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Archives for February 22, 2013

Sweets Kendamas Pro Contest – Finalist Videos

February 22, 2013 By Steve Brown

Sweets Kendamas Sponsor Me 2013 Video Contest

Sweets Kendamas is currently running a video contest, with the grand prize being a 1-year sponsorship deal. Crazy, right? Not as crazy as the five finalists’ videos. The tricks these guys are pulling off are just ridiculous. They each have to create another 2-minute video for the final round to determine who wins the sponsorship. Good luck to all the finalists, and check out the videos that got them to this round…amazing work from all of them!

Max Norcross

 

Kris Bosch

 

Miles Gibson

 

Cooper Eddy

 

Sam Cannon

Filed Under: Kendama, Skill Toys Tagged With: contest, Cooper Eddy, Kris Bosch, Max Norcross, Miles Gibson, Sam Cannon, sponsor me, sweets kendamas, video

Jason X Ann – YoYoNews Exclusive!

February 22, 2013 By Gabriel Lozano

Jason Lee and Ann Connolly are two incredible YoYoFactory players that are traveling to far-away places and performing amazing tricks. This video showcases their trip across Cambodia and Thailand at the end of 2012. Although they have since parted ways, we hope that both of them will continue to chronicle their journeys across the world and continue to create new tricks and inspire new players across the globe.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 1A, 2013, Ann Connolly, Cambodia, featured, jason lee, Thailand, video, yoyofactory

Shu Takada – Loop 1080 Promo Video

February 22, 2013 By Steve Brown

Shu Takada‘s videos always make me pick up a pair of yoyos and start working on 2A looping tricks. And for anyone who has ever seen the damage that I do to me chest, fast, elbows, and collarbone whenever I attempt 2A, you understand just how inspired I must be to attempt what is clearly a lost cause.

Absolutely beautiful work from Shu, and the 1080‘s themselves are easily the best modern looping yoyos ever made. Get a pair and get to work.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: loop 1080, shu takada, video, yoyofactory

Fixed Friday: Tough Love

February 22, 2013 By Drew Tetz

This week we’re going to talk about a different sort of stall, a group of tricks I like to call “Tough Love Regens.” They’re still pauses based on catching the yo-yo mid-return and regenerating it, but are distinct from the string stalls that we’ve been talking. Where string stalls primarily involve landing the yo-yo on the string in a sort of frozen mount, tough love regens instead focus on redirecting the yo-yo using your body. Let’s take a look!

The first combo shows off two of the simplest tough love regens, trapeze and 1.5. The first one can be seen at 5 seconds in: throw a breakaway, allow the yo-yo to come back as though you were going for a trapeze stall, and then smack the yo-yo back down to restart the spin. This can be tricky at first, especially if you whack your knuckles a couple of times, but if you throw softly and focus on the yo-yo hitting your palm you should get it. The 1.5 stall can be seen around 13 seconds: it once again starts with a breakaway, but you use your free hand to intersect the string and reach over with your throwhand to slap the yo-yo. This one seems complicated if you’re not used to 1.5 stalls, but if you think about the crossover bit being like a mellower Kwijibo then it starts to come into focus. The look of this trick can really change based on where you place your hands, so make sure to play with that and to try a few different mounts.

The next two tricks are joke-y, but still worth a look. First up we got the Koopa Stomp: you throw the yo-yo, it starts to come back, you push your shoe against it and it shoots back out. Immediately after the Koopa Stomp you get the leveled-up version, Clipper Stalls, which are the same but with the other foot crossed over. Both are excellent tricks to call in Butterfly Horse, because it’s a simple concept that people understand but don’t practice, which means that sometimes they fall over and it’s hilarious. Anyways, tehse tricks are a little silly, but they give you a pretty good idea of how you can bounce the yo-yo off of different parts of your body. Rei Iwakura is a good example of how to use these sorts of moves in “serious” yo-yoing, though he goes even crazier – check out his world-winning 2012 freestyle starting around 1:20 for some wild leg/neck/arm bump action.

Trick number four with the fancy pinwheel intro looks pretty close to the trapeze stall, but has the key distinction of having frontstyle spin. As you may recall, that’s a pretty big deal in fixed axle! That means the yo-yo is winding the opposite direction up the string, so you have to catch it on the other side. Other than that, it’s just a neat little cross-armed combo showing how you can work them into your tricks.

The next trick, Stretchy Tiger, is a bit of a weird one. The “Tough Love” portion of the trick is a throw straight down into the palm, preventing the yo-yo from ever getting to sleep. In addition to being a weird visual joke, this sets up the yo-yo for a quick regen, an off-handed throw, whatever that awesome weird thing Ben Conde did in “Theory” was, or, in this case, a lil’ double rotation to trap stall.

After that, we have one from my part in Ed vs. Drew, the insta wrist wrap offhand throw. The wrist twist that sets up the wrap is usually the focus of this trick, but it serves well to illustrate the way that you can set up interesting formations, catch the yo-yo, and then use an off-hand throw to get right back into the trick. In this case, we finish up with a 2A-style wrap, something that could really make waves in responsive 1A.

The final trick shows how you can take advantage of the stall to change planes, and how horizontals can be worked in to stall tricks, and how scary responsive horizontal broadways are. The trick finishes up with a horizontal version of the back-of-the-hand stall that most people know as the “Yuuki stall”, because Yuuki Spencer famously (and awesomely) used similar stalls in ’06 to extend his combos into the stratosphere. It should be noted that while I’m presenting this as a fixed-specific lesson, there’s evidence of people doing body redirections all over the place – Yuuki’s Stall remains popular, and European players like Vashek have been using similar mid-combo stalls since ’04 or earlier. As mentioned earlier, variations can frequently be found in offstring body tricks, and 2A players do shoulder bumps & elbow stalls all the time.

Give these a try, figure out some other ways to bounce the yo-yo off of yourself, and tell everybody about it in the Facebook group.

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: butterfly, drew tetz, Duncan, featured, fixed axle, fixed friday, regen, trick theory

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