# Play Style Census **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [September 10, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260 "2023-09-10T04:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![theendofcake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/theendofcake/32/245990_2.png) [@theendofcake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theendofcake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/21 "2023-09-10T05:09:39Z")
i think casual would be the post a trick thread, comp would be nats and worlds routines with planned out freestyles ---
**Author:** ![MaximShoots](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/maximshoots/32/171131_2.png) [@MaximShoots](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MaximShoots)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/22 "2023-09-10T05:10:59Z")
Is a combo of high click comp elements considered casual if its not in a comp setting? ---
**Author:** ![theendofcake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/theendofcake/32/245990_2.png) [@theendofcake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theendofcake)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/23 "2023-09-10T05:13:05Z")
good point. that’s above my pay grade to be honest, my gut says yes though ---
**Author:** ![MoosaK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/moosak/32/116955_2.png) [@MoosaK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoosaK)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/24 "2023-09-10T05:14:08Z")
also more difficult tech/flow doesn’t really fall under casual or competitive in a lot of cases ---
**Author:** ![Pun1sh3R](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/pun1sh3r/32/193125_2.png) [@Pun1sh3R](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Pun1sh3R)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/25 "2023-09-10T05:16:14Z")
Would you consider Tech/Flow a part of the current 1A Meta play style? i.e. Popular play style? ---
**Author:** ![MoosaK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/moosak/32/116955_2.png) [@MoosaK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoosaK)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 5:19am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/26 "2023-09-10T05:19:45Z")
the meta consists of some tech tricks, but primarily being a tech player generally involves making your own tech tricks, and original tricks are not meta. With flow you might be doing meta or original tricks, but your focus isn’t on the tricks themselves but on the execution and how you do the trick, so its very different from being a meta player or even a comp player, but you can be a flowy comp player too if you just do competition tricks with flowy execution. They’re all different but also have overlap lol. ---
**Author:** ![GTDropKnot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gtdropknot/32/212400_2.png) [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 10:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/27 "2023-09-10T10:01:19Z")
I don’t know what to pick bc I mostly play 1a casually but like to learn tricks that players did in competitions and some generic meta tricks ---
**Author:** ![fradiger](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/fradiger/32/66850_2.png) [@fradiger](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/fradiger)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/28 "2023-09-10T12:23:54Z")
People like us compete in our dreams 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GTDropKnot](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gtdropknot/32/212400_2.png) [@GTDropKnot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GTDropKnot)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/29 "2023-09-10T12:26:05Z")
Lol yeah I do them poorly but a takeshi trick is still a takeshi trick ---
**Author:** ![Yo-yo\_Power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f07891/32.png) [@Yo-yo\_Power](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yo-yo_Power)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/30 "2023-09-10T12:27:35Z")
0a-1a-2a-5a ---
**Author:** ![Captrogers](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/captrogers/32/647012_2.png) [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/31 "2023-09-10T13:10:35Z")
I think go goal of breaking down 1A to casual meta and comp is to see why is grinding comp level tricks presumably to compete at some point vs those that do those type of trucks for fun vs the casual player. 2a being different because the whole things a grind and how many of us are practicing backflips for a routine. The other styles just don’t have a large enough base that mains them enough. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nightshadow/32/1574_2.png) [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 4:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/32 "2023-09-11T04:23:14Z")
I need another option. 1A weird. I practice regularly, and wouldn’t really call myself “casual”. But all my tricks are made of my own elements, and would do really horribly in competitions. ---
**Author:** ![MarkD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/markd/32/40845_2.png) [@MarkD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarkD)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 12:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/33 "2023-09-11T12:02:39Z")
Tech is casual because it clearly isn’t competitive. (I’m joking) ---
**Author:** ![Benthrowsyoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/benthrowsyoyo/32/300522_2.png) [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/34 "2023-09-11T13:45:50Z")
What if I try to do 1A competitive but since I’m still kinda inexperienced it looks like casual? ---
**Author:** ![Slestak75](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slestak75/32/212315_2.png) [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/35 "2023-09-11T13:49:01Z")
I think it depends on whether you intend to compete or if you are competing. Because without competition there is no competition. ---
**Author:** ![\_Z1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_z1/32/230318_2.png) [@\_Z1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_Z1)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/36 "2023-09-12T09:51:36Z")
Other: Möbius. But yall already knew that. :wink: ~Z ---
**Author:** ![MoosaK](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/moosak/32/116955_2.png) [@MoosaK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoosaK)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/37 "2023-09-12T16:22:20Z")
4A as least popular is a bit surprising, I always thought it was the largest of the xdivs ---
**Author:** ![mrJames](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mrjames/32/236865_2.png) [@mrJames](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mrJames)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/38 "2023-09-12T16:36:41Z")
> [@MoosaK](#): > > 4A as least popular is a bit surprising… I picked “other” but, of all the “official” styles, 4A is by far my favorite. To watch at least. It’s soooooo hard! 🤣 Off-string is rapidly becoming my favorite play style though, because literally everything is a trick. Even the throw is easy to screw up and nail yourself in the head. But man, any time I land anything I feel like a rock star. ---
**Author:** ![theendofcake](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/theendofcake/32/245990_2.png) [@theendofcake](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theendofcake)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2023, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260/39 "2023-09-12T18:43:31Z")
lots of 4a potential in hitting yourself lol [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/play-style-census/384260.md?page=1)