When you know- you know
But how do you know 
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Usually the yoyo fits your playstyle and plays just as you want it, floaty, powerful, etc. And when your playing with it the feel of it is just so perfect and the binds are so good that you just know!
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when i own other yo-yos but only go back to that one specific yo-yo
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Is it green?
Yes.
OKAY NEED!
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For me, the yoyo just clicks very well with me and from the get go I immediately like it. It doesnât happen often as for some reason I donât have the honeymoon phase that a lot of people have. If I donât like it immediately, I probably wonât like it even after playing with it for a few weeks. I just have a âthis is itâ epiphany sort of thing, which happened for the hummingbird.
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I Told my cousin before I married my Ex Wife âWhen you know, You know.â
sometimes
You donât know. hahaha
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If a (new) yoyo feels good in the hand and makes me go âOh, wow!â on the very first throw, making it through my standard little routine without drifting off plane and returning with a tight, snappy bind in the end, then I know.
To make me go âOh, wow!â a yoyo has to hit the end of the string on a strong sleeper throw with an emphatic stop, and then spin straight and true without any vibe. None of that sliding-down-the-string-and-landing-softly thing that a lot of yoyos do.
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Might be a cop-out answer, but for me I donât think any of them feel âjust rightâ in a âif you know you knowâ kind of way. I like different things in different yoyos, and I have a bunch of favorites that are nothing alike. If Iâm feeling like throwing a comfortable chill throw, Iâve got a few options that are great. If I want to throw something that feels more performance-oriented, Iâve got some Vs and some bi-metals that fit the bill. Everything on my shelf has a use, and many of my favorites are totally different from each other.
Idk. Maybe itâs not that none of them feel âjust right, if you know you knowâ like I said at first. Maybe itâs that there are many âjust rightsâ and there isnât a single common thread between them all.
Of course, your mileage may vary, Iâm jot trying to discount anyone elseâs experience. Just for me, I canât think of anything that a yoyo MUST HAVE to be my favorite.
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For me, it is specs, shape and looks. Sometimes brand as well, but mostly first three in that order.
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i tend to research my yoyos a lot. iâm not necessarily a âspecsâ guy, but there are a lot of features iâm
looking for - or will be looking for if iâm
stepping outside my comfort zone.
iâve picked up dozens of yoyos i thought iâd like and ended up back on the bst the next day. iâve moved countless yoyos i liked, but didnât fill a void that something else did (the life is a perfect example of that yoyo). and some yoyos just belong to someone else.
itâs trial and error, you really gotta feel out what YOUâRE about⌠are you a spec guy? are you a feel guy? are you a âjust one lookâ kinda guy?
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One of the reasons I donât sell or trade very many yoyos from my collection, even those I rarely, if ever, play, is because Iâm still new enough to this that my tastes and desires are likely to evolve and change over time. I donât want to be without the yoyos in my collection that might fit those future needs perfectly.
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educated guesses.
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The ones that give me a big smile while doing my first combo with it
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Just curious, related to this post: do a lot of you tend to prefer one shape over the others, or do you play with a variety? I know some people tend to prefer V more than organics, for example. I ask because I like a variety, and I wonder if that affects the answer to this question. To me, specs and shape hardly matter at all generally speaking, which makes it really hard to me to pin down a certain je ne sais quoi that will tell me âthis yoyo is The Oneâ˘â
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I see a lot of âhoneymoon phasesâ around here.
Its just so hard when there are so many to choose from and so many new yoyos coming out
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I love organics but I also love a nice variety. Shape doesnât matter if I connect with it and it feels good in the hand
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Iâm going for one or two of different shapes and sizes and colors. It needs to be something I donât have.
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Well, unless you try every single yo-yo available on Earth today, even if you have one that seems âjust rightâ, you have no way of knowing if the next 157 yo-yos you try might feel âeven more rightâ
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Letâs say you post up a question<> What is the Best yo-yo you haveâ? And a guy replies, âMy Skyvaâ.
âŚ.And you pm the guy and ask him, âHow many yo-yos do you haveâ? And he responds, â1â.
One Great advantage some yo-yo enthusiasts have, is having a Yo-yo Club or yo-yo meetings in their area. If itâs a pretty friendly group, people may spend a few hours trying othersâ yo-yos out. What a great way to scale down the number of hours you spend on the internet, staring at yo-yos and comparing specs.
We are all as close as the internet, but many yoers live in towns where NOBODY yo-yos. No-bodyâŚ
They canât try Beans. They can only guess and wonder and see what others speak highly of.
Seems to me that a very high percentage of people spend an extraordinary amount of time looking for that âMiracle for meâ yoyo. And an extraordinarily small amount of time actually throwing and evaluating the yo-yo or yo-yos they already have.
Iâve talked to people that have a yo-yo for 1 day and want to sell or trade it âbecause it doesnât feel rightâ.
You ever get a New pair of boots? 1 day wearing them is too short to tell how they are actually work out⌠You have to break em in a bit.
Some people narrow their wants for no specifically logical reason. They donât like V shaped yo-yos.So they will not buy V shaped yo-yos. They had one a long time ago and didnât really like itâŚ. So that shape is Dead.
Or they want any yo-yo they can getâŚâŚ as long as it comes in an Organic shape.
Before you decide what is âjust rightâ, you have to play enough variety, to recognize any certain yo-yo is âjust rightâ.
âŚ.Now, that being said, I would say you know when a yo-yo is âjust rightâ, when you decide to buy a few more of the same model in different color ways.
Itâs very easy to answer your âquestionâ.
Itâs a lot more complicated giving an accurate answer if you havenât had the opportunity to compare what you think is âjust rightâ to All the other yo-yos that might even be moreâ just rightâ or ânot right enoughâ.(If you only had the chance to try them).
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I donât have a preferred shape but tend to like organic and oversized among the others. Still I love slimlines and performance shapes as well. I like almost every yoyo I own. I just have one or two yoyos I donât like but Iâm not selling them as Iâm sure Iâll like them one day.
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I think every yoyo I own feels just right when I eventually pair it with the right string. Yoyos I was apathetic about felt awesome when I found the right string for it. In fact, they sometimes feels like an exciting new yoyo.
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