side affects

There is yet another yoyo design that I would consider to the most popular one out of the many of iterations that has been incorporated into the yoyo over the years, and this design is called side effects. Side effects make very little change in the yoyo beside changing the weight of it slightly, but the part that people really like about it is that it’s highly customizable. Side effects are little screw in center pieces that u can place inside some yo yos, the come in different weights and shapes and has tons of options that people can choose from. Each yo yo that supports the side effects can have up to two and you can mix and match them to make your yoyo completely unique and somewhat special. The different designs include spikes and light bulb looking things along with something that looks alot like a hubstack but doesn’t have the function of one. They are very easy to put in too, u kinds just screw it into the middle when u want it in, then unscrew it when you want to take it out.

Hubstack yo-yos

     In my last post I talked about the yoyo design that makes preforming a finger spin that much easier. In this post I am going to talk about a design that introduces a whole new set of tricks that with out it, those tricks wouldn't be do-able. The finger spin could be done with most yoyos but it is just easier with the little reverse nipple design but all of the hubstack tricks can only be done on hubstack yoyos. A hubstack yoyo includes a little pole in the middle at the yoyo that spins independently from the rest of the parts. If you grab this little pole type thing and pull the string out then the yoyo will spin while still on your finger (technically doing a finger spin but this looks a little bit different when you first start the trick). This designed makes the yoyo closer to a fidget spinner in the sense that you could hold it in your hands while its spinning. 

finger spin

     Over the years the look of yoyos had evolved alot, almost constantly changing and changing pushing the bounders further and further. The ball bearing didn´t really come inside yoyos until the 1970-ish and now 90% of yoyos made today will no doubt include the ball bearing. Since then they keeped on iterating and making the yoyo's with special tricks in mind. One of those tricks that got a special yoyo design was the finger spin. A finger spin is when you throw the yoyo kinda horizontal and then you pop it up to land on your finger.

As u can imagine doing a finger grind could be very hard to do with a yoyo with flat walls because it will just slip off you finger every time you attempted to do it. In order to help people do this one trick they made the walls of the yoyo concave so your finger just slides into the middle.
The design that i think is the best for finger grinds is the reverse nipple, its like a little concave finger shaped hole in the middle of the yoyo that makes doing the finger spin that much easier.

The different style of play.

There is about 5 styles of play that one can do with a yo-yo. my favorite style has to be 1A because its the style that i know how to do the best. 1A style is just the plain style that requires the unresponsive/responsive yoyo to be around one hand and is great at preforming good looking string tricks. I find this style to be the easiest, plus its the only style that i really know.

2A is a style where you have 1 responsive yoyo in both hands making for some really cool looping tricks, but i haven´t really tried this style for the simple fact that there is no way of starting out without hitting yourself in the face.

3A is another style that uses two hands but this time its one unresponsive yoyo in both hands. this style looks the most memorizing, but i haven´t tried this on either basically for the same reason i don´t do 2A.

4A is a wired style that is when the yoyo is not connected to the string and is just flung through the air. This style looks the most difficult to do and is most likely going to be the last on i try to learn.

5A is the last style of play and in my personal opinion this style is the most fun to preform. Its when the string isn´t connected to your hand but to a counter weight (often in the form of dices ). I have been spending alot of time recently and i think i got alittle bit better. This style also looks memorizing.


If any of these styles interest you then i suggest that you just go look up a youtube video about it to see what it looks like in motion, Most of them look really cool and memorizing.