welcome to the forums!
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Welcome aboard. Weāre not all YoyoExperts here so feel free to ask questions. No question is silly either. Weāre all at different levels and weāre all learning.
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Welcome Gary, hope you enjoy this hobby!
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Thanks for the welcome. Just started this hobby, I donāt like to call it a hobby because my wife thinks I have too many hobbies now. I can see this will be a fun journey learning and now I see collecting yoyoās too. My new case has only twelve holes and Iām thinking that will get filled up fast. So far I have a Fizz, The Sage, The Oracle, Horizon and a Warbird.
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Enjoy your spiritual journey 
We are all addicts here haha
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Welcome to the forum
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I have the first 3 and three and they are terrific yoyos! I learned looping on an Oracle. Learned my first intermediate trick (Brain Twister) on a Sage. The Fizz is an all-around fun yoyo.
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I totally agree with all you have said. Iām about a week into looping and some days Iām ok with it and others it goes haywire on me. Iām thinking itās like tying a necktie, if you think about it it doesnāt work and when you donāt it works. Does that sound right?
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Yup sounds spot on
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Donāt think about the swing, just picture where you want the ball to go to. Kind of thing
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I got up to 20 good loops 75% of the time and then I couldnāt do more than 2 each time. Now, if I use a responsive yoyo I will just attempt one loop here and there. I donāt even practice looping anymore. Iāve gotten really good at the fence though.
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Double Hiedemasa hook and gyrolutions
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Nice!
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Hi,
Iāve been mostly using the Discord server but I figured it might be nice to check out the forums as well.
Assuming I didnāt write an introduction when I created my forum account I figured now is as good a moment as any to do so. Especially since I now have at least something to say about me and yo-yos.
If I did already write an introduction in the past, I have clearly forgotten that and this will be a great opportunity for an updated version.
So Iāve been throwing for about a year now. I had a knock off light up brain yoyo way back in the day (20 years ago maybe?) which I took apart (probably also about 20 years ago) and couldnāt really use again afterwards so gave up on the whole thing. So a year ago I suddenly wondered what happened to yoyos and if they had evolved at all and came to the shocking surprise that Iāve been missing out on 20 years of awesome history.
So Iāve trawled the web for all the advice I could find on what would be a good and cheap starter yoyo and settled for a Magicyoyo T5. Mainly to see if this hobby was something for me before I started investing more and on the other hand imagining that I could probably just stick with this single throw forever. In theory that thought would probably be true. The T5 can more or less do anything you throw at it, at least on a practice level and itās about as sturdy as a tank. After a while I joined the forum here and the Discord server because I had some kind of question. That is where I first came into contact with the yoyo community and was happily surprised by the welcoming atmosphere and the laid back live and let live attitude that instantly made me feel at home.
I also started buying more yoyos to try different designs and to find out my personal preferences as well as to try out different styles.
My current findings are that I love cheap, strange, uncommon, mini yoyoās, weirdly shaped throws and fingerspins. Especially extreme H shaped yoyos tickle my fancy. So things like the Yoyocontest Archmage and the Magicyoyo K9 score high. I do however value playability as well which I found out especially after procuring a beautiful red Aoda Popular which is all those things but has quite a terrible performance even though my particular one is as smooth as a silk wrapped pimp with an elocution fetish.
That should be enough for an introduction.
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Hi, Iām Anders from Denmark. I just startet getting into yoyos after a super long hiatus. My first good yoyo was the DV888 and I have since gotten a YoYoFactory Edge and a Flight because I would like to learn 1A and 4A. Looking forward to getting to know this place!
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Oh right and I forgot to mention Iām from Europe 
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Welcome to the YYE forums Dan,
Good to see you on here this is also a laid back and welcoming community much like the discords but just a little different.
Thanks for the introduction @Grapes
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Hi @AlphaHenriksen, welcome to the forum, another on from Europe here, Iām in UK.
Great yoyo choices hope you enjoy your time both with your yoyos and on the forums
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Welcome to the Forums. Iām glad youāre hear. Weāre not ALL Yoyo Experts so never get intimidated and ask questions if you have them. Have a great weekend!
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Iām returning to the yo-yo after a 20-year hiatus. Just dusted off my old Yomega Raider. Iād done a few looping tricks and then slowly let it go as the Raider became unresponsive. After some research the last few days, I now understand that I likely played the bearing dry and probably just needed to lube it a little, or learn to bind. Back then there was no YouTube / Instagram/ TikTok, and info was much more scarce. Iāve lubed the bearing and now understand the mechanics a bit better (starburst creates friction to grab / bind the string, trapeze can be a flying bind), and am landing a few tricks. Iām now in the market for a metal throw, looks like thereās no shortage of optionsā¦ Heading over to the search box to get caught up.
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