# what to do when you get your yoyo?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [February 22, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049 "2011-02-22T18:38:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@Cage\_the\_Golden\_Hord](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cage_the_Golden_Hord)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/1 "2011-02-22T18:38:33Z")
hey guys, just wanted to know want to know what do you guys first do when your yoyo comes in the mail and you unbox it? do u put lube on it , switch the bearing what?
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### Author:  [@hawkeye2188](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hawkeye2188)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/2 "2011-02-22T18:54:19Z")
Unbox and throw it but I’m a noob so thats just me.
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### Author:  [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/3 "2011-02-22T18:58:26Z")
Same. Course, I have only gotten one in the mail. ;D
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### Author:  [@XminusmikeX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XminusmikeX)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/4 "2011-02-22T19:02:11Z")
> [@hawkeye2188](#):
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> Unbox and throw it but I’m a noob so thats just me.
That’s about right. I always play my new yoyo’s stock, then I clean and re-lube the bearing, not that it needs to be, its just the thing I do when I get a new throw.
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/5 "2011-02-22T19:10:33Z")
I always always always put on a string on my new yoyo.
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### Author:  [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/6 "2011-02-22T19:42:39Z")
> [@Icthus](#):
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> I always always always put on a string on my new yoyo.
Even the off-strings?
😛
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### Author:  [@Ruben](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ruben)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/7 "2011-05-11T20:27:43Z")
> [@Icthus the Enforcer!](#):
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> I always always always put on a string on my new yoyo.
You gotta be kidding me 😃
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### Author:  [@scyshc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/scyshc)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/8 "2011-05-11T23:19:27Z")
> [@Morgoroth](#):
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> > [@Icthus](#):
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> > I always always always put on a string on my new yoyo.
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> Even the off-strings?
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> 😛
yeah off-strings use strings so putthing on strings are considered as putting a string on the yoyo
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### Author:  [@DByoyoer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DByoyoer)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/9 "2011-05-11T23:28:08Z")
When i get a new yoyo i admire it for a minute and then take it out of the box and play with it stock.
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### Author:  [@nobody](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nobody)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2011, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/10 "2011-05-11T23:39:50Z")
Put on a string and test it deppending on play I clean, lube, switch bearing, etc. Some yo-yos i will switch the bearing right a way, like the raptor or any auldey.
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### Author:  [@quinton](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/quinton)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/11 "2011-05-12T00:20:26Z")
I lick it.
Alot
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### Author:  [@AngryGumball](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AngryGumball)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/12 "2011-05-12T00:35:17Z")
If not strung, I put the string on it. I also usually open it up to check everything before throwing and check out the response system if it’s a yo-yo I’ve never thrown before. There would be nothing worse than throwing and having a yo-yo suddenly come back up and hit you in the face if it were pre strung and had a tangle prior to being packaged.
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### Author:  [@nobody](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nobody)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/13 "2011-05-12T01:35:27Z")
That’s what happened to me, form some stupid reason my protostar came with the string stuck in the spacer and bearing, and you know how the spacers are kind of stuck? Well I tried everything but they wouldn’t move so I emailed yoyofactory and they blamed me saying they don’t ship with the string attached. The face hitting part didn’t happen though.
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### Author:  [@Mage1342](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mage1342)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/14 "2011-05-12T02:28:16Z")
Unbox. Examine. String. Throw. Throw. Throw. Change String. Throw. …
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### Author:  [@hadoq](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hadoq)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/15 "2011-05-12T05:52:44Z")
1. sneak out of work early
2. drive (too fast) back home
3. rant about where my I hope you don’t think that replacing two letters with \*\* will make what you said any better scissors are, get in a fight with my wife
4. go out and have a smoke
5. apologize while opening the box
6. get the throw out
7. watch what kind of bearing is in
8. most likely change for a KK
9. try to find a CW
10. ask my wife to make me an assorted CW cover (more on these later)
11. choose the string color and type for this throw
12. put the CW on the string
13. put the string on the yoyo
14. throw a few times
15. go back smoking one, with the yoyo this time
then later on
1. take some pictures of the yoyo
2. work on these pictures
3. publish them on the internet
4. wait for comments
5. maybe write a review
6. Publish the review
7. wait for comments
8. update my collection list online while waiting for comments
etc… etc…
Admin Edit: Please watch the language.
Thanks Icthus
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### Author:  [@xaix](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xaix)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2011, 7:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/16 "2011-05-12T07:23:59Z")
Unbox it, put a string on it and play with it
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### Author:  [@j\_lowell9](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/j_lowell9)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/17 "2011-05-14T02:48:42Z")
Show my mom it’s not the same as all my other yoyos then play with it
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### Author:  [@Trace](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Trace)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2011, 6:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/18 "2011-05-14T06:55:35Z")
I put my homemade string on it, can’t use the stock string I’m too paranoid that it will break… That’s about it unless I see fit to mod it later, I plan on switching out the pogs in the ONE I’m getting with some pony pictures… Luna most likely. 😃
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### Author:  [@yoyofoot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyofoot)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-to-do-when-you-get-your-yoyo/24049/19 "2011-05-14T19:08:50Z")
> [@Q](#):
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> I lick it.
> Alot
It’s MY yoyo.