# tightening string on an unresponsive

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [January 17, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888 "2016-01-17T00:18:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niekro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/niekro/32/1541_2.png) [@Niekro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Niekro)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888/1 "2016-01-17T00:18:40Z")

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How do you do it? I just started fooling around with my Protostar and know the basic bind but that’s it. Obviously I threw a ufo with my DM2.

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**Author:** ![Fuzzwad](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/fuzzwad/32/1633_2.png) [@Fuzzwad](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Fuzzwad)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 1:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888/2 "2016-01-17T01:30:59Z")

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Just spin in clockwise to tighten it, and counterclockwise to loosen. There are a few videos, just look up “yoyo string tension” on YouTube and there should be a ton of videos.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888/3 "2016-01-17T01:45:13Z")

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If you know a UFO, basically you’ve got it.

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**Author:** ![Niekro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/niekro/32/1541_2.png) [@Niekro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Niekro)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 1:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888/4 "2016-01-17T01:52:07Z")

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I was hoping there was a trick to tighten the string where you could finish with a bind so you don’t have to wind it up by hand.

I’ll check out youtube.

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**Post date:** [January 17, 2016, 10:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tightening-string-on-an-unresponsive/78888/5 "2016-01-17T10:42:33Z")

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> [@Niekro](#):
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> I was hoping there was a trick to tighten the string where you could finish with a bind so you don’t have to wind it up by hand.
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> I’ll check out youtube.

There are a bunch.  
Steve Brown has a good video somewhere that shows the one I use a lot.

But you can also just throw a sleeper and grab the string about a foot from the throw and then do a sidewinder type motion then bind.

That’s what I see most competitive throwers do.