I wouldn’t call them garbage, but dated is completely accurate.
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At the time the NED show hit my brother’s school, the Renegades were the thing to be had. I had wanted one but never got around to buying one from the school.
Me thinks its time for the NED show to get with the times and switch out yoyos…start selling some YYJ Classics and Surges. But in the end its a gateway for kids to get into yoyoing. Some stick with it and realize there’s better stuff out there, others it’s just a fad for them.
The main issue is that they are running this like a business, but portraying themselves as something else.
If they are going to focus on the yoyos, then they should just do that and talk about science or something.
It’s great that they have brought some attention to yoyoing, but most throwers feel a very personal attachment to the game and don’t want the negative attention that Ned also brings.
Probably still have a bad taste in our mouths about the boom yoyos and old business models of some yoyo companies.
The NED Show is a motivational pep rally aimed at young school children. They use magic, balloon animals, juggling, and all kinds of other random “kid friendly” skills, including yoyos, to deliver their message.
Yoyos are just their primary merchandise, because that’s the industry that Arne Dixon, owner and creator of The NED Show, knows best and because they offer the easiest sale at the highest profit margin.
You guys are all talking about this like it’s a yoyo promotion. It’s not. It’s children’s performers who have been taught how to perform a show with a marginal amount of yoyoing in it, in order to sell more shows and sell merch. That the bulk of the merch is yoyos is convenience and profitability, nothing more.
The Ned Show has as much to do with yoyoing as Starbucks has to do with mug making. It’s sad and irritating that Arne chose to go this route instead of making an effort to actually teach kids how to yoyo after so many years as an actual yoyo demonstrator, but that’s his choice and it’s been far more profitable for him than running an actual yoyo company ever could be.
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Never saw the NED show in person, but my first Yo-Yo was a NED Boomerang from a yard sale ¯_(ツ)_/¯
If anything, they do put Yo-Yos in front of kids… but if there were no NED show, would something superior surely take it’s place? I also don’t know if they actually boost the community or potentially harm it, but from what I’ve read here, it sounds like they are severely outdated when it comes to tricks and merchandise.
Couldn’t agree with this anymore. I personally feel like that the message from the NED performance is hugely obscured as us as yoyoers think “Oh, it’s a yoyo performance!” I think the kids in which this performance is targeted for also seem to highlight the whole yoyo aspect of it - caused by the fact that the yoyos are being sold afterwards - as mentioned, probably the easiest thing to sell.
Never realized Arne Dixon was behind the NED performance. I knew he was affiliated with Super Yo…feeling old here, I remember watching him on my Duncan How to Yoyo video (which I still have the VHS for and recently transferred to a DVD).
Yeah, Arne has gone to great lengths to distance himself from SuperYo and the yoyo industry. I wanted to write up a big article on the Kickin’ Tricks video, and interview Arne about the making of the video and all of the players (there are a lot) who cite that as one of their earliest major influences. I called Arne and he refused to be interviewed, wouldn’t give me permission to post excerpts of the video on the site, and didn’t want me to bring it up at all.
I could have run the article without his participation, but it kinda cut the wind out of me. 
Hello there Steve, nice to see you 
Gonna continue with the list: Shutter, Czm8, Czech Point, Too Hot, 888, Supernova, Horizon, Berserker, Krown, Transcend, Format C, Burnside, Chik, Gradient, Terrarian, Orca, Chief…
Continue with list: Draupnir, Space cowboy, Pulsefire, Nightmare, Berserker SS, Krown ST, P wave, Gungnir, S
Continue with list: Draupnir, Space cowboy, Pulsefire, Nightmare, Berserker SS, Krown ST, P wave, Gungnir, Sleipnir, Fragment, Overdrive, Stargazer, Scout, Puffin, Bonfire, Arctic Circle 2, Summit, Positron, Palpitation, Leviathan, Cascade…
Sorry for double post, accidentally hit some key that caused it.
Most of the list is a little unfair. It should be yoyos in the same price range.
Steve, what is Arne doing if he’s not yo-yoing any more?
Did he say why he is distancing himself? It seems weird
He owns and operates the company the produces The NED Show. Sorry, thought that was made clear.
Well for yoyos in the $15-20 price range, then you can look at the first list of yoyos I had put up. Some more: Hornet, Bumble Bee, Daydream, Surge, Freehand, FHZ, Lyn fury…
What bearing size is the Cosmic Spin?
Oh ok. Yeah I saw he was doing that, I just thought you were saying he had something else going on too. My bad.
Is the cosmic spin bearing size A?
2 new yoyos to add to the list: Railgun & Imagine breaker ;D
Considering that YYJ has closed, maybe start with some YYF ones & velocities.