Considering a monometal has less power and stability, will that make me learn to throw better?
I’m deciding between a Duncan bi metal or a st Elmo as my everyday throw.
My goal is to get good I’m not a collector so I want something that will really push me to become better.
No, yoyos don’t impart any skill onto the user. Practicing more with any yoyo is how you get better.
Simple answer… no
Not so simple answer….no.
Logical answer….no.
Realistic answer….no.
Half of the most famous tricks from years ago, that are still considered pretty darn amazing, were made up using plastic yo-yos. Not a mono metal or bimetal in the mix.
What will make you ‘better’ is quality practice, watching and learning from others, any good yoyo, personal aptitude and the right mindset.
If mono or bi was the determining factor to direct you to yo-yo success, everybody would ‘own’ that type and your question would have never occurred.
The only thing that I can think of that may help some is using a responsive like a freehand one because it kinda forces you to tighten your technique.
seen lots of answers regarding this, and whether its better to start with responsive or unresponsive. my take is that practice is what gets you better not harder practice, once you get to a level where you can do what you want but think you need to hammer down consistency then you can start challenging yourself with weaker spin throws or slimline yoyo, landing tricks on small width small yoyo is harder and world competitors liike gentry stein said its part of their routine to do practice runs on them then switch to normal yoyo and see improved performance. but thats for after you reach the level you want, it would not do you any good to make things harder from the start.
just play with what you want as much as you can, and follow docpop advice for quality practice.
Short answer is mostly no repeating the motions and practice will be more effective on the same yoyo than switching around a bunch.
However if you’re working on a single element you could refine your motions and get more accurate with slim or small challenge yo-yos. Or using an underpowered plastic maybe but you might also teach yourself bad habits in the process to compensate.
As others have said using a responsive to refine and gain accuracy is the more accepted answer however practice is the key.
Please note this is coming from someone who doesn’t practice enough. Good luck
I think that more than mono/bimetal, the shape of the yoyo you choose is more important if your aim are the tricks, use a yoyo with a shape that let you play every style (from tech to horizontal, to meta etc etc), the material will give you just a bit more in term of stability/spin but the shape is more important than that.
For the rest I agree with what everyone wrote here, quality practicing is the key and the secret, learn your tricks slowly bit by bit until your brain process them and then start to make them your and speed up if you want, seriously just practice and an ok yoyo to start are the key
just to clarify and be more specific to the question, the duncan or st elmo doesnt matter. choose the one you want to carry and play more with, nothing else matters much on the yoyo side of things.
the answer is a No* with an asterisk.
practicing with a monometal will not make you any better than practicing with a bimetal, however, using a less performant yoyo to sharpen and polish plane management and spin conservation technique is indeed a real thing. The added stability of a monometal is good for learning long combos but that will also resist a bit of bad technique on the players behalf.
Learn on a very stable yoyo, polish on a less stable yoyo.
I feel like the bi metal will impart super human yo-yo skills to anyone that touches it
