Reviews of the Yomega Powerspin yoyo. Add your own review or post a comment!

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I used to be an all time modern yoer, but I got introduced to some old stuff. I thought I could go back to a yoyo I started with so here I am. this yoyo is very interesting. Yeah, I know you want to get big sleepers but this yo does both sleepers (for you nerds who don’t have any fun), and loops! A must have for anyone like me who hates changing yoyo’s in the middle of the performance. Its design is also very interesting. Enough with the chat, It’s WEIRD! It has absolutely no “hub caps” and it kind of hurts when you pull it up or untwist and you hit that thing or what ever it’s called. Over all this is a pretty good yoyo. I would recommend it for advanced players up.
Submitted by yoyomaster1000 9/15/01

I have two Powerspins, one I put the bearing system in a long while back, so it’s more an RBII. First off, it’s light… and I wasn’t a big fan of lighter yos at first, but I’ve really started to like that about the Powerspin. You can get a pretty good sleeper out of it and it really does pretty nicely on most string tricks. It’s certainly a great beginner-intermediate yo. The RBII I “made” is great too… of course just the same only sleeps long and handles longer string tricks better. The Powerspin does loop a little better than the RBII. They both good yos and usually you can get them for a good price. Don’t hesitate the purchase if you wanted either one.
Submitted by Michael @ Mizzou 4/15/02

Powerspin WAS a great yo-yo untill i got my Rev-Rim. This yo-yo sleeps pretty good. I’d recomend it to people that are beginners. I got it for 10 bucks. thats all i have to say about this yo-yo and the fact IT SUCKS!!!!!!! It sucks because it can’t sleep and it just sucks although i like the light-weight system.
Submitted by Jeffrey S 4/18/02

This is an okay yo yo. In my opinion, this is nothing more than a Fireball with its side caps removed. It has okay performance on the string and is a better looper than some other Yomegas. It just isn’t very smooth, and I think it is way too light. If the yo yo had rim weight, I think the yo would be a much better performer. To me this is not a great yo yo to buy.
Submitted by Garin

Extremely light. They should’ve made an RPM version of this one… It’s nothing more than a fireball without caps, but it’s decent for looping if well-lubed and can be upgraded with Spintastics bearings to provide better performance. I really wish they had weight rings. It’s a cheap yo-yo but fairly durable, so it’s fun to put rubber-band treads on for bat-out-of-hell “runaway dogs.” Cats love chasing ‘em.
Submitted by ellaych

The Yomega Powerspin is not a bad yoyo. I got mine on sale for 48 cents. It is a good yoyo, but it only sleeps for about 20 seconds. It looks really cool and is a very good looper. It has a good feel in your hand and is not a bad yoyo. I got mine to practice looping. If you want a good looper get this, it is much better than other yoyos for looping.
Submitted by Michael S

Hmmmmmmm the powerspin. Now this yo-yo wasn’t actually as bad as I thought it was going to be because it actually performed quite well. Now I think this was the fourth yomega yo-yo I bought and thinking back on the firestorm I thought, well seeing that it is 5 dollars dearer and it is classed as a “high performance yo-yo”. Now the first thing I do with yo-yos is just let them fall and then I measure the string and cut it to my length. Now after I did this I threw the power spin for the first time and I must say I was impressed. It felt good in the hand it was smooth at spinning it had excellent response and pretty decent spin times as well. Now I must admit it wasn’t that smooth on string tricks but if you want a yo-yo that is smooth on string tricks and is just like the powerspin then just get its older brother the RB2. Now it said on the packaging that it held record breaking sleep times, but first throw I could only do a 22 second sleeper but then as I gradually played with it I managed to get over 40 seconds. But there are far more yo-yos out there which are much cheaper and spin a lot longer. Just like its bigger brother the inner bullets stuck out past the outer rims of the yo-yo which was annoying. Such as when I caught the yo-yo my pinkie finger kept hitting the bullet which was so damn annoying. Also when I did a trapeze it sometimes hit the outer bullets as well. So I managed to smooth the inner bullets down to just the right size. Now another thing I find annoying about the powerspin is it was said to be one of the best looping yo-yos. But to be honest I think it is amongst some of the worst. Because the inner walls don’t slope down to the bearing this gives this yo-yo awful looping stability so don’t try to loop it unless you have to. Now you can buy the powerspin in a variety of different colours. Mines red with a bumble bee string on it (it looks cool). So my advice is that if your a player and a collector (like me) Then you should definitely get it because for under $10 you just cant go wrong. Happy spinning!
Submitted by Yoyo John 4/26/01

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