Fat Tire 20/20

A 20/20 Retrospective Edition is when One Drop makes a small change to a model using hindsight to make it better. In this case, it’s the Fat Tire 20/20. Controversial statement: Scientifically, the Fat Tire 20/20 is more Floaty than the original. Conventionally, yo-yo play descriptors have generally been considered to be largely subjective. However, One Drop happens to have a collaborator that you may not have heard of. If you were on the One Drop Forums back in the day, you might have come across a user called “Dirty Birdy”. He is a long time friend of theirs and creative collaborator for One Drop and his name is Chris Greiner.  Chris is a PhD Physicist who has been doing on-going research into the physics of yo-yos. The standard physics of a yo-yo have long been understood but Chris has taken it further and examined play characteristics that have been described by players. He has delved into being able to figure out just from CAD, if a yo-yo design is going to be more or less prone t