I wanna see some of those Beach Party’s variations.
Keep these pics coming. So nice to see!!
I’ll post some Beach Party pics tomorrow. That purple is hella nice looking!
Wait? They got rid of the thumb grind lip? Awww
You are right! I handnt noticed that before. I knew they had shaved some weight off it but I thought it came from the higher wall getting a step/lip.
Picked up the all pink salmon fade and the lime sherbet. The pink is just beautiful and I am not allowing myself to open the lime sherbet for a while, just to test myself to see if I can handle the temptation. These are the first return tops I’ve bought since the fools gold runs from summer 2015. Needless to say I am having a blast.
Hahaha damn how many did you get?
I’m lucky enough to get a beach party coming. I’ll get some pics up when I have it in hand.
Just 2
Here is the Beach Party. I’m glad it has the softer finish, compared to the compass and the manatee
Purple response pads??? Siiick
I got lucky two days in a row… yesterday, walking down to my truck; the mailman handed me a Sengoku Musashi. A most excellent yoyo. After messing with it for literally hours; I pondered what it would take to impress as much as the Musashi?
Today the mailman just tossed a priority box up on my porch… It was a Salmon Fade 10th Anniversary Peak.
I never really cared for the original Peak. That does not mean that the Peak wasn’t a very good yoyo. It was just not ‘my’ cup of tea 10 years ago. There were other yoyos that I just liked better for one reason or another.
But since I have always felt Chris has put out good yoyos; when I heard about the New Peak; it was pretty much automatic that I would get one. That was before I ever knew that the New release would be updated for even better performance. At that point, I just needed to decide on what colorway.
I am not really partial to any particular type of finish: solids, fades, nickel, powder, splashes, raw, polished, teflon, AMS, whatever?
What works for me is whatever strikes me for a particular yoyo design. Many colors look decent on most yoyos but some finishes just look sweeter on certain shapes…
When I viewed the color options; I decided on the Salmon Fade in about 4 seconds, lol.
I could care less about why a Company does whatever finish> less expensive, easier, less fails, whatever?
If I like a certain yoyo with a certain finish; then that is the one that I ‘like’; period.
Well, I opened the box. Took out the Peak. And before I even put a string on the Yoyo; I knew something good happened for me today.
This New Peak is a Beast! It is sooooo good that I did something that I do from time to time. Instead of slowly appreciating what I liked about the Peak; I made an exerted effort to find anything that I ‘didnt like’ about the Peak?
As an old school yoyo modder; many times I would work from the ‘negative’. When I handed a modded yoyo to a higher level player; I would tell them, ‘Don’t tell my what you like about the yoyo. Tell me what you dont like about the yoyo’. < And I would mix in the feedback on the next mod.
Well… I found absolutely Nothing that I dont like about the New Peak. Everything I did discover about it was extremely ‘right’.
When I am waiting for any yoyo in the mail; I always have a sort of vision of how I want it to play for me.
How it feels in the hand, on the string, in the air… How the weight is distributed. How it will look in person. How the finish will feel on grinds. How stable it will feel to me. How it will regen. How it gyros. How well it binds and plays with the stock bearing. <Basically how well that imaginary yoyo plays in your dreams, lol.
No doubt everybody has had a preconceived vision of how their next yoyo is going to play. And no doubt everybody has had that ‘one’ yoyo that you could not like no matter how hard you tried.
Well, when the mail was on the way; I kept thinking to myself; Chris has had 10 years to get even better at yoyo designs. And since he was good when he started; that gave me a very confident feeling about what I would remove from the box when it arrived. Chris did some seriously good homework on this updated design.
I was not/am not disappointed.
The New improved Peak plays just like the yoyos I throw in my dreams.
Dreamy!
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Just quoteing to cement the comment. Ive seen many a good post disappear from you Mr. Doc. I want this one to stick around 
Thank you for you feedback! Ill have to snag up round 2 of the Peak2 and not be all busy with holidays and travel to miss it. 
I wrote a review here if anyone wants to check it out! http://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,95391.msg1036489.html#msg1036489
Gutted. USPS lost my Peak. 
Tracking shows it was delivered but I was here at the time of the supposed delivery and it never showed up. I’m bummed.
That’s too bad! Maybe it will show up in a few days?
Hopefully it was delivered to a neighbor and they are kind enough to drop it off.
Hopefully!
File a lost package report with the usps.
No worries, it showed up today, couldn’t be happier