The Monsoon is a big throw. The largest diameter in my collection, as a matter of fact. Upon unboxing it, I was a bit intimidated, wondering how it would feel in my hand. After stringing it up and giving it a throw, my fears were gone. An organic shape with a diameter of 63.0mm and…
The Monsoon is a big throw. The largest diameter in my collection, as a matter of fact. Upon unboxing it, I was a bit intimidated, wondering how it would feel in my hand. After stringing it up and giving it a throw, my fears were gone. An organic shape with a diameter of 63.0mm and…
I knew going in that the RippleDrop was going to be light. I did not fully appreciate what that meant until I threw it hard and it sailed off the end of the string and hit me in the side of the head. Lesson learned. A softer touch, and this thing is wonderful. There’s a…
The plastic category is absolutely packed, stuffed, and filled with yoyos that do what every company claims they do: be just as good as metal yoyos. 9 times out of 10, this tends to be somewhat true, but with the caveat that it’s one of the geriatric gentleman’s yoyos meant for a cool, calm, and…
Dressel Designs dropped the Musubi and Musubi SS at the same time, and I’ll be honest, my first instinct was to wonder if one was just a novelty version of the other. A simultaneous dual release of the same shape in two different materials can feel like a cash grab. Spending time with both quickly…
A new review? Hell yeah. No, this thread isn’t dead. A quick update in general: Good morning gang, it’s been a few months since I’ve posted anything regarding yoyo, and that’s mostly because I’ve been busy with school, training for an out-of-state job that I’m very excited for, and properly getting into cars. You oldheads…
While I’ve certainly played my fair share of MK1 yo-yos, this is the first time I’ve played a Yoyofriends release. This collaboration is a tri-material beast, comprised of 7075 aluminum, stainless steel, and polycarbonate. The Heron features a V/H hybrid shape with a “lock-in” finger spin dimple, and is designed to be a “play all”…
Whether you are a seasoned competitor throwing 1A string tricks or a beginner looking to land your first “Walk the Dog,” you probably know that not all yo-yos are created equal. Aside from material, two crucial elements define a yo-yo’s performance: its response system and its shape. Before we dive into the geometry of yo-yos,…
Yoyojoca is a Brazilian yo-yo manufacturer founded in 2004 by a player known as Joca. The brand debuted with its first aluminium prototype at the 2004 Brazilian National Championships and went on to produce six models in its G-series line. Operating during a period when Brazilian players faced significant import barriers, Yoyojoca represented an early…
Wolf Yoyo Works was a boutique British yo-yo brand founded in May 2017 by Jack Eastwood in Wolverhampton, England. Established to address what Eastwood saw as a lack of innovation in the yo-yo market — particularly in the UK, where only one other domestic boutique brand existed at the time — the company set out…
God-Tricks was founded in August 2010 in Shenzhen, China by Wang Zhan Hong (Jeyo), a seven-year yoyo veteran dedicated to producing professional-grade yoyos at accessible price points. Launching with the Destiny — a full-aluminum 1A throw priced under $35 — the company quickly gained international recognition for delivering competition-capable performance at prices that undercut established…
Wooden Monarch was a Santa Barbara, California cottage craft operation founded by Tom Holmes in 1988, inspired by watching the Smothers Brothers perform yo-yo tricks on television. Holmes hand-turned yo-yos in small batches from dense exotic hardwoods — including African ebony, cocobolo rosewood, purpleheart, tulipwood, and teak — often inlaying vintage coins such as Indian…
Humphrey Corporation was founded in the early 1970s by brothers Dave and Ken Humphrey, initially producing the Humphrey Flyer frisbee as an advertising promotional item. In 1975 the company expanded into yo-yos, and by the 1980s and 1990s had become one of the largest producers of promotional yo-yos in the United States, manufacturing over 1,000…
The Flores Yo-Yo Company was founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1928 by Pedro Edralin Flores (1896–1964), a Filipino-American businessman credited with introducing the yo-yo to the United States market under that name. Flores’s key innovation was looping the string around the axle rather than tying it, enabling the yo-yo to sleep freely and perform…
This is a project that I’ve been working on for a few years now, but with protos now in the wild and getting shared around at a few clubs, I figured it was time to actually talk about it. The Cerasus started as a simple vision, simply wanting a large diameter yoyo that actually had…
As memtioned above, I purchased the ‘Merica Edition. I also opted for the “Delivery In Person”. “The author will take a paperback copy of the book to the gun range, shoot a hole in, then take it to a burger joint where he will eat the largest burger on the menu with fries and get…
Later in the thread he references this article, which is an excellent read, followed up by this amazing video. Overall, some amazing yo-yo history here!
Popular online yo-yo reviewer, Gingie, has released a video documentary about the CLYW Chief. “Super proud to finally be able to say this The Chief Documentary is done, at long last! After nearly two years of work, it’s my magnum opus and the single longest video on my channel. This video explores the lead up…
