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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I have mixed feelings about engravings. I feel that most engravings detract from a yoyo’s aesthetic appeal, which is why I generally favor yoyos with no engravings at all. The engravings I like are elaborate and interesting graphics, like the Mowl Surveillance, and otherwise I’d rather the yoyo be plain.
Yes, engravings that indicate the make and model of the yoyo are useful for identification purposes, but for me aesthetics are more important than easy identification. Engravings that are graphical in nature, like the aforementioned Mowl Surveillance, are no easier to identify than a completely plain yoyo that you must identify from its shape. If I don’t know what those graphics are, then I don’t know what that yoyo is, and I am just as stuck as if the engravings weren’t there to begin with.
Overall I prefer yoyos to be distinctive in their design rather than their markings. Too many yoyos are just “me too” designs which require engravings to differentiate them from all the other yoyos of that design. I’d rather see the marketplace not have to rely on engravings so much, and I’d rather see companies level up their design game instead.
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You make a lot of good points. I wonder if there might be a way to include engravings in ways the preserve a “clean” appearance. Maybe under the response pads as a common practice so people know where to look in case they need to find out what a particular throw is?
And in a conversation elsewhere, someone mentioned when companies re-release yoyos and players have to micro-analyze design features to figure out which run a throw is. The funny thing is that some of those throws have an engraving but they replicate the old engraving when they could easily include a V2 or something.
While I generally do like minimalist engravings to help ID a yoyo, I do get why folks don’t care for them. So I do wonder about hidden areas on a yoyo where these could be located.
Every month we add at least a few more unengraved yoyos to circulation and we already see the posts about throws from 5+ years ago that folks have trouble ID’ing.
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