very few new members say that they design yoyos…
From one Kenn to another Ken - Welcome!
So I’m a little late to the party. I actually got my first yoyo after years of playing with one- I had a yomega brain when I was a kid and my brother thought it’d be funny to get me one this last christmas. looked up a few videos, and decided to have some more fun. Picked up a yomega maverick and its become a stress reliever haha.
I’m from south texas, im a concert/automotive photographer, and yeah thats me. Hello to everyone else out there!
Took this the other day after setting up some lights haha. gotta love the plaid wrapping paper backdrop ;-]
Hello Everybody, haven’t thrown in 5 years. Found my 5150 over the holidays, and now I can’t stop. Thought I would join the forums here when I found out YYN sadly went out of business. Hope to add to the conversation if I have something interesting to say.
Hey all u yoyoers out there! My name is Nolan and I just started yoyoing in 2014! My favorite yoyo is the Dark Magic 2 special edition Black Spade. I am working on the intermediate tricks and my favorite trick is drop in the bucket.u will be seeing my one year video in August of 2015!
Hi, I’m Daisy and I’m 19 years old. I just recently started learning tricks. I currently have a Duncan pulse and pocket pros creeper yoyo. I started getting serious about yoyos after I saw a few yoyo competitions on YouTube and saw how cool it was. After that I scoured the internet to find out yoyo information and came across yoyoexpert.
welcome daisy
Sup all. I started throwing about 3 months ago. Goto throws MagicYoYo T5-od10, N12-(I don’t know bearing company name)stock 10 ball cleaned and terrapin-x treated(family is home)or terrapin-x wing cut(outside or home solo-noisy). I played when I was much younger like in the early 90’s. Recently bought a raider at the local T-r-U toy store and got hooked. Watched some vids on youtube (probably over 100) and got even more hooked. I even bought an early 90’s Duncan Imperial glow for nostalgia. Great stress reliever. Waiting until feb. to buy a Civility and a Gradient, probably a 7 summits mt. mckinly once I get a few more tricks down packed (if wife doesn’t have a heart attack once the bill comes in hehe). Currently on the end of Expert part 1.
^Welcome all its always nice seeing new forum members around
Hello I just got back in to yo yoing. I played with them back in the late 90’s and haven’t consistently used them since them. I got myself a Yoyofactory Protostar last week. It’s pretty nice and different from what I use to throw. Back in the day my go to was the Yomega Raider and Henry’s Viper. I had several others as well though. All responsive so the unresponsive stuff is new to me. String tricks were tougher on those older ones that’s for sure.
Welcome to the greatest online yoyo community of all time!
I have yoyoed for a year since age ten and am using a Dark Magic II that i got for my birthday. My favorite trick is the matrix.
My Name is ben. Im 34.
My first yoyo was a russell SPRITE super I got from a small store near my school in 1984 when the visiting Russell yo-yo champions were in town. I got another one in 1984 when they came back but i couldn’t use them. When i was in high school I found my old yo-yos and slowly figured out how they worked. I got some more modern plastic yo-yos on a family vacation and i was hooked. YoYo polarity boomed in australia at this tome and i found myself ahead of the curve trick wise. this gave me the opportunity to work for the distributors of almost all brands of yoyo and a number of retail stores. I met traveling pros (Dale M, Bill d B, yohans) but yoyo interest declined. I went to college and still picked up some yoyo work here and there. The next summer i got offered a spot demonstrating yo-yos in London (i was the 2nd choice for the position) and from there I became a demonstrator for PROYO. I travelled the to about 12 countries for them and learnt the skills of a yo-yo pro. Eventually i went back to school and finished my degree but when i came out I got on another pro tour and while on this tour started putting time and money into starting a new brand with the focus of making yo-yos which were easier to learn tricks on. We settled on the name YOYOFACTORY, (which i still don’t really like but its a bit late now). To raise money for our first yoyo, the FAST 201, YoHans became a Tow Truck driver (TowHans?). The FAST 201 was launched to a confused yo-yo world. WHY? people said but luckily we got it in front of the right people and eventually it became distributed by HASBRO toys world wide making it one of the best selling Ball bearing yo-yos of all time.
We should have quit then… but we loved yo-yos and made it our business. We Have worked with some other great distributors and retail partners over the 11 years of yoyofactory plus sponsored some great players. I even found a new love for competing, topped off by my 3rd place in the 2a division of the USA national contest in 2014.
Anyway, thats what i can remember about me today.
Hope to meet you someday!
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Now what fun would that have been?
Hello, I’m Ken. I’ve been around the community since YYN. I registered for the forums because I need to get rid of some yoyo’s and make some tradezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
From one Kenn to another Ken, welcome!
Hi Everyone, I’m Jeff
I’m about 2 months into yoyoing but am totally OCD obsessed with it, so I practice about 3 hours per day and basically walk around all day with a yoyo in my hand ready to throw at a moments notice…
Currently working on speeding/cleaning up And Whut? and starting on Superman. I only do 1A play, and just occasionally mess around with 2A. Probably my worst trick at the moment is Black Hops. I have yet to get all the way through it. Probably the big sausage fingers aren’t helping me…
My daily throw is an OD Gradient, and I also throw a Magic N12, a N9, and a YYF velocity. Occasionally I’ll steal my son’s YYF one and put a wide bearing in it for a while. I have an OD 54 and a G2 quake on the way off of the BST though! I prefer the buddah ripple bearing, spin my own strings (at the moment) and run flowable silicon for my response.
Anyway, I’m also into woodworking, tool making, straight razors, fountain pens, and playing banjo.
Looking forward to making new friends and learning something on here. So far so good…
Jeff
Welcome Jeff! Black Hops is a tuffy I’ve been throwing 3 years and I still struggle with parts of it
Sup,name is Sayak Chakrabarty and im from India.Hope to meet alot of awesome people here.Currently using a qixia champion yoyo,working on matrix and yukki sepencer repeter.
I used to play yoyos when blazing teens were in India,after a long time Im getting back into it with an unresponsive yoyo and its a lot of fun.Lets make the simple amazing.
Hi guys,
New to the community, my brother got me in to it. Currently using a CLYW Ava
Glad to be here 