Was trying to start a yoyo club at the school I teach at and things just didn’t work out. I have a club set of yoyoexpert snapbacks and string that I no longer need. 20 snapbacks in total (4 of each color), ~100 of the yoyo expert 100% poly strings, and yoyoexpert trick cards.
7 of the snap backs are still in their orginal packaging.
Originally bought them for $159.
Asking for $140 shipped.
Orginal retail would have been $270.79
May be interested in trades of comporable retail value.
Would really like these to a club or someone else trying to start a club.
Could be interested if your last offer falls through. My clubs been looking for an option for when kids show up without a yoyo that isn’t give them one of ours. Not sustainable in the long term in our current path.
I’ll start with the background of the school first. Its an innercity middle school and the kids are kinda rough. This is my 7th year teaching there and I have learned how to work with the kids very well. The club I was trying to start was run through after school programs which is sponsored by our local YMCA. I decided to finally do the club after multiple requests from students, so the interest was there. There was a leadership turn over this year though so I wasn’t sure how everything was going to work out. Essentially our new leadership micromanaged everything to the point club leaders couldn’t run our clubs the way we wanted to and almost 60% of the kids atteneding the program didn’t deserve to be there due to behavior issues during school and during the program and refused to not allow them to come back.
For how the club was run, I would start with our expectations every session to remind students that is they were careless while yoyoing someone would easily get hurt. After acknowledging my expectations, I would pass out the yoyos and we would circle up. I would stand in the middle of the circle so I could easily monitor everyone and teach tricks. We started with the basics like how to put the yoyo on your hand, how to wind the yoyo, how to throw a sleeper, and walk the dog. After students could throw a strong sleeper I would start teaching more advanced thricks like around the world, forward toss, and rock the baby. After learning the more adanvaced tricks I had students assist me in helping me with any other students who need more attention with getting a strong sleeper. At this point my students were getting impatient because I wasnt teaching them the DNA and would not listen to me about the fact that our snapbacks could not do them let alone no one had a strong enough sleeper to actually perform a fingerspin let alone the coordination to pull off the DNA.
For the finer details, my club met two days a week and was going fairly well. We met in tbe library since it was carpeted. Our E-sprorts club started up in the library the second week. When this happend my kids started wandering the library, peeking into the computer lab, and leaving yoyos randomly around the library. After the third week it was half of my students who were doing this. Which I cant blame them yoyo is hard and video games are easy both fun but if you give a middle school student the easy vs hard choice most of them would take the easy choice.
My final week was the kicker though because I started receiving multiple new students who had no interest in yoyoing, and dealing with way too many behavior issues during snack time with everyone elses club kids. What did it for me was was being left in our lunch room alone with over 100 students with the other club leaders not being there. This is never supposed to happen. Every club leader should have been there to monitor their students but for some unknown reason it was me alone. Two students started fighting and it got to the point were two kids were strangling each other while I was pulling them apart.
Decided I wasn’t going to put up with that anymore and decided I was going to discontinue my club becuase it wasn’t worth the stress I was experiencing.
Thank you for the details. Good for you for trying. Maybe a few of them who kinda took interest could get “private” lessons if they earn it and want to explore more.
I’m in the suburbs so I don’t see some of those challenges being present. Working with 4-5th graders and they’re a bit more attentive. They do, and some can, want to jump straight to DNA! Haha.
I hope something works out for you in the long run.
Yo-yo club Winston state School has one but it is only a few kids and no teachers they just teach each other tricks but good idea for a yo-yo club. Did I you do it for a school
