So I’ve been using my deepest state with the greaseball bearing and I’m finding it to responsive to the point where i can’t even do simple tricks like the braintwister. As soon as it flips the yoyo has so much responsiveness it auto grabs and messes the trick up but if I use the stock bearing I have no issies.
The greasebucket bearing makes it so difficult and frustrating that I don’t know if I want to use the bearing anymore
You have to break it in.
I bought a grease bucket but never tried it. The Deepest works so well right out of the box
I love the grease bucket. It’s harder for sure, but at least to me part of the appeal of playing a responsive is being forced to have good control over the yoyo.
The grease bucket is giving you feedback in a way the stock bearing doesn’t, in that you’re not keeping the strings taut enough while in-mount.
If you decide its not for you and want to sell it toss in a plasticnbag and an envelope and ill give ya a couple bucks for it.
Got a Deepest State of my own coming soon from a fellow YYE member. Im stoked!
I play with ZR Air and this string was a bit too thick for the stock setup. I pulled the stock pads out and put standard 19mm in with the Greasebucket.
Greasebucket should definitely not disallow tricks like Braintwister (even with thick Fluff string which is what I use). I’ll second that as the bearing breaks in it will get a little less responsive, but they are designed to mimic the attributes of a really responsive fixed axle so it shouldn’t feel like any other bearing on the market in that respect. Just like there’s a break-in period with it, there’s abslolutely a learning curve associated with how to get the most out of it.
Is your string tension low/neutral? I recommend throwing a bunch of hard sleepers to extinction with the GB to see if that chills it out a little.
I fully agree on Ed and Mable’s points. That bearing in a Deepest State is quite capable of Brain Twister, Matrix and others. It does require more precision as nothing in this hobby is supposed to come easy. If you learn to control the string tension and response on that setup your skills will improve across the board. A responsive yo-yo is looking for a little bit of slack in the string to grab hold of so it can return. Keeping the strings tight during tricks keeps the response under control.
