SAD DAY FOR MY DV888 (only 3 weeks old) LOL

[dacklink]

same thing happened to me with my dv888
except it was only one day old when I dinged it
so I bought a pre production sticker dv888 at redondo beach when the redondo beach yoyo contest was going on
I kept it mint for the whole day until I was about to leave I decided to yoyo sideways
my string ripped and drag against the floor with dings and scrapes on it

this happened in march 8th
wasn’t really sad about it though
dings are fun for some yoyos

[kevlar14]

I dinged my Dark Magic so much I don’t really care when it gets another ding. If you can’t find it, it doesn’t exist.

[Paolo]

@Pheenix

@gm user

If you don’t ding your yoyos, Do you really play them to their full potential?

This made me think. Are you not playing your yoyo to it’s full potential if you hit it at something? I mean, dings aren’t really bad, but this makes it sound like you need to get them. Dings usually come from accidentaly hitting the ground, which isn’t actually “playing it to it’s full potential”. I don’t think people should be overly protective when they play with their yoyos, but you don’t need to hit something hard with them either.

I had been playing my M1 (second) for two months before I got my first dings on it. I played that yoyo a lot over pavement, and wasn’t trying my best not to hit the ground, I just didn’t hit the ground. Does that mean I didn’t play my M1 to it’s full potential for two months?

Now let’s go to surface. Carpet to be more specific. Carpet is a great ground-level surface for yoyoing. It’s soft and will not harm your yoyo. If you are playing as “hardcore” as possible over carpet, does that mean you’re not playing the yoyo to it’s full potential? If I get to choose between yoyoing over pavement and yoyoing over carpet, I choose the carpet because I know that if I play my yoyo “to it’s full potential” over pavement, I have a chance of dinging it. I will have no chance of dinging it over carpet.

I don’t try hard to avoid dings, but I don’t try to get dings either. I like to think that hitting the yoyo to the ground is a mistake, it’s a way of messing up, and I don’t like to mess up. Therefore, I try to miss the ground the same way I try not to miss my tricks. There’s no need to purposely ding my yoyo. Dinging a yoyo is a fail, but do what you always do when you fail, get yourself back up and practice until you stop failing.

Addment: And in this case, the string slipping off your finger resulting in the yoyo hitting the ground and gettin two deep scratches isn’t what I would call “playing it to it’s full potential”.

A lot of peole don’t throw as hard with fear of a string snapping, Or being hard and pulling their hands down and diniging it.

That is what I meant, And I als meant when you are playing over concrete.

[GorrillaYo808 (Gorrilla_YO)]

@Pheenix

@gm user

If you don’t ding your yoyos, Do you really play them to their full potential?

This made me think. Are you not playing your yoyo to it’s full potential if you hit it at something? I mean, dings aren’t really bad, but this makes it sound like you need to get them. Dings usually come from accidentaly hitting the ground, which isn’t actually “playing it to it’s full potential”. I don’t think people should be overly protective when they play with their yoyos, but you don’t need to hit something hard with them either.

I had been playing my M1 (second) for two months before I got my first dings on it. I played that yoyo a lot over pavement, and wasn’t trying my best not to hit the ground, I just didn’t hit the ground. Does that mean I didn’t play my M1 to it’s full potential for two months?

Now let’s go to surface. Carpet to be more specific. Carpet is a great ground-level surface for yoyoing. It’s soft and will not harm your yoyo. If you are playing as “hardcore” as possible over carpet, does that mean you’re not playing the yoyo to it’s full potential? If I get to choose between yoyoing over pavement and yoyoing over carpet, I choose the carpet because I know that if I play my yoyo “to it’s full potential” over pavement, I have a chance of dinging it. I will have no chance of dinging it over carpet.

I don’t try hard to avoid dings, but I don’t try to get dings either. I like to think that hitting the yoyo to the ground is a mistake, it’s a way of messing up, and I don’t like to mess up. Therefore, I try to miss the ground the same way I try not to miss my tricks. There’s no need to purposely ding my yoyo. Dinging a yoyo is a fail, but do what you always do when you fail, get yourself back up and practice until you stop failing.

Addment: And in this case, the string slipping off your finger resulting in the yoyo hitting the ground and gettin two deep scratches isn’t what I would call “playing it to it’s full potential”.

Thanks mate. I love your posts very thought out. I really believe you, dinging your yoyo is just a learning lesson, but also doesn’t mean that you have to completely trash it. PRACTICE=PERMANENT=PERFECT

[wcrase (Waylon (Rain City Skills))]

Sometimes I see pics of yoyos that look like theyv’e been beat with a claw hammer. Does that sort of damage happen in normal play or is it deliberate?

[Pheenix (JonasK)]

@wcrase

Sometimes I see pics of yoyos that look like theyv’e been beat with a claw hammer. Does that sort of damage happen in normal play or is it deliberate?

5a my friend. That’s a practice thing as well. Dropping your yoyo when doing 5a is a fail, you need to practice it all. But then 5a throwers usually don’t care about dings at all, which people shouldn’t do.

[wcrase (Waylon (Rain City Skills))]

5A with a $120 metal yoyo seems like nonsense to me. That is , unless you’re very, very good. But, hey, it ain’t my money.

[Pheenix (JonasK)]

5a throwers want performance, not a yoyo they don’t play with due to a risk of dropping it.

[gnomie]

heres my story i was teaching my cousin to yoyo (around the world) we tryed to syncronise it.

“ready, 1…2…3!!!” i said. every thing slowed when threw it. i suddenly felt nothing at the end of the string. my cousin yelled NAME. i saw my yoyo in the air sorring out in front of me it then hit me my yoyo had snapped off i made it half way untill i hered the horifing sound of my yoyo hit the rough concreet. but it didnt stop me from running it bounced and hit again i had finaly made it and stoped it from rolling away i picked it up and it had two big dings in it.
i later smothed them out with sandpaper but you can still see them to this day.

i dont write but tell me if you liked it.true story.

[poydthicbpane]

Same thing happern to my Dv888 now it has tiger stripes…