Everyone has their own yoyo journey that are different from one another though sharing similarities. How do you think yours differ from others?
Mine:
Yoyoed most all of my life, before internet, just instructional books, imagination and occasionally Tom Smothers on TV.
Always had a yoyo with me growing up as well as now and used it for imaginative play and as a kid I even put a hook on the end of the string and held the yoyo and caught a few fish.
Grandmother made my first yoyos.
Ran the school yoyo club but never have had anyone outside of that participate in yoyoing with me. Guess I’m a solo act.
This is a great new thread. There’s nothing very unique about my yoyo journey except that I prefer and only practice (99.9% of time) frontstyle because while sidestyle intrigues me and I realize it affords more exploration, frontstyle, to me, interests me more. I like the way frontstyle looks more than other styles. I broke into intermediate in September 2018 and I am still what I consider low level intermediate and I’m okay with that. I have friends here that inspire me to expand in my frontstyle and I do incorporate or discover new little things on my own here and there and it keeps throwing exciting for me. Smoothness and consistency is something I always struggle with but I never put a yoyo down until I successfully complete a trick or move because I don’t want to put a yoyo down after a fail. It’s like something my grandfather told me when I was 9 or 10: “Your grandmother and I never go to sleep if we are angry at each other.”
I’ve been more interested in how yo-yos look Than how they play. I like simple solid colors. When I first started yoyo, all of us had Duncan butterflys and YoMega X-brain yoyos. Not much experience with unresponsive yo-yos but I loved tossing the Yomegas. In high school I picked up a DV888 and got hooked on unresponsive. I still haven’t gotten many tricks down but I’m given myself that practice time now. I can bind but I want to make my yo-yos users and not shelf queens anymore.
My early yoyo experience was starting a yoyo fad in elementary school when I smuggled my yomega brain. I showed my friends a few tricks, they came the next day with some yoyos to learn. Rest was history. This was well before the 1999 boom. More like 1997.
I’m not sure my journey is much different from others. I can’t remember if it was middle school or high school someone showed up with an Imperial. Within a few days there was a group of us with new Imperials chucking them around as we walked in the halls. They got banned shortly after though when someone’s string broke and the yoyo went flying.
Years later I picked up yoyos again. This was when FH2, FHZ, DM, and Hitman were popular. Threw for a bit, then stopped.
Earlier this year picked it up again. I like throwing because it’s quieter than other hobbies, so I can throw late at night without waking up neighbors. I also like it because I can throw alone and just sort of chill out with my own thoughts.
