cool man! there was some good stuff in there. hopefully they’ll keep
moving up then.
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Not sure if this is unpopular or not, but if you don’t already have them, you should add a proyo and legend wing to your collection the next time you order from yoyoexpert.
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my wife has been cutting her teeth on the legend wing, no jive 3-in-1, and a couple other bits and bobs we had out… the legend wing is the one she prefers the most right now
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Why does everyone like gold Yoyos? Gold is my least favorite yoyo color.
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Same I dislike gold and clear lol
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Saying “It’s not the yo, it’s the throw” is like telling a race car driver he should use a Ford Fiesta fresh from Ted’s Discount Autos in the Daytona 500 because it’s not the car, it’s the driver.
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Well, that’s only the case because of how talented (most of) the drivers at the Daytona 500 are. For a thrower like me though, the yoyo is almost never the weak link in the chain, and “It’s not the yoyo, its the thrower” definitely applies.
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I’m the type of person who fully believes an analogy can prove anything. So while i wholeheartedly approve of your use here, it’s also one of these things that’s both right and wrong depending on context.
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The Anarchist is one I’ve looked at forever but never pulled the trigger on
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Me too but that driver would never win a race in that car unless his crew did all kinds of work on it to make it race-worthy just like no matter how good a driver is he will never win the Daytona 500 with my 2004 Hyundai Accent as it is. If it was truly only the the yo everyone would be happy owning just one yoyo. Maybe the Screaming Eagle from Dollar Tree. My point is that the yoyo definitely makes a huge difference in a yoyoers experience and a lot of the times certain yoyos will and can hold a yoyoer back from learning or doing certain things. I say the biggest repeated myth in the yoyo community is “It’s not the yo, it’s the throw.” It rhymes and sounds very wisdomy so people like repeating it.
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Zeekio Anarchist is a dope throw. It was my practice yoyo for a long while some years ago.
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Sure, but for most of us yoyoing isn’t about competing at Worlds. We don’t need the same kind of performance hardware that a Daytona 500 driver does. For someone learning to drive, your 2004 Hyundai Accent is perfectly fine. For someone who just needs to get around town, your 2004 Hyundai Accent is just fine. Plus, quality standards have gone up so far that even your “average” monometal yoyo on YYE is good enough that it won’t hold anyone back unless they are training for competition. Nowadays choosing a yoyo is really mostly just a matter of taste, not yoyo performance.
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The need for fast and instant gratification killed 2A in the USA.
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The laser focus on competition style 1a as the end goal of yoyoing (not strictly in terms of competing more in what tricks were popular among those who were most influential) that apparently coincided with the shift from forums to social media (which encourages the type of instant gratification seeking you mention) has had a significant impact on yoyoing as a whole IMO.
The popularity for all styles except 1a and for whatever reason 4a has really seemed to wane, 2a in particular because you can’t just watch a video that slow mo breaks down a trick and practice each individual part until you get it right. You just gotta grind. And the variety in approaches to 1a and 5a has really decreased as well. And variation within a limited context to me isn’t necessarily the same as actual variation.
If you gave five talented artists graphite pencils and paper you might get some incredible work in five wildly different styles. But none will contain color.
I also think the shift in how content is consumed and where people interact is why there can be such a divide in the community on certain topics. It’s fractured the community into smaller groups that overlap with yo-yos as opposed to a couple different sides of the same community.
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If an unresponsive yo-yo doesn’t grind good it’s a bad yo-yo
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I got a reply for that that fits the thread:
Nobody actually grinds outside of checking how good grinds are when they get a new yo-yo. Apart from that, 99% of people who would respond that they do grind and I’m wrong don’t grind nearly as much as they think and it probably represents less than 5% of their yoyoing.
There are exceptions but honestly grinds to me are such a small part of most people’s repertoire that “poor” grinding yo-yos grind well enough to serve the needs of everyone who isn’t creating content centered around grinds like that guy on IG.
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I think that’s also true of fingerspins, talon grinds, etc. A lot of these tricks are old school tricks that few people do much anymore. A few people will usually pipe up that they do these tricks all the time, but the point isn’t that some folks do those tricks, but that, as you say @Durfee, they probably represent less than 5% of yoyoers out there. And yet reviewers always mention fingerspin and grind potential in every yoyo they review as if it was the other way around (percentage-wise). Very strange.
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Hot take:
1A contest yoyoing puts me to sleep.
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I don’t think it’s so much that they’re misrepresenting the population of throwers that actually do this, as they’re trying to also present to the 5% of people this is important to. It doesn’t take much more time to review that aspect of the yoyo.
I kinda look at that part just for an idea of what the finish is like. I don’t do grinds a lot, but I have preferences for finishes on something that spends a lot of time in hand, so it’s still helpful to me.
The Strix, for example: I just don’t like the feel of it. Good yoyo, nice shape, but that polished finish I just don’t like touching, even if I’m not planning to grind.
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