# When did you become hooked on yoyoing? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [August 22, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030 "2018-08-22T22:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2018, 11:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/22 "2018-08-25T23:57:49Z")
More seriously, my origin story! > [@It is impossible to be sad while playing with a yo-yo (my origin story)](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/it-is-impossible-to-be-sad-while-playing-with-a-yo-yo-my-origin-story/290791): > > I did a tiny bit of yo-yo in the mid-80s when I was a kid, but I was never very good and never had any way to learn any new stuff – heck, how did we learn anything before the Internet, anyway? I rediscovered yo-yos in September 2017 when my 8 year old son came home with a Duncan Butterfly XT. I was like, wow! This is awesome, but very basic … I wonder what a nicer yo-yo would be like? I started with the cheap metals on Amazon (sadly this included a Sidekick Pro) and from there found “real” yoyo… Also check out @DocPop’s origin story > **[Seattle Yo-Yo Story - Doc Pop's Weblog](https://docpop.org/2015/02/seattle-yo-yo-story/)** > > I bought my first yo-yo on my 21st birthday in Seattle. It changed my life. ---
**Author:** ![MattB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattb/32/14529_2.png) [@MattB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattB)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/23 "2018-08-26T00:39:21Z")
I originally got into yoyoing in the 70’s as a 2nd or 3rd grader when the fad came through my school. I got a Duncan Butterfly, which was the cool thing at the time, but like all fads the interest faded. About 30 years later I got into kite flying and building. On the kite forum, around 2005, someone posted a photo of a Cherry Bomb unscrewed with the bearing showing. I had only ever used a fixed axle Duncan, so I _had_ to try out one of the new bearing yoyos, just to see what it was like. I ended up getting a YYJ Dark Magic and was hooked by the first successful bind. ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/codinghorror/32/8052_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/24 "2018-08-26T01:31:21Z")
Kite forums! Still any out there? That’s what [we do](https://discourse.org)… :wink: ---
**Author:** ![MattB](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mattb/32/14529_2.png) [@MattB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MattB)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 1:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/25 "2018-08-26T01:47:17Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Kite forums! Still any out there? The gwtwforum is still there and the place that put me in touch with yoyos. ---
**Author:** ![hyperrr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@hyperrr](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hyperrr)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/26 "2018-08-26T01:55:13Z")
Watched a movie at my house and a friend of my mom brought a yo-yo. I just liked throwing it around so I was like “I need this in my life,” and so I asked my mom to buy me one and the YYF Velocity turned out to be my first actual yo-yo. ---
**Author:** ![Lukoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lukoyo/32/24789_2.png) [@Lukoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lukoyo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2018, 9:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/27 "2018-08-26T09:25:00Z")
During the 90s yoyo boom, I was in primary school, and back then the clutch was king. I only had a simple generic wooden yoyo which resisted my efforts to come back to my hand nicely, unlike my friends yoyos with a clutch. So it never really caught on with me. Fast forward 10ish years and I’m watching a program on TV called “Rude tube” which shows the most popular videos on YouTube at that time. Along comes a video of a young kid called Grant Johnson called “Stronger yoyo”, and he throws this yoyo and my mind was blown. It didn’t look like anything I had ever seen before. I couldn’t believe that this kid was doing these amazing tricks with a yoyo! Shortly after this I bought the one which I consider to be my first yoyo: a Power-yo Black widow. It had a high walled V shaped profile with a starburst response and an adjustable gap, pretty nifty if you ask me. It also came with a trick CD which had some advanced but now simple tricks. I remember hitting my first trapeze on it, and it was so fun and satisfying! After a while I realise I needed to upgrade, so with a bit f research and after watching Andre teaching tricks on expertvillage, I treated myself to a Dark Magic, which opened so many trick doors to me. Another 10 years on and I’m still throwing and loving it. I owe it all to that video of a young Grant Johnson showing what he could do with a yoyo. I’ll have to dig out that Black Widow sometime. [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030.md?page=1)