I tried shortening the string and closing the gap, independently & together. Unfortunately, I didn’t see much of a change in the looping/regen of the yoyo.
I don’t see that the TMBR woodthread system allows for much in the way of legitimate gap adjustment, and am again falling back to my thought that my This-A-Way That-A-Way in the butterfly config has too aggressive of a V / too low of walls for the string to coil just right.
My hesitation asserting this is that I thought this yoyo was liked in the 0a community. It doesn’t seem to match up to me that I would have such a hard time getting it to react correctly on loops/regens. Certainly the common thread with having problems here is me being the thrower.
I’d love to know more thoughts or experiences with the This-A-Way That-A-Way – from you, Ed, or anyone bothering to read my long-ish posts.
Sometime the TAWTAW does seem to take a while for the string tension to get just right at the axle for a snappy response. Have you tried pinching the string just above the yoyo then spinning the yoyo to tighten the tension around the axle, then throw 10-20 powerful sleepers? Usually this does the trick for me.
While I prefer the PockeHt, TaW should still be a pretty great throw for Moons/Hops if you’ve already got them down on a wider shape. Definitely a great all-around pocket 0a throw in my experience and I’ve never encountered any prohibitive design characteristics. Doesn’t take much w setup or break-in to throw something off, but that’s true of most woodies. Here’s the basic shape on it if it’s at all helpful. Def a pretty forgiving/easy shape for me but that’s dif for everyone.
I love how modern responsive has a very organic stop and go feel to it really pays tribute to old school styles of play. While unresponsive can be interesting to watch to me it always has this artificial slickness to it like its almost too clean at times. Idk maybe I’m just letting nostalgia get to me lol
@edhaponik Thanks for the video. I just tried some STMs with my other fixies and realized they all range in looping up/down/about-right. I think my TAW is still on the extreme of looping down, no matter what I do. But watching your vid and thinking about this made me realize I was looking at my STM ability through rose-colored glasses…My level of skill is a significant factor here.
Still, even with bad form I can see my different yoyos looping differently so I also have to gain the skill of setting up yoyos correctly. That seems challenging with these TMBRs because I can’t imagine one has all that much control over gap width without really messing up the response. Alas, I suppose this is another joy of throwing wood.
Almost no fixies, at least wood ones, give you much if any control over the gap. You can adjust the string length… However, my suggestion is to practice these tricks a lot on the yoyo(s) you have the most luck with. Once you feel good about things, try them on the others.
A lot is just learning the yoyo. I’ve gone back and forth doing STM on my 70+ gram SW Ballsys, and my SW Burly (a mini wood) yoyo, and at first when I switch after doing them on one, I can’t do them on the other at all! However, after a bit I can, by just adjusting to the yoyo. As you said, once you get more solid, I think you’ll be able to find it on different yoyos more easily.
I never could do them on the OG Alleycat, though! I’d like to try again, but I’ve either lost it, or forgot I traded it.
So epic I still find myself watching that over and over now and then. I can hit double or nothing maybe on a good day on this thing but you are a true master my man lol
On some level a lot of fixed axle is “as easy as you allow it to be”.
Like most of it is the naïveté or hubris you have in assuming you can hit a trick and the other big part is getting out of your own head/way. Technique is a smaller piece of the puzzle and “effort” is mostly counterproductive (at least in the way I think of it).
I have to understand a trick (whether I’ve hit it before or no) but beyond that it’s a race to let go of it.
