Rules to yo by
- practice more. post less.
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Exactly.
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To any competitor, 2nd place is losing. You can sugarcoat it all you want if you like, but it just is.
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Nate really had the crowd on his side and he looked like he was having a blast up there. I really enjoyed his enthusiasm and his choice of tricks. IOW, I really like his style.
I assume the main reason he didnāt score higher (than 85.9) was because for many of his tricks the yoyo spent a lot of valuable time traveling between clickable āmomentsā, limiting the number of clicks he was going to get in 3 minutes.
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Does anyone know why Nate didnāt use an ND Ultra?
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Or a BiND for that matterā¦ 
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Because itās a good yoyo and still his signature.
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He used the ND because he prefers it.
Gives a bit of insight as to how much bimetal really matters for competition.
Not much according to Nate Daileyā¦
ā¦Or Gentry Stein for that matter.
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Worlds was the best. I was so lucky to go and that so many people came from so far away too. I didnāt get to speak with everyone I wanted to but I was up till 6:30 am on Sunday throwing, so apparently not enough time lol.
If I can comment on Evanās freestyle, it was a gift to the yo-yo community, he tried (and landed) some tricks up there of his he hadnāt tried before, and Iām glad and happy he went for them and Iām sure others can say the same. Hajime melted all our faces with his 4A routine, and IMO kind of hard to talk about making soloham a division if heās the only one doing it lol. I also like the freestyles of Luke Trautwein, Nate Dailey, Patrick Canny, Keiran Cooper, Alex Curfmanās 3a Semi-Finals, Ann Connolly, Janos Karancz had some nice tricks in his 1A semis, so many more too.
The best for me though was throwing with Evan Nagao, Harrison Lee, Remy Baskin, Jakub Plader from Poland, Angelo Aguirre, Cheng (donāt sleep on Cheng, he can throw down too), Myles Gregory, Quentin Godet, Californian (Andrew?) who rips with a yo-yo, in a stairwell late after the contest showing some different tricks and doing whatever routines cleanly.
I also got to meet Mark manning the MK1 boutique booth for @MarkD and throw my green Diffraction 2 with other players that just picked theirs up. Mark visiting from the Duncan Store in Disney World was a cool guy and let us try the Diffraction 2 all we wanted and see the different colours in person.
So glad to have a Ti-Vader on hand during the event too, but I brought it to the Basecamp release party which turned out to be a big mistake for maintaining its mint condition status (video below)
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REPORTED FOR VIOLENT OR ABUSIVE ACTS!
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No, itās not Flarion, itās F-L-A-R-E-O-N
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hehe Iām such a pokenoob! >.<ā
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lol, none of our faces are showing, you have no evidence.
Yeah Walk the Flareon could be a good name for it
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Hereās a small collection of a few memes that appeared on my instagram that, in some way or another, try to minimize, invalidate or ridiculize Gentryās win. Those are posted on @whip.annconolly and @slackyyoyomemes accounts.
I wanted to bring this to attention here. Yes, people can do whatever they want on the internet, but it is very, very sad when you remember yoyo players are real people with feelings.
If you believe what these people are doing is harmless, take it from Gentry himself, which did an AMA on r/Throwers about 10 months ago and opened his heart and left a comment, hereās part of it.
There have been so many times where Iāve wanted to quit yoyoing. Over the last 10 years, Iāve poured my heart and soul into yoyoing. Actual blood, sweat, and tears. Iāve read literally THOUSANDS of comments from people Iāve never met, and some that I have met, talking about how much I suck, how terrible my tricks are, how I never deserved to win said contest, how bad my routines are, how much they hate the yoyos Iāve designed, how much they hate me, and many, many more comments of disapproval. Iāve spent countless hours staring at a wall or ceiling wondering how people can have so much hate toward me. Little do they know, EVERY comment hits me harder and contributes to the times where I feel like I want to quit yoyoing.
On top of that, I have failed a lot of times in my yoyo career. This year, I put in about 8 hours a day for 8-10 months to try to win the World Yoyo Contest again. I also went to Japan to train for almost a month before the contest, and was told by some of the most profound people in the yoyo community that my routine was the best ever. Everyone was telling me I was going to win. When it came time to perform my routine, I messed up. I totally ruined the freestyle. I hit maybe 70% of the routine when I needed to hit 90%. I got off stage thinking āDid that actually just happen?ā. I walked straight to my hotel room, threw my bag on the floor, and found myself staring at a wallā¦ again. I called my mom across the world with tears in my eyes, telling her that I donāt ever want to touch a yoyo again.
So yes, I understand how you feel. I know what its like to want to quit.
To finish this, I want to leave this comment from Rei Iwakura, respected figure in the yoyo community and six-time 4A World Champion, who said this after observing the negative pulse of great part of the community towards this yearās results.
I am sickened and disgusted and thatās ok. The situation wonāt change. I just wanted to vent my feelings towards this here and maybe bring some awareness into this topic.
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I only feel bad for Gentry in the sense that he hasnāt yet realized how meaningless 99.9% of negative Internet commentary truly is. It is all just worthless noise that doesnāt merit any kind of consideration, much less the kind that makes you contemplate quitting the thing you love most in life.
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That doesnāt mean it doesnāt hurt
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Positive feedback still feels a lot better than negative 
Idk about other people but I sure feel a lot better when I get 100+ upvotes vs. 10 on Reddit for my tricks 
Probably the same thing with a 99/1 like to dislike ratio rather than the 70/30 last time I checked
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It hurts only if you allow yourself to give a cr@p about it. The toxic garbage that fills most of the spaces of the Internet is not worth reading in the first place, much less giving a cr@p about.
Seeking validation from people who mean nothing to you or your life is a good way to guarantee youāre frequently going to feel down on yourself for no good reason. I am convinced that social media has provided the most efficient transmission vector for insecurity and low self-esteem in the history of humanity.
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