# Yoyo Boomers Club
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535
**Category:** Yo-Yo Contests, Clubs, and Events
**Created:** [July 31, 2023, 4:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535 "2023-07-31T04:13:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 265
### Author:  [@megachicken289](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/megachicken289)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5310 "2024-12-17T02:57:40Z")
Of all the things I’ve acquired in my life just waiting to be asked for exactly the obscure thing and having exactly that, this is not one of those things
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### Author:  [@Retro-Yo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Retro-Yo)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 3:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5311 "2024-12-17T03:00:21Z")
I would buy one… or two.
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### Author:  [@Captrogers](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Captrogers)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5312 "2024-12-17T03:22:24Z")
Ohh that’s probably as messy as wood fill but I bet it smells lovely
Also a sheet of cork can be cut . Honestly a quick bit of design work and my cutter could probably make pads
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### Author:  [@AaronW](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AaronW)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5313 "2024-12-17T03:37:11Z")
I still use brake pads, so glad I have a lot still.
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### Author:  [@Nic\_from\_Adelaide](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Nic_from_Adelaide)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5314 "2024-12-17T04:09:00Z")
You said that you’ve got a cricut maker? Should be able to kiss-cut sheets of adhesive cork or silicone, no worries.
My next cricut project was going to be cutting some friction stickers from adhesive backed denim, then painting some with silicone and rubber cement.
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### Author:  [@anon5341354](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon5341354)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5315 "2024-12-17T12:07:45Z")
There is a plastic RBC coming.
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### Author:  [@MuppetLabs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MuppetLabs)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 8:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5316 "2024-12-17T20:58:22Z")
I was walking to get lunch today, casually throwing my Unknown Butterfly (just a few sloppy zipper stalls and trapeze stalls, nothing too fancy). An older guy in a pickup truck slowed down next to me and said “You’re practicing to become the yo-yo champion of the world, right?” I shrugged, we both laughed, and he drove away.
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### Author:  [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5317 "2024-12-17T23:09:34Z")
Did you call the police?? 😃🤣
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### Author:  [@Snoopy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Snoopy)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5318 "2024-12-17T23:15:54Z")
Of course! it’s 2024, you _have_ to call the police anytime someone is _kind enough_ to speak to you. 🙄
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### Author:  [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5319 "2024-12-17T23:20:45Z")
Exactly!!!
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### Author:  [@MuppetLabs](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MuppetLabs)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5320 "2024-12-17T23:29:05Z")
It definitely was by far the nicest thing someone has yelled to me from a pickup truck driving by.
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### Author:  [@Snoopy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Snoopy)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5321 "2024-12-17T23:39:24Z")
The nicest thing someone has yelled to me from a pickup truck was: “Did you make those? They’re very good!”
I used to sell Origami outside of our house. 😆
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### Author:  [@JSERR](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JSERR)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5322 "2024-12-17T23:45:10Z")
I can’t say I’ve ever had anyone yell anything nice at me. To be fair, I’d be caught off guard, and I would probably cry inside.
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### Author:  [@Durfee](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Durfee)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5323 "2024-12-18T00:39:27Z")
What are my fellow young at heart yoyoers using for 5a these days?
Seems like there is less of a focus on designing yo-yos for freehand with the decline of everything but 1a. And then a bunch of 5a marketed yo-yos are just comp 1a yo-yos with a little more stability, still extra wide with huge catchzones.
I just bought a DunkLX and a Higby Chunk, and the John Wolfe yo-yo looks interesting as well.
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### Author:  [@Son-of-Morris](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Son-of-Morris)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5324 "2024-12-18T00:49:05Z")
Unresponsive: I lean towards the CLYW Beater, because…well…it’s a beater, and it’s designed by a notorious beater of yoyo’s, haha.
Also, I still have a YYF/YT Atlas that i like, which was one of my 5a learning throws since it was wide and super stable, also a lot of love marks on that one.
Responsive: I like the Recess Firecracker to be honest, it wasn’t really designed for 5A, but mine came with a CW on it and I just kind of really liked the set-up.
Outside of that, my other go-to is still a plastic Freehand One, BUT, I have been playing around with a Peakhand for a bit, and I think that’s going to take both of their places, super fun set-up responsive.
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### Author:  [@megachicken289](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/megachicken289)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5325 "2024-12-18T00:51:19Z")
Or you can be like me and just free yourself from the shackles of “beautiful yoyos” and any throw can be a 5a player
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### Author:  [@Son-of-Morris](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Son-of-Morris)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5326 "2024-12-18T00:52:47Z")
@megachicken289’s first steps on getting a new throw recently have been to throw it straight into the ground, or something. It’s durability testing really, and freedom from there going forward.
I’m afraid to ask him how his Operator is doing, haha!
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### Author:  [@megachicken289](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/megachicken289)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5327 "2024-12-18T00:54:24Z")
Can’t be afraid of dinging a yoyo if it’s already dinged
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### Author:  [@Durfee](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Durfee)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5328 "2024-12-18T00:56:58Z")
It’s more of a play preference thing. That definitely plays into it, but it’s more like I’m not going to beat a yoyo up for 5a unless I’m committed to using it for 5a.
I’m also like stuck in the mid 2000s with my 5a mindset, both with tricks and yo-yos.
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### Author:  [@megachicken289](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/megachicken289)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yoyo-boomers-club/381535/5329 "2024-12-18T01:21:45Z")
All yoyos are 5a yoyos when you set your mind free
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