# offstring players..
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [October 29, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432 "2014-10-29T17:35:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@mysteriousyoyoer\_par](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mysteriousyoyoer_par)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/1 "2014-10-29T17:35:17Z")
How much time did you take to learn throw catch and bind and which yoyo did you used for your first offstring try…
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### Author:  [@xiaoxiao](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xiaoxiao)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/2 "2014-10-29T19:41:33Z")
Not long, maybe a couple hours for consistency.
I used a YYJ Big-Yo
I now use an YYJ Aquarius sometimes.
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### Author:  [@Gundersniff](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Gundersniff)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/3 "2014-10-29T19:50:00Z")
You can get it down in about a day of practice, just check out some tutorials on how to start off. I’ve only played my yyj go big and it’s a great starter yoyo, many people recommend it for beginners.
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### Author:  [@Philip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Philip)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/4 "2014-10-29T21:15:03Z")
I first started offstring when I was still a relatively new beginner, so i probably took longer than some, but I took about a month to really master the throw and catch. The time was probably lengthened by the fact that I was using a FAST 201.
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### Author:  [@Sergio](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Sergio)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/5 "2014-10-31T13:55:41Z")
I started on a duncan metal drifter good because you can change the gap size. I learned really fast it took like three days to learn throw and catch and quickly moved on to tricks and sometimes I would launch it really high and run around and catch it to practice catches also it was really fun. I’ve used two zeekio apollos which both broke then I got a yoyo recreation aeronaut and it broke so the yoyo I use now is a second aeronaut. In the future I hope to get a zeekio saturn v.
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### Author:  [@Zorro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zorro)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/6 "2014-10-31T15:51:29Z")
Xodus II and I got a day or two after trying.
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### Author:  [@yoyoboy224](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoboy224)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/7 "2014-10-31T16:31:19Z")
I used a FH2 with low response. Took forever to get it down.
Now I have an Apollo 2 8)
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### Author:  [@UsagiCat](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/UsagiCat)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/8 "2014-10-31T17:43:43Z")
I am by no means a “good” off string player. But I have dabbled in the style a fair amount.
My first try with off string was with a Duncan flying panda some years ago, and surprisingly I landed my very first offstring throw the very first attempt! Then failed about 9001 times after over and over, but yay! I was consistent at something! Right? Right? _cries_
But yes, the throw and catch learning period varies for every individual. If you are learning on a bigyo, of course there will be less room for error than a smaller 4a yoyo like the panda I was using, but of course you don’t want to get “spoiled” by the bigyo.
🙂
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### Author:  [@Philip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Philip)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/offstring-players/70432/9 "2014-10-31T19:22:07Z")
> [@UsagiCat](#):
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> I am by no means a “good” off string player. But I have dabbled in the style a fair amount.
> My first try with off string was with a Duncan flying panda some years ago, and surprisingly I landed my very first offstring throw the very first attempt! Then failed about 9001 times after over and over, but yay! I was consistent at something! Right? Right? _cries_
> But yes, the throw and catch learning period varies for every individual. If you are learning on a bigyo, of course there will be less room for error than a smaller 4a yoyo like the panda I was using, but of course you don’t want to get “spoiled” by the bigyo.
> 🙂
You mean more room for error.