Inspiration

General Yo-Yo
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arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
a product of your creative thinking and work
a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem

Hey guys, it’s Q again.

So today I was home sick with the flu. Which gave me some time to think. It gave me a good opportunity to watch some yoyo videos (While putting off writing my 7 page political paper,wooo), something I hadn’t done for a solid four or five months. after watching some of John Chow, and the rest of the YYF team. I found myself attracted to an old favorite. New Adventures in Lo-Fi by Ed Haponik. It is here where I found myself thinking. I took away a lot from that one video, it was one of the first I ever watched to the end, one of the ones that spoke deepest to me, and for some reason, holds a centimental value to me, just like watching an old copy of the Peanuts Christmas, or Peanuts Easter, just a warm feeling. Something I can’t explain. Until I found it out.

Ed Haponik created some of my views for not only yoyoing, but for life. He really made me look at the tricks I was doing, and think about what I could do to make them better. He’s the reason why I go and pick up a new Imperial when I’m bored. He is one of the reasons I have kept yoyoing for as long as I have, even though he doesn’t even know it.

So the point of this message. Have a mentor, whether you know them or not. Strive to follow in their footsteps, while forging a path of your own. If you don’t have one, don’t worry about. Don’t go out and find one, they’ll find you. And inspire you on a deeper level than you will ever know.

So stay inspired, never be content with what you do, and always keep that mentor in your mind.

-Q

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Patrick Condon you can’t explain how much swag this dude has.

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thanks, man. thanks for watching, and thanks for finding meaning in it.
hope we get to trade tricks someday.

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I’m inspired by Tyler Severance and Seth Putnam

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may i expand, Q? well, i am going to anyways i guess.

so i had an experience like this with a few of guy wright’s vids. the smoothness hypnotized me, and i strived to copy him. for a month or two, all i did was try to copy his tricks. then i thought of something. i dont want to be guy, i want to be like him. if i copy every trick from every video, he will still be better than me (not that that is a bad thing), and i am not learning, but copying.

so instead, i picked up my yoyo, and just threw. i repeated my tricks over and over again. i didn’t care if guy knew the trick, if i found it from him, or if it was his signature trick. i just smoothed out my play style. now my tricks are smooth and well put together (still working harder to make them better) and my style is different than guy’s.

what really got me to stop copying the tricks and instead adapt his style was this thought. if i ever met him, he could teach me tricks, but what could i do for him. i would just be the guy saying “hay, let me learn that trick with the suicides” or something. i would never preform a trick and he would go “waoh.” i strive to impress my idol rather than copy him.

also, i think it helps to idolize a few players, that way, you can combine them uniquely. i wont have the total smoothness of guy wright, but i will be pretty darn smooth, and i will still have some awesome body tricks from jensen, and a few awesome whip combos from paul han.

but yes Q, idols help inspire people, but people need to learn the difference between inspired, and impressed. impressed means that you want to be them, inspired means you want them to be as impressed as you are with them

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Who is seth putnam?

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Isn’t that the guy from Dethsave ???

:wink:

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Great piece, Q.
If i had to pick a single person i Idolize right now, it would probably have to be Adam Brewster , Jon Bot, or Drew Tetz

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haha I think so…

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LOL Just realized this,

Seth & Dave: switch, and viola Save Deth

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that is sick. i did not notice that. their name made no sense to me until now.

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Right now I cant stop watching the Supernova video… Its incredible… But my biggest inspiration is Augie Fash… All his tricks are amazing, but still captivating to even non yoyoers… Like Motion Sickness is so fantastic, my goal is to master ironwhip suicides (Which I cant do) and air tricks in general… When ever I watch an Augie video I just want to throw…

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Ed is most definitely one of my biggest inspirations. He has done so much for the players. (tutorials, awesome vids) and the community (66 rules). He has inspired me to play alot more fixed axle. And its great.

Thanks for keeping it real man.

And thanks for making it a life goal of mine to hunt down a no jive. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I get a lot of inspiration from guys like Ross Palumbo, Matt Kolbrener, Eddy Dubbell, Reggie Dias, Aron Bendet, Randy Jansen, Joey Fleshman, etc. I also get inspired by random things in my day to day life.

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Spencer Berry’s attitude towards throwing inspires me constantly, every time I get to chill with him at a meet he’s always having tons of fun and is always doing something weird and crazy with a yoyo

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Wow you guys were off on that one.
Seth Putnam is the lead “singer” in the band AxCx.

Not even related to yoyoing.

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guys we were thinking of seth mcfarlane. woops, our bad. thanks jump :wink:

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Again, no. Seth Mcfarlane is the creator of Spawn. Not the owner of Save Deth.

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Why must you constantly flatter me 8) ?

I’m inspired by everything around me, wether it be music, nature, or people.

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silly me, i meant seth rogen. he totally isn’t an actor ;D