Some people do, but these people are wrong 
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Grooved. Concave feels weird for me. I donāt really know why but I feel like a concave doesnāt make a yoyo āfeel goodā.
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Awesome!!!
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I am very fond of the Onedrop 10 ball flat bearing, those things are so smooth and lovely. I have a grooved 10 ball in my CLYW Puffin which I also really like, smooth and quiet!
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Yeah, the spin characteristics of the One Drop bearings are exceptional. I just wish the dang things wereāt flat!
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Iām hearing a lot of good things about this bearing! I gotta get me one ans represent!!
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I feel exactly the same way. I find my OD yoyos with their stock bearings spin sooooo well, but the flat bearing pales in comparison to anything else for me 
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I like the fact it is flat, it helps train your to throw more straight (in my experience anyway). Thatās not to say I dislike other types of bearing though.
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I have a few with CT and the rest concave - 3 of which are Buddha whipple but right now I have no idea whatās in what. I bagged the flat that came in my Top Deck.
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Iāve never been a flat bearings in any capacity. Center Tracs are okay, and OD 10 balls can be nice, but I like my string centering.
Full-ceramics didnāt really do it for me and itās hard to justify $30 in hardware per yoyo.
Cheap Chinese 10 ball concaves are my choice.
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I have those in a couple of my yoyos and they do seem to work well. In fact, they have yet to seize up on me the way two of my Dif-e-o KKs have. 
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Huh, even thin lubed they seized? As in, were rendered unusable?
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The first one that seized could not be saved by either cleaning or lubing.
The second one I have yet to get around to cleaning and lubing.
By seized I mean that after only a couple hours of play (not continuous play), the bearing stopped spinning freely. Just all of a sudden, in the middle of a trick the bearing started screaming very loudly, and upon opening up the yoyo and giving it a flick, it would barely move. IMO this should not happen to any new bearing of any style/design unless it was manufactured improperly.
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Agreed that is super bad.
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Definitely shouldnāt happen so soon. Did you buy the bearings from us? Weād be happy to replace them if it was a recent purchase.
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I really hate being That Guy who you have to keep sending replacement bearings to. You already sent me a replacement for the first bearing the seized up (the one that came stock in my Surveillance).
This second one is a Dif-e-o KK I bought from YYE a few months back, before I had any yoyos that came with them stock, so I could compare its quality and performance to the cheaper Chinese KK clones I had bought off eBay. It sat in its tiny ziplock bag and didnāt get any use until I put it in my Surveillance just a couple of weeks ago (the replacement you sent, mentioned above, sits in an entirely different throw at the moment).
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the circular ones that spinā¦
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Youāre not being That Guy at all, new parts should work! Iāll send a PM and we can get it taken care of for you.
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as long as itās ceramic and string centering I donāt care what brand it is.
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I can attest to the greatness of the JD Whipple bearings, both of mine are beasts
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