#direct drive

YOH's finisher move : Direct Drive - Double underhook brainbuster

-How did Direct Drive itself come about?

YOH: I talked about this when I guested on SHO’s podcast, but vinyl is a big hobby of mine, and I really threw myself into all that while I was off. I got myself a new setup, and when I played a record on the new decks, it just sounded amazing. 

–An epiphany?

YOH: You could say that. direct drive is a kind of mechanism in turntables, it’s about how the motor operates the record. There are belt drive decks and there are direct drive ones, and I have a direct drive. 

–So what’s special about direct drive? 

YOH: Well, direct drive is at it sounds, the motor is directly connected to the turntable as opposed to spinning a belt that turns the deck. So I would watch a record spinning as I was giving all this thought. I wanted to do something from a double underhook, like a Tiger Driver, and I thought I could give it that rotation like a record on a deck. I tried it and it worked perfectly.