# The lessons of fixed axle **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [February 12, 2021, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-lessons-of-fixed-axle/334043 "2021-02-12T15:31:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-lessons-of-fixed-axle/334043/4 "2021-02-12T17:07:44Z")
If I were to start to consolidate my thoughts on this it would turn into my life story… or at least the last decade and a half. I’ve tried to write a lot about what fixed has taught me, esp on my blog but all over too (including on here). Exhibit A: > **[yo-yo #10: clean machine](http://kinopah.blogspot.com/2008/12/yo-yo-10-clean-machine.html)** > > plain. simple. unadorned. what do you need to yo-yo? what do you need to be a yo-yoer? i'm not sure of the exact day that it became the futu... And I guess here’s something from not too long ago where I shared some related thoughts. > [@'Why fixed axle?' you may well be thinking... We'll tell you why!](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/why-fixed-axle-you-may-well-be-thinking-well-tell-you-why/84454/29): > > Why throw fixed axle… man… ok… • necessity: When i started as a kid (the late 80’s) the most reliable yo-yo’s were fixed axles, while transaxles were a novelty and ball bearings were still a ways off. I’ll grant you the yo-yo’s i played were mostly inexpensive Duncans (Midnight Special!), but I thought they were fun, even if I was just doing Breakaways and Around the Worlds… for years. • nostalgia: I only played transaxles and bearings during the 90’s boom. When i got back into yo-yo’s in my 2… Maybe that’s less “lessons” than “encouragement”, but I feel like this is almost all I write about regarding yo-yo. It’s funny because I really throw fixed to get AWAY from all the words and comparisons pervading yo-yo… and yet for years I’ve kept throwing words and comparisons AT it thinking they’ll stick. They never do. They never will. Nothing fixed axle can teach you will really hit you just reading about it. You just have to do it. \<3 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/the-lessons-of-fixed-axle/334043)._