Hey my name is Alex and I used to be very into yo-yo-yoing back in the early 2010’s. I got back on YYE today to check out the throws for sale and decided to rejoin the forums! I still have my two favorite yo-yos from back then which are a CLYW avalanche (2.0 I think) and YYFxTurningPoint chaotic. The CLYW is a blizzard variation of the blue and gold color way that I forget the name of and the other is grey with a specked acid wash. My favorite trick is probably the one I created back then called mood organ(from “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”). It combines a lot of my favorite elements from hops like kwijibo, string rejection, and triangles, and that thing where it goes between your thumb and index finger.
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Hey am looking for the guy called yoyowen from utube any help appreciated
Hi I am Tristan and I am reporting from Massachusetts.
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I’m Chris, reporting from Pennsylvania. Welcome to the Forums!
Hi all,
Started throwing in high school in the late 90’s (class of 98 yo!). between then and about 2005 i was still trying to catch up on some old school tricks i still cant do, as well as move forward to the insane new tricks coming out of the mid school era, which I literally quit trying to learn out of jealousy and frustration. When I got to magic drop and wrist mount, I gave up. throwing a guaranteed knot every time you make an attempt ended my pursuit of new tricks. after that, i’d find a random new yoyo here and again, play for a sec, and put it down for years again. but since around 2020 i’ve rediscovered the yo, my collection has exploded from what was left over in my toy box, and in 2022 finally landed magic drop and started working on shockwave, wrist mount feels easy, and i’ve landed spirit bomb a handful of times…
I can comfortably freestyle the elements of buddah’s revenge, cold fusion, skin the gerbil, rewind, the matrix, kwyjibo, and general trapeze stuff. i tend to prefer side style 1a tricks, I hate the bind but I’m trying to get more comfortable with it…I’m still looking for that unicorn throw that plays almost fully unresponsive until you are at the end of your trick/spin time and you can just tug return it. I still can’t loop up to and more than 3 times in a controlled manner and shoot the moon is a pipe dream for me, but I’m also discovering modern responsive stalls, and trying to find the courage to start learning a little 5a so can mix that in.
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Welcome! I’m sure someone here can suggest the yoyo you are looking for…get ready!
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You really need to get ready
Welcome to the forums @basicboy, @TrplA3 and @Sleeper80!
@Sleeper80, sorry to be a wet blanket, but I don’t think such a yoyo exists. Newer responsive yoyos meant for beginners like the Recess First Base, iYoYo Shooting Star and the ThrowRevolution Neo might be unresponsive enough for you to do whip and laceration tricks, but leave some slack while doing Eli Hops or wrap the string around the yoyo too many times and the yoyo will punish your hands for it.
Agreed, unicorns don’t exist, lol. I’m just not smooth with binds at all, and it doesn’t feel like a yoyo to me if you can’t get a normal throw/return. My hands have taken alot of punishment for my futile pursuit of the impossible for sure.
Hi. Are you struggling with a front bind? This will help. It was made by the Forums @yoyodoc
I avoided unresponsive yoyos for several years because binding seemed out of my league. Now I can’t imagine why I did not try it earlier. Think of a bind as a an actual trick and not a neccessary evil for throwing unresponsive.
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Hey mate. Welcome. Have fun. Very informative and helpful forum
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thanks dude. i’m just stubborn and set in my ways, i am still far from reaching the point where it blends into my tricks on auto pilot, i just understand them functionally and there are indeed infinte ways i still have to learn to apply it I just can’t execute basic binding from trapeze smoothly yet… like i want to start on slack tricks starting at slack trapeze. i’m fumbling with binding out of combos i have muscle memory for and its annoying so i put down the unresponsive yo yo fast to bang on semi responsive to feel better. Also, going through a hard combo and getting a flyaway tug return perfectly to your hand at the end feels really good. ah… the old school…
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I put thick lube in my Topyo Origin and it is now semi-responsive. If you have extra bearings and thick you could experiment.
Ah I see, I think you just need more time to get used to binding. What kind of binds are you using? The basic bind of simply going into an undermount (side style throw) and letting the string go into the gap of the yoyo will definitely not feel smooth at all as the motion of the undermount won’t “flow” into the bind. However, you will find that more advanced binds like the Guy Wright bind will flow very smoothly from the undermount and it will just feel natural. These advanced binds take far more time to learn, but it’ll really get you feeling that your binds are smooth. Heck it will be so smooth that you’ll find yourself doing the bind on responsive yoyos (yeah I’m guilty of that 
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These videos should help you along:
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thanks man,
i did watch the first 2 recently, and a gentry stein video, lol, gotta study/practice a lot more…
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Hello everyone, new forum member from Germany here. I’ve re-discovered yoyoing 100% by accident when my daughter got a cheap yoyo with a clutch response system from the euro-store for her birthday. She asked me what this “thing” is and how it works. So I strung this bad boy up and by throwing the first sleeper, a giant flashback hits in and took me on a trip down the memory lane. I remembered that there was this “yoyo-thing” during the late 90s in my school when the whole class were standing in a circle with their yoyos, doing walk the dogs, rock the babies etc. during lunch-brakes. I had a yoyo at this time too and learned some things out of a Duncan-trick-book but never really got past the basic stuff. And as it is often the case when you are young, you quickly lose interest in something when you do not progress, at the latest when you get your hands on a Gameboy for the first time…
Back in present: After some throws with my daughter’s yoyo, muscle memory kicked in and I remembered one or two things I learned back in the day and totally got hooked. I searched the net and discovered that yoyos are still some kind of a thing with a small but pretty active community and that there is even a German Yoyo-Company situated just a few districts from me (iYoyo). Few days later – after successfully broke my daughter’s yoyo (sorry darling!!!) - I ordered my first solid throw from Dave (Shooting Star) and a new hobby of mine was born.
All this happened a solid year ago and I am still crawling my way up the trick-ladder (1A only), having a blast doing it. Due to a full packed everyday life with family and job, I often don’t find as much time for practicing as I want to but I try to grab a yoyo at least for a couple of minutes every day. Due to this, I still consider myself as a total beginner but I enjoy every small progress I achieve. At the moment I am working on Kamikaze but, oh boy! That magic drop is a pretty frustrating thing to learn. Beside this, I really enjoy the videos from Diego B. and Takatsu Tsukasa and from time to time I try to learn a few of their easier tricks.
Hope to share some thoughts with you guys!
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Welcome to the Forums from Pennsylvania in the USA! I’m happy that you are happy with rediscovering yoyos. There is so much out there to learn it’s overwhelming! Maybe you and your daughter can learn together.
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Thanks for the warm welcome! Although my daughter see me throwing on a regular basis and I often try to show her some things, she sadly has no big interest in yoyoing yet. But she enjoys the look of them and like to sort them by color which I take as a win and maybe in a few years… let’s see 
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Hello,
I’m Brennan and I’ve been throwing for around a year. I got into yoyos in June 2021 when I bought a Yomega Maverick. I used it until January 2022, when I realized that I wasn’t able to learn any more tricks due to the yoyo’s tendency to snag mid throw. I upgraded to a Replay Pro shortly after. After this I spent a month learning some basic tricks and decided to upgrade to a metal yoyo, I found a brand on YoYoExpert called One Drop Yoyos and found that they were around 2 hours from where I live. I went there in February and got a Kraken and a Rebirth. I quickly learned that these 2 were completely different in play, with the Kraken being big and light and the Rebirth being smaller and heavier on the string.
I got a concussion around 3 weeks ago and one of the things I was initially allowed to do was to use my yoyos. Since then I’ve just been trying to learn more and more tricks.
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Great yoyos. Welcome to the Forums!
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