Hey YYE family. Its been about 14 years since I was last active on a yoyo forum but I went on a deep dive of nostalgia last night and found my old account on here. I’m not looking to connect this account with that one as I was a dumb highschooler who posted more than I should on the internet, but I thought it would be fun to come back and see what the yoyo world is up to. For the past 14 years Ive carried my Werrd crossbody bag across the country on various moves still loaded with a few yoyos that I never ended up parting with. I have no idea how active I’ll end up being but I’m gonna pull my BvM out of storage and see how hard the bug bites me again!
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Nice!! Welcome back. Hopefully you’ll find yourself chiming in but even if not, it’s nice to have you here.
Hello all,
im Joe, from 
I’m new to yo-yos and I haven’t used one in years. Over the past year or so I’ve been talking to friends about yo-yos from back in school days and how it was a on and off trend back then. Literally when the trend disappears the shops stop selling them, reminiscing on the good old days
Then the other day I started to do some YoYo research watching videos, social media etc etc etc then came across a YoYo company called Offset on YouTube seen the quality in their products and ended up buying a Outlier 5. I have used it yet as I’ve got an injury to my foot. Then my journey lead me to the best YoYo forum on the internet, this one. But one question I would like to ask is why doesn’t Offset YoYo get much attention on here? I feel like I’ve made a bad choice. But in a sense I live in the uk and that was my only choice to buy the Outlier 5 but there’s not many shops here.
Anyway I hope you all find my little journey interesting and have a wonderful day
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Offset makes great yoyos, so don’t worry about having made a bad choice. I have a couple thoughts on why they might not get as much conversation here.
Their marketing is very much aimed at youth and at people looking to play competition yoyo, with hype social media marketing, and pushing limits on performance and width. The people that frequent the forums are generally an older audience (forums being a dead medium and all) and an audience less focused on raw performance.
The second reason is there are a ton of smaller companies with a ton of collectors, with some having huge collector legacy like clyw, others like g2 or onedrop having a huge cult following, so a newer brand which doesn’t make a ton of “unique” thros and focuses on performance isnt going to have as much traction with collectors
Rest assured the outlier 5 is a great yoyo
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Hey everyone,
My name is Chris and I have been yoyoing on and off since 2013 and I am recently starting to get back into it again because of how much fun it is.
I currently own a small collection of CLYW throws that are hard to come by. My daily is a Blue with Orange speckle Chief and it has been my daily for 10 years now. I also own a MIB Mischief Summit (has Fools Gold mark but plays like an A grade), a 7075 Hulk Smash chief, a 7075 Saskatoon Blizzard Chief, and a pre-production B4 Blue Yeti.
All of the throws I mentioned above I got back around 2014/2015 when I was really into throwing. I definitely had an account on here and built up quite a collection back then but ended up selling here and there to cover stuff. I am not sure if I plan to collect more yoyos but I enjoy what I have now!
Hope to make some friends and learn more tricks!!
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Greetings, Programs! My name is Gabriel, only been throwing seriously for a few months, got reccomended to this site as a solid community to maybe avoid some of the random Discord kids.
I’m still working out what styles and such I’m really into, so right now it’s mostly about collecting “Galaxy” colorways.
When I’m not yoyoing, I’m usually making reviews of Transformers figures or playing video games.
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Welcome to the Forums! Please post a photo of all of your galaxy colorways. We are a very nosey bunch of folks!
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Welcome to the forum. I love GoBots!! I really appreciate that GoBot avatar you chose. Is that Rex or Jimmy? Anyways.. welcome to the forum. GOBOTS RULE!!! Especially Rex and Jimmy!!
PS. All you have to worry about here… is the random weird adult. 
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Greetings from Yurp, my fellow throwers.
Getting back after 20 years and I must say that a lot of things changed, especially yoyo’s.
I’m eager to try the unresponsive for the first time, but I need to polish my rusted skills before that. I got me two Axolotl’s and I’m practicing daily for a month now.
Happy to see, that the scene is still active with many new members, forum and sub-reddit!
Anyway, glad to be here guys! Have a great day everyone and see you around!
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Welcome.
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Welcome!
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Rex all the way!
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Hi, I’m new. I’m getting the string tricks but cannot for the life of me figure out how to land a laceration bind or consistently do the whip tricks. I have broken a pair of glasses though, achievement unlocked.
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Basic Laceration bind took me a while to get down without getting a snag. The key (and this is gonna be true for any trick) is repetition. I just kept trying it, finding ways to correct my motions, and one day I got a clean bind. It was even better when about a week later I was able to do it three times back to back. Just keep practicing. Step away if you feel you need to. It’ll always be there to take a crack at when you’re up for it! 
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I finally figured out the breakaway > trapeze > undermount > bind.
It definitely feels like progress.
I don’t plan on competing, it’s just so much fun : )
That’s why I like Nine Dragons so much, I can bounce it into my hand and toss it to someone, they can look at it and then toss it back or I can put the string on their finger and show them how to bind it.
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Welcome! Lacerations are fun because you either make it happen or put a knot in it typically. Whipping the string consistant is just practice and torsion management(where the string gets all twisty). Have fun makin’ knots and get a good pick to get the knots out and back to throwing!
when you do a laceration bind you wanna focus on drawing a “C” with your hand. pop the yoyo straight up, pinch the string between your thumb and first finger and draw a big C right to the left of the yoyo. then make contact with the yoyo close to your hand, but not so close that it just instantly binds. you want some of that slack to pull out before it engages the response. the biggest thing to focus on once you have the general motion is making sure that the C you draw is in plane with the yoyo so that the slack loop hits the gap rather than lassoing the yoyo and creating an axle knot
if you’re still having trouble and you can film and post an attempt that will help us diagnose anywhere you can improve your technique. good luck and keep having fun!!
I’ll keep trying, that is great advice! Thanks
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Hey! I’ve been hiding out in the BST forums for a little while and figured I should introduce myself. 
I’m Paul, and I’ve been throwing on and off since 2002 when I got my first Duncan Freehand and have been slowly getting back into things since earlier this year (and finally starting to learn some 5A to make use of that counterweight!)
At the moment I’m gradually building up a collection of throws of all kinds, and also trying to build up my skills enough to justify it.
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