You and I are looking at different parts of the profile. I’ve highlighted the step down from the rim in green that I look at when judging how H something is.
That’s right. I’m an H Judge.
Bell yoyos are a newer categorization that defies the previous taxonomy.
From the response well to where, the catch zone? This is a bit confusing.
The H shape is named after a capital letter with a visually defining characteristic of a steep linear drop between its outer edge and the inner well. In yoyos, that would be a steep linear drop between rim and catch zone. H-Spin Envy is the most extreme example of that.
The YYF Genesis was the reference H-shape for many moons, and it was not defined by its catch zone by itself (so… not defined by response well to catch zone), but by the drop between the rim and the catch zone.
I see too many curves in the iYoyo stuff - not a classic H to me. Flatness of rims and steep drop to catch zone was always a classically defining characteristic of H shape yoyos.
The key characteristic of the second form is the low angle from the central pivot in the middle (on a yo-yo, the axle and bearing) to the rim. The actual rims could be curved, angular, whatever.
In theory you could make those “rim H” if you did this bump, as you see on the left. But I say they aren’t H unless they have a steep angle from response to cup, as you see on the right.
I like the diagram. Rim H is the classic H I’m familiar with. Response H is something newly defined, no? Thus it’s confusing. Perhaps it’s better to give it a different name.