Man i wonder where Jason Sorcan is these days. My fellow Team Dixies member.
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Awesome collection, but at the same I am feeling a bit of anxiety seeing that much.
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How much of that was the haul from Codinghorror? I know you got an amazing collection awhile back. I am still jealous.
Oh man! That black cherry bomb takes me back! First real yoyo i purchased with mowing grass money! I loved every single minute with that thing. Sadly, my original has been lost to time (more likely parents purged it, along with my ninja turtle collection from when i was young). Beautiful collection my man! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I love seeing this. I can show my wife and tell her it is completely normal to have so many yoyos. Lol.
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About 5-6 years ago I came across my box of yo-yos and cleaned it out. Gave away a bunch and threw out all my yo-yo times newsletters. I wish I would have kept them. I also lost my third place plaque for a contest in the 80’s. I remember having it in the 90’s but it disappeared. 
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Sniffy-Yo = Paul Ash. I remember seeing his quirky reviews back around 2011. He was very supportive sending me emails about social media, talking up YYSL to companies, and discussing Type X before it came out. Learned a life lesson or two from that experience.
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@yoyodoc good to see that you still got a Life!
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I was wondered what happened to Sniffy 
Loved his reviews back then …
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Oh my… Ali Baba’s treasure cave, no less.
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Dear Mr. Yoyodoc,
My name is Ruoyu, and I’m saying hello from Beijing, China.
My brother, Yefan, and I are amateur modders, and both of us were shocked reading your post Back in time about 20 years(Moze ole mods). These modified yoyos really gave us many inspirations. Color combinations and unique designs are undoubtedly splendid. Brilliant work, sir!
We don’t own many Yoyojam plastic yoyos and Freehand Zeros for us to mod. Although there are a lot of cheap yoyos made by Auldey and Aoda, both are considered bootleg companies. My brother and I don’t like to perform modifications on these knockoffs. I saw your huge inventories, wondering whether you would sell some. If you do, please let me know.
Here are some modified yoyos to verify that we really are who we say we are. Also, you can take a look at my brother’s Instagram account, hinasamaxjh, for more pics.
Best regards,
Ruoyu
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Here are some pics of some stuff Dale sent me when he was fading out and cleaning house.
A spin-off of the Jamboo family… sorta.
Dale was Tinkering with synthetic quartz and types of man made countertop materials. They came raw, with no bearings and no response. I e had them for years in a bag in a box in a drawer.
I took one apart(technical term is Unscrewed it) and installed a bearing and teal YYF response pads. It looks plays pretty nice. I waited too long to find this out, lol. I think this calls for a KonKave bearing and a mirror finish on the rims, etc…maybe polish the body to bring out the figure of the material. What a pleasant surprise.
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What a cool idea, I love seeing different materials on yoyos. I’d love to see them polished up.
Do they have a lot of weight to them?
He passed away September of last year. I can’t figure out how to PM here
Just dropping these in the ‘Relics’ thread, so not to start another thread…
20 something years ago… a Legend in the formative stages. The one one only>
A few weeks ago couple people were wondering where Jason Lee was? Well, I’m certainly no Missing Persons detective… But that being understood if you want a good starting point, look to the right in that article at the top. On October 7 over 20 years ago Jason Lee was in Chico at Nats, taking 1st in 1A Division.
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OG Gangsta images Circa ‘20’ years ago.
look at that ‘Crew’! And the Grand Masters… And a Great image of JD and his amazingly Cool Mom.
…. Check out Andre in that lower left corner. Hard to believe he is only 12 years old in that image lol.
JD, Nathan and Jack Rinca and big wave Dave and Mark McBride, Thad and Seth and Matt, etc.
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To answer your question(years later, lol).Most of the yo-yos against the wall in the display boxes are from Coding. What might be even more interesting is what you can’t see, lol. On the other side of that room(out of camera view) are 4, four level file cabinets. All the file cabinets are filled with yo-yos. As can be seen in the thread, some images of the drawer contents are provided. I would have posted up every single drawers contents…. But, I’m sure we get all agree that after a while you can just get tired of seeing a bunch of drawers, filled with yo-yos across from a room that’s covered with yo-yos and stacked with crates of yo-yos.
Also, slightly out of the cameras view is my straight jacket. Even a fisheye lens would not have captured the straight jacket because I’m the one doing the images while wearing the jacket. The camera is on a tripod and I push a lot of the buttons with my nose.
somewhat of a curse, I guess? When you don’t smoke or drink or do any kind of controlled substance stuff or gamble or travel much… You end up with enough money to blow on other stuff. Obviously if I had two or three vices, I probably wouldn’t be able to fill a room with yo-yo’s. A short lesson for anybody and everybody that stares at all the yo-yo images and has various thoughts running through their heads.
You could do a study of how many yo-yos a person owns and realize in a quick minute that it doesn’t have anything to do with a yo-yo skill level the owner has or might achieve eventually even if they live 1000 years.
So for some of you, younger kids… don’t ever try to convince yourself that having a bunch of yo-yos will result in a bunch of skill. Because even though I’ve been known to throw a trick here and there, my skill level is closer to the bottom than it is to the top, lol.
And even though my dream in random moments of thought is to actually eventually get better, the sheer multitude of yo-yos that I have, have done nothing to increase my skill level that I am aware of?
I could make a list and going from that list. Throw one yo-yo for an hour every day but a different yo-yo. I could change yo-yos every day all year long without throwing the same yo-yo for five years…
I don’t hesitate admitting that it is fun when I go by the other house(with the yo-yo room) I just grab a yo-yo and throw it around for a couple minutes. But I have no doubt that if I just had one possibly 36 count yo-yo bag, I could live with that too.
As I advanced into my senior years, once in a while, I stare at my menagerie and think to myself if I drop dead all of a sudden for some whatever reason… My wife is probably just gonna box all the yo-yos up and put them out on the curb. She has no interest in yo-yo whatsoever. It’s not that she doesn’t like them. It’s just that yo-yo‘s hold no fascination for her. She doesn’t throw yo-yos and she doesn’t care about yo-yos. In over 20 something years ago when I was going to the contest and Trying to modify the world I spent a good amount of weekends here and there away from home, not exactly to her delight. So when I was really tearing stuff up, even though I paid a lot of attention to her, a certain amount of our time together was lost because I was at a contest or a meet or something else which she never ever liked and never never ever wanted to attend. No interest whatsoever.
So any images, I post of yo-yos, are not to impress anybody. If nothing else, it may be a warning to not personally be able to post similar images.
I’m not saying I regret having a ton of fun. But a few hundred pounds would probably be just as fun, lol.
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One of my very rich coworkers once told me that being rich does not bring you happiness. It does, however, give you the right to tell others that being rich will not bring you happiness.
Having all these yo-yo’s gives you the right to tell people that they will not make you a better player. It also gives you the right to tell others what a good yo-yo is and is not.
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I need to start thinking about my Final Wishes papers to leave for my family. I’ll be leaving a lot of yoyos behind. I want them boxed up and sent to Andre to give away to kids at contests or yoyo club or wherever. If you make a will maybe mention what should be done with all your yoyos. A U-Haul will be needed.
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