This was mentioned on that Bolt modding tutorial that you linked to, but do you remember that brief moment in time that we were using razor blades to make o-rings flush with the surface of the yo-yo? I totally forgot about that until just now.
I so want an Old School Bolt…
would you say it holds up “well” today?
Yes, though you can get a lot of the same feeling from the BoltXP
That’s a lot of cool history from the legend himself! I really enjoyed this topic.
I didn’t know the shell design went back that far. Super cool seeing young Eric styling with that thing.
It was YoYoJam’s response to hubstacks! While digging in to see if it directly inspired the nine dragons I found the “V5 Catch Zone” which is like the skeleton for a Nine Dragons, and it turns out several other yo-yos were released based on that same platform
That’s Mikhail Tulabut, not Eric Koloski 
Looks like a pretty good response to me (though maybe not so much commercially since I’d never heard of it til now, haha). I’d like to get my hands on a throw with one of those designs someday.
Oops, my apologies! 
And slicing our fingers numerous times… 
I also remember Fake Bolts, Orange kicksides with Bolt caps.
The yoyojam hubstack do-dads had the spinning post mounted to the caps. I have some I’ll try and dig up, but you would pull the caps out of yyj yoyos and put them in, and they came in two sizes, one for hitman size yoyos and another one for the regular size yoyos.
Yeah, them there be the do-dads I was talking about. I remember the big controversy at worlds that year.
With so much drama in the yoyo scene
It’s kinda hard being King D-U-R-F double E
You just have to keep your mind on your yoyos and your yoyos on your mind👊
Yeoooo sheesh I forgot I had these 
It’s fun to read threads like this. I still have my box full of duncan, diffeyo stickers, cork pads, YYJ o-rings and shims.
I used to file down the starburst and cut o-rings on hybrid response YYJ’s. They still play well to this day.
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Great article but the font is so tiny…
Ctrl + “+” on a big screen.
I can fix that
Great topic.
On a side note, every YoYo I’ve owned with O-Rings has failed. All the O-Rings cracked. It’s the reason I stopped buying YoYoJam back in the day. To be fair, I live in El Paso, TX, a very dry climate.
It’s so dry in El Paso, all of my YoYoJam’s cracked, not just the O-Rings, but the actual bodies of the YoYos. The YoYoJam bi-metals I owned the rings fell off.
