Putting and End to that
After a recent posting on Yoyonation's forum regarding shmooving and beefcaking, I received an interesting email from Lorenzo Bassani from BrokenYoYos team in Milan. Lorenzo is planning on releasing a yo-yo with grooved insides and wanted to talk with me about it.
As it turns out, Lorenzo posted the idea of grooves to reduce the yo-yos inner surface back in July of 2005 on The Yo's forum, complete with description and diagrams. Read the full thread here.
Thats 3 months earlier than Phil and I made our first shmooved yo-yo out of a Bolt.
To clarify that, Yes, Absolutely. was the first company to produce a shmooved yo-yo, but I believe it's obvious that Mr. Bassani was beat us to the idea and deserves credit for his innovative design.
As it turns out, Lorenzo posted the idea of grooves to reduce the yo-yos inner surface back in July of 2005 on The Yo's forum, complete with description and diagrams. Read the full thread here.
Thats 3 months earlier than Phil and I made our first shmooved yo-yo out of a Bolt.
To clarify that, Yes, Absolutely. was the first company to produce a shmooved yo-yo, but I believe it's obvious that Mr. Bassani was beat us to the idea and deserves credit for his innovative design.
posted by Doc Pop at 11:56 PM
2 Comments:
First of all would like to thank to DocPop for the nice talk we had, and for this post on his blog.
When I started that design and posted it on the forum I had in mind a kind of "open source yoyo" design, so everybody could add some thing and the first to have the money and possibilities could have done a real proto of that...unfotunately at that time (still studying in my university) I had not enough money.
So under all points of view ,even in the case happened you have seen this design before, absolutely I don't see any kind of problem for this thing!
And if that happened I'm really happy you have seen some potential in my daesign!
Hope to see soon a new yoyo from you with schmooves, and have new chanses to share some ideas with you!
Ciao
L
Always good to give credit where credit is due. Thanks for the heads-up, Doc (and nice design Lorenzo)!
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