Thanks mate!
That’s of I can any any time these days to actually make one.
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That’s okay! I’m not really going to start thinking about it until summer is over.
Edit: there is one idea that I’ve had for a while that is basically an 888 with punchline rim’s
I knew what it was before I clicked the link. Does this make me old? 
Jk. Really like old eurobeat and bubblegum pop.
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“3D tricks” are lame both to see and to perform.
1A play is saturated with filler tricks.
Dinging up a yoyo does not, “give it character.”
Ryosuke Iwasawa has perhaps the coolest and most memorable playstyle of all time.
Yoyos have finally eaten themselves.
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A lot of people will agree with you but I don’t. Not every trick can be a crowd pleasing banger. And there needs to be some standard scoring system, and that will always result in certain trick styles being in routines to capitalize on the given scoring system.
These tricks still demonstrate proficiency and can still lead to innovation within those particular types of tricks, and they serve as a way to get a decent baseline score to then supplement with riskier, more complex and impressive tricks that ultimately end up deciding who wins.
I agree. There’s tons of room for both.
I love to see each individuals unique take on what might be considered “filler tricks”
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The types of routines that have the same obligatory front-style and horizontal sections just for the clicks they get. I swear that half of yoyo competitors use the same front-style speed combo.
No, but a dinged yoyo is much more relaxing to play with when you arent playing over carpet. A yoyo with a handful of small dings that is still smooth is an ideal EDC, since even if you ding it again, it won’t matter. A perfect condition yoyo always has a bit of anxiety attached to it when playing over hard surfaces.
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Agreed. Even horizontal play can start to become boring. Also, I’m with you on the EDCs. I prefer to designate a yoyo as a dingable EDC before buying it, and there’s no anxiety whatsoever about throwing over a hard floor.
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Problem is that I like expensive (~$100+) yoyos, and it is really hard to say ‘I don’t care about this yoyo’. However, I bought a Shutter WA a few weeks ago and have designated it as a yoyo I don’t really care about and one I throw when im drunk and don’t want to ding my more premium throws. Not. A. One. Ding.
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The same happened when I bought a Kuntosh. It’s supposed to be my beater, yet it looks mint because there are so few dings and those that do exist blend in with the uncolored aluminum. I’ve even walked the dog on smooth stone tiles.
What vibe does is it allows you to see how fast the yoyo is spinning. A lot of comp players say it helps. I don’t think many people believe vibe gives “character”
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I like vibe for that reason; I was referring to physical gashes and scratches.
I never thought I liked a slight vibe until I played on a completely smooth yoyo with a properly lubed bearing. Without a fade or a splash, you can’t even tell how much spin you have left, and can easily over/under-estimate the spin. Slight vibe and bearing noise can offer valuable feedback while having no consequences. I sometimes like quiet yoyos, but they have to be a readable fade or splash.
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I can tell how much my yoyos are slowing down by the pitch of their dry bearings. A silent (or nearly silent) lubed bearing is a wee bit too unnerving for me. I don’t like vibe, and would prefer there to be none, but my technique is still grungy enough that most vibe comes from my throw, not the yoyo, and so vibe is something I live with as a constant no matter how smooth the yoyo is.
When it comes to beaters, I have always had a hard time designating a yoyo as an EDC throw that I didn’t care if it got dinged up or scratched. Any yoyo with the performance I want/need to really enjoy throwing it is also going to be too valuable to let it get damaged as the “price for playing it”. However, I just snapped up a pre-loved Top Deck on the BST from @shatterFX and I intend for that to become my EDC banger at work. (I also have a dinged up Cadence I got from Kieran, but I don’t play it cuz, well, it’s a Cadence…)
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I like some vibe on YoYos
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What do you consider a 3D trick?
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Aren’t all tricks 3D technically?
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All posts in this topic with likes should be removed.
(because they are, by definition, NOT unpopular)
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They’re tricks in which the yoyoer deliberately moves the yoyo out of the plane of its spin, often orthogonal to the body.
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What?
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