I want to be as experienced and well rounded as Ed haponik
I want to be as smooth as Charles haycock
I want to be as innovative as Riccardo fraolini (thatās a bit much)
I want to be as nice and have good trick pacing like guy wright
And I want to be as beast as Anthony Rojas
Those are my role models for yoyoing
And shout out to Jensen cause he shows yoyoing is about having fun
A favourite player and a role model do not necessarily coincide. I can name at least one favourite player who is not a role model.
I hesitate to chime in on this thread since as an old bugger who is set in his ways, I donāt have too many of those. There are people who I highly respect, and the list is too long for me to not stress about missing someone. That said, Iāll take the gamble and at least mention these people:
Well John ando is my all time favorite Player, but he is also a role model because of the way he innovates, he won worlds, then now he is one of my favorite innovators, the reason I didnāt say he is my favorite is because Charles haycock and Riccardo fraolini overshadow him in the innovation part
He wont say, big oleā baby. Heās super happy to talk about how other people arenāt creative and do all these terrible things, but wont say a name or give any reasoning because he actually comes across the big names listed in these threads on occasion.
The only reason he posted at all was to seem more in the know than the rest of us.
Iām a big fan of Chuck and Zach, as well as Rojas, Jensen, and Riccardo. I started yoyoing right after Jensen won worlds, so I probably watched that freestyle about a thousand times in my first few months learning and it really influenced my style and who I drew inspiration from over the next few years.
Mostly everyone is my roll model in yoyoing but there are a few that stand out more to me and they areā¦
surprisingly Ann Connolly not in terms of skill but in terms of what shes doing in the yoyo community. basically in a nut shell is she travels around the world yoyoing promoting a new yoyo, showing off a new colorway constantly and getting signatures. which to me sounds like the best time ever for someone to do in a hobby. But as for skill i look up to Petr Kavaka his style is memorizing and its very techy and slacky at the same time which is mind boggling to me because most of the time you get one or the other in yoyoing.