# string tension?

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-tension/5644>\
**Category:** Yo-Yo Tricks\
**Created:** [August 20, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-tension/5644 "2009-08-20T20:34:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rock4378](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/67e7ee/32.png) [@Rock4378](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Rock4378)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-tension/5644/1 "2009-08-20T20:34:46Z")

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guys my strings are killin me every 5 seconds it feels like i have to take it off my finter and let it untwist and my yo yo is super unresponsive

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**Author:** ![Paolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Paolo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Paolo)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-tension/5644/2 "2009-08-20T20:36:25Z")

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If it feels like it has bad tention, but it doesn’t, don’t worry, you’ll get use to it.

And if your yoyo is the New Breed, it is suppose to be unresponsive, very unresponsive.

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**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/string-tension/5644/3 "2009-08-20T21:16:53Z")

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You don’t have to have perfect tension 100% of the time, as gm user said. However, there are much easier way of adjusting string tension. Do a search of the forum for something like “string tension” and there will be many many topics that can help you out.