Good Lord I hope he doesnât wear those shoesâŚ
(camera cuts to an image of Chris sitting at a table, furiously writing a 'zine. Camera sloooowly pans backward as he pauses for a moment ⌠and intentionally puts one foot up on the table⌠revealing⌠CYBER SHOES. Chris turns to camera, nods knowingly. Fade to black.)
(camera then cuts to Jeff, sitting in his home office tinkering with a 20ehTeen. The camera slowly pans back as he tosses his two dimes across the desk and rubbs his tired face. Camera still panning back, he leans back in his office chair and props both feet up on the desk⌠also revealing⌠THE SAME CYBER SHOES. Jeff looks straight into the camera, nods knowingly. Fade to black)
Yâall are wild 
(Chad is working in the office. He slowly puts his feet on to his desk, because he wants to show off his fresh new cyber shoes. Chad slowly starts smiling. Fade to black.)
*Knockoff TiWalker. 
I think it is fair to say that forums on the whole just arenât as popular as they once were especially when I think back to the early to mid 2000s. I still dig them though.
Yea, kind of. But then again, a lot less people used the internet, and forums were one of the only platforms so almost everyone used them. Forums are still the main hub for hobbies, though I guess Instagram and Reddit have been eating into that a little bit.
In general forums are my favorite internet platform. People with a common interest form really cool communities where you get to know people on a personal level not really achieved on other platforms. Discussions are usually more personal rather than just trying to one-up someone else or troll for the lols (like Reddit can be a lot of the time).
That said, I think this forum is active enough. I donât know how it used to be since im still new here, but ive never got the vibe that this place was dying (ive witnessed forum death numerous times already). Seems like a nice sized community atm - I hate when they are too active or too empty. People always leave forums unexpectedly; I think it usually coincides with changes irl that give them less free time. Sometimes they even come crawling back - online habits become ingrained pretty heavily.
The forum definitely had a mini revival last year but itâs still a shadow of what it was in 2013-2015.
Maybe forums are off-putting to a lot of netizens nowadays because they encourage people to regularly say something of substance, something that wouldnât fit within the confines of a tweet. While being thoughtful, coherent, and comprehensible isnât absolutely required, there is a sort of peer pressure to write that way in a forum because that is usually the norm.
I like/prefer forums precisely because of this, and because the content sticks around and is easily followed if you come along later.
Is it really though?
| Specs | TiHawk | TiWalker |
|---|---|---|
| Diameter | 54mm | 52.8mm |
| Width | 41mm | 42mm |
| Weight | 65.6 g | 63.9 g |
The profiles are kiiiiiind of similar, but they are different enough to be unique imo. The TiWalker is definitely more angular. I couldnât find a straight gap shot of the TiHawk, but it is just a titanium rendition of a hawk afaik.
Yeah, the TiWalker is a little less round, and its wing-like rims are beefier.
IG and YouTube(well, social media in general) are definitely drinking from the yoyo community milkshake. It makes sense, since those are the best way to show tricks and the latest throws. I prefer written reviews over video, but video get ad revenue and everyone wants to be a star and get that sweet money. If youâre worried about the forums, post more with good content. BST posts are most of the new content, which Iâm sure doesnât help. More and better content will definitely go a long way to keeping the community alive.
YouTube is a good place to watch reviews. FaceBook seems to have a highly active BST. But for online discussion, I donât think you can beat a forum like YYE.
Well having done several $200+ 3D scans and digital caliper measurement (multiple times) I can tell you those âpublishedâ stats for the Ti-Walker, for whatever reason, are⌠cough⌠wrong? Specificially diameter is more like 53.5mm. Iâm kind of unclear how this happened but my data, like Shakiraâs hips, donât lie.
The hawk isnât exactly the same by any means but it is definitely in the ballpark for ti-walker âfeelâ.
Maybe the published diameter is what youâd end up with if you spark off the entire rims. Very future-thinking.
It is a mystery, because unless the ti-walkers were somehow different diameters in the same run (and there was only one run!)⌠or people had super bad measuring tools⌠I just donât know how that diameter number could be off by a whole mm, but it is.
Mmmmmmmmmkay. Iâll eat that one. I still think theyâre different enough to be unique though. Of course, I have never even touched either one of these, on looks alone I wouldnât say it was a blatant rip-off.