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Originally Posted by appophylite  It's not that modern yo-yos are unresponsive: they are designed to generate long amounts of spin at the bottom of the string when thrown and require a very proper flick of the wrist to pull the yo yo back up the string (something I'm not good at with such yo-yo's)
My friend is at the intermediate level with yo-yo's and he broke them down into several categories for me:
Category 1:
These yo-yo's have a clutch system that is engaged only when the yo-yo is thrown down with proper force. The clutch allows free spin at the bottom of the string until it loses inertia and disengages the clutch allowing the yo-yo to return back to the hand.
Category 2:
Similar to the old-school yo-yo's, these yo-yo's require little more than a good throw to have the yo-yo return to your hand. They require a proper flick of the wrist to get the yo-yo to free spin at the bottom of the string instead of return and require a similarly well timed flick to pull the yo-yo back.
Category 3:
These yo-yo's are designed to free spin with little more than a regular throw. Getting them to return up the string to the hand is a bit more complex, and requires careful flick of the wrist to return.
Category 4:
Also referred to as off-string yo-yo's, these are designed to release from the string so that the user can perform complex string tricks and string bounces/acrobatics. Getting the yo-yo to spool the string back around its axle takes a lot more practice than I'm ready to put into it.
Based off of those categories that he broke them down into for me, I can only really work Category 1 and 2, and can modify Category 3 yo-yo's to behave like Category 2 yo-yo's.
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#1. They are unresponsive TO generate more spin, and let the user be less careful. look at any of the 'Advanced' yoyos (basically any recent metal or plastic) and after a break in period of about thirty minutes, usually way less, all will be unresponsive. And even a responsive yoyo nowadays will generate a significant amount of spin at the bottom of the string. I've gotten four and a half minute sleepers with a speedmaker that was nearly stock. (granted, would be much less if I was actually doing a trick.) But I do know that at least two other yoyoers from the boards are on here too, and I know I can get them to vouch for me on this.
#2 Never buy a clutch yoyo, even the best aren't that good. Just learn to hear when hear/feel when the yoyo's running out of spin time. And clutch yoyos are transaxle, which can be very frustrating to learn on because of the lack of spin time, that while being enough for more experienced people, can be incredibly discouraging to a newbie, especially if they're throw isn't the best.
And the actual styles of play are
1A normal play, like the stuff in this thread
Here. Note that the yoyo doesn't come up inless he binds.
2A, which is double handed looping, like here.
Example/ (this is grant. He's good.)
3A, which is the same as 1A, but with an extra yoyo. Very few people are even remotely good at this. Here's the 08 worlds champ. Too bad about kentaro.
Linky linky.
4A, which is offstring. super fun, there aren't more that three or four popular yoyos for this style, though.
Linky link.
5A, the fastest growing division, more fun than 4A, IMO, but also more painful.
Example: here.
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