Sengoku Yoyos recently sent me a Tengu to review, and to my surprise, also included a Shingen in the box. I immediately set to playing with my brand-new Tengu and left the Shingen off to the side because it looked a bit boring to me. The shape was very unassuming, and...
What do you get when you combine a "cloud-blasted" aluminum with stainless steel rims and recessed, polycarbonate caps? I mean, you're reading a review for the Nimbus, so the answers is obviously the Nimbus, from Dressel Designs. I'm not really here to make this hard...
I have never had the opportunity to play a purely stainless steel yo-yo before, so I jumped at the chance to play with the Dressel Designs Oasis. This throw is a mid-sized, D-bearing organic with a fairly large gap width that feels a bit dainty, though that could not...
Specs: Diameter - 53mm Width - 45mm Weight - 64g Materials - 7075 Alu Body w/ Acrylic Rings Undersized done right. Doesn’t feel like it lacks spin time or spin power. Solid little yoyo, plays good. Feels dense, though. Probably one of the most aesthetically done...
Specs: Diameter - 56mm Width - 43mm Weight - 62.5g Materials - Magnesium Body w/ SS Rings Man, I was stoked to try this yo-yo. It’s one of those yo-yos that everyone hears about but not everyone gets the chance to try, so the second I saw someone at my club with one,...
Thanks to a Pay-it-Forward box on the YoYo Expert forums, I recently tried the Motion Perpetual for a few weeks. This is the 3rd Motion yo-yo I've tried (the other two were the Centrifugal and Parallel), and it’s my favorite so far. Something about the hybrid shape of...
Specs: Diameter - 56.4mm Width - 48.4mm Weight - 64.4g Materials - 6061 Alu This is the exact type of yoyo I wanted the ThruLine to be, everything the ThruLine should have been, and everything I’ve been looking for from OneDrop in a yoyo. Probably one of my favorite...
Note: The name of the Strider has been changed to the Skip since this article was published. Fixed-Axle February has just ended, and for over half of the event I was throwing a quintet of 3D-printed fixies created by Ardeus on the YoYoExpert Forums. Available to order...
I recently received a box from Freshly Dirty containing a Featherweight Canary and their latest yo-yo, the Fluke. After finally putting the FC down, I spent a fair amount of time throwing the Fluke, and it felt SO different from the FC that it took a bit of getting...