I’ve been enjoying some 2A a couple times per week. The tutorial I watched on basic loops mentioned that outside loops are generally harder than inside, but I’ve found it to be the exact opposite. Which do you find easier?
Feel free to comment tips or elaborate on your thoughts.
They’re the same to me, but your string tension loosens or tightens, but if you go to far one way or the other you will struggle with them. Gotta keep that balance in your loops as in life.
Looks like I’m a freak 
To be clear, I’m not good at either - just less bad with outside loops. I think it’s because the motion is more similar to a 1A regen.
I’m mildly obsessive about checking string tension, so that shouldn’t be an issue for me (just need more practice). Good point, though.
Removing various views on which type of loop are the better of the two, there is an irrefutable reality based more factually on Biodynamics than anything else.
Being seriously older than most yo-yo players that are still actively alive, I have seen things change over the decades.
60 years ago, when men met other men, they would shake hands. The ages long method of hand shaking, morphed into other ‘styles’ of greetings came into play. Greeting another turned in to a gymnastic event and if you didn’t know the proper moves, it could have painful consequences.
At least several years ago, fist bumping in some places came to replace regular handshaking. Etc……
The mini history of handshaking leads to ‘an actual point’(amazingly)>
The old school style of handshaking was most likely primarily the simple result the natural position of the hand/arm, when raised from a hanging position to the shaking position. It’s just a natural and comfortable position.
What the heck does all that mean, Mo?
Inside loops are simply a more natural alignment of body parts, mechanically speaking.
Abstract, I know, but if handshaking involved turning their hands over as they approached each other, fist bumping would have replaced standard hand shaking decades ago.
For ‘most’ people, inside looping is just a more straight forward mechanical movement.
Matter of fact, of the two types, inside loops could be considered a natural movement and outside loops could be considered a more mechanical movement.
Why? Because even if you suck at looping, inside movements are less focus intensive.
Interestingly, as the skill levels of 2A players reach higher levels, as often as not, unless you are really paying attention or using a slo-mo program, you can hardly even notice the throwers as they alternate inside/outside loops.
Top level throwers like Shu Takada and Shingi, flow loops like Fluid.
Nothing wrong with the Poll… which type of loop do you prefer?
But that being said, throwing any kind of loop is fun. But for the long game, if you ever plan to have an even higher level of 2A fun, you have to master both inside and outside loops.
You can still take a Poll and prefer inside or outside, but it takes 2 to Tango…
I absolutely find inside loops easier but both are essential. I just learned inside first so I have more muscle memory there
I find inside easier but I find hop the fences easier than both which I know is also non-standard.
Inside loops right handed tighten tension, and Outside loops loosen tension, and the opposite for the Left hand. If you alternate inside and outside your string tension with remain neutral, meaning in theory you could loop indefinitely.
Thanks for coming out of the shadows, Nathan.
Regardless of what I said, Nathan proves that if you do non-standard movements well enough, you too, can become a National Yoyo Master.
Thanks Nathan😍
You have it reversed, for a right handed player inside loops loosen the string and outside tightens the string.
Either way alternating keeps them neutral, or you can count sequences. Like 5 in and 5 out.
I also find hop-the-fence way easier than looping. Didn’t know that was atypical though.
I’ll agree here I can throw downwards easier than infront of me and upwards (moons) are still dicey at times. It’s all similar hand movements technically but somehow changing the angle impacts difficulty. Go figure.
I also can’t do any of it while laying on my back but that might be a me problem.
