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Final Update 9/29/2019

It has been a long time since I have written for High Speed YoYo. To answer your question yes, I am still alive, and yes, I am still throwing. The very short answer to why I have not written a review, updated the site, or written on the Facebook page in well over two years is that life seriously got in the way.

The longer answer is quite a bit more complicated. To keep it short, sweet, and to the point… I had way too many things going on and not enough time to take care of all of them. First off, back in early 2017 I went back to school to earn my master’s degree in education. It was not easy to balance my hobbies, school life, work life, and family life all at the same time but I did my best to make it work. That balancing act ended abruptly in late 2017 when my wife at the time and I separated and, subsequently, I filed for divorce. At that moment I became a single parent of my teenage son. I had to find a new place to live and had little to no access to most of my possessions during the proceedings. While the divorce was going on, I was still working towards my master’s degree and to be honest, the site ceased to be a priority of mine. Fast forward to today… I graduated in December 2018, the divorce was finalized earlier this year, and I have new priorities that monopolize my time. I am quite happy in my new life. My family is in a stable, healthy environment and I am raising an amazing son, and helping him with his passions for retro videogames and playing the baritone sax in any and every high school band available to him in his school district. I am also doing my best to help my eldest daughter wherever she deems it possible as she starts her junior year of college.

I do not know if I will ever update the site again with another review or, to be honest, how much longer the site will stick around. I have been lurking around on the old forums and it has shown that the times have passed me by. I have become just another mediocre old dude with a yoyo. Please do not send me your condolences, I am quite happy in the new roles that I have been given. There is always a reason for the things that happen in life and this whole experience has given me some much needed prospective. All I can say is thank you for the huge amount of support you have given me in this community, I have loved being a member.

-Chris