# Looking for a heavier yoyo **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [June 6, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/looking-for-a-heavier-yoyo/2978 "2009-06-06T21:56:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![EvanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@EvanB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EvanB)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/looking-for-a-heavier-yoyo/2978/10 "2009-06-07T03:13:31Z")
Ahh… took me some time to find. > [@Some Inquiries for Andre](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/some-inquiries-for-andre/1317/5): > > YoYoJam pretty much gave me 100% control over the design - at the time (2004) I took some rough drawings I made and faxed them over to Dale Bell who runs the YoYoJam factory and production. He took my sketch and made it into the yo-yo it is today basically - I did have complete control in terms of shape and weight and specific cuts on the metal weight ring. > > I named it Dark Magic because I liked the overall sounds of it and in my mind if you do yo-yo tricks well it really does look like “magic.” I get that all the time at least and thought it would be appropriate to incorporate in the yo-yos name. The original artwork was designed by Johnnie DelValle and wasn’t necessarily for everyone but a lot of people at the time did get a kick out of the caps and a Chinese company actually copied the artwork on a couple different yo-yo designs they produced even keeping my name! After that we chose to use the current translucent cap design to appeal to a wider array of players - that one was designed by my wife Devon (who also designed the Legacy caps). > > In terms of competition I did use it to win my Northeast Regional back in 2004 as well as compete at the 2004 National Yo-Yo Contest where I placed tenth - and of course you see it used in nearly every tutorial out there. It is still my pocket yo-yo to this day. Before it I had previously used the Speeder and Hitman. > > For a long time I did play the Dark Magic completely stock - I would simply break in the bearing and go from there. Currently I use a KonKave bearing with no shims and a relatively tight gap - I find the KonKave bearing makes the yo-yo much smoother and the tight gap keeps it responsive for doing regenerations but unresponsive for whip and slack tricks, etc. The best of both worlds. 🙂 In the videos he used stock… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/looking-for-a-heavier-yoyo/2978)._