It’s cool to support local business. If you’re American, that could mean American businesses. If you’re Chinese, Chinese businesses. Fine.
What’s not cool is to denigrate entire countries on that basis. It is not a zero-sum game.
I have Chinese friends and colleagues, yo-yos and guitars, and they all can be amazing.
Sure, but when an amazing Chinese guitar can be sold by American retailers for $150, chances are good they are selling them (to said retailers) for less than they cost to make (which is technically illegal in this country). If not, then you have to wonder how they are able to spend so little to make them given that the materials costs alone would eat up all of their profits.
I don’t really see the need to bash Chinese manufacturing … I don’t think anyone would be able to tell the difference if they were just handed a yo-yo to throw. I also would bet that about 98% of people would not be able to tell the difference between 6061 and 7075.
That being said I am curious what @yyfben2.deactivated believes would be a way to get more yo-yos manufactured in the US. Is it trade deals like hafts and NPP that make it hard to compete? Is it a lack of machinists in the manufacturing industry?
If I were president what would I need to do to bring yo-yo jobs back to the USA ?
Don’t need to get too political just was interested in some general opinions .
Forgot one.
Sorry! Will fix. You guys kinda go back and forth on machining here and China, but do ano and everything else in US right? So many drops its hard to keep track sometimes
Also happy birthday
Its the price of materials but also labor.
Agree, it’s problematic to be paying so little for things when somewhere down the line someone is likely suffering a poor quality of life to make that happen. Thinking of sweatshop manufacturing of clothes here as well. It’s a good argument for knowing the conditions under which something is made, from raw material to finished product, and to support manufacturers that produce their wares under a higher ethical standard.
LOVE your new logo @hobbygod
To have more YoYos made in usa… more ppl need to walk the talk and buy usa made! It’s that easy.
It ends up just making the person who thinks like this look foolish really.
Oh well, more Yoyos for everyone else haha
I can’t tell if you’re just kidding or actually serious. I really hope you’re just kidding because the experiment by Emoto has been considered pseudoscience and scientists have been unable to replicate similar results in their experiments, especially when Emoto has refused to share his experimental techniques with the scientific community to allow them to reproduce his exact experiment. He also turned down the offer to reproduce the experiment under specified conditions in the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge which shows he isn’t confident of being able to reproduce the experiment under the stipulated conditions. (He gets a million dollars if he succeeds so there’s little reason for him to refuse if he can easily reproduce the results of his experiment.)
Also, as of now, dark matter is only theorised to exist due to the lack of mass of normal matter to explain the behaviour of cosmic phenomena which can only be observed through its effects on gravity. We also have no idea what dark matter is made up of and it is definitely not normal matter so quantum mechanics may not even apply to dark matter. The yoyo is also composed of normal matter so it cannot be composed of dark matter as dark matter is assumed to occupy space and since no two things can occupy the same space, the yoyo is not composed of dark matter and hence there is no quantum imprint on the dark matter composition of the yoyo. In a blind test, I am very certain that no one will be able to tell the difference between let’s say… a Draupnir made in China and a Draupinir made in the USA anyways. There are more problems with the argument made but I’m just going to call it here.
Sorry for geeking but I’m just someone who is a staunch advocate for the scientific method and critical thinking so it upsets me to see people actually believe such pseudoscience.
Well people believe what they see on the news everyday even when it’s not true… and trust scientists that don’t have their best interests in mind… hell psychology is all basically a pseudoscience if you wanna look at it in the same lense… so feel you’re just tryna argue lol
Does it? I have more YoYos from China than I do America. Yet if I say I like American better I’m automatically keeping myself from playing Chinese YoYos? A lot of assuming and pretentious comments surrounding an opinion on “unpopular yoyo opinions” lol. Gotta love the internet. You give an opinion and people assume
Throwing out of the UK I value one thing above everything else…
Yoyos.
I really appreciate North American manufacturered yo-yos. Vast majority of my yoyos are OD factory.
But I cherry pick the best yoyos of the world.
It don’t matter where a good yoyo be made, a good yoyos a good yoyo to me.
Some really funky variety you could miss out on.
But I can fully support wanting to support your local market.
Idk I’d anything this thread has led me to have more respect for YYF just saying but I’m weird so
We like weird too 
I was half joking but… Emotos research has been validated by Dr Gerald Pollock who has quantified the 4th phase of water and has proven water has the ability to receive transmitted information from the environment and should be nominated for a Nobel in the future for this work. As far as dark matter and it’s presence in “space” and your assumption that normal matter has no dark matter ie. no space, you realize that an atom/matter is basically nothing but space right? If you removed the empty space from every atom in your body and compressed what was left you’d be the size of a spec of dust. If you removed the empty space from all the atoms of every human on the planet we would all fit into something the size of a sugar cube! If you want to get a basic understanding of these mechanics then I’d recommend reading Universe in a nutshell by Stephen Hawking. If you want to know the latest in the field of quantum mechanics then seek out the work of Nassim Haramein who has mathematically proven that the nature of reality is holographic. If however you feel that for something to exist you must put some on a scale and measure it with the scientific method then the realization of the existence of dark matter or a quantum reality will forever elude you.
lmao this thread
No you!
And don’t forget,
Kapital is now available in the store, proudly made in usa
We have 2 YoYos on machines being made in the USA right now 
