ive hit a ceiling fan blade but luckily it wasnt on at the time. havent dinged furniture yet, just carpeted floor…oh and my face!
what are some of the craziest things youve smacked a yoyo into?
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My own face, my desk, other yo-yos, tile floors give an interesting burnt ano smell, counterweights, concrete, a moving car wheel 
ya know the basics
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Launched my offstring off the second floor landing, currently have a nice looking bruise on my toe (also offstring), hit my music stand a few times. I came dangerously close to swinging a yoyo into an empty glass fish tank. Hit my tooth trying to shoot the moon. A few small dings on the wall. It’s pretty amazing that I haven’t broken anything around the house yet.
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My neck. My back. Hit my junk and my crack.
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Concrete is definitely relatable, especially in my beginner days, and is just plain heartbreaking.
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I’m not allowed to play in the office I share with my wife bc I kept hitting the desk and left a bunch of marks on it. Luckily it’s a junk ikea desk instead of like fancy mid-century modern antique or something 
. Oh also shattered the glass dome around a ceiling fan light. Now I don’t play under the ceiling fan either hah!
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Oh man, the ceiling fan light is my biggest fear.
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The edge of my aluminum iMac, just scuffed the ano off my yo-yo, nothing happened to the computer
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One time my draupnir (gone now) snagged and clocked me in the eye brow. I was fairly elevated already from the blinker, but it rang my frickin bell. I was dazed and slumped into my computer chair and then the blood started. It wasn’t gushing, but it was bleeding pretty good, ruined my dragon ball shirt, and left a scar which is fortunately not that bad and covered by my eyebrow hair.
I’ve also had yoyos grab my hair which was very painful and frustrating.
So I always tie my hair, I always do a test throw when I start a sesh or have a sloppy bind, and I try to keep my head out of the plane of the yoyo.
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I’ve snagged my hair a time or two 
I think I fractured a bone in a finger one time from a snag that sent the edge of a yo-yo right into the bone hard, still takes my breath away for a second if I get hit in the same spot, never got it checked out
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same! bled for about 45 min
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now you cant just say something like that and not drop a story! ur killin me smalls!
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Was walking out of work one day and it fell out of my pocket down some stairs bounced off the last one than hopped into a car wheel that was driving by snapped the axle clean in half and took some threads out but it still plays haha
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Snagged the other day right after throwing a really hard breakaway.
Slammed into my elbow and I legit thought I broke something. Giant bruise, broke the skin tons of blood.
I’m still sincerely surprised I’m ok. Had that been in my face I would have not been so lucky haha stay safe out there!
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Snags on a breakaway are the worst!
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Alongside nutting myself once, I have had the dubious honor of smacking a yoyo into a fluorescent light and shattering it at work. Suffice to say my supervisors were not happy.
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It was pretty rough. I couldn’t really move my arm too much for a few days lol
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You’re not a real thrower until you’ve been hit dead in the face at Mach 10 by a shining hunk of beautiful metal.
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A dent in an antique may increase its desirability and value
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I shared this story a few years ago, but I still think it’s kind of funny it does fit the subject.
Years ago, I was waiting for some relatives that were coming over to visit while they were in town. I didn’t know exactly when they were coming over, but my girl told me they’re coming over.
So here I am like Mr. mom going around the house to make sure everything was creature friendly: Toilet paper in the bathroom, vacuum the house, real neat in case anybody was allergic to cats, just general things that people do, So they’re relatives may actually believe that I’m cooler than they are, lol.
For whatever reason I didn’t expect them to be over any minute, so I was just wearing some sweatpants While preparing for the onslaught Of mankind
I figured I’d throw a yo-yo for a couple of minutes. No sooner did I put string on my finger there were some people at the door… You guessed it… It was them, the unchosen ones.
I immediately thought to myself, I probably won’t be throwing any yo-yos for the rest of the day and crank out a few tricks before I answer the door.
As I walked towards the front door, I threw down a hard sleeper. The string jammed about 2/3 the way down to the floor and the yo-yo came right back up and hit me. Let’s just say below the belly button and in front of the back of my pants. You know you hit yourself good when you realize that for the first time in your life, you’re two eyes are actually looking directly at each other and thoughts go through your mind while considering if screaming may help?
Without missing a beat from that point, even though I was walking a little funny, I got to the front door and let the people in.
To this day, I still don’t have the slightest idea how I kept my composure and no one seem to have any idea that I just had a near death experience so to speak.
I’ve never considered myself to be any kind of an actor. But at that particular moment, I think I could’ve awarded myself an Oscar for best instant performance under the circumstances. As I’m explaining this silly experience, kind of smiling and shaking my head and wondering how the heck I did it?
It’s funny now all this time later. But at the time it wasn’t funny at all.
PS…… I got another quick one for you that happened to a good friend of mine. Probably around 20 years ago now thereabouts Dave Buzzon Release the yo-yo called the DV8. A black plastic body yo-yo with aluminum rims. The rims were just cut off some aluminum tubes or whatever and the edges weren’t rounded at all. They were sharp enough to scrape the paint off the side of a wooden house. I’m not almost sharp. I’m talking seriously sharp like the standard edges you get when you just cut a piece of metal into pieces.
So JD… Got one and we were talking on the phone as we did frequently and he told me he got a DV8.
I told him, hey man, be careful around that sucker the edges are sharp enough to cut things. Obviously way back then JD was the damn good yo-yo player. But at the same time, he practiced a lot during the yo-yo stage of generating the early bangers that those spin doctors were known for. Nevertheless, I told him be careful cause that sucker hurt you man draw some blood.
The next day he called me up and told me he should listen to me a little better. He was pouting out some combos and looking down at the yo-yo and something funny happened and that yo-yo came up and hit him right in the eyebrow cut a big notch in his head. It almost look like the kind of cut you’d receive in a boxing match if you were fighting a monster.
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