Getting close to a rough version 0.1 of yoyostr. Initial release will focus on teaching. I will curate tutorial videos into difficulty levels. Users will be able to post a video of them doing the trick, after enough community members confirm the video is of the trick then the user will receive a badge for that trick. If they get all the badges for a skill level they’ll get that skill level badge. If you have a badge you asserting someone’s done a trick right will have more weight. Once this is working I will add more community/forum functionality.
Discussion
I like this…
Wish something like this was around when I started throwing…
Same here, I always wished Duncan yo-yo professionals could still be around to verify you knew a trick and give you patches to sew onto a jacket. But since we can do it digitally on nostr now I’m going to make a digital equivalent.
I didn’t even know that was a thing…
It was so hard to know if you were doing a trick right learning it from a book lol
I believe it was a thing around the 60s or earlier. Whenever Pedro Flores sold his company to Donald Duncan they started sending out pros to promote and validate skills. I believe spintastics also had badges later on. It’s been something I latched onto since I was aware of it. When I was in bowling league you’d get patches for reaching certain score levels or in judo you’d get belts for skill level. Why not yo-yo too lol