Hey everyone and welcome to the YoYoNation video blog.
In these videos we talk about new products, restocks and frequently asked questions.
Today's topic is how to make a yo-yo more responsive, so here we go!
If you just bought a yo-yo and it's unresponsive or if you had a yo-yo and it was responsive and
now it's not,
we're gonna teach you how to fix that.
But as a brief overview, I'm going to talk about what a nonresponsive yo-yo is.
An unresponse yo-yo is a yo-yo that will not come back up when you tug. You have to do
a bind in order to get the yo-yo to come back.
A responsive yo-yo
is a yoy-yo that will come back up with a simple tug.
Just like this.
There are a few ways that you can make your own unresponsive yoyo responsive.
We'll start with adjustable gap.
These two yo-yos are adjustable gap. There are two main kinds of adjustable gap.
There's the dial type, like with the YoYoFactory Velocity.
How these work is you rotate the dial either left or right to loosen or tighten it.
On the inside, the sides will get closer or further from each other.
The other kind is the old-fashioned adjustable gap where you just twist the yo-yo.
and it gets further and further apart.
It will eventually fall apart so you don't want to untwist it too much. You also want
to make sure that you don't over tighten it because you can ruin the yo-yo.
This is an example of a non-adjustable gap yo-yo. This is the Duncan Freehand Zero and
when I unscrew it even just a little bit, the sides are wobbley. You can feel it, see it, and hear
it. So this is not an adjustable gap yo-yo.
If your yo-yo doesn't have the adjustable gap dials and you're not sure if it's an adjustable
gap just through turning,
do not try to overtighten it or loosen it. Your yo-yo could get crushed or fall
apart.
If you don't have the package
and you don't know if it's an adjustable gap or not,
contact the manufacturer and they will tell you.
Another way that you can adjust the gap for non-adjustable gap yo-yos is by changing
the width of the spacers on the inside.
However this is a pretty in depth
project so we'll cover this in a different video.
Another way to change the response in your yo-yo is to simply change the string.
If you haven't checked that are string type video, go to our our YouTube channel
and check that out.
For starters we would recommend either type 6 50/50,
type 8 50/50,
or 100% cotton for the most responsive play.
Another trick you can do with the string without changing the string at all,
is just double loop your yo-yo.
Open the end of the string as normal to put it on the yo-yo.
Put it on the yo-yo.
Don't drop the string,
twist it one more time
and put the string
around the axle.
This will give you two loops around the axle
and make the yo-yo more responsive.
You can even add a third loop if you really want it to be responsive.
However anything more than that will probably cause it to not sleep.
An important note about double looping is that it makes string tricks more difficult.
It's generally recommended for looping yo-yos.
The final method that we're going to talk about is lubing your bearing.
If you haven't checked out our bearing cleaning video, then go ahead and go to our YouTube channel
and check that out. Long story short,
when you clean your bearing, that gets rid of all the all the old lube and anything else that's stuck in
your bearing.
then you apply the new lube, a thicker lube like YoYoJam
or 3-in-1 which you can buy at any hardware store,
and that should make it more responsive.
Different methods work better for different yo-yos, so don't be afraid to try them out. Except
for the adjustable gap one! Make sure you know you doing!
Okay that's it for this video.
If you have any comments, suggestions, ideas, leave them in the comments section below. This is a
good one for that.
We'll see you next time!