Steve, is it true that you used to throw your fixed axels so hard that they would catch fire or turn black or something like that?
Yeah. I used to actually burn the wood. At 1999 Worlds there was a "Fixed Axle World Championship" and a company donated like two dozen wooden yoyos for us to use (as well as the trophies, which were pretty cool but I sold mine a few years ago, argh). But we had no wax to wax our strings, so I was burning an axle on like every other throw. I finally struggled through the event and took 2nd place, but ended up killing like 7 or 8 yoyos in the process, ha ha. -Steve
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