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”…
Three-time Australian national champion and OFFSET YoYo co-founder known for wide-profile yoyo design and building one of the largest yoyo YouTube channels.
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,…
Gorham Manufacturing Company was one of the largest and most prestigious American sterling silver manufacturers, founded in Providence, Rhode Island in 1831 by Jabez Gorham. Best known for flatware and hollowware, Gorham also produced sterling silver yo-yos as luxury gift items across multiple production eras from approximately the 1910s through the 1970s. Their yo-yos feature…
Axis YoYos was a US-based yo-yo brand founded in 2015 by James Reed and Tyler Hsieh, launching with the crowdfunded Pulsefire bimetal. The brand quickly gained attention for a novel quasi-multi-step stainless rim profile that optimized weight distribution in unconventional ways, and signed Yuki Nishisako — introduced via Yoshihiro Matsubara of Japan Looping Solutions —…
Ioiô Fênix (Portuguese: “Phoenix Yo-Yo”) is the leading manufacturer of plastic yo-yos in Latin America, founded in Brazil around 2008 and based in Arujá, São Paulo. The company produces entry-level through professional-grade yo-yos and sponsors promotional events and school yo-yo campaigns throughout Brazil. In 2011–2012, Fênix launched Brazilian Yoyo as its high-end aluminum competition division,…
YoYoTricks.com was founded in November 2009 by Adam Bottiglia of Highland, Michigan — initially as a tutorial website built for an Australian importer, then acquired and expanded by Bottiglia in 2010. The site grew into the most-subscribed yo-yo channel on YouTube with over 474,000 subscribers and a structured “Level Up!” curriculum covering all five play…
XCube (X³) is France’s first high-end yo-yo brand, founded around 2010 by Alexandre Valin (known in the community as “Xela”). Known for extreme H-shaped and inverse-round profiles with distinctive laser-engraved aesthetics — including the iconic run-over cat on the Steamroller — the brand built a reputation for wide-catching, stable aluminum throws with unusual bearing specifications…
3YO3 is an artisan yo-yo brand founded in 2009 by Landon Balk of Clearwater, Florida — a mechanical engineering graduate who had been hand-machining yo-yos on a manual lathe since 2004. Named after the Roland TB-303 Bass Line synthesizer, the brand became known for using unconventional materials including acrylic, Delrin, Teflon, aluminum, and titanium, most…
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…
