I think your design was also a fair way ahead of the current trend(?)
Does the sound dampening work well? I actually like yo-yo sound, but I can see where it could get to be too much with 3A.
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Well mute rings on 3a yoyos are meant to lighten the sound of when the 2 yoyos clang together, the yoyo itself, does add a bit of weight to em as well which 3a players like in a yoyo.
And yeahhh had the design done for the Morning Star about maybe around 2 years ago aha.
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There’s a lot of different reasons you could use rims like these.
Specific weight distro was the logic for the Onslaught. There’s a lot of ways you could design a similar yoyo, but all of them would end up with a yoyo that had a noticeably different play feel from specifically the design of the Onslaught. Play feel is very subjective and vibe-based though, and a lot of it just feels more like marketing jargon than deliberate design.
For designs like the Contrast and others you showed, I think there’s two big reasons.
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The people using these yoyos think it looks cool.
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The outer steel rims could end up being fairly thin and feel sharp in the hand. Thickening the outermost point of the steel rim to make it thicker would result in adding a lot of extra mass and changing the play feel drastically. Using plastic they can make the edge of the rim going into the cup a lot thicker without sacrificing as much of the specific weight distro they want, while increasing comfort. A lot of plastic rimmed yoyos like these are also considerably increasing the fillet radius on the outermost profile edge, giving them a rounder edge and softer feel in the hand, and less likely to bonk you with a hard edge if you smash the yoyo into your face while attempting a jawn.
There’s other reasons you can use plastic rims, like trying to shield/hide brass rims. Noise dampening during 3A/5A. Preventing 3A damage from accumulating as quickly.
Werrd released the decision series almost 15 years ago. Yoyofactory threw them on the Speed Dial to increase diameter without increasing barstock size. Ensemble reduced collision noise and helped prevent 3A damage. Onslaught was messing around with them as just another tool to shift mass around. The Xenon Supreme increased the fillet radius of the rim edge without needing to add a lot more mass or entirely change the rim fitment. Plastic rims have been around for a long time and they’re just another tool in a designer’s kit to use, even when they fall out of favor for current comp trends, they’re not going to go away.
I’m just here to say the Pom rings on the MK1 Heron make for a very comfortable feeling the hand
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@SlowThrow Shameless plug of doom XD
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I don’t even have one lmao, I was just super surprised by it in the PiF.
I think they can lend a bit of comfort to performance designs
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Werrd up!
The rims/caps on the left are awesome. Never used anything else quite like them.
There’s probably a few tri-material yoyos that could have been made as bi-metals and still feel almost exactly the same. But if you’ve played enough bi-metals to have strong opinions on inner ring / outer ring / wrap around / outer ring but moved inwards from the rim then you probably know what you like in terms of performance and the plastic rims help to fine tune the play feel without completely changing the rim setup
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I can think of a few bimetals where this would be a real quality-of-life improvement.
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