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.
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.
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.
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.
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”
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.
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…)
Isn’t moving the yoyo in a different plane thats not the usual plane thats in front of your body done in the mindset of stepping out of the norm of how usually tricks are done? Congrats, you posted a genuine unpopular opinion.
Throw a regular trapeze. Do Eli hops. But not straight up, but away from you. So if you were standing in front of someone you would be able to hit them
