Introduce Yourself!

Welcome to the forum

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Welcome, Europe yoyo scene is growing quite a bit now :slight_smile:

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Hello, my name is Gary and Iā€™m very new at yo-yoing. Iā€™m working on looping now and binds. Found out about YoYoExpert when I did a search for a YoYo case to put my stuff in and found one there I liked.

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welcome to the forums!

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Welcome aboard. Weā€™re not all YoyoExperts here so feel free to ask questions. No question is silly either. Weā€™re all at different levels and weā€™re 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 donā€™t 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 yoyoā€™s too. My new case has only twelve holes and Iā€™m 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 :joy:

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. Iā€™m about a week into looping and some days Iā€™m ok with it and others it goes haywire on me. Iā€™m thinking itā€™s like tying a necktie, if you think about it it doesnā€™t work and when you donā€™t it works. Does that sound right?

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Yup sounds spot on

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Donā€™t 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 couldnā€™t do more than 2 each time. Now, if I use a responsive yoyo I will just attempt one loop here and there. I donā€™t even practice looping anymore. Iā€™ve 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,

Iā€™ve been mostly using the Discord server but I figured it might be nice to check out the forums as well.
Assuming I didnā€™t 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 Iā€™ve 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 couldnā€™t 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 Iā€™ve been missing out on 20 years of awesome history.

So Iā€™ve 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 itā€™s 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 yoyoā€™s, 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, Iā€™m 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 Iā€™m from Europe :slight_smile:

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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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