I feel like YYF, One Drop, and CLYW are the anchors of the YoYo world and many other brands get slept on. I say this because when I look for new throws to pick up, I’m always steered towards those few brands.
not that it’s a bad thing, but I would love to go outside what I’m comfortable with to pick up and discover new brands and interests. what would yall recommend?
The people behind yoyofriends, W1LD & dreamcraft and so many of the cats on their teams are either the nicest, most generous, or most solid people I’ve met in the yoyo community - and a lot of them are all 3! Proud to call some of them friends and happy to support when I know the people behind these companies are great people… cause that is definitely not true of all brands, as sad as that is to say!
Couldn’t be more true of CLYW & OD as well (CLYW is my fav brand period, and has been since I was a kid) but I know you were mentioning you’d like to branch out beyond them.
Highly recommend checking out the Canopy Collection as well, it’s a sub brand between CLYW and Atmos and they’ve produced my favorite line of yoyos period for a few years now. Plus Harrison who runs it is genuinely one of the best dudes I’ve met in the community and you can tell he really cares.