No, it’s not! And I’m not the only one who thinks so! I spoke with 4a world yoyo champion Michael Nakamura about a ton of interesting 4a yoyo theory on this week’s episode of the “kill your yoyo” podcast, but one interesting point he made was that soloham is pretty boring if it’s just a rip off of the tricks that diabolo players have already been doing for decades.
He argued that the best use of soloham would take advantage of the unique abilities that an offstring yoyo has over a diabolo, more specifically, the ability to bind, the speed of a lighter prop, and the lack of handsticks. With these features, soloham is its own unique art and in time it will continue to differentiate itself from multi-diablo while still retaining lots of the neat overlap (like orbits around different body parts and the ability to do anti spins). Listen to everything he had to say in the full episode available at this link!
