Just respect on how people try to enjoy their yoyo… Appreciate every ounce of people’s effort to learn either those new simple fun tricks or those flashy crazy hard tricks…
You shouldn’t justify what’s wrong and correct just based on what you think is correct, man…
We all doing this hobby to enjoy ourself, after all… 
Yo, guys chill. Wow, what I’m saying seems to apply to just about everyone on this forum haha.
I’m not trying to instruct anyone on how to throw correctly (although if any of you want it learn some sweet horizontal moves just hit me up 
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All I’m saying is it really bothers me when people limit themselves to the basics by never really putting in any real practice and focusing on random old organic yoyos.
There’s SO much out there at the higher levels (and no not all of it is horizontal, that’s just one example). It is one of the most fulfilling things in the world to practice your skills, and achieve the high level tricks. It seems like y’all are keeping yourselves in the bottom third of what you can be.
And I know you might enjoy that. But how about you actually try putting in just 30-45 minutes a day or real skill based practice for 6 months? Not being able to do horizontal seems a lot like sour grapes the way a lot of you are talking.
I’m here to tell you that you can definitely get there. Yes even if you’re over 30. It really bothers me that adults feel like they can’t keep up with the young guns of the community. Yes you can. Just focus your time.
If you actually get good, I have a hunch you’ll find it MUCH more satisfying than this “I only do basic flow tricks on old organics because I’m not a kid and that’s just what I like” niche so many of you have backed yourselves into.
I’m not trying to be obnoxious or more skilled than thou. I’m just trying to encourage y’all to get out of this rut (even if you feel happy in this rut), and actually focus on acquiring skills instead of old yoyos.
Skills are greater than stuff. Ask any philosopher.
Ok then let me ask you this… do you own any looping yoyos?
Yeah, I have a pair or so lying around. Why do you ask?
Do you ever use them?
I feel like you (and most that compete) yoyo for others, to show others how good you are, to show how skilled youve become, to show off your next big banger for the oohs and ahhs, and notoriety amongst your peers in the community.
I yoyo for me. If I am enjoying myself, at my pace, on my terms, on my time, for no one else in the world but me than I am doing it right. I may put hours a day in, I may take a month off, but after many years throwing now, but ive got maybe 2 videos ive put out. I know hundreds of tricks, but I honestly do not care to show them off. Its not about “them” for me. Its about me and my feelings, my experience, my family of yoyos, trying to help the community at large, and my sheer ability with this skill toy.
Once you get a little older, maybe you’ll see things differently. Its not about physical ability of can I actually do this? Its more about about desire of do I care to actually do this?
I dont WANT to learn some of that stuff, and im not any worse off for it.
I don’t care to push myself to learn every trick under the sun because those imaginary check points dont matter to me. My yoyos mean more to me than the tricks I can do with them. If I am enjoying my time either oogling at my collection, flicking mt Ti’s to hear them sing, or shred non stop for 6 hours, its all the same to me. It might be all about the tricks and contest points for you, but its simply non-applicable for me.
Some are known for their skills, others for their collections, others for the sheer history they bring to the table. We are all valid, and do not have to be everything or nothing to enjoy our time here.
Occasionally. Usually 1/3 looping, 1/3 using them to improve my 1a technique, and 1/3 trying to get them to catch on curtains and towels like Spider-Man 
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Ahh but see that’s exactly what I’m saying. I do too. Regardless of the age gap, there is very little as satisfying as improving yourself and seeing how far you’ve come. There’s not nearly as much room for that in this particular sect of the yoyo community
Well if you use them why can’t you do vertical punches? I mean that’d be using them to their full potential. Is it possible you just don’t want to? That’s why I don’t do or try to do horizontal. I don’t want to. No reason more or less than that.
Nobody is limiting themselves man. Just because a throw is highwall or organic does not mean you cant perform advanced tricks on it. If you are unused to that kind of throw, it will be harder. I have plenty of extreme h shaped performance throws. There are some I like. Look let’s flip this and see what happens. I dont understand all these people with their crazy bimetal maximum rimweight yoyos. It’s like they have no desire to learn how to smooth out any of thier tricks. I mean can you believe they even use centering bearings! They just dont want to bother learning proper plane control. It seems like they just want to let the yoyo do all the work I stead of developing real skill. Now I dont really feel like this because yoyo type is pure choice and tricks are dependent on skill not the yoyo. Sounded a bit ignorant and judgmental though didnt it. Is this kind of helping you understand why people are taking exception with your comments.
See my first post on this argument. Separate disciplines. If you’ve got crazy 2a skills and just do 1a casually that’s cool 
And if you’re just a casual player in 1 discipline that’s cool too (obviously)
The sad thing is when people DO spend a LOT of time thinking/focusing on yoyos, but spend very little of that time on actually getting skilled in any discipline.
That’s now what I’m talking about. I don’t have any issues with high walled yoyos in principle. Re read my posts. The thing that bugs me is when people spend hours and hours on yoyos, and very little of those hours on what yoyoing actually is: a skill, and the fulfillment that comes from learning it.
That’s just it. You have equated old organic yoyos with not progressing with skill. That was your first post. You i.plied you cant push yourself skillwise on old organic yoyos. You implied people seeking these were limiting themselves because of equipment. The only thing that cannot be done on an old organic yoyo is horizontal. There are a lot of people who constantly push themselves that use exclusively organic. If you just have a problem with people not wanting to learn, why call out people for their choice of throw at all?
The reason why I brought up old organics is because that is what so many of the people I’m referring to spend all their time focusing on collecting, instead of getting some higher performance stuff and acquiring some sweet skills.
There it is again though. You ended with sweet skills. You do not need a high performance throw to perform any trick other than horizontal. This is what I am trying to tell you. The yoyo doesnt enter into it. This is a fact. Someone who is skilled enough does not need a high performance yoyo to push trick boundaries. I guess I’m not sure why you think a different yoyo is suddenly going to make certain tricks possible.
And even that is achievable if you practice enough.
Here’s Jensen doing it on an old Canvas
And here’s Evan doing it on an Edgeless
I stand corrected! Boy I love Jensen
It’s true, you can technically do most tricks on any yoyo. But if you want to make the most efficient use of your time when expanding your yoyo horizons you’re probably not going to opt for a slim organic from antiyo. You’ll want something that won’t hold you back at all.
Hell, I’ve landed horizontal combos on a light up yoyo from work. But it took extra practice.
Yeah he’s legit for sure
Personally I like that extra practice. If I can land these tricks on a slimline, i can land them on anything. And land them clean. Seems like that is the opposite of holding back
