YYF Rim Weight

[MarkD (Mk1 Yoyos)]

@chaosgow

If I told you the moment of Inertia of the 543 is 2.854E+04 (g mm^2) would you be able to tell if that’s better than the next yoyo that’s 3.157E+04 (g mm^2) ?

That depends - is the 3.157E+04 (g mm^2) yoyo pink?

I think these are potentially useful numbers for designers but there are too many other factors that can have a profound impact on how powerful a yoyo feels. If you take that same MOI and put it on a D bearing yoyo it’s going to feel radically different. Likewise, if you use a thinner or thicker string.

@Nocompromise

wouldn’t it give us some indication of how much a given throw is rim weighted vs center weighted?

It’s simpler for the ad copy/description to state whether it’s rim or center weighted. I imagine that a lot of companies wouldn’t really want to publish the MOI anyhow.

[EOS44 (MK1 team || r/Throwers Mod.)]

@chaosgow We should make mandatory for every manufacturer to include the Moment of Inertia in the yoyo specs lol.

[chaosgow (Jordan Blofeld)]

@EOS44 I think it should be mandatory for every listing on YYE to include a random fact about turtles. They all have to be different