Howdy! I’m Mark. I’m in Missouri, but from Vegas originally. I used to yoyo as a kid in the early 2000s but all we did was see who’s yoyo could sleep the longest. lol. I’ve been into fingerboarding and begleri for the last few years. Yoyo caught my interest and now I’m starting a small collection to see what shape and weight I like to play. Trying to learn something new each play. My favorite yoyo right now is not known. I have a ditch, skyva, and wildless 2 at the moment, so I play those every day. Have a few in the mail so we’ll see if the favorite happens soon. Anyway, nice to meet yall and glad to be here learning
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Welcome to the Forums! It can take several years to determine a real favorite. Sometimes what we think of at first as a “meh” yoyo can turn out to be our all-time favorite as we progress. It’s nice to have a variety though. Have fun!
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Definitely. I felt that way with begleri. The first one I grabbed was not it for me, but after I used a handful of different ones, I went back to it and it was the best by far. I try to listen to the community experts. Sometimes I’ll see a BST and a handful of people are like “woah! Someone should snag that!” Usually an indicator that it’s rare, a great throw, or a good deal.
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hey guys! just recently got back into it after being out for 12 years or so. loved throwing my friends recess first base, and jsut ordered 2 of them. what else should i try?
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The Plastic Fulvia has got to be my favorite plastic of all time. Don’t be deterred by the size of it, it carries itself very well on the string. You cannot go wrong with this one. You may also like it because it uses the same hub system that YoYoJam used, albeit with better quality, durability and performance. Glad to see you on here, my friend!
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literally everything 
also welcome back 
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Hello all , my name is Wayne. I’ve been yoyoing for about two years now. My first unresponsive yoyo was the Duncan Strix. It felt strange at first, but I eventually got used to it. After that I tried the YoyoJam Cerberus, but I didn’t really like it because it was too big. Right now, my favorite yoyo is the YoyoFactory x Turning Point Proton. It’s super stable and great for finger grinds—even though I still can’t finger grind yet. When I first got the Strix, I didn’t learn many tricks, so yoyoing became boring. That’s what pushed me to start learning properly, and now I practice every day
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Welcome to the Forums!
Hello, I am new to yo-yo’ing. I have been learning some tricks, slowly, and having fun with it. I don’t think I’ll ever be great but it’s super satisfying just to throw and catch over and over. Beats just looking at upsetting stuff online all the time.
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Welcome Forums! What yoyos are you throwing?
Well, I started with the K2 Crystal on the advice of the Internet and I guess that’s pretty much the one I’ve been using the most but I’ve gotten some others that I cannot recall the name of. Frankly, the K2 seems about as good as I’ll ever need but a fool and his money….
But actually, I got the 720 Spin and I have a question: are these types of yoyos meant to sleep or no? Because mine definitely just comes back on every single throw and I don’t know if I need to do something to mess with it or not.
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Pretty sure that’s a Loop 720. That’s a looping yoyo. Looping yo-yos come back with a tug, so now you can practice some looping tricks with it!
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oh right, Loop 720. (I did see I don’t know the names!) and it comes back regardless of a tug. It just zips back into my hand with the gentlest throw. I can sleep all the butterfly looking ones for pretty long, so it’s confusing to me!
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What troubleshooting have you done? Have you taken it apart to see what’s up?
oh that’s a good idea. I’ve just kinda tried tightening and loosening a bit. any suggestions?
Loopers usually need thin/normal string so if you use your normal fat string it’ll be hyper responsive
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Also, loopers are finicky to a fault. It will take some time to get the response right. Be patient with yourself!
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Fair spacers, shims, tiny e, k or b bearings and lube along with string wear and thickness many factors that can make things work perfect or not
take it apart and make sure the string isnt double looped or anything. put it back together and put the string back on. if it still responds right away, just throw some hard around the worlds to try to break it in. if it still doesn’t want to sleep we can continue to troubleshoot
edit: to be clear this is provided you arent using thick string as Brandon pointed out
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Also also to add: be sure when you are putting string on to open the loop up real big and slide the whole YoYo into the loop. A common issue is taking the YoYo apart to slip the loop over the axle/ bearing / sleeve/ whatever and then reassembling. This more often than not can lead to the string getting trapped between the body and bearing (or whatever it is in your yo) and it absolutely will never sleep like that
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