I’m curious to see what was everyone’s first budget metal. For me, it was a black Horizon, which I consider to be my first budget metal (even though I previously owned a MYY N11). The Horizon was my EDC for over a year; it was the first yoyo that I really spent time with. Because of the time committment, I really fell in love with the feel and shape of the HOrizon, which has shaped my preferences to this day. I love H-shaped yoyos now, and I think they’ll always remain somewhat special to me.
Has this happened to anyone else? Were your current preferences shaped by your first throws?
Within a month of starting I ordered a MYY T9 Rainbow to try binding. I recently told someone it was a Yoyo King because it was in a box since 2015 and I forgot. I hated it. It felt too small and I was used to plastics. When I learned to bind really well I pulled it out, put on a new string and now I love it!
Mine was the TopYo Silenus. Although I had the Yomega Dash a couple years before, I got the Silenus after being introduced to unresponsive play. As a result, I consider the Silenus to be my first budget metal throw.
My first yoyo metal wasn’t really a budget. Two of my cousins went to one of our local malls where they had this really cool science shop that had all kinds of skill toys. They had these 100 dollar yoyos that sleep forever at that time for how yoyos were evolving. Long story short my cousins were trouble makers and both left the shop with some stolen 100 dollar throws. The oldest out of both of them out grew out the yoyo in about a week and handed it down to me. At the time I was about ten or eleven years old. I loved it, but lost it like many things to time. It was an amazing throw. Does anyone own a time machine(by that I do not mean watch/clock)?
My first budget metal yo-yo was YoyoOfficer aura for 44$. In 2013 finger spin yo-yos were not that popular.so I bought this because of its dimples to perform finger spins.
