# who is your roll model in the yoyo world? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [June 12, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985 "2014-06-12T22:07:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DKiminator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DKiminator](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DKiminator)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/62 "2014-06-19T15:47:32Z")
> [@GregP](#): > > A favourite player and a role model do not necessarily coincide. I can name at least one favourite player who is not a role model. :wink: > > I hesitate to chime in on this thread since as an old bugger who is set in his ways, I don’t have too many of those. There are people who I highly respect, and the list is too long for me to not stress about missing someone. :wink: That said, I’ll take the gamble and at least mention these people: > > Steve Brown, Chris Mikulin, Adam Brewster, Ed Haponik, Guy Wright, Drew Tetz, André Boulay, David Metz (and pretty much the whole One Drop team!), DCW (Rafael Matsunaga and Jeff Coons in particular)… > > Then there are the people I am proud to count as friends, including a bunch of people from this forum… > > And players whose skills and creativity I admire. Far too numerous to mention, and some of them overlap with that top list! Well John ando is my all time favorite Player, but he is also a role model because of the way he innovates, he won worlds, then now he is one of my favorite innovators, the reason I didn’t say he is my favorite is because Charles haycock and Riccardo fraolini overshadow him in the innovation part ---
**Author:** ![Yoyoer\_99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cc9497/32.png) [@Yoyoer\_99](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyoer_99)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/63 "2014-06-24T00:15:16Z")
> [@\_Z1](#): > > I am the only role model I need. > > Other than that, I do not have a single yoyo role model anymore. > > I used to, but after seeing their true colors…nope. What do you mean by true colors? ---
**Author:** ![Mikers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mikers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mikers)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/64 "2014-06-24T00:35:35Z")
He wont say, big ole’ baby. He’s super happy to talk about how other people aren’t creative and do all these terrible things, but wont say a name or give any reasoning because he actually comes across the big names listed in these threads on occasion. The only reason he posted at all was to seem more in the know than the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![\_Z1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_z1/32/230318_2.png) [@\_Z1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_Z1)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 2:50am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/65 "2014-06-24T02:50:34Z")
> [@Mikers](#): > > He wont say, big ole’ baby. He’s super happy to talk about how other people aren’t creative and do all these terrible things, but wont say a name or give any reasoning because he actually comes across the big names listed in these threads on occasion. > The only reason he posted at all was to seem more in the know than the rest of us. Topic starter asked a question. I answered. Just like the rest. Don’t like it? Deal with it. Please stop being foolish. ---
**Author:** ![HaOn1313](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/977dab/32.png) [@HaOn1313](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/HaOn1313)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/66 "2014-06-24T03:16:18Z")
André all the way! He is an awsome guy and does so much for the community. ---
**Author:** ![theguitarplayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@theguitarplayer](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/theguitarplayer)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 9:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/67 "2014-06-24T21:11:18Z")
Eric Koloski and also Hiroyuki Suzuki (performance-wise) ---
**Author:** ![Dizzavis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/dizzavis/32/650255_2.png) [@Dizzavis](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Dizzavis)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/68 "2014-07-10T18:45:34Z")
I’m a big fan of Chuck and Zach, as well as Rojas, Jensen, and Riccardo. I started yoyoing right after Jensen won worlds, so I probably watched that freestyle about a thousand times in my first few months learning and it really influenced my style and who I drew inspiration from over the next few years. ---
**Author:** ![888victini](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/888victini/32/1435_2.png) [@888victini](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/888victini)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/69 "2014-07-10T23:28:24Z")
add just about everyone at the lodge of the carribous as more of my inspirations ;D ---
**Author:** ![thefluteninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19b73/32.png) [@thefluteninja](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/thefluteninja)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/70 "2014-07-10T23:41:32Z")
Lazar Medvedev. I love his slacks and tech 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 11, 2014, 2:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/71 "2014-07-11T02:54:53Z")
Mostly everyone is my roll model in yoyoing but there are a few that stand out more to me and they are… surprisingly Ann Connolly not in terms of skill but in terms of what shes doing in the yoyo community. basically in a nut shell is she travels around the world yoyoing promoting a new yoyo, showing off a new colorway constantly and getting signatures. which to me sounds like the best time ever for someone to do in a hobby. But as for skill i look up to Petr Kavaka his style is memorizing and its very techy and slacky at the same time which is mind boggling to me because most of the time you get one or the other in yoyoing. ---
**Author:** ![bobian](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bobian/32/1530_2.png) [@bobian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/bobian)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 9:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/72 "2014-07-24T21:25:31Z")
John Ando for all the hard work, Charles Haycock for the smoothness, Jensen Kimmit for the skills and humor, Ricardo Fraolini for the creativity, Ed Haponik for keeping fixies going, and André Boulayfor the business sense ---
**Author:** ![NoHydraNo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/nohydrano/32/1547_2.png) [@NoHydraNo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/NoHydraNo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/73 "2014-07-25T03:59:16Z")
John Ando got me into it, and Jensen Kimmit has kept me going. Harold Owens III is rad. I think it would be fun to chill with Mack Finley. ---
**Author:** ![MarHaiYoyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/marhaiyoyo/32/1316_2.png) [@MarHaiYoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarHaiYoyo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2014, 10:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/who-is-your-roll-model-in-the-yoyo-world/66985/74 "2014-07-25T10:32:39Z")
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