Ah geezers I’m a yoyo geezer LOL! Guess I’ll put my hand in too. Been throwing since the beginning of 95. Been online in the community just as long as it’s been a thing. (who remembers the yomania board? 
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I am still struggling in my mind to define a Boomer, but right or wrong I still see it as …
A “Boomer” is someone who played as a youth. Recently came back into Yo-Yo to enjoy modern interpretation of what is familiar to them.
The return to Yo-Yo it isn’t so much to follow a recent fad or impress friends as much as for personal satisfaction.
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Huh. I kinda feel that. I played with a yo-yo when I was little. My grandfather was the only person I ever saw with one and he let me use it. I only understood that it went up and down (I was dense as a board as a child). Then almost 20 years later I realized there was a lot more to it. When I started collecting, my grandfather gave me his yo-yo and it’s been a ride ever since.
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Having a boomer moment, doing regen with a responsive and hitting my knee.
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Anybody remember the gravity games? (2000?) Downtown Providence they had skateboarding, Motocross and….Yo-yoing! 
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2002 Cleveland Gravity Games, Filter played but don’t recall yo-yo. Great time.
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Awesome!
Yea, it was a pretty rad time.
One year (2000 or 2001?) there was a Yomega competition that took place in Providence. They had the final freestyle routines on the main stage at the Gravity Games. 
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After the Postal Service decided my new Grind Machine needed some culture and sent it on a round trip to Alaska, it’s finally out for delivery…
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Not to be rude but I wouldn’t call Alaska a place of high culture. Happy the yoyo is finally headed in its correct path.
Curious… Can you expand on this?
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Ok. So the Turbo Grind Machine is amazing. Thanks to all for the recommendation. It IS what I wanted. I also got a Freehand One AL today. Such a Boomer mail day!!!
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A true boomer would be coping those old dead stock bumblebee from yyf but yeah turbo grind machine is awesome.
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A modern Boomer YoYo screams - RESPONSIVE! I realized for the club both a responsive and an unresponsive version are being developed. 
Kinda seems to me an unresponsive is more Gen Y or beyond, chronologically speaking. Que sera sera.
I guess Gen Y has been conditioned for inclusion. Should the Unresponsive Boomer YoYo version be called “The Participation Trophy”?
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Seeing as boomers and gen x came up with and gave gen y the participation trophies I guess that would be fitting… a boomer yoyo they give to the youth…
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Us millennials are conditioned this way too. I really like that name for the unresponsive.
For clarification’s sake,
Yoyo boomer≠boomer
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To Gen Z, “boomer” is just a pejorative that means “old.”
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I’ve been told I act like a boomer and called a boomer so does that make me old? I don’t know how I feel about being “old”
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I don’t know. I would always consider the source…
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Big fan of calling it the participation trophy.
Also: maybe it’s just me, but I’d wager a bunch of the people who played in the 90s came back to unresponsive and got rehooked by it. So. Yeah both makes sense to me.
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Exactly!