I am Justin Jhingree and I started this hobby last year June. I love gaming and like basketball. I practice when ever I get the time. I found yoyo expert a couple of days ago. My favorite yoyoers are the magic n8 yoyo but I think when I get other ones I will like them to and the replay is also my favorite and I have other ones to. My favorite trick is kamakazie but sometimes that changes so it’s my favorite for now. Well yeah that’s all
its cool to see someone from guyana throwing… welcome.
I’m a cool dude from the yoyo-store-less state of Illinois. Been throwing for a few years now, learning only a few tricks here and there due to school and other life things. Looking to actually start learning a respectable repertoire of tricks and expand my small collection of metals. Found out about yoyoexpert from a friend. I’ve bought a werrd minute, tom Kuhn rd1, yyf bimetal superstar, yyj revival, c3 token, and a joyride from this awesome place, and I love all of them. Glad to be here.
Hey, i’m John and i am a yoyoaholic.
Actually i used to be quite an avid yoyo’er about 15 years ago when i was just still in high school, but other things took precidence (Girls, cars, hockey, girls etc). Now i am a married father of 2 and about a week ago i came across my old yoyo’s (Duncan Butterfly, Koosh ProYo, TL Cherry Bomb) and thought i would see whats changed in the world of Yoyo’ing.
Man was i taken aback to see everyone uses butterfly style yoyo’s, and Unresponsive vs Responsive…
Needless to say i have a lot of catching up to do. I cleaned up my old throws, ordered myself a Magic N12 and some new strings (they get awfully gross sitting around in a bin for 15 years) and look forward to getting back into the spin of things (HA!).
Welcome! And some day you will be teaching your kids. That is just more of the same fun.
I look forward to it! my 2 year old likes to drag around a duncan imperial that is about the size of a quarter my wife found. And the 4 year old doesn’t want to try yet, but wants to watch all the time.
Hello my name is Dan from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I used to yoyo in my younger days and was reintroduced to it when my friend’s son brought his yoyo to a Christmas party that he had just gotten. I pretty much took it from him immediately and played with it all night and bought one the next day because I had lost mine and I forgot how much I enjoy it. I did a little research and got the Shutter yoyo. I was totally new to unresponsive yo-yoing. That was last December 2015 and I’ve been practicing pretty much every night since and watching videos on youtube relentlessly driving my wife crazy. Currently working on the Matrix trick and snap returns which i can’t seem to get. Well i gotta go practice some more.
Amazing, Grownups rediscovering toys. WELCOME!
Hi there everyone. I’m Ben.
Location- Kentucky
Current throws- OD MMC, OD BM
Throwing for about 2 months. Just learning and having fun.
Welcome! and by the way, by having fun and learning you have the hard part down.
I see some names I recognize from other forums a long time ago. I used to post on a few now-dead forums and store pages many moons ago. 
My name is Jeff, and I’m 32. I’ve been yoyoing since I was in college - around 2004. My first online purchased yoyo was a newly released freehand zero. I stopped buying them right about the time the 888 was king. Sold off what didn’t matter much to me, and kept ones that were my favorites or otherwise important to me. I’ve had some rare ones come and go. But since I’ve been back into yoyoing I am really just looking for a solid player right now.
I’m going to worlds, and I’m looking forward to it.
(Buckle up, here comes some heavy yoyoing TMI.)
I’m Nick. A “beginner” for the last four years, ever since I bought a Blue Duncan Tournament repro on my wedding day. I’ve been a perfectionist for most of those four years, which has really held me back from enjoying the hobby, especially since I was born with poor fine motor skills. It took me a long, long, long time to land a trapeze for the first time. In fact, I still didn’t have it down after a year, which is when I somehow ended up demonstrating my abilities in Dale Oliver’s living room. Dale gave me some great advice and I eventually did get it down.
Which is where my perfectionism threw a wrench in things. I just stuck with the same combo, over and over, for a very long time. (Basically, the early steps of “Rewind” Trapeze>Brother Mount>Double or Nothing with occasional variations, like hop transferring back to trapeze from brother). I’d alternate this with practicing loops and a small set of other “basic” tricks including Rock the Baby, Walk the Dog, Around the World, and Brain Twister. Not much else though.
Until this past January I’ve been more of a collector than a player, buying metals, woods, plastics, responsive, unresponsive, fixed… But doing the same tricks on all of them.
But late last month something just snapped and I decided to try plastic whip. I got it in about a minute. I tried split bottom mount, which had always looked too complicated, and yeah, that was pretty easy, too. I did split the atom next (the featured trick in Richie Windsor’s book!) and that wasn’t too hard once I stopped getting my fingers tangled during the spin.
I pulled up a list of “ladder” tricks and saw that something called “Mach 5” was pretty low on the list. It looked easier than Split the Atom, so I gave it a shot.
And wow.
Oh my God.
It was beautiful.
Sincerely, I felt like crying. It wasn’t because of the trick. It was that I’d grown more in a week than I had in four years, just by overcoming the fear of making mistakes.
Ed Haponik is my favorite thrower, and it has nothing to do with what tricks he can or can’t do. When Ed writes about throwing, the yoyos and the tricks are all incidental. He’s really writing about the way how we play reflects how we live. When we all end up in the same place, there is nothing, nothing, more ridiculous than living in fear of mistakes.
So at the moment I’m working on Gravitational Flop and Boingy Boing, and man, I’m bad. I’m making lots of mistakes and having the time of my life.
Nice to meet you.
Hey SML, what did your wife say when you started to throw that yoyo?
It sounds like you are progressing well. It took me months the learn the split bottom mount and months to learn plastic whip.
Most importantly have fun and welcome.
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She’s pretty cool about the throwing itself, but I’ve had “too many” yoyos ever since… gosh, my sixth, probably? ;D
Be careful, Boingy Boing will eat you up, spit you out, defecate on you, eat you, maul you, and then spit you out again only to step on you, smash you into the ground, and suck out your soul. It’s the devil in a trick.
Oh, and welcome!
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Hi everyone. My name is Ralph markinson and Im 18 years old. I broke my leg 3 months ago and to pass the time my brother bought me a cheap yoyo. I never thought anything of it and basically stuffed it in a droor for a few weeks. I randomly picked it up one day and started playing around with it.
Now im hooked. Ive been steadily playing around (no real skill level yet or idea on what I should be learning) with my yoyo for about a month and a half and have decided that its time to maybe upgrade my yoyo and start learning some tricks. Hopefullt this forum and some online vds will help me improve my yoyo skills.
Thanks for listening 
Welcome! The learn section here is the best. Have Fun!
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I’m Matt. Saw a yoyo in a toy store in November, and I told my wife, “Just get me a yoyo for Christmas. I used to have fun with those.”
Throughout December, I kept telling her. “All I want is a yoyo for Christmas. Nothing fancy. Spend $15 bucks on whatever looks nice.”
Christmas morning I opened my present! No yoyo. Fer cryin’ out loud.
So I got on online that day, started looking at yoyos quickly discovered that there’s a heck of a lot more to it than when I was in high school in the 90s. Got a YYF Velocity and started tearing through tutorials. A few weeks and many hours of throwing later, I ordered a Vanguard. Gave my Velocity to my 8 yr-old (I’ve got 4 kids ranging from ages 2-18).
It’s been so much fun, and this looks like a great community!
Welcome! now maybe you can get your wife interested in yo-yoing too.
I am Savage42 and I love to yoyo. I am an advanced player and I like playing baseball when not yo-yoing, or the other way around. : :o ;Dhttp://