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Originally Posted by pyrokid /img/forum/go_quote.gif
And that's because most modern yoyos are unresponsive, meaning you can tug them up to the ceiling and they won't return. They need a bind. Or else a lot of the tricks we do would smack your hands, unless we did them super smoothly.
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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.
