my name is austin I just started yoyoing again I really like metal yoyos becuse thay look cool.
Awesome! Welcome to the forum! ;D
hello,
Iām from the āoldā school, my name is steve s
old school, not the old old old school though.
aloha, steve and welcome to forums ;D
Name:Blanca
Favourite yoyo:So far x-convict and lyn fury
How I found this site:Youtube
Been playing since:Late july '09
Why I play:Iāve got no idea
Country:Singapore
Nationality:(Iām not sure if I spelt it rigt)Fillipino
Other hobbies:Singing,Computer,tv,reading,tennis,swimming
-Bye
Cool! welcome to the forum! 
my name is dalton and im 15 and iām glad to finally be here!
i had a hard time geting through the registration.
I kept copiing www.yoyoe_pert.com until i relized i just needed to put an x in the blank
my fav yoyo is dark magic sence it was my first, but it is kinda broke now so im awaitin my speedmaker and the yellow, orange, and blue strings i ordered. i consider my self at an intermediate skill level and i play 1A and 5A. i only have 1 yoyo (darkmagic) until my speed maker comes in. :-\ sence my computer broke i have to use my wii internet channel so no pics from me any time soon.
hey dalton i did that the first 2 times also great to have you here
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Welcome to the Forums, Dalton. Hope you like it here!
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thanks for saying that. i thought i was the only one.
Hey, my name is James, I am 20 and from Australia.
I played with yoyos as a kid, just your basic up and down stuff with an imperial.
My mate got me into astrojacks and while I was watching some videos on youtube I stumbled across a yoyo video. I got a duncan butterfly and Iām hooked! I have almost mastered all the beginner tricks with a yomega fireball and I have a DM in the mail (big step I know but Iām willing to learn) I canāt wait to get into some intermediate tricks apart from rock the baby and trapeze.
EDIT: Oh yeah this site rocks. The learning videos are helping me heaps, they are very detailed and I love how the tricks are all broken down. I am recommending this site to everyone, thanks yoyoexpert!
same here
hi im eli my favorite trick is brain twister, im not as bad as i seem i can do eli hops, and i found out about yoyo expert by looking for trick vids
My name is Kayce. I am a senior in college and have been playing with yo-yos since high school. Unfortunately, I didnāt get a decent yo-yo until recently. When in high school I used Duncan Imperials. My first ābetterā yo-yo that I bought was a Duncan Flying Squirrel. I still have it, but it is WAY past its prime. Retired.
My next and most recent was a mosquito. I love that little sucker. It too, needs to be retired. I bought my Mosquito online a long time ago for 12 bucks but now Wally World has them for a mere 6. Notice, however, Wal-Mart has no friction stickers or stringsā¦
Recently, I have gotten more interested in string tricks. I can only do so much with that Mosquito, so I recently purchased a New Breed and a Legacy. I am working on it. I need to get better at throwing straitāespecially my trapeze.
Anyhoo, I suck. But I am a yo-yo lover.
Just keep at it. With your level of dedication youāll only get better and better.
Oh, and welcome to the forums Kayce!
P.S. I am also a senior in college, what is your major? Where are you going to school?
i just wish the vids worked on my wii internet channel
Hi. My name is Kevin. Iām certainly no yo-yo expert, but I hope to be someday. I also tend to write LONG posts, so Iām going to apologize for its length in advance. ;D
My history with yo-yos goes back to middle school in the 1980s. A friend started playing and brought his yo-yo to school to show off one day. This started a local yo-yo craze and several of us bought Duncan Imperials (were there better yo-yos in the 80ās?) and learned the basic tricks. Nothing too fancy, just walk-the-dog, around the world, etc. Eventually the craze wore off and I forgot about yo-yos.
Then shortly after I graduated from high-school, a friendās younger brother started getting into yo-yos. He showed me his Yomega Fireball, and I was amazed. I didnāt know there were yo-yos like that. He also showed me the brain twister. Iād never seen a string trick on a yo-yo before. So, I bought a Fireball and taught myself to do a brain twister.
I was never too serious, but every once in a while I would take out the fireball and throw it around for an hour. I didnāt push myself to learn new tricks, since I didnāt know what other tricks there were, and I knew nobody else who played.
This went on for a few years, until one day when I was in a local skill-toy shop and came across a yo-yo that I just couldnāt believe. It was made from anodized aluminum, had removable rim-weights and had a ball-bearing axle. It was the Tom Kuhn SB2. Even though it was $100, I bought it. I had recently finished college, and figured that I was making good moneyā¦ Not enough to have a really nice car or a really nice place to live, but I could have a really nice yo-yo. ;D
Anyway, I played with that for yearsā¦ But still didnāt know anybody else who played, and didnāt know what tricks to learn. I kept doing the same things I had always done with it. Not only that, but I was afraid of hurting my massively expensive yo-yo, so I never tried anything I wasnāt confident I could do. Not a good way to learn. Eventually, I gave up playing with the yo-yo partly out of boredom (how many times can you do around the world?) and partly because my wrist was starting to make funny noises when I threw.
That had to be at least 12 years ago, now. I havenāt played much, if at all, since then. But, I was cleaning out a box full of my old stuff the other day and came across my SB2 and my Fireball. Just for fun I decided to look online to see what I could learn about yo-yosā¦ WOW. A LOT has happened since the 90s. The rise of ball bearings, freehand, off-string, etcā¦ But I also found this awesome web-site with video lessons from a guy named AndrĆ© Boulay. So I lubricated the bearing on the SB2 and started following along with his tutorials. My wrist wasnāt making noise, and I was having fun.
I eventually got to the intermediate section. And all of a sudden he was showing me how to do tricks that actually land the yo-yo on the string. I thought that was only for the professional yo-yo playersā¦ Not for the beginning of the Intermediate sectionā¦ But I gave it a shot. Unfortunately I found that the SB2 was not a good yo-yo to learn with, at least not the way I had it set up.
I no longer live near a yo-yo shop, so I went to the local toy store and bought a Duncan Freehand so that I would have a yo-yo with a butterfly profile to learn the trapeze on. This seemed like a very nice yo-yo. So nice I couldnāt believe it came from the same company that made those imperials I used as a kid. I started trying to learn the trapeze and finally got it. (Wow! I can do that?) It was at this point that I started to miss the long, smooth sleeps that the SB2 gave me, so I widened the gap on it to see if I could land it better that way. Unfortunately, the sides of an SB2 are smooth, so if the gap is widened, it wonāt come backā¦ But, I had these āfriction stickersā that came with the Freehand. I put them inside the SB2 and widened the gap by a huge margin, and all of a sudden I could catch the SB2 on the trapeze, and itās response was better than it was with the narrow gap and no friction stickers!
That was last weekend, and now I am throwing the trapeze like it was nothing, and can do the loop to get out. Iāve started working on my split bottom mount, and can pull it off 50% of the time, and Iām continually getting better. I really feel like Iāve broken through a wall that Iāve been hitting since 8th grade. I fully intend to continue working (actually trying to learn new things) and hope to be here for a while.
Although, Iāve been playing with the yo-yo for at least 4 hours a day for several days now, and my throwing hand is swollen from being hit by the yo-yo so many times (when it unexpectedly comes back, or when itās spinning faster than I think) and my middle finger has a huge gash on it from the string. I hope this old out-of-shape body can take this. 
Anyway, nice to meet everyone, and glad to be here. This site has been an enormous help, and Iād like to thank AndrĆ© for the wonderful videos. You are a GREAT instructor.
-Kevin
Welcome Kevin!
Welcome, I love your pic, and yes, this site DOES help A LOT! ;D
Hello forum,
my name is Morten. Iām 23 and live in Copenhagen, Denmark. I played many years ago as a kid. Found my old Russell the other day and wanted to brush up on the old tricks when I found that yo-yo was not the sport I knew from way back. It was something else now. Something to really geek around with.
So I devoured a lot of forum pages and videos and wound up buying a Journey and a Sunset Trajectory from this site.
Apart from waiting for my new toys in the mail Iām a programmer. I also play tournament pinball. Maybe some day Iāll be able to compete in some yo-yo competitions.
Iām looking forward to becoming better and hope to make some videos of my progress. A subject can never get documented enough! Especially a visually stunning one like yo-yoāing.
Looking forward to getting to know everyone!
Best Regards
- Morten