Friday, October 05, 2007

Super Kickside

P9050043

I love this yoyo. Not sure why. It was my first "real" yoyo (or my first cheat yoyo if you are Richard). I just like the shape and the hybrid response (siliconed). I think it just feels more like I remember a Duncan Butterfly feeling than the other Yoyojams. Oh, this picture is already out of date. I've completely burned through this string, another green string and now I have an Orange Soda G-String on it. The gString is nice since it is about 8 inches longer than the green highlight strings. The mechanics of tricks are a bit different with the longer string, I'm still having trouble catching the bouncy on 720s; however, I find every 10 tries or so I can do a 1080 followed by really cool yoyo/bouncy interactions that don't result in a knot. The other 9 tries I get a knot when the bouncy catches on the ball.

Oh, the bouncy is nice, but maybe not heavy enough? I find I can do Atomic Bomb much easier with the bouncy than with the die, but tricks like butterfly and windmill it just feels like the wieght is not quite heavy enough. But when I try a nunchuck combo and the counterweight catches on the yoyo and slams into my hand... it does not hurt as much.

I've been working on left hand a lot. I guess you ARE supposed to do 5A ambidextrously... I can do simple tricks like barrel rolls and dizzy baby left hand. I'm working on nunchucks. My breakaway is really inconsistent... but I find I can do 360s easy and 720s occationally. Nothing fancy like a wrist mount or kwijibo.