Same as the description, what’s your favorite undersized yo-yo?
48mm-54mm
[Update on the number to quantify an undersized Yoyo cusp from 55 down to 54mm. The yo-yos mentioned so far I respect greatly.]
If you still have a Yoyo at 55mm you enjoy still throw it out there, doesn’t hurt to broaden the spectrum of discussion!
It might help if you defined what you consider undersized. Under 54mm in diameter, or?
Roughly 45-55mm.
I love my Atmos Fuji/Kyoto and Noma. All three are under 53mm and great regardless of size, in my book!
zipline possum but i can’t wait to try this edition miro soon
undersized are my favorite
This was gonna be my answer lol. Kyoto/Fuji are top-5 for me.
If we’re talking minis (50mm or less for me), the ZGRT Black Hole mini is underrated imo (reposting image). Also dig TRT Sprout, Atmos Smol, and General-Yo Mini-Star 2.
Still Enso Gear 2 for me. Not just a great undersized but a great yoyo overall.
Project cosmos dome is absolutely killer
Turning Point Counter Jet is very fun
Based solely on a recommendation from one of the other board members, I pulled the trigger and bought a yo-yo called the loss less.
MK one
Without taking a poll, I would say that more people visit visiting this forum, know nothing about me as opposed to knowing anything about me, lol
But in this response, there is no valid or justifiable reason for me to go back in time and talk about myself…
But I will go far enough back to state very clearly, that I have a fondness so to speak for smaller yo-yos. I’m not saying they’re always my favorite.
But many many years ago, I set out to at least attempt to prove that smaller yo-yos could pack a punch.
From what I’ve been told over the years, I did achieve some notable results if nothing else.
So many yo-yos come out nowadays… I mean, just bought every few days you click on new releases on YoYoExpert… And bam there they are, new releases, lol
As many yo-yos, as I have, I still honestly can’t afford to buy one of everything. I still have a lot more money than yo-yo’s. But if I bought every yo-yo, I saw I’d have a lot more yo-yos and money.
And I would certainly prefer to have a few less yo-yos and still have enough money to buy a sandwich now and then… As opposed to having a few thousand dust collectors and eating tuna out of a can.
As much as I try to pay attention to who’s making what and who’s selling what and who’s designing what, I don’t pay attention to everything and something just slipped by me without a clue
Like the LossLess. I didn’t even give it a thought until one of the guys messaged me and said he need to try this one out. He said he personally felt it played a lot like the dreamland yo-yo which I totally missed when it came out. He said although this yo-yo is not exactly the same dimensionally the play is very similar and since it’s a small smaller diameter yo-yo I might find it pretty interesting and fun or something?
So… I thought what the heck… another yo-yo.
I got it the other day and man… Let me tell you something. This thing is a blast. I can’t compare it to a dreamland since I’ve never touched a dreamland by David.
But this yo-yo is just hands-down awesome. And I would say without hesitation if David’s dreamland yo-yo plays even better than this one, I would definitely be on the lookout if he ever releases another batch of the dreamland.
Another undersized yo-yo that I think plays amazingly well is the Jake Bullock slappa Junior. It plays with the authority of a regular sized yo-yo. Any regular size yo-yo. Monometal or bimetal.. The junior is so amazing. I don’t even think of it as being smaller until it comes back to my hand, lol.
And one other thing, obviously. The. Slappa Jr. Is so narrow that you have to be paying serious attention to your string gap alignment, lol but the great side of this little Jake Bullock yo-yo is the fact that it is definitely a pocket size yo-yo that you can take anywhere. Spend a few quality minutes here and there throwing that sucker around and it’ll make you concentrate no doubt.
And then when you get back home, can you break out your miracle X or your wild or anything else that is most likely wider than the junior, you’ll feel like you could play blindfolded because you can’t miss the gap on anything wider than the Slappa Jr., lol.
It’s just a great yo-yo to force you to pay attention. And even missing a segment here and there will make you laugh because you always have the excuse of telling yourself well why couldn’t I miss me? Look how thin it sucker is right, lol?
Obviously, there’s another dozen or so smaller diameter yo-yos that are various degrees of awesome. But those are the first two that come to mind, most recently.
I got the silver/clear LossLess with the rainbow rims. It’s beautiful.
55mm is undersized?! I remember when that was dang near oversized
Pretty much. The 54 was named after its (at the time) ‘huge’ 54mm diameter. Looking back, it seems rather quaint because it’s definitely on the lower end of what’s made today. 60mm or more would’ve been considered INSANE back then, but now it’s just ‘oversized’. I used to think that ultra-wide yo-yos could only ever be those Diablo-esque (plastic I think) ones for 3A, but now everyone makes really wide yo-yos!
54mm might’ve been big for One Drop, but there were plenty of throws that diameter or slightly bigger in 2010. I suppose 55mm is just slightly smaller than the 56mm which was considered full size for years, but undersized will always be 50mm for me.
I was going off the 54 Gen 2 page:
We adorably named it the “54” because it was the biggest diameter we had made to date - at the time, it was considered oversized but not so much now.
Maybe it was simply what people in their slice of the yoyoing community felt at the time; or David misremembered, or conflated their own feelings with broader community sentiment. I wasn’t there. 
Whether or not bigger yo-yos existed, 54mm may have still been considered oversized. For instance, just because have made yoyos larger than a person, it doesn’t mean that all other yoyos are now undersized. 
