over to my brothers(turtleyo)yoyo case. I did not like yoyos at that time and i seen a yomega fireball. At that time he didn't like the brand yomega so i asked him for it. Of course said no so i kelped asking him and asking him and asking him so finally he got tired of it and he said yes. But with a twist only if i had it in my pocket at the times he checked me.And i had it so that is my first yoyo. What is your story. ;D ``` ---
**Author:** ![yoyospirit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyospirit/32/219875_2.png) [@yoyospirit](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyospirit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/2 "2011-11-23T20:12:36Z")
Lol, turtleyo is your brother? Anyway, I got my first yoyo somewhere back in 2003. After NED visited our school, I just HAD to get a Duncan Butterfly from Wal-Mart. Of course, I was around 5 at the time, and had no idea how to use it. ---
**Author:** ![Xdohl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/xdohl/32/12_2.png) [@Xdohl](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Xdohl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/3 "2011-11-23T20:26:35Z")
In eighth grade, there was a guy in my science class with a fast 201. He showed me a few tricks, and he soon bought a freehand. Since he now had s freehand, he gave me the 201. Pretty cool stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Preinfalk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/preinfalk/32/551_2.png) [@Preinfalk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Preinfalk)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/4 "2011-11-23T22:12:31Z")
I got my first yoyo 11 years ago back in 2000. I got it in a McDonalds Happy Meal. It was a yomega X-Brain. ---
**Author:** ![yoyoavenger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoavenger/32/884_2.png) [@yoyoavenger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoavenger)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/5 "2011-11-23T22:37:25Z")
my parents friend could do trapeeze and had a v1 tk silver bullet, he used to live in san fran, and he gave me a yoyo. A month ago he gave me his tk no jive! ---
**Author:** ![mingfu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mingfu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mingfu)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 11:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/6 "2011-11-23T23:08:29Z")
Very first was a fast 201 i got at toys r us when i was like 6 back in 2003 i believe. I just got it cuz i wanted a new toy so i learned the very basics and quit. Then in 2010 i saw some dude in ralphs doing some string tricks i got my old fast and it started again lol later got a dm2. ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/7 "2011-11-23T23:23:27Z")
A long, long ago, in another time and place far, far away… I bought a wooden Duncan Imperial and a pack of 5 strings for about 25 cents at the grocery store. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![yoyospirit](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyospirit/32/219875_2.png) [@yoyospirit](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyospirit)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/8 "2011-11-23T23:24:33Z")
> [@jhb8426](#): > > A long, long ago, in another time and place far, far away… > > I bought a wooden Duncan Imperial and a pack of 5 strings for about 25 cents at the grocery store. :wink: How old are you!? That was somewhere in the 1960s! ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/9 "2011-11-23T23:26:10Z")
> [@yoyospirit](#): > > How old are you!? That was somewhere in the 1960s! Actually it was in the 1950’s. So yeah, I’m a bit long in the tooth, so to speak. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![zerrubabbel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zerrubabbel/32/592_2.png) [@zerrubabbel](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/zerrubabbel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/10 "2011-11-23T23:51:15Z")
I’ve had many yoyos over the course of my life… It’s one of my families favorite toys, but I am the first one to persue real trick… Anyway my first yoyo that got me started was a novelty that came in a shoe box… Very comparable to a firedog… While trying to figure out why it couldn’t sleep, my dad tried to open it… Turns out it wasn’t an openable design… ---
**Author:** ![PlasticWhip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/plasticwhip/32/896_2.png) [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/11 "2011-11-24T01:39:22Z")
I was like 3 and it was a red imperial. I accidentally put it through the glass table and it was thrown away(So I believe). ---
**Author:** ![nicholi2789](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nicholi2789/32/885_2.png) [@nicholi2789](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nicholi2789)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/12 "2011-11-24T06:17:05Z")
6th grade yomega came to our school and did their show. After that I saved for days to get a duncan bumblebee. It was 30$ back then and seemed like it was top of the line. I never got further than split the atom and lost interest. Almost 12 years later I found that old bee and started again. ---
**Author:** ![Cream9000](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/cream9000/32/601_2.png) [@Cream9000](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cream9000)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/13 "2011-11-24T06:44:14Z")
Yomega School Coolio 7th Grade Nuff said’. ---
**Author:** ![xICooRsYIx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f04885/32.png) [@xICooRsYIx](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xICooRsYIx)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/14 "2011-11-24T06:53:59Z")
I cant remember specific details, but i remember getting one while i was in boy scouts. We did a troop trip to “battleship cove” and i remember getting a yoyo from the little souvenir shop. More recently…I purchased a YYF One and a DM2 from YYE. -xICooRsYIx ---
**Author:** ![swagyoyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@swagyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/swagyoyo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/15 "2011-11-24T07:23:27Z")
I received a cheapy yoyo from a friend and I wondered why it wouldn’t sleep. After tons of research and hours of conversing on the phone, I got my starlite which i ordered from a friend 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ibanez\_Guy88](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/ibanez_guy88/32/525_2.png) [@Ibanez\_Guy88](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ibanez_Guy88)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 7:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/16 "2011-11-24T07:26:54Z")
Back in the day in elementary around 94 or so. A yoyo guy performed and they sold a standard butterfly shaped fixed axle, a Fireball, and Brain. My mom at the time bought me the cheapest, so I had the butterfly throw they called “Cruiser”. In modern throws, about two years ago, I was debating whether or not to buy these new throws that were unresponsive after seeing a couple worlds vids on youtube. A night came when I had some drinks _wink_ and bought a YYJ Legacy on the act of impulse. The day after, I saw I made a purchase and thought it was a mistake and figured I would return it as soon as the package arrived. Package came a couple days and I figured after opening up the box seeing the awesome bright yoyo, I’d give it a try. Haven’t looked back ever since. ---
**Author:** ![hadoq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hadoq/32/688_2.png) [@hadoq](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hadoq)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/17 "2011-11-24T11:40:26Z")
actually it’s a funny story (or not, who cares?) my son and my wife went to Japan to see her family, while there, they saw a yoyo demonstration on TV so he asked for a yoyo, so she went and bought him a bandai hyper yoyo (the rebranded FAST 201 ones). when they got home he showed me the throw, tried it, failed (wrong throw) and forgot about it, so was my son. a few months later, on another forum (about cars), some guy posts his FS from some competition, I was amazed, I instantly looked up for tutorials and my son’s throw. got started. ---
**Author:** ![dingo54](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@dingo54](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dingo54)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/18 "2011-11-24T14:04:47Z")
> [@yoyospirit](#): > > Lol, turtleyo is your brother? Anyway, I got my first yoyo somewhere back in 2003. After NED visited our school, I just HAD to get a Duncan Butterfly from Wal-Mart. Of course, I was around 5 at the time, and had no idea how to use it. My dad bought me a butterfly for no reason and about 4 years later i looked all over thoe house cause i was really bored and found it under my bed and went on youtube. But about NED he went to my cusins school and i didnt have school that day so i went(i had been yoyoing a little over a year and afterward i happened to have my pro and taught the ned lady some tricks. ---
**Author:** ![turtleyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@turtleyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/turtleyo)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/19 "2011-11-24T14:39:49Z")
My dad got me one for christmas, put it down and never thought about it, found a trick book at the library that they had thrown away, picked up the book, ran home, got my Duncan Mosquito, the rest is history. That was 3 years ago… The good old days… ;D ---
**Author:** ![Kipp556](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b77776/32.png) [@Kipp556](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Kipp556)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2011, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925/20 "2011-11-24T14:42:12Z")
My first yo-yo? Last christmas I got a little toy one, (Kinda like a yomega brain, but offbrand) at a Church service, all the kids got gifts. I took it home and played with it. Eventually I got sick of it coming back up to me automatically so I tried to make it stop, i accidently dropped it while trying to fix it, and wanted to see if it still worked. It slept! I played with it, eventually while trying to loop (even though I didn’t know what I was doing) I hit it on my wall, R.I.P. my first yoyo… Later on, since i was having so much fun with it, I made my mom take me to toys r us to see if they would have anything like it… That’s where i got my metal drifter. While trying 5a (with the directions from the duncan website) i dropped it on my deck and put a HUMONGOUS dent in it… R.I.P my metal drifter. Eventually I found yoyo expert and I used my birthday money to get my G5. Since then I have gotten a peak, sasquatch and a 4xl. Thank “Santa”. [Next page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-you-got-your-first-yoyo/31925.md?page=2)