Greetings all,
By way of an introduction - this is Steve hailing from Putnam County New York (right next to Danbury Connecticut). I’ve been lurking on the forums recently, so I thought I would finally set up an ID for the occasional post and response.
I’ve only been Yoyoing for about a year. I started when I came across a video of a modern YoYo player and was blown away by what people are doing these days. Shortly thereafter I saw a video of Ed Haponik throwing and decided I had to give it a try. I’ve been 3-ball juggling for a long time and YoYo seemed like a good extension of that.
After stumbling through the initial phases of getting some beginner Yoyos and learning the basic tricks, I found YoYoExpert. Soon I had much better Yoyo’s, had learned how to bind and could start to do some of the intermediate tricks. As everyone here knows, YoYoExpert.com is an awesome resource for Yoyoing.
Compared to the vast majority of the audience here, I’m an old guy. I’m 53 years old and living proof that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks, it just takes a lot longer. Current Yoyos I own that get regular rotation include a GeneralYo Majesty (purchased during one of YoyoExpert’s Feeding Frenzy YoYo drops), a Shutter, a Dark Magic, a CLYW Yeti, a OneDrop Dingo, Spencer Berry’s Walter YoYo and just last week I got the MonkeyFingeR/G-Squared Co-Lab in the Party Time colorway. I use a Duncan Hornet and a Tom Kuhn for the looping tricks.
I recently got Boingy-Boing mostly solid, and have started working on Skin the Gerbil. I’m also trying to get some new binds together, and linking tricks together in combos. It’s a long road ahead, but a fun one.
Thanks again to the folks at YoYoExpert for getting me, and I’m sure many others, this far. Wooo Oooo!
-Jammer61
