(Edit: the post is quite long, but I felt like this is going to be a popular and recurring topic by a lot of beginner/intermediate yoyo enthusiasts in a similar situation to me leading up to Black Friday. So I thought why not make it a detailed one so that we can consolidate everyone’s similar questions in one thread pre-emptively)
So I’m actually not quite ready for another yoyo purchase yet as I have just purchased 4 yoyos in quick succession recently and I am still only just learning.
However, I want to make the most of the Black Friday sale (assuming it happens on YYE as it isn’t announced yet). I figure that I will be making this purchase sooner or later anyway, and given the high price of most bi-metals, it might as well be now, instead of regretting it in a few week/months time.
I currently own :
- ThrowRevolution Neo; that I will use as my training aid due to it’s narrower width (40mm) and being a responsive yoyo.
- YoyoFriends Dove; that I use mainly to practice and as an EDC outside as it is Delrin and cheap in comparison.
- OneDrop VTWO; this is currently my favourite yoyo and I will use this for the upcoming Trick Ladder at the SRC Contest and it just makes me happy to use
- Ti-Vayder; a bit of an impulse purchase, wanting a piece of the yoyo history, and to try a well-regarded titanium yoyo at a budget. I think this is a yoyo I will grow to love more and more as I get more experienced. Also although it’s not a pure organic shape, it’s close enough for me to have as my organic yoyo to fill the gap.
Last time I ask this forum to help me find good first yoyos that fit my needs and my situation I have received a lot of great advice and help and those advices basically shaped what I ended up buying which deviated a bit from what I originally planned.
Naturally, a lot of bi-metal yoyos were also recommended such as the Hummingbird, Grasshopper GTX, Haymaker X etc, and I politely asked to stay on monometals for my first purchase as I didn’t feel I would be good enough, or had enough varied yoyo experience to really appreciate it, and also I wanted to save something new to look forward to.
I don’t think I am quite ready to jump on a bi-metal quite yet, nor do I think I will appreciate it quite yet, but hey! Black Friday! what better time to jump in right?
So I am now seeking out my next purchase and as I have no experience, and I feel the forum has grown to know me a little since then I thought I would ask the aficionados on this lovely site.
Below are what I am looking at currently in the way of a shortlist with a comparison to what I already own.
(I know that the MK1 Diffraction v2 is not a bi-metal but that is currently the only other mono-metal along with Kuntosh that’s on my wish list)
Right now I’m leaning towards this aqua/rose Draupnir Overdrive
But more has been added following excellent advice by @zslane
and also I added all the spec for the yoyos I am looking at following another excellent advice by @Durfee
Also I expect @twitch77’s advice will be all of them are good just get any you like “as long as it is green”
By the way, this is in no particular order, but If I were to place a ranking on what I am currently most leaning towards it would be something like
- Overdrive Draupnir
- Butter (But not super keen on the black or the silver, would have preferred a more popping colour like Aqua)
- Grasshopper GTX
- Hummingbird
- Akita maybe, but from here on out it’s all more or less equal
Thank you everyone in advance