Should be able to handle those tricks pretty easily.
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Might try a thin string.
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Man, I’m really getting tempted by the Tinman…
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He only made 55………
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Do it. Give in to temptation. They awesome.
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Not in mail today…
But opened today.
Merry Christmas to all celebrating today.
Happy holidays to everyone
kgb
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Big post. Good couple days!
In the mail yesterday from YYE with love:
DeHcade and RBC. @edhaponik @MarkD and @Glenacius_K you guys made some amazing thins on strings. Truly a pleasure to handle.
From mom and brother yesterday, also with love:
Player grade Senban, DocPop pin and sticker, Chunkeez CWs.
From the wife this morning, with the most love:
Vintage Duncan! Is there a good resource for quickly identifying dates and such for these? I’m sure someone’s told me before, bit I can’t find it.
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Go for it! Love mine stunned there are still available no idea way GREAT throw.
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Christmas gifts from my wife and son, FTY Project Ti and TMBR Freemont 2020 (maple). Both beautiful and lovely! I’ve only owned a few fixed axles, this Freemont is by far the nicest that I’ve thrown. So smooth, feels great in the hand and on the string.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
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Love seeing some fty in the wild!
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It might be a sloppy landing on the string as well, especially for split the atom. I had a lot of trouble doing split the atom with my YYF One back when I was first starting out as the yoyo dropping onto the string tends to suck up the string if you’re not paying attention to how you’re landing it. I suggest trying to do it carefully and slowly first as it will likely not snag then gradually get faster as you get better at it. It’s why starting with a butterfly shaped yoyo will improve your technique much more than starting unresponsive (even modern beginner responsive yoyos are way too forgiving).
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me too! happy to see them getting in hands 
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Do you mean a butterfly shape fixed axle?
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How’s the Project Ti? I’ve had my eye on it.
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In short, it is really nice. It’s very well machined, mine is nearly dead smooth. The stock bearing was fine but I swapped in an NSK DS (it is very quiet for a Ti, but still has a nice soft ring) and put in OD pads, so it’s now playing with my preferred set up.
I’m still formulating a full opinion about it. But for my first impressions, I’d say the play feels to me kind of like if you took the Ti-Vayder and crossed it with a Markmont Classic.
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Not really. I think a butterfly XT would be sufficient for practising. The importance is the width of the gap. With a lot of modern beginner responsives like the Recess First Base, iYoYo Shooting Star, iYoYo Passion, ThrowRevolution Neo and the YoYoFactory Arrow, oftentimes the shape doesn’t have a high wall which makes a responsive yoyo much less punishing to play with. Older responsives like the Duncan Freehand, Duncan Butterfly XT and the YoYoFactory One all have high walls and small gap width. This makes them much more responsive and more punishing to play with. The difference is huge, I can be extremely sloppy on my Eli Hops and leave a lot of slack in the string and both the Shooting Star and the Neo will not punish me for it. Heck, I can even do lacerations on both consistently, even on a hard throw, which just goes to show how forgiving they are. I think keeping your string thickness and then just grinding the trick on the RBC is going to improve your technique a lot and it forces you to be precise in the way you land the yoyo on the string.
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