You wash your hands. You clean your bearings. Presumably, you wash the clothes you wear while throwing. And yet somehow, the strings you run through those throws every single session get treated like they’re self-cleaning. They are not. String accumulates oils, dust, and whatever else your hands and your environment are contributing. This degrades feel, […]
The counterweight line has a second entry. Fruiting Body is cast from recycled plastisol, weighted at 11 grams, and shaped after the only part of the fungus most people ever see. The part that surfaces when conditions are right. The rest of the organism has been working underground the whole time…you just weren’t watching. It […]
Berv has made a string out of 100% silk. I want to be precise about what this means. Silk is produced by a caterpillar. The caterpillar spins a cocoon. The cocoon is unraveled. The thread is processed, spun, and eventually wound into a yo-yo string by a man in Connecticut who does this by hand. […]
Fixed axle is a different discipline. Not better or worse than unresponsive play. Just different. Different technique, different timing, different relationship between player and string. And it demands a different string. The Responsive Sampler exists because the Responsive family at Throw-Yo has three distinct answers to that demand, and most players have only tried one […]
The counterweights got an upgrade. Same recycled plastisol. Same soft, squishy feel that won’t destroy your knuckles, your throw, or your furniture. What changed is everything else. The formula is cleaner now. The pours are more consistent. There is less variation between units, better shape retention, sharper detail on the skull. If you’ve thrown the […]
There are flowers that bloom in the light. Then there are those that wait for darkness. Introducing Biolume Corpse Flower, the newest permanent colorway in the Nectar lineup. Pale and ghostly in daylight, this string comes alive after dark, radiating an otherworldly green glow, like something pulled from the forest floor at midnight. Nectar is […]
So the site looks different. You probably noticed. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. The old site worked, but it never really felt like Throw-Yo. It felt like a WordPress site. Which it is, obviously, but still. You know what I mean. The old colors were just black and white. The fonts […]
You know Tinctures. Essence is in that neighborhood. Same smooth feel, rayon/nylon instead of silk/nylon, and friendlier on the wallet. A little less precious. No less useful. It plays smooth. Holds tension without asking for attention. The kind of string you reach for when you want the yo-yo to do the work and the string […]
Throw-Yo has renamed their Tea strings. They are called Tisanes now. Go look it up. Throw-Yo dot com. Berv made the call. I respect it. Here is why it works: Tea is a word that belongs to a beverage. Tisane is a word that belongs to something more considered. An infusion. Deliberate. Specific. The kind […]
