In my late 20s I started playing unresponsive. Every time I bought a new yo-yo, I told myself that I needed to learn a new trick in order to justify it, and so I did. I don’t know exactly how many tricks I knew at one point. but it was enough to pick up a yo-yo and have fun for a couple hours. One day I saw a slack trick on YouTube that looked pretty cool, and I thought I should be able to learn it no problem. Aspects of the trick were much more difficult than they seemed. And while I eventually got to the point where I could land it occasionally, I could never master the trick. And so started my descent into madness. I focused on the trick over and over for years. It’s all I could think of and it’s all I could do when I picked up a yo-yo. Hours, weeks, months, years. And I couldn’t get it mastered, I could barely land it one out of 10 tries and I completely fell apart. Over time I pretty much forgot all of the other tricks that I used to know and I sold my collection to regain my sanity. After a few years I decided to start from the beginning. Promising not to try that trick again. I relearned the old tricks and It’s fun once again. I suffer from mental illness but My main objective here is to connect with other people who like the same toy. Will I get locked into another trick and sell all my yo-yos? I hope not but maybe. So here we go again. Time to buy one and learn one!
You have inspired me to give up on reading the last 1/3rd of Magic Mountain. Who knows what good stuff I’ve missed out on reading forcing myself to get through 400 something pages of horribly dry translated German that’s hardly went anywhere… I’ve punished myself enough.
What?
However long you all want to post, I promise you can’t be as unnecessarily wordy as Mann’s “Magic Mountain.” Totally over all the goings on in an early 20th century TB center in Germany…
That’s an interesting story. Glad you’re back to having fun with it.
It’s awesome we both ended up getting back into the hobby around the same time. I liked the chats we have had in the past and I remember sharing interest in certain brands. I enjoyed having you as a friend back then and I’m glad we can reconnect.
We’re still friends and I’m glad to see you back on here too just like the old days
Now I really want to know what this trick that causes descent into madness is 
But seriously, glad to hear you found your way back! I sometimes feel like a fool trying the same moves over and over again trying to master a trick…then euphoric when I land it!… then frustrated when I overthink it and can’t land it anymore 
I have so many long combos that I learned the beginning of and then I just do something else because I never learned the whole trick it’s all good, these things create uniqueness in everyone’s throwing styles.
Just noticed that you’re posting again, great to see
Apology accepted. I also have been dealing with mental health this year and it’s been so hard to get out of my head and learn. Today I sat down and told myself I am going to stop getting in my head and I am going to start all over it’s been a hard year with depression. Sometimes it just makes me feel lonely and having no real life friends has made me it so much harder because with no one to talk to and hang out with I’ve had my moments of pure sadness.
Thanks for sharing I truly understand what you are going through and I’m 100% dedicated to really learn. I wish i had more yoyo friends to learn with
Would you share what trick it was?
Tbh I forgot the actual name of it and tried to find it a few times. It’s a yoyojoe trick that has a slack element
He has a lot of good tricks but I never actually followed any of his tutorials. I’m gonna see if I can find a easy one.