Is there such a thing as an oldschool yoyo competition?
also is it possible to win a modern yoyo competition with old school tricks?
Might seem a bit stupid but idk
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What do you mean by old school yoyo competition? Like responsive yoyos? 2a division is pretty old school.
Not sure what you mean exactly…like could you win a Yoyo competition by doing rock the baby and walking the dog? Nah
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There is room for a 1A responsive decision. Call it whatever but combining “modern” tricks with the challenge of a responsive YoYo… plus there are some cool tricks coming out that only a responsive can do. 
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Like what?
Generally 1A comp scores based on string hits and penalizes based on stops making responsive (classic and modern) not really fit well into the current meta. Regens and stalls will mostly result in a negative score in the end and the trick complexity and repeats would result in very few clicks.
Modern responsive could score okay in x div but generally 3a, 4a, and 5a dominate that space. 2a does too but mostly overseas as there aren’t many US 2a centric players competing atm.
Responsive would do okay ish in sport with presentation but not score well overall.
There have been a few comps that did a responsive div over the years. One was recent even and those have been pretty neat but not a standard comp level and doesn’t seed to anything in the larger nyyl or iyyf. Leagues.
Often at various regionals, nats and worlds there are planned fixed axle horse games or show us what you got style events that responsive players join in on.
Responsive in the competitive scene is generally looked at as either old school or beginner level in most cases even though there are very cool and awesomely complex modern responsive trick combos that are pioneered by various folks in the community.
There will be another fixed axle February this year to show off your skills in that online space and might be a few contests that cater to modern responsive in the new year as contests combine fingerboard, kendama, juggling and various other hobbies and niches to garner more interest from the various overlapping communities to grow and prosper.
Tl;dr: folks have done responsive in the context of the current meta but they don’t fair well in scoring and are usually just for fun.
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This is wrong. The rules haven’t said anything about string hits for ages. I don’t remember when they changed it exactly but string hits was super early comp rules and it hasn’t been that way for a long time (at least a decade…maybe 2). Also you don’t get penalized for the yoyo stopping. You get a major deduction if you use your hand to restart the yoyo. The problem with trying to play modern 0a in a 1a context is that the yoyo needs to be spinning to score points, if you’re doing kickflips or other dead yoyo tricks, they wont score because the yoyo is not spinning. Please read the rules instead of spreading misinformation.
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I think Kyle Nations could qualify as competing in modern yo-yo competitions doing modern tricks with “old school” inspired yo-yos.
I’ve seem some people incorporate stalls into unresponsive combos, but it would take a serious talent to do so with the variety and fluidity that a relative novice can achieve with a responsive.
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To stop anyone now, as I’ve received messages in the past: I am not Kyle Nations. I am a much less talented Kyle M
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Just took home the Bronze in X Sport at Ante III doing fixed axle slippery eel
I did check before entering that I wouldn’t be disqualified, and was even warned that while slippery eel would be accepted it would score badly
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Ya, I don’t think this is necessarily true either. As long as you keep the yo-yo in play and don’t have to wind the string by hand.
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trick ladder was the og yoyo contest, get through a list of tricks in front of the judges.
they aren’t really done much anymore
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Hmm okay my ruleset understanding is dated. Sorry about that. Still I don’t believe responsive will score all that well unless the ruleset and judges are adjusting for the play style accordingly. I know these things evolve over time but generally most classic tricks won’t click well…
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You’re all good Capt. I was wrong when I said this also,
The rule for US contests is,
" 1. Stop (-1)
- The player’s yoyo stops with the string fully unwound for any reason.
- If after the yo-yo is stopped, the player adds to the spin but fails to wind it and it stops again it shall be counted as an additional stop.
- Hand-winding or otherwise adding spin to a partially wound yo-yo shall not be counted as a stop."
I knew that stop and go’s and stalls weren’t negatives but didn’t check how the rule was written and recalled it wrong. IYYF for the world contest has basically the same rules but written a bit differently.
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I think the Yoyo judges should get together and create a new set of standards solely for old school responsive tricks so they can score the tricks with clicks for points like unresponsive 1a
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That’s basically the 1A trick ladder.
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