From Enso: We are a collective of yoyo players that want to create yoyos with the unique ideas and innovations of our combined yoyo experience. We are not trying to reinvent the wheel, but create products that are premium and fun to use. We love the concept of the Enso; A circle that is made through meditation, created with one stroke, and drawn without thought. We feel that this is the way one should go about yoyoing and creating a trick. Instead of a brush used to create, we are using the yoyo. Our motto, One trick, One Throw.
The UI is unique when it comes to the world of titanium yoyos. We have not seen one made with this shape. We wanted to make something that was quite wide and smaller, but not too undersized. The profile is wide without getting in the way of tight tech and has an agile presence on the string. Using titanium as the material allowed us to manipulate the weight distribution to give the yoyo a powerful spin. As one of our testers said; this thing spins so long I can practice my most difficult tricks without stress.
The Enzo UI⌠a circle that is made through meditation, in 1 stroke, without thought, uh, okđ¤
Our motto is âOne trick, One throwâ⌠<<<>>> is that a trapeze or a 4 minute trick?
The UI is unique in the World of Titanium because it is the 1st in that shape? Then, wouldnât every other already existing Titanium yoyo be also unique since none of them are shaped like the UI?
âWhen creating our first model we took design input from people of all different skill levels to ensure the UI was a good fit for any styleâ. <<< >>> When you set up a yoyo design to âfitâ any style, there will always be a variation in the actual performance advantage it may have from style to style.
Personally, I think the yoyo shape and specs. Look great.
But the UI story has a strong tilt into dream-nastics.
lol yea, they kind of went over the top when it came to making the sales pitch. Still, looks like a great yoyo and I got one coming to me this week. Im still thinking nothing is going to beat the Metavity though.
The usual YT yoyo reviewers all really liked it⌠Itâs strange though how the reviewers all seemed to put so much emphasis on it being Ti, as if only a few yoyos had ever been made of it.
Maybe. It seemed a bit weird to me. There have been so many Ti yoyos. Yes, it definitely should be pointed out, and itâs properties talked about. It seemed like it was presented as, as you said, a novelty. I donât feel feel it to be so much of a novelty anymore. You could be right, and maybe thatâs just my own perception.
I imagine some companies provide either an outline or specific points that they would like reviewers to cover, especially if theyâre sending a $400 yoyo for free. But I agree, titanium yoyos are released all the time. I wouldnât think it necessarily noteworthy unless its price is low, like the TiVayder.
At the same time, I see most (if not all) yoyo âreviewsâ more as overviews. Most yoyos are good to great these days. Also, everyone knows everyone, so itâs harder for people to be completely objective and honest, especially if theyâre receiving the product for free (and they want to keep receiving products for free).
One thing I wish reviewers would do is to say, " This yoyo did or didnât work for me because _____________." This would be helpful since reviewers have different play style and preferences.
From the reviewers I watch I am seeing a lot of pass-around yoyos. Review then send to the next reviewer. I doubt anyone is getting a yoyo that retails for $400 for free.
My understanding is that the pass-around yoyos are usually prototypes. Then, reviewers are sent a production model for reviewing the yoyo. I highly doubt that they would all be putting in the work to produce a video just for a chance to play a prototype for a few days.
I thought the yoyo joe guy got to keep his, presumably for free.
Its obviously unrealistic to expect reviewers to buy the yoyos they review otherwise we would not be getting the number of reviews we do.
I figure they get some info about the yoyo to speak about and then after conveying that, they go into their own opinion of it.
No you are right! Ti yoyos are frequent enough that they are not a novelty but its not everyday a reviewer gets to speak about a ti yoyo even if a bunch if them are releasing. You dont see any luftverk or RSO reviews. So even though ti yoyos are no longer a novelty a ti yoyo review surely is.
It depends. Some yoyo producers do a pass around with zero compensation of any kind. Some offer a discount on the production run while others end up giving you a free one. Or you get to keep the proto for free. Itâs really all over the place.
Yes⌠But if a reviewer wants to maintain any credibility with the community they canât just rave about every yoyo and totally ignore any negatives. Thatâs how I operate at least.
Some of them actually do just that, play the prototype and pass it along.
I pass around prototypes if I know itâs going to be 99% the same as production, and I try to offer a big discount for reviewers that are interested in purchasing one as a thank you. Assassin for example is literally just getting a longer sharper spike and one of the walls is being reduced by less than a 10th of a millimeter to aid in that.
Also most OEMs provide 4 or 5 for a prototype order, and itâs hard to get enough for reviewers without breaking the bank/adding to the overall cost of the production run (if I ordered twice as many to send to reviewers assassin would be over 75 shipped)
Obviously some yoyos require more than 1 prototype which is sometimes why youâll see a monometal being more expensive.
Also, I completely agree with your last sentence âthis yoyo worked/didnât work for me becauseâ I tell all my reviewers be as honest as you can with my product so I can make changes if necessary.
As far as the âshape never being used before in a titaniumâ I suppose you could alter a same shape a millimeter or two and still call it different, but the very second I saw this it reminded me of how it sure does look a heck of a lot like a Luftverk Octavia
