Difference between revisions of "X is killing yoyoing"

Latest revision as of 04:10, 7 December 2013

[find and include quotes from over the years about how things like bearings, unresponsive play, wide yoyos, motors, etc. are "killing yoyoing"; it would be ideal to find similar wording in all of the quotes]

It should be fairly evident at this point that technological advances or changing industry standards in yoyo construction have not been and will continue not to be responsible for the death of yoyoing. Yoyoing is tough, and it will probably never die out completely—especially now that advances in play and technology allow for much more individual exploration.

On the surface, what would have the most likelihood of "killing" yoyoing is if yoyos ceased to be manufactured. With a dwindling supply of new yoyos, it would be harder to equip new throwers, and without a supply of new throwers, eventually the rest of the existing throwers would either quit or die and the yoyos would break or rot away in people's drawers.

But it's not so simple. If all of today's yoyo companies were to suddenly shut their (proverbial) doors, someone else would likely step in and make yoyos because people would still want to buy them. There would have to be either a compelling reason for people to lose interest in buying yoyos, or a reason why making them would be otherwise inadvisable.

Let's take a look at some of the booms in the past. What were the circumstances of their failure?

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