Cool! What was it? Duncan Imperial or Butterfly?
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Yaā knowā¦I donāt remember. Probably a basic Duncan wooden yo-yo. I had to save my money to afford an imperial. 
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Sweet! Was just talking with a guy I work with who grew up with the Duncan Imperial. I think it was released around 1954 and is still a solid and classic yoyo!
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Yeah, I grew up with boomers and having an Imperial was like owning a 3/4 length leather jacket. All the hoods had both. 
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Thatās great! 
A different time for sure, but sounds like a lot of fun!
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Just used a calculator and it looks like the $3 Imperial would cost around $30 in todayās money! I can see why it was tough to get growing up!
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Actually, they were only $1.00 when I was drooling over them. But when your allowance was a dime a week, weāllā¦. We used to scrounge up discarded Coke/Pepsi bottles which got you 2 cent each when returned for the deposit. Dem weāre the day!
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Can you do all the tricks you used to do?
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Haha! Most of them, which wasnāt much. Iām about where I was as a kid. And when I look at todayās experts, I slip my yo-yo in my pocket. 
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Donāt feel that way. I taught my neighbor to yoyo a year and half ago and he is now better than I will ever be and I too sometimes donāt take my yoyo out of my pocket when we are together. But it eventually comes out. The only person I am competing with is myself - am I better than I was a year ago? OH, YEAH!!! The thing is, there are literally more tricks in existence than when you were a kid. Explore the learn section on YYE and explore youtube. Or just do you and have fun with one of the best pocket-friendly toys ever invented!
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Good advice, Chris. Maybe this forum will spur me on. 
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Thatās great! 
And yeah 10 weeks of chores is nothing to sneeze at!
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Right. Back then $1 was big .
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Hi, Iām Keith. I started throwing in the 90s on a Yomega Fireball and a Duncan Butterfly.
I played for fun; I was really into loops (just one handed) and could reliably land a trapeze and a brain twister. Then I stopped for a while.
A few months ago, I bought a Butterfly XT on a whim at Target. Itās been a long pandemic and Iāve been looking to hobbies to occupy my mind. With respect to yo-yos, it was like not a day had passed. I could still land everything I could as a kid.
Since then, Iāve acquired a few more throws. My current favorite is my newly acquired Spinworthy x MK1 RBC. Iāve gotten really into 0A, but am also working on 1A, 2A, and 5A.
I mostly started lurking here to catch a wood fixie drop (Iām looking at you, deHcade), but Iāve found the community here to be pretty great. Iāve learned a ton and am excited to learn more.
Besides yo-yos, I also play ultimate frisbee, cycle, Iām a musician (my current favorite instrument is the ukulele), and a board gamer.
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So the name is Matt, and I am 37 years old. I havenāt held a yo-yo (except this past week) since middle school. This was in the late 90ās when yo-yos were super limited. I just recently watched my five children fight over a free yo-yo that I got in a promotional bag from the Air Force Resilience Office. I am not in the military anymore, I just work for them as a civilian. I worked C-130, F-15, J-Stars, and Global Hawk. Anywayā¦ I just bought a variety of yo-yos because I was so excited to see my kids enjoy a yo-yo. Well, they are actually done with it because of frustration but I am still enjoying it. My finger is a little tender but I am trucking on. I ordered a few very nice yo-yos but some of the nostalgic and plastic yo-yos are what I mess with the most! I plan to start learning tricks soon. I am probably a 0A player at the moment, 1A is my goal. 5A would be my only other consideration. The other Aās do not seem to entice me at my old age! Hope yāall welcome the old man! Anyone in middle Georgia?
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Welcome to the forums! Itās pretty amazing that you can still land everything that you can as a kid, thatās some crazy memory right there.
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Welcome to the forums! Wow, that is a huge amount of money that you spent on yoyos when youāre just starting, I donāt think anyone started by spending $900 on yoyos so thatās a first. Hopefully, youāll continue to stick with the hobby to make your investment worth it. Maybe you could inspire your kids to play yoyo again with the cool tricks you learn! Happy yoyoing!
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Wow thatās a great choice for a first titanium, itās my favourite titanium yoyo. Iām thinking of getting more of them. Titanium yoyos are definitely awesome, they have a unique feel in play and are super durable, making them the best EDCs, albeit expensive EDCs. Thatās exactly what Dylan Kowalski did!
I also never really got the point of the fidget toys craze, maybe people are just too lazy nowadays to play something that requires some hard work and dedication. 0A super sleepers are difficult, as a 0A yoyo needs to be pretty responsive to do stalls and regenerations which will inevitably kill the spin time of the yoyo. You can look at modern 1A responsive yoyos like the Recess First Base if you want more sleep time on your responsive yoyo, but they wouldnāt be great for 0A tricks.