Overclock YoYo - yoyofriends

Overclock Bi-metal YoYo, by yoyofriends   Signature yoyo of Yiyang Wang   Specifications: Weight: 65.8  grams Diameter: 55.47 mm Width: 47 mm Gap width: 4.52 mm Material: 7068 aluminum (body) + Stainless Steel Rings Bearing: Concave (Large, Size C) .250 x .500 x .187" Axel: M4 10mm Response: 19mm pads (Slim) Return type: Unresponsive / Bind required Story of the Overclock YoYo, as written by Yiyang Wang: "Hi, my name is Yiyang Wang, you guys can call me Philip, the team leader of yoyofriends.I got sponsored by yoyofriends in 2018 and started an incredible journey and partnershipto get to this point, I am extremely proud of what we accomplished so far. On that journey,I have met with great players all over the world, having a yoyo team, which was one of mydreams as a little kid after watching the TV series Blazing Teens in elementary school andlearned so much more about yoyo behind the scenes. One of the most fascinating thingsis learning about yoyo design languages and trends, watching as yoyo designs evolveover the years to help yoyo players land their ever evolving tricks on stage. I could havemy signature yoyo way earlier as the leader of yoyofriends but as I am no longercompeting, I want to give the signature spotlight to the competing players on our team likeTony, Drake and Tomoki. I have also been chasing that ultimate design and shape overthe years accumulated from past yoyofriends throw so if I were to decide to have asignature 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-ishcompany 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 ourcompany. In my mind I think I have a huge task in front of me to try to match it eventhough I had no idea about anything yoyo design at all. My friend who lives close to me inDallas is also a yoyo designer, we were just hanging out and brainstorming about yoyoideas on our way to his house. During that car ride, I thought of 2 ideas, one of them was astraight V shape yoyo that is 46mm wide, using the signature hummingbird's wrappedaround rings. I didn't want the yoyo cup to be just flat so I was thinking about a cut aroundthe outside of the inner cup. This yoyo came out to be the yoyofriends peregrine.The second idea I had was an inner ring yoyo. I thought if the hummingbird can have awrapped around ring with stainless steel going both horizontal and vertical directions, whynot implement a wrapped around ring on an inner ring yoyo, with stainless steel also goingboth 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 sittingon the shelf over the years, which is perfect for me to learn more and more about yoyos tochase that ultimate design shape I wanted if I were to have a signature yoyo. Throughoutthat 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, Tachyonfurther enhanced on top of that with a combination of V shape for speed and H shape forpower and stability. With a basic understanding of the shape I wanted, I looked into the spec. Yoyo is everevolving, players are focusing more on harder and high space use zoning tricks, one greatexample is our player Tony Sung. The yoyo design has to evolve to keep up the demandfor the players, so the width and catch zone of the yoyo are getting wider and wider. Hereis 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 rideback in 2018 in 2023. The material I want to use is the classic yoyofriends 7068 + SS. Theresult was special, the shape and profile came out perfect, a refined V and H shape hybridwith striking wrapped around inner stainless steel ring. I loved the shape so much when Igot the prototype, I finally decided to use this yoyo as my first signature yoyo. Howeverwith the prototype one done, we are not quite done yet, it is time to nitpick and fine tune toperfect this yoyo. The first thing I notice is despite the yoyo being at a whopping 66g plus with its gigantic Lshaped SS rings, it doesn't play super heavy. When the speed is picked up the yoyo stillhas the speed worthy of the yoyofriends high end bimetal tradition. I ultimately want theyoyo just a bit lighter to help its acceleration so I decided on 65.8g. The response bump onprototype one was also slightly snaggy and uncomfortable, noticed by both me and ournewest yoyofriends team member Yahoo. On prototype 2 we slightly enlarged androunded off the response bump. The prototype 2 result was even more amazing. Theyoyo 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 forcompetition, however due to the increased slack and zoning in modern competition tricks,strings have been getting thicker and thicker. After I personally consulted with Kay, Idecided to increase the gap width to 4.52 for production, matching Tony's graviton andgraviton:y.I named the yoyo overclock because overclocking computer hardware has been myhobby ever since 2014. I remember overclocking my first PC, an intel i5-4690k, NvidiaGTX 970 and DDR3 ram. Ever since then, I have multiple top 10 scores and a couplenumber 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 topush computer hardwares to the limit just like how I assist to push yoyofriends yoyodesigns to the limit. The logo is inspired by a program I use, MSI Afterburner, specialthanks Tony Sung and the yoyofriends team for making the yoyo logo possible.I really hope you enjoy overclock, the new inner ring flagship from yoyofriends, atestament to yoyofriends' design evolution since I joined in 2018. I also hope this will bethe first yoyo in the lineup with many more to come!”