i don’t think that bell shapes have such a wide diameter, or have a graduated inner wall lie the yoyo in the picture.
That last one was an Exit 8. Let me know how you’d compare it to the Cascade…commonly referred to as a bell shape:
Sorry about the double post, I wanted to be able to see them side by side. The Exit 8 looks like someone blended a bell shape with a double v shape.
Yeah they are gone now. I made that post rather early in the morning, don’t know what I was going for.
These are not to scale…but here they are side by side.
Here’s how I define shapes. When I look at the catch zone of a yoyo, what does it look like? If it looks like the letter “h,” than I call it an H-shape. Examples would be the Super G and Genesis. If you look at the catch zone of a V-shape the area above the bearing will appear to form a “v.” Another common shape is what I call the Protostar shape. You can see it on the Protostar, Classic, and many, many more.
I was looking in the same area at first. But, now I notice people are looking elsewhere. Tell me how you’d describe that Evilyo…I was thinking H at first. So what would you say the Evilyo is? Just above the bearing they all have a wall that kind of forms an H. That is why I was confused.
While I wait for Stringking to chime in…here’s a 6th throw. Based on what I learned so far today…definitely a V?
rounded v shape
Magic n9 I think it an hourglass shape.
Okay, definitely a V…I got one right. That was a Supra. Now, for the next one. This has a tiny little lip…like itsy bitsy. Does that count too?
7th, what’s this?:
this one (I think. I’m not sure) would qualify as a Butterfly, or organic shape.
Yeah, kind of stumped on that one. It is kind of classic shaped, but not with the roundness. It’s throwing me off. :-\
I would call that an organic v shape. I think most yoyos fall inbetween two categories, so you need to list two to accurately describe them.
^ That certainly seems to be the case, which further explains my confusion with defining shapes. Not so much defining them, but applying the definitions to what I see. That last throw was a Trinity.
8th throw. What do you think?:
I’d call the Evil-Yo more of an “H” shape. The thing is, there are many yoyos out there that simply don’t fit into the realm of “h” or “v” shape. You can’t force all yoyos into one of those categories.
So do you agree with the others…that there is a U category too? Perhaps it fits better in there. I’m so happy you saw an H though, cause it means I’m not totally crazy. Well…not in this way anyway. 
Take a crack at that green yo-yo…curious what you see there.
Well, I don’t get what you mean by a “u” category, but as for the green yoyo (It’s a Punchline, right?), I’d call that a very slight “h” shape.
We were discussing the letter U earlier in the thread. We were thinking that Evilyo definitely resembles a letter U, and the YYJ Theory too. I was thinking H too for the last one. That last one was a Punchline Repeater (on my BST…shameless plug). Okay, on to another one.
9th throw…what do you see here:
I see the above as an H shape. As for the Exit 8 you showed earlier, that is definitely a bell shape, or maybe what I’d call a “gull” (as in seagull) shape, because the profile looks like those little birds we all drew as children.