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 (that’s 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 don’t 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, I’ll take the gamble and at least mention these people:
Steve Brown, Chris Mikulin, Adam Brewster, Ed Haponik, Guy Wright, Drew Tetz, André Boulay, David Metz (and pretty much the whole One Drop team!), DCW (Rafael Matsunaga and Jeff Coons in particular)…
Then there are the people I am proud to count as friends, including a bunch of people from this forum…
And players whose skills and creativity I admire. Far too numerous to mention, and some of them overlap with that top list!
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 didn’t say he is my favorite is because Charles haycock and Riccardo fraolini overshadow him in the innovation part
He wont say, big ole’ baby. He’s super happy to talk about how other people aren’t 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.
I’m 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 are…
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.
John Ando for all the hard work, Charles Haycock for the smoothness, Jensen Kimmit for the skills and humor, Ricardo Fraolini for the creativity, Ed Haponik for keeping fixies going, and André Boulayfor the business sense