Whose rountine are you talking about?
Old school players grew up playing restricting designs. Like high walls, trans-axles, wood/plastic. So they had to really refine their style to compensate.
Like you were saying before, it is about skill. If you play clean, you can get more out of a yoyo.
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I want to get good enough to rock a 1950’s-style wood fixed axle.
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You gotta practice your freestyle with a legend wing if you want to get really good
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Nah you have to get good with the imperial 
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I have one. I’d have to use ONLY a Legend for a week. I am spoiled by modern yoyos.
Why actually is a titanium yoyo longer spinning? I mean it make sense that titanium is stronger and thus more rim weight, but can’t a bi-metal also achieve that?
Bi metals are used to distribute more weight to the rims, making a more stable but generally weightier feel. But titanium is used to put more material to the rim, making a very different feel from anything a monometal or bi metal could ever do.
Yes bimetals can achieve that, and in an apples to apples comparison (assuming you were using as close to the same design for both as possible), the bimetal will do it better. If it uses steel rings, that is. Steel rings are going to put more weight on the rim than a solid Ti will be able.
This is not an endorsement for bimetals being the “best” but if rim weight is your thing, they physically can’t be beat
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Well technically this means stainless steel rims + plastic body (aka hybrids) would be best of all, as plastic is lighter than aluminum and the steel rims can be proportionately even heavier.
This is kinda true, many of the hybrids I own have a remarkable feel. The only downside is less durability.
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You are correct but that’s also not the apples to apples comparison I had in mind
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Unless you consider it cheating, bigger will spin longer. In theory, the C3 Mega Crash should outspin all the bimetals listed by a long shot. It’s huge, with steel on the rims. It’s on sale right now.
Kinda overkill; most rim-weighted and bimetal yo-yos should be sufficient.
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Sufficient for what though? I mean, how much spin time is “enough”?
That is a question I can only answer for myself. What you quoted is my opinion!
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Right, but when someone is asking for recommendations, we need to have the answer to that question as it pertains to them, not ourselves.
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But, can we?
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What an interesting conversation
Like I said before, all my threads become debates
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To me it’s pretty simple.
Marm asked about yo-yos that are particularly long spinning, and gave an example of one used by Takeshi.
Through discussion, it was made clear that he (She? Sorry don’t want to assume.) wasn’t just trying to beat the spin time record, but wants to know about 1A yo-yos that have a long and powerful spin. There are yo-yos that are specifically designed to be exceptionally strong in that respect.
Some of us attempted to answer the question as it was posed.
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Man spin dynamics brings back memories… I remember being stoked on my OG Flow. The first run (or runs) all came with a helicoil insert which I thought was the coolest thing since sliced bread at the time. I had the nickel version which was a beastly weight, much like the monkey fist. But the nickel monkey fist was heavier than the nickel Flow! At that small of a diameter, all the monkey fists felt like lead weights
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