I’ll get the butterfly xt on my next purchase, thanks
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I think it depends on what you want to do . I sometimes consider learning new tricks as a puzzle .
I think others enjoy the casual relaxing feeling of just throwing a yo-yo.
I hope as I keep progressing that I make more of my own combos, I think as I learn new harder tricks it gives me more and more inspiration to make my own
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Honestly, I don’t think I ever have stopped learning new tricks. Though id imagine you (OP) might feel so. I haven’t progressed past intermediate (Spirit Bomb) yoyoing in the ~3 years ive spent with passion in the hobby. For 1A yoyoing, the fun is in splicing up the basics in interesting to me ways while trying to add some personal style to it. My Kwyjiibo is smoooth, and my basics get honed because I play a lot of 0A and responsive as well. I can’t do the advanced stuff, but doing the basics with finesse is what drives me a lot.
As for 0A, im a bit more likely to try to learn a trick. Single element stalls, flips, rolls, etc., vs myriads of string configurations, rejections, and whips (of which is not really my style). I learn these tricks, but I try and master them before I move on. Landing a kickflip for the first time is amazing. But you want to land it again. And again. And the next time you want to do it with more finesse and control. So I do, and it still feels dope.
I don’t need to learn new tricks to ‘git gud’. Im not attacking you younger guys (@Theycallmecotton , @nightshadow ) by saying this, but it’s true for me. Im getting good at Spirit Bomb, and this is still my favorite trick. Landing it again and again, trying to figure out my style, is even better than when I was doing it with Kwyjiibo.
I always kinda sucked at skill toys (I landed one kickflip ever), and my progression is slow, but im having fun.
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How long have you been yoyoing?
I made exactly the same experience when I joined this place
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Yep, same here. Most new tricks take a long time for me to get down. I’m still not consistent with Kwyjibo and I’ve been trying for two years. Cold Fusion still trips me up half the time. I still haven’t entirely gotten the hang of Eli Hops. Etc. But I still enjoy trying!
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You know, it’s funny. I think this goes back something I mentioned before about there being almost “two camps” in yoyoing, with one of them being the older crowd who tends to hang out in that intermediate level for an indefinite period.
But I’ve heard the specific phrase “git gud” used by this older crowd to describe the thoughts of more skilled yoyoers multiple times, from multiple people.
A strange commonality I suppose.
I’m not telling anyone to “git gud”. The few times I’ve ever heard someone say that was in regard to contest placement, and learning more meta tricks to increase scoring. I have no interest in that, and I would encourage anyone to go in that direction if they weren’t already wanting to win contests.
I’m advocating to stop identifying as someone whose “always sucked at skill toys”, and see how it feels to have some more control over the spinning object in your hands.
Not to be an elite player. Not to git gud. But to see how it feels for yourself.
But real talk, spirit bomb is really hard, haha.
I struggled with that one for weeks when I was younger, and eventually just moved on.
I don’t know if I could do it today 
Mad respect for getting it down.
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Your tricks look fantastic. I put my own trick together today. I’m about to post it
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Thanks yours are really awesome too !
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Just putting this out there… I can do Spirit Bomb and I hate it. I never do it. It’s my least favorite “advanced” trick. I feel like for how difficult it is to land properly, it doesn’t actually look that cool from an outside perspective.
Please don’t kill me.
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Beefhook is another trick that is hard to do but doesn’t look like much, right?
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I 100% agree.
I call it “effort to payoff ratio”.
And for spirit bomb, it’s horrible. It just one of those tricks, haha
It took me more time to land spirit bomb than my first horizontal combo!
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Yupp. I’ve never tried it, but I’ve heard it’s super annoying
Thank you bro! I appreciate it
I’m still struggling with the basic hooks. I don’t even want to think about a beef hook. Hooks are hard.
I’m gonna describe what is like to log on to YYE Forums lately:
- open yye forums
- see new thread about a topic that revolves around “not getting better”, “not learning a new trick”, “better yourself as a player”, “how much you yoyo/not yoyoing enough”, “the global skillset of the forum member is old and low”, etc. Usually the thread tries to drive a lopsided conversation with very low regard of the knowledge that the same happiness chemical rush you feel when you master that absurdly new trick you’ve been grinding for weeks can be felt by another person by just looking at their neat, shiny yoyos organized by color on a shelf.
- Thread has a lot of comments that echo the same arguments at various degrees of preciseness and niceness.
I’m ok with this and i’m not calling anyone out, i just wonder when are we going to understand that we don’t have to call out every single thing in this community that doesnt align with each one of us.
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Guilty as charged my friend!
This topic does seem to dominate the forums these days…
Yeah, that’s partially (or largely sometimes) on me…
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Beautiful. Rainbow colors brings automatically happiness to my monke brain.
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