How much should you practice yoyoing ?

[@MisterNiles]

As a guitar teacher, I've found that the most difficult thing to do is to get a student to PLAY. In the true sense of the word. I will tell them to play with it like it is a toy. Just make noise and explore. Try everything. Getting past preconceived notions is difficult or impossible for a lot of people. Play play play. Have fun! That being said, even at 47 years old, returning to the yoyo after a 15 year break, I have to constantly remind myself to just play and explore. Experiment in the same way a child might. That's where inspiration and innovation often come from. Thanks for the video.

[@thebrandonvu]

I totally agree, you get insanely good when you do things for fun without a structured plan.

[@AlkisGD]

Back in 2010 I got an FX7 Black Widow just because I got jealous of Hugh Laurie playing with a pretty basic, possibly fixed axle yoyo in House MD. He was just throwing it and catching it, nothing fancy, but it still made all the nostalgia of my childhood come crashing down on me. I remembered watching Gatchaman as a kid in the early '90s, admiring the lethality of Jun's mad yoyo skillz or watching Looney Tunes characters doing _Rock the Baby_ with yoyos they pulled out of hammerspace. I couldn't wait any longer. I immediately went to Amazon and got the FX7 Black Widow-it came with a CD with tricks too! (Whoo, 2010!) Fast forward to when the Widow arrived in the mail, and I got _Rock the Baby_ down in a couple of minutes! Naturally, I immediately went online and started looking for other tricks >.> Sadly, I practiced _so_ much during that early hype period, that in a matter of a few days I burned through my few (cotton?) strings which were included in the box with the yoyo. I looked online but didn't find the 100-string packs of today (at €0 shipping cost) from eBay or Aliexpress-the latter didn't even exist back then!-and postage for small string packs was simply forbidding for my budget at the time, so I just gave up on yoyoing there and then. That FX7 Black Widow is now inside a box with random stuff in a basement in Athens =/ Finally, about a month ago, I recounted this story to a friend and something withing me just _snapped._ I went to Aliexpress to see what's up for sale and snatched an Auldey Orbis. Now I'm on my first week of re-learning to yoyo, with an unresponsive one this time, and I don't even care! Beginner shmeginner-I'm having fun! Fun!! I don't know how far I'll get, but I'm certainly enjoying learning nothing but binds and snapstarts these days :D

[@dalegaliniak607]

Practice is when you play with the intention of getting better. Whether it's fun or not is up to you. I know people who don't try to learn new tricks, and don't try to improve the tricks they know, they just keep doing the same things over and over again. It's just a meditative experience to them. In this case, they're playing, but they're not really practicing, and, over the long term, they're not really getting any better. Which is fine, they just have different goals. If you watch a lot of videos, and consistently try to do things better, you're playing with the intention of improving, so you're practicing.

[@gesman5000]

The case is opposite for piano you don't play for leisure you play for parents

[@Volteer]

+gesman5000 that's actually what made me hate playing the piano and now that I moved out and my parents don't care anymore I am thinking about getting into it again lol

[@dacypher22]

It is also a loaded question for the person asking it, even if they don't know it. Leaving out the discussion of "playing" vs. "practicing", the person is asking because on some level they have an interest in doing it themselves. I don't go to see acrobats and ask them how long they practice. I just enjoy watching and move on because the process means nothing to me since I have no interest in trying to be an acrobat. But if someone asks how much you "practice", on some level they are interested, even if just a tiny bit. And in that case, there is no good answer. If you say "an hour a day", this sounds like an extremely small amount of time to get as "good" as they see you to be. Therefore you must have been born with some kind of talent of dexterity that they don't have. If you were to say "4 or 5 hours a day", they will come away thinking that you have to put as much time into it as a part-time job to get good. Most people will think that they don't have the time to practice like that since it feels like a ton of devotion because they don't realize you only put the time in because it was fun and you enjoyed doing it. They are still looking at it like you are practicing like one practices calculus. Therefore I don't feel it is serving people well to even give an answer of how much you yoyo. But they do want an answer so you should give them something. What is the best way to answer? I'm not sure.

[@huntergustafson6108]

what I do is I figure out a few tricks I need to practice and combine them with a few tricks I already know and that helps keep it fun while I'm "practicing" new tricks

[@henrylinton5777]

In my ideology, I would practice a bit to master a new trick or maneuver. Most of the time, I just throw for the simple joy in it. My skills just develop as I do everything I know in constant repetition, as I'm having fun:)

[@ErikKerber]

Yea I get asked that question all the time whenever I'm yoyoing its always like. "How much do you practice" "How long have you been doing that" Great video.

[@thebrandonvu]

Thanks man !

[@aldo9021]

Couldn't agree more with improvement as a happy bonus rather than as an end goal. Unless you're making a living off of winning contests (which would be close enough to impossible), there's really no reason to turn a toy into work.

[@moonman323]

love how he hangs his medals on a hanger lol. I mean it is called a hanger.

[@number9525]

Thanks, this video really helped me.

[@Allthisfor]

My idol: Brandon Vu :D

[@tonyblair1266]

This so flipping true. lessen to this guy!!! just have fun with it.

[@mrgreenmonsters]

Thats a good yoyoing advice. Havent had any yoyo motivation/advice n a long time

[@daniellehigley9491]

I play about 4 to 5 hours a day and on my first time yo yoing I played from 12 to to well twelve at night and watched yo yoing vids like I was in the moment I learned for tricks that day and I only stop to eat a muffin and a thing of fries (i power ate at midnight)

[@thebrandonvu]

Danielle Higley That is dedication my friend !

[@dannymccoy1783]

@@thebrandonvu .Dedication is 15 years now and over 300 yo yos.i do it for FUN.NOTTTT SKILL.lol.

[@ehsamali1040]

Awesome video!!!!!!!

[@brainless6342]

please do a review on the god of death yoyo

[@darkstarlolz4830]

Brandon your my idol

[@zakcortez4346]

My yoyo idol is you

[@gesandarmadi5006]

I played around 6 hours a day including at school but now only 5 because people are teasing me because of it

[@g.8269]

+Gesan Darmadi if people are teasing you then just ignore them

[@cosmicsubliminals7064]

If they are teasing you it means they are jealous so that means do it even more. If you don't react to their comments they will stop caring.

[@Eirikyoyoshop]

How shall you treat a yoyo?

[@abcdefg-ml7fz]

+RANDOM LAM child*

[@cosmicsubliminals7064]

Like your only child

[@dannymccoy1783]

5 min a day.Pratice too much and you will get bored and quit. I own over 300 yo yos.I been doing it 15 years.Im STILL not good .At one time in the beginning I would pratice 3 hours a day.There was NO FUN in it.Now days I play 5 ta 10 minutes a day.NOWWWW I HAVE FUN.

[@nathanaellimjihao3702]

Do you know any yoyo meet ups or groups in Australia?

[@thebrandonvu]

Yup, check out that group. facebook.com/groups/yoyosau/ There are generally meet ups in Sydney once a month at Hyde Park. The only other state that Yoyos regularly is Adelaide.

[@TheBennyZone]

Hey what yoyo is that you are holding?

[@thebrandonvu]

Irony JP 2013 :)

[@ur_valorant_hardstuck]

how to make a yoyo string with hand i dont have drill please tell me

[@allfunproductions7664]

What yoyo do you use Brandon?

[@tastypasta2048]

He like using the irony jpx 2010

[@tastypasta2048]

+CrazyAsian Gamer sorry 2012

[@M4dm3n4314]

I am a gamer. I play yoyo every now and then like when the loading screen is on and stuff like that.

[@ssandz6648]

not to be racist, but are u Korean and Australian? wow. awesome

[@thebrandonvu]

Cosmic PigX97 Haha, I'm Vietnamese and Australian :)

[@wolfboy-oy2qt]

It's not fun if all you can do is the boring beginner tricks and you are starting to get into the advanced tricks I want to be able to do the cool stuff

[@yoyomajiin317]

wolfboy 6701 whatever is fun to you man, to me, making my own tricks is the #1 way to have fun

[@Trippsy05]

To do the cool things you have to learn the basics first. You cant get on a trapeze if you cant throw a breakaway. So where can you start? Learn the breakaway and then trapeze will come to you.

[@brooklyngiesbrecht9878]

Show me how to do the boinge boing

[@null_face]

I PRAKTIS 25 OURS A DAY

[@THEshIFtiestNiNja]

soorrrrryy our conversations aren't interesting enough for The Brandon Vu

[@dannymccoy1783]

Yo yo for FUN...NOTTT SKILL.

[@joekidd298]

You saying that when you get to the place that you think will make you happy wont is the way life works. people live for a future goal like a house or a promotion or a fancy car or heaven instead of living in the eternal now. You will waste your life fast if you are dwelling on the dead past or living for an imagined future.

[@yoyoboy2163]

AMEN lol

[@elic8300]

I practice angry birds

[@omarramosespinoza2379]

give me one of your good yoyo

[@cosmicsubliminals7064]

He's not going to give you a yoyo.

[@tedphua8348]

Thats like begging someone to give u 20 bucks. Right now, your a f*cking beggar

[@brooklyngiesbrecht9878]

Show me how to do the boinge boing