Nah dude, your reviews are completely on point for those of us who just throw casually. When it comes to review clichés, I think reviewers like throws and brews tbh.
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Absolutely. I appreciate what they are doing. Some people like reviews I’m sure. At the end of the day though I feel like I would need to throw the yoyo myself to establish any sort of opinion that has use to me.
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Also, reviewers typically do their reviews with yoyos set up more or less as they come out of their boxes. However, I don’t usually leave stock bearings in, I sometimes replace the response pads immediately if the stock pads are slippy, and I have very specific string (and string length) that I like to use which may be very different from what the reviewer uses. Consequently, my experience with a yoyo will likely be quite different from that of reviewers, making it almost pointless to make any decisions based on what they show/say.
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Some of the friendliest fingerspins are on YoYos with spikes. All you lose is the centering effect, which gets boring to be honest.
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Grinds and fingerspins are some of my favorite tricks, and I like to think I’m better then the average thrower with fingerspins. All I need is a yoyo without caps. That being said, I’m still somewhat searching for a yoyo which can finger grind, thumb grind, and fingerspin equally well. It is surprisingly difficult.
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Ooh here is my unpopular opinion. The warthog is the best g2 throw!
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What is the Warthog like? I’ve been curious about it for a while now.
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It was just an observation. Nothing personal!
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@Roy_Dodge does reviews with yoyos set up with his preferred string. I never use stock string.
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I think most of us put on our favorite strings. And the chances that a reviewer will use the same string and the same string length that I do is miniscule. So the chances are good the yoyo is going to feel perceivably different for each of us.
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Of course. Same applies to my response!
Yeah, I usually use stock string if it’s boutique string. If it comes with bulk stuff or nothing (maybe it was a secondhand purchase), I use whatever I like best with it from my stash.
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Wanted to update my previous post because in re-reading it I felt like it came off as a little negative towards boutique stuff and that was not the intent in any way, sorry if it came off that way.
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Nah you’re cool, if anything I came off waaayyy too negative to non-boutique companys.
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Nah I thought you were hyperbolic intentionally since this is the unpopular opinion thread. Also there are people who see more appeal in boutique stuff due to its nature and to them other stuff is “bad” in the sense that it doesn’t possess the qualities they feel make a yo-yo “good,” not necessarily due to how they play. And that’s a completely legitimate take.
I just used it as an opportunity to point out how important the big guys are even in this era of unprecedented numbers of smaller yo-yo companies.
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yep I was trying to make it as unpopular as possible to provoke discussion but then got a couple negative responses and felt I had to backtrack lmao, big companys are definitely essential, I just feel their QC could be a little better, and maybe some smaller drop sizes as well
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Unfortunately some of the nuance of conversation is lost online and by the time you realize what you said might be misinterpreted the damage is often done.
No worries though I got what you were going for.
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yeah, thanks man
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Maybe the opinion that more yo-yos should have identifying engravings is unpopular? I really don’t know. Just published the first video in a new series a bit ago and it’s one of the things I discuss:
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get off my lawn @Roy_Dodge!!! did you ride in on that broom in the corner for the commentary you grumpus!!!
nah, good stuff man… keep it comin bud!!!
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