{"product_id":"yoyofriends-overclock-yo-yo-bimetal-yiyang-wang-signature-yoyo","title":"yoyofriends Overclock Yo-Yo - Bimetal - Yiyang Wang Signature YoYo","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpecs\u003cbr\u003e\nMaterial:7068 Alloy w Stainless Ring\u003cbr\u003e\nDiameter:55.47mm\u003cbr\u003e\nWidth:47mm\u003cbr\u003e\nGap:4.52mm\u003cbr\u003e\nWeight:65.8g\u003cbr\u003e\nBearing: High Quality Concave bearing\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom Yiyang Wang:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHi, my name is Yiyang Wang, you guys can call me Philip, the team leader of yoyofriends.\u003cbr\u003e\nI got sponsored by yoyofriends in 2018 and started an incredible journey and partnership\u003cbr\u003e\nto get to this point, I am extremely proud of what we accomplished so far. On that journey,\u003cbr\u003e\nI have met with great players all over the world, having a yoyo team, which was one of my\u003cbr\u003e\ndreams as a little kid after watching the TV series Blazing Teens in elementary school and\u003cbr\u003e\nlearned so much more about yoyo behind the scenes. One of the most fascinating things\u003cbr\u003e\nis learning about yoyo design languages and trends, watching as yoyo designs evolve\u003cbr\u003e\nover the years to help yoyo players land their ever evolving tricks on stage. I could have\u003cbr\u003e\nmy signature yoyo way earlier as the leader of yoyofriends but as I am no longer\u003cbr\u003e\ncompeting, I want to give the signature spotlight to the competing players on our team like\u003cbr\u003e\nTony, Drake and Tomoki. I have also been chasing that ultimate design and shape over\u003cbr\u003e\nthe years accumulated from past yoyofriends throw so if I were to decide to have a\u003cbr\u003e\nsignature yoyo, I will be completely satisfied with the shape. The story begins in 2018, when I just got sponsored by yoyofriends, we were a small-ish\u003cbr\u003e\ncompany back then, with only just Hummingbird and Magpie as our releases. Hummingbird as you guys know, is a legendary yoyo that built the foundation of our\u003cbr\u003e\ncompany. In my mind I think I have a huge task in front of me to try to match it even\u003cbr\u003e\nthough I had no idea about anything yoyo design at all. My friend who lives close to me in\u003cbr\u003e\nDallas is also a yoyo designer, we were just hanging out and brainstorming about yoyo\u003cbr\u003e\nideas on our way to his house. During that car ride, I thought of 2 ideas, one of them was a\u003cbr\u003e\nstraight V shape yoyo that is 46mm wide, using the signature hummingbird's wrapped\u003cbr\u003e\naround rings. I didn't want the yoyo cup to be just flat so I was thinking about a cut around\u003cbr\u003e\nthe outside of the inner cup. This yoyo came out to be the yoyofriends peregrine.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe second idea I had was an inner ring yoyo. I thought if the hummingbird can have a\u003cbr\u003e\nwrapped around ring with stainless steel going both horizontal and vertical directions, why\u003cbr\u003e\nnot implement a wrapped around ring on an inner ring yoyo, with stainless steel also going\u003cbr\u003e\nboth horizontal and vertical directions. I called it L shaped rings. Due to manufacturing not being super matured back in the days, this idea has been sitting\u003cbr\u003e\non the shelf over the years, which is perfect for me to learn more and more about yoyos to\u003cbr\u003e\nchase that ultimate design shape I wanted if I were to have a signature yoyo. Throughout\u003cbr\u003e\nthat time 2 yoyos stood out to me that inspired the overclocked. Vulture and Tachyon. Vulture with an all out H shape taught me about increase in power and stability, Tachyon\u003cbr\u003e\nfurther enhanced on top of that with a combination of V shape for speed and H shape for\u003cbr\u003e\npower and stability. With a basic understanding of the shape I wanted, I looked into the spec. Yoyo is ever\u003cbr\u003e\nevolving, players are focusing more on harder and high space use zoning tricks, one great\u003cbr\u003e\nexample is our player Tony Sung. The yoyo design has to evolve to keep up the demand\u003cbr\u003e\nfor the players, so the width and catch zone of the yoyo are getting wider and wider. Here\u003cbr\u003e\nis an example of our new Peregrine going wider as we try out more prototypes. With all these accumulation of yoyo ideas. I re-initiated the 2nd idea from that car ride\u003cbr\u003e\nback in 2018 in 2023. The material I want to use is the classic yoyofriends 7068 + SS. The\u003cbr\u003e\nresult was special, the shape and profile came out perfect, a refined V and H shape hybrid\u003cbr\u003e\nwith striking wrapped around inner stainless steel ring. I loved the shape so much when I\u003cbr\u003e\ngot the prototype, I finally decided to use this yoyo as my first signature yoyo. However\u003cbr\u003e\nwith the prototype one done, we are not quite done yet, it is time to nitpick and fine tune to\u003cbr\u003e\nperfect this yoyo. The first thing I notice is despite the yoyo being at a whopping 66g plus with its gigantic L\u003cbr\u003e\nshaped SS rings, it doesn't play super heavy. When the speed is picked up the yoyo still\u003cbr\u003e\nhas the speed worthy of the yoyofriends high end bimetal tradition. I ultimately want the\u003cbr\u003e\nyoyo just a bit lighter to help its acceleration so I decided on 65.8g. The response bump on\u003cbr\u003e\nprototype one was also slightly snaggy and uncomfortable, noticed by both me and our\u003cbr\u003e\nnewest yoyofriends team member Yahoo. On prototype 2 we slightly enlarged and\u003cbr\u003e\nrounded off the response bump. The prototype 2 result was even more amazing. The\u003cbr\u003e\nyoyo is praised by the yoyofriends team, especially from Yahoo, Tony, and Kay. The prototype 2 feels even better, even some of the yoyofriends players use it for\u003cbr\u003e\ncompetition, however due to the increased slack and zoning in modern competition tricks,\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nstrings have been getting thicker and thicker. After I personally consulted with Kay, I\u003cbr\u003e\ndecided to increase the gap width to 4.52 for production, matching Tony's graviton and\u003cbr\u003e\ngraviton:y.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nI named the yoyo overclock because overclocking computer hardware has been my\u003cbr\u003e\nhobby ever since 2014. I remember overclocking my first PC, an intel i5-4690k, Nvidia\u003cbr\u003e\nGTX 970 and DDR3 ram. Ever since then, I have multiple top 10 scores and a couple\u003cbr\u003e\nnumber ones on 3Dmark timespy and speedway, spanning 8th to 13th gen intel cpu, samsung b die ddr4 to hynix a die ddr5 and Nvidia 10 to 30 series gpu. It is my passion to\u003cbr\u003e\npush computer hardwares to the limit just like how I assist to push yoyofriends yoyo\u003cbr\u003e\ndesigns to the limit. The logo is inspired by a program I use, MSI Afterburner, special\u003cbr\u003e\nthanks Tony Sung and the yoyofriends team for making the yoyo logo possible.\u003cbr\u003e\nI really hope you enjoy overclock, the new inner ring flagship from yoyofriends, a\u003cbr\u003e\ntestament to yoyofriends' design evolution since I joined in 2018. I also hope this will be\u003cbr\u003e\nthe first yoyo in the lineup with many more to come!\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"yoyofriends","offers":[{"title":"Champagne w\/Raw Ring","offer_id":48039534330132,"sku":"YOFROC-GDSV","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Purple w\/Black Ring","offer_id":48039534362900,"sku":"YOFROC-PPBK","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red w\/Gold Ring","offer_id":48039534395668,"sku":"YOFROC-RDGD","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Green w\/Rainbow Ring","offer_id":48039534428436,"sku":"YOFROC-GNRB","price":104.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1127\/6986\/files\/1a32aee2-3e48-5a16-894e-184e615e3e14.jpg?v=1711739225","url":"https:\/\/www.yoyosam.com\/fr\/products\/yoyofriends-overclock-yo-yo-bimetal-yiyang-wang-signature-yoyo","provider":"YoYoSam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}