Here i will just let google answer, I dont feel like going full psychopharmacologist
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Noted.
Yeah that, or google just doesnât want you taking your game to the next level 
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Trust me I wish it could be done, so does every musician around the world lol
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No but it would be funny. Iâve also found that I yoyo better when under effects of things that would typically make actual athletic activities worse, such as while recovering from a run. In a dexterity-based activity I feel that stimulants would actually be a mild-to-significant hindrance if used as a PED
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This take for the win
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Everyone would fail
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You might have a point. Musicians are famous for their sobriety.
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Just as I suspected. Itâs not a sport and no one really caresâ
I mean a part of me doesnât want YoYo to get to a sport level because then those sports books firms will swoop in fast. Iâve already had a very eager one talk to me for the state contest Iâm running but I just canât get entangled in that.
Donât get me wrong YoYoâs as an Olympic sport and legitimized and on large broadcast tv networks would be awesome and bring I. So much money to both the hobby and the contest space but there allot of downside that comes with that.
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reminds me of when they tried to say weed was a performance enhancer for Phelps. like mmk lets just flip the typical msging on its head cuz hey itâs convenient lol.
âweed makes you a lazy loser!..unless you win gold medals in the olympics, then itâs the exact opposite of what we just saidââŚ
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Yeah this was the point of the question. Does it need or want to be treated as a sport. What would that look like. If it made it to syndicated sports networks it would bring plenty of cash but what would that do for the world of yoyo?
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I think you skipped a logical step somewhere between musiciansâ recreational drug use and performance-enhancing drugs. That made no sense. 
It would bring in all the neurotypical people and normies.
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I donât know if drugs really enhance my performance when yoyoing. Maybe in my head⌠but not in reality. Reminds me of this scene.
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I wasnât the one bring musicians into the performance enhancing drugs discussion, Iâm just rolling with it. But for the sake of debate, Jimmy Hendrix would likely posit that drugs can be both performance enhancing and recreational.
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You know what, Iâm not going to deny that one.
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I mean for the contest scene to get bigger yeah it needs to grow into a proper sport but as a hobby and club activity nope not at all. Any expansion into the realm of syndication sports (think like world poker on espn) would bring with it loads and loads of money for the makers, the retailers, the players and the contest runners and league as a whole,
With money comes stipulations though, more scrutiny and often with organized sports gamblingâŚ
On a good note it would bring yoyo to many more regular people and start another small boom expand clubs, school events, scouts and so on dabbling in yoyo which would be a big thing but with more community comes more bad eggs. Spaces like this would become more crowded with new players who are less interested in the community and more into the sport aspect.
Itâs hard because I want to see yoyo grow. It has to at minimum expand to the youth or the hobby dies. Yet if it grows too much too fast or goes mainstream it loses allot of what brings folks like us to the community.
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Testing all the players would be super expensive. Besides everything else but it is definitely outside of the yoyo contest price bracket for professional wada approved testing.
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