# What a High Wall yoyo is
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [October 4, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852 "2013-10-04T02:40:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/1 "2013-10-04T02:40:13Z")
When a yo-yo is high-walled the face of the yo-yo is cut back resulting in more surface area of the yo-yo touching the string when it tilts; and a thinner profile. Both of these things are good traits for a freehand yo-yo and any other long spinning style. Also, a higher wall makes for cleaner string rejections, whereas the hard edge inside the gap will force the string out more directly.
High-walling is fairly easy to do on a Duncan yo-yo, but very difficult to do on any yo-yo with an integrated bearing seat, for example the YoYoJam Hitman. This is due to when you shave the face of the yo-yo down you need to lower the bearing seat as well. That is vary easy to do on a Duncan yo-yo because all you have to do is put in thinner spacers of sand the back of your spacers down. On a YoYoJam yo-yo or any other yo-yo that has the bearing seat built in you have to completely re-machine the bearing seat.
After YoYoFactory made the '06 888 they produced a small run of high-walled 888s. These were a big hit so YoYoFactory made high-walling standard on all of their '07 888s and Skylines.
In this picture you can clearly see how a yo-yo would look before (on the left) and after (on the right) being high-walled.
A FHZ High walled
(Copied from YYW, if i shouldn’t have remove immediately or let me know and ill re word it…)
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### Author:  [@oops](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/oops)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/2 "2013-10-04T06:05:45Z")
highwall 888s were in 07
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/3 "2013-10-04T18:35:25Z")
> [@oops](#):
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> highwall 888s were in 07
Your 100% sure? Proof?
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### Author:  [@Mikers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mikers)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/4 "2013-10-04T19:15:33Z")
He’s right.
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### Author:  [@Mikers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mikers)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/5 "2013-10-04T19:19:14Z")
Quick Google search revealed this, as it was posted in 2007 I would consider that proof.
[http://yoyonation.net/talk/index.php/topic,15340.0.html](http://yoyonation.net/talk/index.php/topic,15340.0.html)
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### Author:  [@Schnayke](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Schnayke)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/6 "2013-10-04T19:35:51Z")
Umm… What? This statement is not any more true for 5A then it is for any other long spinning style.
> [@Bcmaddog](#):
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> When a yo-yo is high-walled the face of the yo-yo is cut back resulting in more surface area of the yo-yo touching the string when it tilts; and a thinner profile. Both of these things are good traits for a freehand yo-yo.
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/7 "2013-10-04T19:52:22Z")
I guess yoyowiki is full of false info?
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### Author:  [@Schnayke](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Schnayke)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/8 "2013-10-04T19:55:48Z")
If that is where you got that info, then it is at least has some false info.
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/9 "2013-10-04T19:56:22Z")
> [@Schnayke](#):
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> If that is where you got that info, then it is at least has some false info.
yep. Ill just start editing it as people post whats wrong…
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### Author:  [@oops](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/oops)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/10 "2013-10-05T01:05:11Z")
> [@Bcmaddog](#):
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> Your 100% sure? Proof?
I own 3.
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### Author:  [@Yummy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yummy)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/11 "2013-10-05T04:27:57Z")
Oh look, a yoyowiki article that I wrote is being pasted verbatim onto the yoyoexpert forum along with my pictures for no particular reason.
> [@Mikers](#):
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> Quick Google search revealed this, as it was posted in 2007 I would consider that proof.
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> [http://yoyonation.net/talk/index.php/topic,15340.0.html](http://yoyonation.net/talk/index.php/topic,15340.0.html)
Notice the raw aluminum face on the yo-yo pictured in that thread. That was one of the highwall test yo-yos that came factory modded by YoYoFactory and were sold as a small batch on yoyonation. It was not until the 2008 model that the highwall was a standard design feature. You would have known this if you actually read the thread that you linked to.
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/12 "2013-10-05T13:05:31Z")
> [@Yummy](#):
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> Oh look, a yoyowiki article that I wrote is being pasted verbatim onto the yoyoexpert forum along with my pictures for no particular reason.
> Notice the raw aluminum face on the yo-yo pictured in that thread. That was one of the highwall test yo-yos that came factory modded by YoYoFactory and were sold as a small batch on yoyonation. It was not until the 2008 model that the highwall was a standard design feature. You would have known this if you actually read the thread that you linked to.
Somehow i knew the wiki was right xD…
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### Author:  [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/13 "2013-10-05T13:20:32Z")
> [@Yummy](#):
>
> Oh look, a yoyowiki article that I wrote is being pasted verbatim onto the yoyoexpert forum along with my pictures for no particular reason.
> Notice the raw aluminum face on the yo-yo pictured in that thread. That was one of the highwall test yo-yos that came factory modded by YoYoFactory and were sold as a small batch on yoyonation. It was not until the 2008 model that the highwall was a standard design feature. You would have known this if you actually read the thread that you linked to.
I thought that was your article…
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### Author:  [@yoyojohn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyojohn)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2013, 9:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/14 "2013-10-06T21:16:50Z")
[http://www.elmers.com/images/products/hi/photo\_E304.jpg](http://www.elmers.com/images/products/hi/photo_E304.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2013, 10:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/15 "2013-10-06T22:27:01Z")
> [@johnthejwolfe](#):
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> [http://www.elmers.com/images/products/hi/photo\_E304.jpg](http://www.elmers.com/images/products/hi/photo_E304.jpg)
Sticky glue xD?
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### Author:  [@yoyojohn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyojohn)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/16 "2013-10-07T00:56:52Z")
More like paste, actually.
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-a-high-wall-yoyo-is/59852/17 "2013-10-07T01:01:05Z")
