Kendama player David Gault shows off some remarkably clean tricks and some absolutely beautiful locations in his new kendama video. Beautiful!
Archives for February 25, 2013
2013 EYYC – Honorable Mention – Ethan Wong Wing Hang
Every contest has winners, losers, upsets, underdogs, surprises, victories, and defeats. But my favorite part of a yoyo contest doesn’t actually happen that often…it’s when someone gets on stage and does something that is so far off the norm that their placement becomes irrelevant. I’ve always personally been drawn to the more esoteric aspects of yoyo play. And while I love a good competition-crushing freestyle as much as the next guy, it’s the people who push boundaries that get me up out of my seat and reaching for a yoyo.
The 2013 European YoYo Championships was a mind-blowing event. I watched as much of the live stream as I could and there were so many fantastic performances….the winners very much deserved their titles and it’s almost a shame there weren’t more awards to give out. But one freestyle in particular had me jumping up and flipping out completely, and it was from a player I’ve only recently even heard about.
So, I’m officially giving my own personal Honorable Mention to Ethan Wong Wing Hang of C3YoYoDesign for his mind-blowing freestyle that was about 90% horizontal finger-spin tricks. It was absurdly bold and risky, and he nailed a lot of it. I have no idea if he really thought it would score high enough to get him the win, but he had to have known just how badly it could have gone…and he went for it anyway.
Absolutely amazing. Congrats to Ethan on becoming part of C3YoYoDesign, and on his new signature model, the MO-vitation. Check out his freestyle below!
365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup
Time for the 365yoyotricks.com Weekly Roundup! I swear, I’m going to get better about posting these. Honest. Be sure to check out the newly redesigned website for 365yoyotricks.com, and follow along on Twitter and Facebook for daily uploads.
Brandon Jackson from Duncan Toys gives us a guest trick inspired by his love of theme parks.
Rafael Matsunaga gives us a rejection repeater that is ridiculously awesome.
Jake Bullock shows off one of the burliest 5A wraps imaginable.
Spencer Berry smiles real big and teaches us another repeater inspired by Yuuki Spencer.
This is what happens when I watch videos of Nate Sutter and start playing with Seasicks.
Blake Freeman from Square Wheels makes Rock The Baby new again with this neat variation on an old trick.
Ernest Kahn reminds us that there are still MORE ways to bind an unresponsive yoyo.
And last, I give up a simple variation on 360, with 62% more Wes Anderson-ness.