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What’s going on everyone. My name is Alex and I’m just getting back into the yo-yo game. I started back in 2001 in 5th grade, progressing very quickly the next three years. For whatever reason I just lost my passion for it until now. Strangely, I came home from a night out with friends and stumbled upon the Duncan Viking tour and there’s a scene where Mr. Brown goes off on a tangent saying “what are you doing”. It was then that I drunkenly ordered a bunch of string for my Cold Fusion and Mondial as well as a freehand (can’t find my original, miss the Yellow color option). I have to admit, I wasn’t disappointed with my surprise credit card update the next morning. Very happy with what the industry has evolved into since 2004 and I’m absolutely stoked to be getting back into the game again.
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!this summary is two years of my life!
Hello my name is Sergio Reyes i’m 14 years old and have been yoyoing for about 2 years. I started when i saw an amazing video and was amazed at the tricks so one day i bought a duncan misquote at walmart (you don’t see those any more) i started yoyoing by watching videoson yoyo expert and i started from that momant on i have been yoyoing (i stoped yoyoing for one year because my duncan metal drifter bearings broke also i moved and the school i went to sucked and every one hated me) but that doesn’t matter any more. i just got a new yoyo a few months ago a zeekio apollo offstring yoyo and i love it! offstring is my favorite yoyo i have now i have gotten really good and hope to get better.
Sergio Reyes 
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Offstring is a ton of fun
Hello My name is Jeremiah and I just got back into yoyoing a little bit ago I put it down for about two years due to some relationship issues and decided to come back as of recent. Before that I had thrown for about 5 years and really just started missing it when I found a protostar in a draw and threw it for a second so I am back and really eager to get my hands on a new throw
Welcome to the forums Jeremiah. That’s my middle name BTW just a fun fact about me.
Hello my name is Aj and i just started yoyoing not to long ago about 3-5 months ago i strated yoyoing i started froma friend that was really good so i said to myself im going to practice and make myself just like that and be better so i bought a glide and started with that i started learning tricks like bind then trapeze Double or Nothing The matrix and i really like it a few weeks ago i went to the florida yoyo contest it was really fun and i learned tricks like the elevator hand starting a yoyo Split the atom and more im really into yoyoing now i just got the yoyo i ordered the Duncan strix i really like it at first i didnt like the feel but you get used to it i have The eneme,Strix,T6,Velocity and the glide im learning more and more tricks a day thnx for reading this and have a great day.
Welcome to the forums AJ
Hello my name is Richard and i started yo yoing back in 6th grade when yoyos were poplular and when the raider was the saught after yoyo. I stopped playing with yoyos until 2010 when i was on my break at work i found a fireball in the mall and decided to get it. After that I wanted to see what new tricks there were and I wanted to learn more. I came across andre and his videos and absolutely had to find out what yoyo he was using. That lead me to yoyoexpert.com. For my birthday one year my wife bought me the toxic frog dark magic which was my second dark magic but with it i won a contest from yoyo expert and got three more champion edition yoyos for free. This company is awesome. Cant say enough about them.
Hi. My name is Adrian. I’ve been yoyoing for one year and I think it’s fun
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Hey Adrian Welcome to the forums
Are you gonna be at yoyo night tonight?
Welcome Richard. I remember when the raider was the yoyo. I was around the same age (I’m 26 now) when yoyo’s were the fad. We would go to mackinaw island every year with my summer camp and everyone would spend their bank on yoyo’s. The raider and fireball, brain… Lol they used to be tons of money too back then.
Hi. New here. It’s been a while since I’ve played with any skill toys. Picked up a YYF Velocity the other day. I can’t do anything except bind and sleep right now. Still working on that side mount…
i did didn’t I.
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@Adrian
I posted that before yoyo night though
Herro everyone. You can call me TechB. I’m 24 and am apart of the yoyo boom of the 90s. Way back when I was in grade school throwing was all the rage. And of course I would see some video in the mall from yomega or duncan throwing insane tricks and I was hooked. Had a shitty $5 throw then but could at least do a double or nothing, which made me popular in school lol.
Then fast forward some odd years and I seen a vid on youtube, hooked again. This was maybe late middle school very early highschool (when hyper warp wing was the ■■■■) I got back into it. Learned even more tricks and stuff then since I was older and youtube was a thing now (then?). Didn’t have any kinda income and the best throw I ever had till then was a Duncan DragonFly my grandparents got me at a Cracker Barrel (it’s an old time/home cooking restaurant for those who don’t have them). I got up till around Matrix or some similar trick nothing too fancy, then lost interest again.
High school hit, then I see a kid walking around throwing. He only knew some basic stuff and decided I wanted to get back into it. At that point I broke out the DragonFly I had and practiced a bit and decided to get another throw. This time I got a Duncan Drifter, twas purple. Honestly it might have been a different throw, but it was purple and looks exactly like the Drifter so we will go with that. Wooed people in high school, felt good about my self and all. Which rarely happens…
Anyway, met a girl and forgot all about yoyos, come on, a teen dude with a hot chick, I was thinking more about other stuff other than yoyos. Dropped it and now here I am, years later (with the same girl but married for 4 years now) getting back into it. Mostly because I’m obsessive but in cycles.
Some background, I know this post will be a book, but IDC. Maybe it’s part of my need to express and tell people things, but since this pertains to throwing it will be here whether you read it or not lol. I am an obsessive person. If I find an interest I will research the ■■■■ out of it. My cycle usually goes like, dex stuff, programming, AVR or embedded, drawing, game dev, game playing, abstract computing, IT/hacking, botany, and back around again.
I am a programmer/hacker at heart though, throwing is only a hobby. Python being a language of choice and C being the embedded stuff I do with AVR or (Arduinos). I LOVE linux and am on Arch Linux as we speak. I do, however know Java, C++, JavaScrip (HTML5)t, and ActionScript, but that’s not for here.
I LOVE the ■■■■ out of throwing and want to get more into it. I will get more into it cause already know a few things and some “advanced” tricks and all. I like slack stuff and I like the bouncy stuff like swinging the throw from string to sting like black hope and boing e boings and such.
I am not a competitive player and I don’t plan on being such. I Find it fun, and I enjoy doing the tricks/combos/blah that FEEL right. I’m not technical and never will be. The crazy ■■■■ I see online are crazy. I don’t want that. Something kinda slower, more rhythmic and flowwwwwww.
But that’s just me. This is a hobby, yes an obsession for now, but the obsession will pass, but hopefully throwing will not stop, cause I love it. I will pass onto other things sure, DDR needs some bits to be flippeded, but I’ll see be flipping dat throw yo. Even if interest stops it will come around again. I didn’t write ANSI C to set registers/bit bang and make a TFT LCD display work on a whim either.
I will lurk more than post just like I do with the sub reddits. I will post when I have something to offer. And right now it’s only an intro thread/reply. Progress videos might happen If I get anything better than a shitty webcam. But time will tell.
I have a DarkMagic2 coming and will be here very soon. Don’t bash me on it, I know a Shutter would have been better, but I want my throw to teach more than forgive. I am/will learn some complicated stuff before I move on to smoother throws. I am all about learning the right way, and the DM2 will teach me what I do wrong. Besides, in my day of throwing, Dark Magic was the complete and utter ■■■■. I am excited to buy this throw with the money I make now. Back when I was into it, this would have been a god send. My parents would have NEVER purchased me a $40 yoyo. Good thing I make my own money now right?
Anyway. there it is and was. Hope to converse with who ever reads this in the future if I don’t lurk too long.
Hello. An odd case I am.
I am a 62 years old man. I started collecting in 1996.
I am a collector displayer and I get rather obsessive. Got a lot of my collections from E-bay and the YoYo Nation. (On line stores come and go.) I used to go to the Iowa State fair to watch competitions and give away yo-yos. Did a few church youth gigs and gave away yo yos there too. I am far from a yo yo expert. I favored collecting all metal, After a while there were so many metal yo yos coming out and the prices were getting high I gave up collecting in 2006. I put focus funds more on a couple other things I collect. Autos, bicycles, and firearms.
In my 10 years collecting I have well over 2000 yo yos and other related collectables. Old to new. Wood, plastic to metal. I used to say I had the Largest Collection in Iowa. Everything is displayed on 4 walls in cases in one room. I’ve got some bicycles displayed in there too
I guess pictures would be the best thing…
Just took some . Will give it a post ONE WALL WITH METALS.
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