Fast forward. Wild Bill and the gang came to visit last week. When he arrived, I gave Bill a sample pack of various strings (labelled) and a Zipline wooden pick (sorry no pictures). I chose this gift since in past, he saw humor of the many string names - of the mindset - “it is just string”.
The group got caught up in acting like geriatric college kids and we didn’t get around to talking yo-yos.
I set the bait, leaving a single yo-yo out on the coffee table. If he played with it, it was his. What do you think happened?
When I was buying my car Saturday, one of the customer experience people asked me in the way out of she was right that she saw me yo-yoing, I told her YEA!! And she was very pumped, telling me about how she was way into it as a kid. I told her after this I was headed to club, but she works every Saturday all day, so I don’t think I’ll see her anytime soon
I run a club and give away like a handful of YoYo’s a month. Shifting to 3d printing stuff. This year my club has started to do scout group workshops, library workshops and elementary school demos
Also I’ve given a yoyo to every friend/coworker/ family member that would take one
Cinci yoyo club recently had a meetup at a “general hobby meetup” hosted at a tattoo parlor. i ended up handing out like 5 yoyos to the various other hobbiests present!
In 2020 my neighbor (guy around 25) asked to see some of my yoyo because his mother had seen me with a yoyo. I taught him to bind and he learned everything I knew in two weeks and flew by me skill-wise in a matter of two months. He had IT and he grasped complex things effortlessly (unlike me). He moved away in 2023 and we text once in awhile and he says he throws once in a while to see if he still remembers tricks.
