# When and where? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [March 30, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065 "2014-03-30T23:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![20q234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/db5fbb/32.png) [@20q234](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/20q234)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/1 "2014-03-30T23:03:28Z")
So I am asking anyone wanting to answer, When and where did you first start yoyoing? For me I had always picked up a yoyo and never known what to do with it so I did the whole _let it fall out of my hand and go down and then try to pull it back up but actually mess up and have to roll is up again_ thing. Then one day I was in Florida and I got a yoyo with a plastic crappy bearing and that’s when I first found out how to do the around the world trick and make the yoyo sleep, From that point on I knew that I wanted to keep going and work on this life long hobby. It’s been about 5 years since then and I have gotten much better, I still have a long way to go but I know with more practice and more creativity I can definitely get there, So basically I am saying how and where did you start? This was my first yoyo. [![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/1/3/d/13da73f8f3d4f0cefdf29332c12533e99517d5d9.jpeg) ](http://i.pinimg.com/736x/a1/cd/ca/a1cdcaa4ddf5c9970eb0e463c8e40e91.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![IGINLA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@IGINLA](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/IGINLA)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/2 "2014-03-30T23:46:37Z")
I started yoyoing last year. I know 2 friends we were yoyoing at the time and that got me started. Ive been yoyoing since, and I can honestly say I that year u have made HUGE progress. My first yoyo was the popstar ( I know that’s a horrible first yoyo) but it definitely challenges me, because when I got a bigger yoyo I was spot on! I still have that yoyo, and that show I started yoyoing. Oh and I go to yoyo club every Monday ---
**Author:** ![xxjohnsonxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b782af/32.png) [@xxjohnsonxx](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xxjohnsonxx)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/3 "2014-03-31T02:50:37Z")
I had a group of friends in my tech theater crew in high school who would yoyo because they found a random yoyo in a janitor closet, and they all bought 2012 velocities and I bought a dv888. I got a lot bigger into it with collecting and forums. My main ffriend who pushed me to yoyo doesn’t throw anymore I don’t think, but I’m going very strong still. Working on teaching my friend though ---
**Author:** ![berto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/berto/32/1506_2.png) [@berto](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/berto)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 3:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/4 "2014-03-31T03:05:57Z")
Coca-Cola ran a promotion in the late 80s, buy coke, bottle caps had Y or O on them… spell Yo Yo and you got a yoyo for $2 or so… don’t remember the cost. Everyone in my school did it, I was about 7-8, so we all competed… over the years I’ve always had a few yo-yos but never took it this serious until 2014. Claim to fame, I yo-yoed on the Greatest Show On Earth floor once with my Steve Brown Sig Freehand… back in 2003-2004. Still not near as advanced as many of you here. ---
**Author:** ![dirty\_duggan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/258eb7/32.png) [@dirty\_duggan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dirty_duggan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 5:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/5 "2014-03-31T05:06:26Z")
> [@berto](#): > > Coca-Cola ran a promotion in the late 80s, buy coke, bottle caps had Y or O on them… spell Yo Yo and you got a yoyo for $2 or so… don’t remember the cost. Do you still have the coke yoyo? ---
**Author:** ![Zorro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zorro/32/206266_2.png) [@Zorro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zorro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/6 "2014-03-31T18:05:36Z")
I started yoyoing last May when I had a birthday party. A friend of mine, Evan Gronberg (redneckyoyoer3826; who lives ten minutes from me), gave me a Fast 201. I started with that and it escalated from there. ---
**Author:** ![stuarttw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@stuarttw](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stuarttw)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/7 "2014-03-31T18:11:12Z")
Oh, boy. The first time I ever tried a yoyo was i don’t know how many years ago. The first yoyo I had was an imperial shaped yoyo that i have no idea what it was called. It was white and i got it at a garage sale. It took me FOREVER to learn gravity pull. ---
**Author:** ![mr.nightshadow95](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mr.nightshadow95/32/1093_2.png) [@mr.nightshadow95](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mr.nightshadow95)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/8 "2014-03-31T18:27:08Z")
2 years ago my friend started busting out tricks in my youth group at church and I was amazed, needless to say I ordered my first yoyo that day 😃 ---
**Author:** ![garydogwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f8ce5/32.png) [@garydogwood](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/garydogwood)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/9 "2014-04-14T01:34:06Z")
back in grade school yoyo’s became a popular toy. i remember being amazed the first time i saw someone do a sleeper. i played around some then but not serious. played here and there over the years until around 2011; then thought it would be fun to get proficient so bought a decent yoyo and started learning from you tube videos. kind of lost interest (not totally but just occasional throw) until a couple weeks ago; now i eat, sleep, dream, yo-yos. either throwing / practicing or reading the forums and watching you tube vids. gw ---
**Author:** ![SheepFarm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sheepfarm/32/1456_2.png) [@SheepFarm](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SheepFarm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/10 "2014-04-14T01:42:44Z")
I started yoyoing when in 5th grade my teacher bought me a duncan butterfly. He said I needed to be creative. I realized I had a passion when I threw it up and down for 2 hours a day. 1 year later I then bought a duncan flying squirrel, then a duncan throw monkey and then finally…A WERRD MINUTE! That was the best day of my life! I learned at least 10 new tricks with the Minute. That is how it started. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shortfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Shortfry](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shortfry)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/11 "2014-04-14T02:24:31Z")
I started off by buying a mega responsive yoyo. I wanted to be a cool kid and make it sleep longer. I heard if I twisted the yoyo only half-way it could do that, but then when I threw it, everything flew out and lost my spacers and bearing. Years later when I went back to China, yoyos were the latest craze due to a live drama called “Blazing Teens”. I bought a yoyo but I still could’t do anything except walk the dog. Years later, I find that same yoyo, went on amazon and bought my first ‘actual’ yoyos from Yomega. What a bad choice I made. But nevertheless, I’m here now and rocking it! ---
**Author:** ![abby1371](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/abby1371/32/1075_2.png) [@abby1371](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/abby1371)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-and-where/65065/12 "2014-04-14T02:45:53Z")
Okay my story is probably one of the weirdest ones here but what the heck. …3 years ago in a land far far away that is my house. And my sister needed stuff to build a miniature playground for school so I have a junk drawer I brought down from my room the drawer and said if she wanted anything in there she could have it. And then i went on one of those sugar rampages rolling on the floor laughing In fits of giggles cause that’s how I am late at night with sugar in my system. So my mom told me to calm down so I find my old Duncan glow in the dark proyo. So I picked It up and made it go up and down and found out I liked it a lot. Later that night my dad finds me in YouTube learning some simple Yoyo tricks. And Oh after 3 some months after I learn all I possibly can with a Yoyo that loops I beg my mom to buy me a better Yoyo for about 2 weeks. So he finally takes me to a hobby shop to get a better Yoyo that Yoyo was a yomega maverick and from that day foreword the rest was history.