WTF: Why is YoYo not an Olympic sport?

[Andrew Sak]

For the life of me, I can’t understand how e-sports can be in the Olympics while YoYo isn’t. Watch the documentary “We Are Throwers” and then try to make an argument to keep YoYo out of the Olympics. It should totally be there.

https://www.reelhouse.org/wearethrowers/we-are-throwers

Without watching the documentary, I would say playing an instrument is more of a sport.

I yo-yoed for years and was customizing them before the last yo-yo boom when factory hotrod yo-yos were the thing. Was also a member of the American Yo-Yo Association (AYYA). It should be an Olympic event.

Do you have a polished aluminum yo yo?

On a side note, I just installed new bridge pins in my acoustic.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Without watching the documentary, I would say playing an instrument is more of a sport.

Do you have a polished aluminum yo yo?

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On a side note, I just out new bridge pins in my acoustic.

Several.

 

[Cheese Grits]

Nice starter yoyo's are the Yomega Raider and Duncan Freehand and Freehand Pro. These are ball bearing yoyos and will have some basic instructions on the back to maintain performance. These will let them learn to throw and then step up to some string tricks.

https://yoyoexpert.com/

Thanks!

 

[Cheese Grits]

Without watching the documentary, I would say playing an instrument is more of a sport.

Having watched the documentary, I’m convinced it’s the same thing.

 

[Bob411]

Let’s not forget Whac-a-Mole, Pong, Ms. Pac-Man, and Frogger.

There you go, they need to take a page from Hollywood. When nobody has an original idea, we get a real person version of a cartoon or, a cartoon version of real people movie or TV series.

So, instead of a bunch of dudes sitting on a couch playing video games, put real people in the video games. People would tune in for the possibility of somebody getting hit by a bus.

 

[Theodore]

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Every year there is a World Yo-Yo Contest somewhere on the planet.

 

[yabba]

There you go, they need to take a page from Hollywood. When nobody has an original idea, we get a real person version of a cartoon or, a cartoon version of real people movie or TV series.

So, instead of a bunch of dudes sitting on a couch playing video games, put real people in the video games. People would tune in for the possibility of somebody getting hit by a bus.

I've been approaching running and dog walks as basically live action frogger these days.

 

[Steverino]

So yo yos are still happening, huh?

When I was a kid there would be a yo yo fad about once per school year. I was pretty competent at the basic stuff, but never got into anything too tricky. Certainly not Olympics material.

This one was my favorite:

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The pinnacle of my yo-yo career was the "Around the World" maneuver.

 

[DinoMikeSr]

I dug these out:

 

[tiger roach]

Wow! There’s a whole world of hi-tech yo yos out there that I didn’t know existed!

 

[DinoMikeSr]

Wow! There’s a whole world of hi-tech yo yos out there that I didn’t know existed!

The yoyos I showed are over 20 years old. The tricks I posted in the other post you can't do on the yoyo's I posted because the specs have changed and evolved over the years to make those tricks possible. It's amazing.

 

[Cheese Grits]

The yoyos I showed are over 20 years old. The tricks I posted in the other post you can't do on the yoyo's I posted because the specs have changed and evolved over the years to make those tricks possible. It's amazing.

It’s a lot like guitar in that regard. There’s stuff that the Jackson Soloist SL1 is good at that you just can’t do on a classic Strat... but nobody ever wants to admit it.

 

[Gary Blanchard]

My mother was a yoyo expert; we called her yoyo ma.

 

[Cheese Grits]

My mother was a yoyo expert; we called her yoyo ma.

There’s something the matter with you

 

[Gary Blanchard]

There’s something the matter with you

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