String tension on an unresponsive Yo-Yo

Yo-Yo Tricks
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My Lyn Fury is unresponsive and I have my Velocity set for unresponsive as well. How do I adjust string tension on them without taking the string off my finger? I can sidewinder my responsive yo-yo, but I kind of suck at UFO, usually only landing it 2 or 3 out of 10 times. Does anyone have a good video showing me how to adjust string tension on an unresponsive yo-yo. I have been on Ibanezcollector’s site, checking out his excellent collection of videos. All of them are there except for the Unresponsive Sidewinder video, just my luck. ;D

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Heres a way.  not really a tutorial but it’s easy.  Simply pinch the string above the yoyo slack off and you can see you have bad string tension so do a circle motion with your hand around the yoyo and it will fix it.  If it doesn’t try turning the other way.  heres the video

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It works.

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Perfect, both of those were exactly what I was looking for. Thank both.

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Your welcome. If you need any help with anything else just ask!

~Steven

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Also, if you want it from my perspective:

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Will do. I use a yo-yo in class with my third grade students to demonstrate the concepts of forces, motion, and simple machines. This is an extra little trick that I can use to show them friction. It also keeps me looking cool with my students. 8)

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You are a teacher? So is Phiz! haha.

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Good to see that more teachers are using yo-yo’s as a stress relief. :smiley:

Samad, your string tension technique seems to work best for me. Thanks for posting that video.