I actually agree, I think the SK is kinda meh. But it is a great value and the machining quality + pedigree is fantastic, so I don’t really see a need to complain about it. That made me think… what popular yo-yo have you tried that you “just couldn’t get into?”
For me it is these two:
SF Bliss, plays like a bog-standard, unremarkable bimetal V to me. But some people worship this thing.
Offset Outlier, I think it’s way too narrow and it reminds me of the Horizon in being large in diameter but fairly narrow. I have tried for days and this one just doesn’t fit my play style at all for whatever reason. I literally… can’t get into it
Note that you don’t have to list any yo-yo you have ever tried and did not like, just the ones that are perceived as somewhat popular, and other people seem to like it?
(For the record I’d say 80% of the yo-yos I get, I pretty much like! Truly bad yoyos are exceedingly rare, there are indeed some which after using for a while I find don’t jibe with my personal preferences, but aren’t “bad” by any means.)
YYF Wedge. Just too wide and bulky for me. A lot of folks love it, but I find it unwieldy.
YYF Replay Pro. Maybe it’s the semi-organic shape, but it just doesn’t deliver the stability of, say, a ProtoStar.
Ko’olau Wedge. Just not enough performance for my tastes I guess. I mean, I know Evan can wring plenty of performance out of it; hell, he could probably win Nationals with it, but he’s Evan Nagao and I’m not. Next!
SF Cadence. Seems to be very evenly weight-balanced. Too evenly for me. It lacks the spin time and stability I need/want by quite a long shot.
I’ve learned that if I am going to throw a monometal, it’s going to be a One Drop. They spin longer than any other monometals I have, and they are also very stable, even the MarkMont Classic with its O-ish shape. I also have come to realize that I don’t like wide (46mm+) throws. They just aren’t comfortable in my (small-ish) hand and they make learning tricks like Rewind diabolically hard.
Ok look man now you’re just in “y’know Led Zeppelin wasn’t a very good band” territory, I suggest you check yourself before you wriggedy wreck yourself my friend
Haha I tried them at different contests, never owned one. They just felt wayyyy to fast for me. I like a more relaxed feeling in throws and when I threw them it always felt that they wanted to go a lot faster than I wanted to and it just didn’t feel good to me.
I had the Grail and traded it! I kinda wish I had given it more of a chance. Some of you may remember that I posted on here that I’d lost it. Well when I posted that I’d found it, @yoyodoc PMed me with an offer to trade for it. He had wnated one, but hadn’t been able to catch one.
I had gotten the Grail sort of by accident, and had really wanted the 420. So, I traded it for that. I do like the 420 better, but maybe the Grail would have grown on me. My first impression was that it was similar to the MMC, but I preferred the MMC.
I love my other A-RT throws: Woodboy, Peon, Orphan, and Quail!
