# Thin Yoyos **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [April 19, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122 "2016-04-19T22:40:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Amdroid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/amdroid/32/476_2.png) [@Amdroid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Amdroid)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/21 "2016-04-20T17:38:11Z")
It may seem counter-intuitive, but I’m pretty sure compared to a narrower weight placement, a wider weight placement on a yoyo will increase a yoyo’s ability to tilt, and therefore make it less stable. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/22 "2016-04-20T17:46:53Z")
> [@Amdroid](#): > > It may seem counter-intuitive, but I’m pretty sure compared to a narrower weight placement, a wider weight placement on a yoyo will increase a yoyo’s ability to tilt, and therefore make it less stable. It seems counter-intuitive because it is not correct. :wink: A wider weight placement will increase a yoyo’s resistance to tilting. ---
**Author:** ![kevinm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kevinm/32/697_2.png) [@kevinm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kevinm)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 6:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/23 "2016-04-20T18:10:13Z")
Hey i don’t pretend to understand anything i do with a yoyo, i just know from years of playing with them that, for example, many slimline yoyos are hard to control in a gyroscopic flop. this could have to do with string touching high walls and all kinds of other stuff, but it seems to my monkey brain like it is less stable. ---
**Author:** ![Morgoroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/morgoroth/32/795_2.png) [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/24 "2016-04-20T20:53:20Z")
> [@yoyodoc](#): > > Why would you quote me when comparative narrowness/thinness has little to do with ‘narrow or thin’? > > 42+mm wide may not be technically as wiiiide as Yoyos it may be ‘compared to’. > > But a 42+mm yoyo would/should/could not be considered ‘narrow or thin’ in a real World. > > If you want to attempt narrow-er based on comparison, then just go back to All the Yoyos in kevinm’s image😳 > > The Horizon could easily be identified as not narrow compared to every yoyo in that image, lol. > > But then again; I’m not basing my opinion on comparing the Horizon to a specific yoyo. > > By simply going with generally accepted (current and recent history Yoyo)measurement parameters; 42.64mm Yoyos are not narrow. > > Thin and thinner are two very different things. > > Interchanging the words to justify you view, holds as much water as a bucket full of holes. Don’t get cranky with me, I agree with you. 🙂 I was just pointing out the possible origin of the idea that the horizon is narrow. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.ARK93](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mr.ark93/32/1646_2.png) [@Mr.ARK93](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mr.ARK93)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 8:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/25 "2016-04-20T20:56:55Z")
On the topic of thin yo-yos, I read somewhere that the old Yomega Wing Force yo-yo was pretty darned narrow for a metal yo-yo, especially of its era. ---
**Author:** ![yoyodoc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyodoc/32/48820_2.png) [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/26 "2016-04-20T23:38:32Z")
> [@Morgoroth](#): > > Don’t get cranky with me, I agree with you. 🙂 > > I was just pointing out the possible origin of the idea that the horizon is narrow. > > ']YoYoExpert mobile app[/URL] Getting ‘cranky’? So my connecting a series of factual statements constitutes a ‘cranky disposition’? Interesting🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Amdroid](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/amdroid/32/476_2.png) [@Amdroid](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Amdroid)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/27 "2016-04-21T05:48:17Z")
> [@GregP](#): > > It seems counter-intuitive because it is not correct. :wink: A wider weight placement will increase a yoyo’s resistance to tilting. Hey Gregp! What you’re saying makes a lot of sense to me. I just heard the opposite thing from some people who know what they’re talking about over on the yoyo designers Facebook page. I honestly have no idea what I’m talking about, and maybe I read this wrong, (if I did, feel free to let me know) but I’ll stick a little quote here from Kyo: > [@](#): > > Yoyos have two moments, one around the axle axis, one across it. > > High moment around the axle increases spin. > > High moment across it increases its ability to tilt. > > So having a very wide weight placement in relation to a smaller diameter gives it leverage to tilt, vibe, wobble, etc. > > In simplest terms, diameter is your spin, width is your stability. ---
**Author:** ![Lex](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lex/32/1599_2.png) [@Lex](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lex)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 7:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122/28 "2016-04-21T07:17:30Z")
I’m assuming by moment Kyo is talking about moment of inertia. Moment of inertia is an object’s resistance to change in angular velocity. So if a yoyo has a high moment of inertia across the axle, it will have a high resistance to changing the angular velocity. So, this means that a wide yoyo will be less likely to tilt than a thin yoyo. It does mean however that if a wide yoyo starts to tilt that it is harder to correct than with a thin yoyo. [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thin-yoyos/80122.md?page=1)