# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 17
**Author:** ![edhaponik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/edhaponik/32/150896_2.png) [@edhaponik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/edhaponik)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030/17 "2018-08-23T15:53:30Z")
I got hooked a few times. I was hooked in middle school first. My dad bought me one of the early Yomega Brains from his hometown of Fall River, MA. A kid at school liked it and I couldn’t do anything with it, so I traded him for a Duncan Midnight Special (just a black Imperial lol) which I loved because I could make it come back. I learned Rock the Baby on it but broke it. Every time I saw one in toy stores after that though I’d buy one and have it in my pocket for a few weeks. In college, the late-90’s boom hit, and every kid at the summer camp where I was a counselor had a Yomega Fireball. I bought one and learned the stuff they were doing so they would listen to me. The last day of camp, two of my kids gave me a THP Raider as a parting gift. I learned my first “decent” tricks (i.e. Split the Atom), took it back to school, and made up some fun stuff, but I forgot about it again. After college, maybe in 2001-2(?) when I was teaching, one of my kids brought in an old Yomega X-Brain. I borrowed it and did some stuff I remembered and the kids were blown away (even though by any measure, this was NOT good yo-yoing at all). Feeling inspired I went out and bought a new yo-yo, a blue SuperYo Renegade. I found Ken’s World On A String, and learned some more stuff. I was into it, but after a month it collected dust in my teacher desk. UNTIL, a couple years later when a different 5th grader, Ace, came in with a yo-yo and he knew some stuff. I had a yo-yo in my desk ( I think a Custom Mag?) with no string, and we traded the string back and forth showing each other stuff. For whatever reason, like in The Lion King, IT WAS TIME… I found a FH2 marked down at Target, found [yoyoing.com/news](http://yoyoing.com/news), bought my first 100 pack of string, and I literally have not gone a day without playing yo-yo since May 22, 2005. Safe to say the last one hooked me. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/when-did-you-become-hooked-on-yoyoing/292030)._