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Archives for December 7, 2012

Trick Theory: 3A Quickmounts

December 7, 2012 By Drew Tetz

A yo-yo trick can be as simple or as complicated as you let it. Many players like to elevate their craft by pushing tricks in previously unseen directions, exploring nuances in presentation, inventing new styles, or breaking the contest system wide open. Let’s take a closer look at some tricks from world champion Hank Freeman.

Hank is well known throughout the community for his smooth style, unique tricks, and complete dominance of the American 3A scene. He is generally considered to be one of the best (in my opinion, THE best) 3A players in the world, and his back-to-back world titles support this. He’s also a fiend for good ramen and knows all the words to “Rappin’ Duke” – but enough about that, let’s get to the tricks. Specifically, let’s look at some of his signature quickmounts.

The blueline mount is a standard in 3A, and the basic form of blueline rolls is one of the first tricks that 3A players learn. Hank kicks the trick twenty years into the future by performing all the steps at once, performing what is called a “quickmount”.

In his 2012 title-winning freestyle, a full half of his combos opened with quickmounts. This is significant for a few reasons:

  1. By throwing straight into a mount, he shaves off a good 3-6 seconds that 3A players are used to spending on individual throws. Those seconds add up, and being able to start every trick sequence with a quickmount could open up enough room for a whole new combo in the freestyle.
  2. Opening with a quickmount gives the trick a sense of momentum that can be difficult to capture in a slow-moving style like 3A. Not only does it grab the audience’s attention and set a strong pace, but it can actually make certain tricks (like some of Hank’s double zipper sequence) easier than starting from a dead stop.
  3. Hank’s quickmounts are astonishingly difficult, and are scored accordingly. Hitting a quickmount right at the beginning of a sequence guarantees you 5-10 extra clicks right off the top, essentially giving you an extra banger every time you throw.
  4. They look freakin’ sweet. I mean, c’mon, it’s just like “pow” and you’re all like “woahhhh” and Hank’s like “yeah man.”

As you can imagine, these tricks can take years of practice, and are only just beginning to show up even at the top level of play. With high level players like Ken Takabayashi, Taiichiro Higashi, and Yasuki Tachibana integrating them more and more, though, it’s easy to see that quickmounts are marking a paradigm shift in 3A. Hank has expressed a desire to begin every trick in his 2013 freestyle with a quickmount, and it’s not hard to imagine them becoming as standard as the double trapeze sequence is now… provided that any of us can ever catch up to Hank.

As a bonus, let’s take a look back at some of Hank’s b-sides (and some quickmounts from yours truly) in the 2011 pure 3A clip “Chos”.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS AND FURTHER READING: Remember when Jensen did his Worlds 2011 Freestyle in one throw? You know how weird and amazing Christopher Chia’s regens are? Will regen- and stall-heavy one throw freestyles eventually become the norm in 1A freestyles as contests become closer and closer and competitors cram as many points in as they can? Are 3A regens ever going to become feasible? Can anybody tell me how to do Velvet Quickmount without hitting myself in the face? Talk about it in the comments below!

Filed Under: Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: 3A, drew tetz, duncan toys, featured, hank freeman, trick theory

Tune Your Computer To YoYoRadio Live Tonight!

December 7, 2012 By André Boulay

YoYoRadio

I will be on YoYoRadio tonight along with Ed Haponik (SPYY / 365) and Brandon Jackson (Duncan Toys).

Find out more about the show on their Facebook page.
And listen live at this link (starts tonight at 9:30 PM EST).
And find the entire show archive here and you can listen to old episodes!

– André

Tonight on YoYoRadio, we’ll talk to Ed Haponik about Fixed Friday, Brandon Jackson…:

Tonight on YoYoRadio, we’ll talk to Ed Haponik about Fixed Friday, Brandon Jackson about his role in assisting Perry Prine in the capture of the dastardly thieves who allegedly ripped off the Cleveland Yo-Yo Club plus the one and only André Boulay about his mustache and the emergence of the new yo-yo news website YoYoNews. Tonight, starting at 9:30 pm (EST) at YoYoRadio.net

(Via YoYoRadio’s Facebook Wall)

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: 365 yoyo tricks, Andre Boulay, Brandon Jackson, Joe Mitchell, spyy, YoYoRadio

Giant Blue Fox Thing Does YoYo Tricks

December 7, 2012 By Steve Brown

I’m just going to put this up here and let you draw your own conclusions.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: furry, video, wtf, yoyo

Oxygène io Coming Soon – Sneak Peak

December 7, 2012 By André Boulay

From Oxygen’s Facebook page – sneak peak of their new yo-yo. Similar shape to their very popular and high end titanium versions but this time in all aluminum!

Oxy Io

Did you look for an easy to carry Syzygy or Ti 9.06? Here is their little brother, the Oxygène io, featuring same precision and elegant shape as its predecessors on full aluminum halves. Three soft colors on a hand made sandblasting.

Diameter: 54 mm
Width: 43 mm
Weight: 65 gr.
Gap: wall to wall 5 mm

Come soon to YoYoExpert!

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: IO, Oxy, Oxygene

Sneak Peak of the Nile by ILOVEYOYO

December 7, 2012 By André Boulay

ILOVEYOYO

ILOVEYOYO just posted a sneak peak of their new yo-yo the NILE with a great explanation of their design process. Always interesting to see why a design comes out a certain way and what the focus was in planning the yo-yo out.

Nile:

We decided to take a dive into the centerweight-trend and Frank began designing a new yoyo he called Nile. Here are his notes on the design along with a first CAD render image.

As many people suggested, I’ve designed a yoyo in the modern vein. More centerweight and thus higher RPM that is. Its all about getting the right balance between spintime and RPM. So we needed to shift some weight to the center to get higher RMP value.

So, here is our first dip into high RPM yoyos.

The Nile

Diameter: 56.00mm
Width: 44.00mm
Weight: 66.20g
Gap: 4.20mm
Response: Hot Red SILYYcone
Bearing: ILYY KMK metric

As you can tell, we have this typical yoyo in a yoyo design here. The inner rim area has a diameter 36.44mm the outer diameter of the inner yoyo is about 45mm. The whole rim stretches over 9.78mm. I’m not quite sure if this is enough to make a huge difference playwise. But we’ll see.

The rims have linear elements (parallel and collinear) that reduce visual tension. I was going for round lipped rims first but that way it got way too heavy. In order to maintain a small (diameter) inner yoyo, I had to cut away a part of the rim, thus it is flat now. I had difficulties getting the outer rim thin enough to shift enough weight to the center while still maintaining a good haptic. We had this issue with the fist Lynx prototype as well: it had too thin rims at the outermost point. Therefore it felt quite unpleasant and gave a cheap impression. Both rims might be useable for thumb grinds. However, this is just a design study, we have yet to try it out once it is machined.

A high wall (flat area around the response area) is more or less absent this time. That should prevent the yoyo from tilting too much if the strings are not perfectly parallel. I’m not into sidestyle, as a matter of fact, I can’t do a single trick sidestyle. But this feature should make it easier to play sidestyle. Correct me if I’m wrong.

The profile turned out to be quite traditional, what is good for a competition yoyo, I guess. But basically it follows the inner shape (horn to rim). That’s quite a difference for me. Usually, I focus on the profile first. The inner area just arises from working out the desired weight. But this time, it’s different. The top area of the profile meets the rim in a Lio-ish kind of way. I really like that, it should result in a quite comfortable hold.

Overall, the design incorporates flat and curved surfaces, I tried to keep it as consistant as possible and threw in some linear parts here and there as you can see in the profile and from the horn to the rim.

I took some inspiration for the name from one of my favorite metal bands – Nile. I was listening to their music while designing the yoyo. The name also serves as great basis for an awesome engraving that has yet to be created. The Egyptian mythological theme will be realized by a certain coating or color way.

Prototype will be made in the next weeks. I hope to get it before the holidays.

So far…
Frank

More information will posted soon. Stay excited!

(Via ILOVEYOYO.de)

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: Germany, ILOVEYOYO, ILYY

The End of HSpin

December 7, 2012 By André Boulay

Chris K of HSpin officially explains their situation in yo-yoing and that they can no longer continue to function in their current state.

We have all kind of seen this coming for a long time now. It is unfortunate as HSpin did produce some amazing yo-yos in the past…

HSpin plans to sell some last remaining yo-yos on their website to clear up their debt in the coming weeks as they bow out: http://www.hspin.com/

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: End, HSpin

Mark Mangarin – Vines

December 7, 2012 By Steve Brown

David Ung just posted this up on his Tumblr page, and we’re glad he did! Mark Mangarin is a hugely underrated yoyo player, and his trick composition is absolutely stunning. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more from Mark in 2013, but for now we’ll just have to watch this video over and over and over….

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: david ung, mark mangarin, video, yoyofactory

Paul Dang – OneDrop Project

December 7, 2012 By Steve Brown

Paul Dang shows off some great tricks, performed on the original Project yoyo from OneDrop. The Project is still, to my mind, the finest throw they’ve ever released. Only made briefly and replaced rather quickly by the Project 2, which wasn’t nearly as well received, the Project is one of those throws that people get all wibbly and nostalgic about. As they should, it’s a great throw!

To their credit, once OneDrop discontinued the Project they publicly posted the CAD code for anyone with access to a CNC lathe to make their own. Here’s that code…if you’re feeling industrious and want to make a batch of these for yourself, go right ahead!

Click here to download the NC code for making a OneDrop Project YoYo on a CNC mill. 

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: one drop, onedrop, paul dang, project, video, yoyo

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