Here’s a great slice of the current yoyo scene in Hungary, courtesy of JoJoBolt.hu. I always enjoy random demo videos like this…gives you a good feel for a local scene.
Archives for June 3, 2013
Harrison Lee’s 8-Minute BAC Super Cut
CLYW‘s shortest team member, Harrison Lee, put together a crazy 8-minute video love letter to the Bay Area Classic yoyo contest. Totally worth watching if you missed the event, or slept through parts of it like Paul Escolar usually does.
Sweets Kendama Presents: KendAlex vs Voodama Doll
KendAlex gives us some nice tricks in this slightly silly video for the VooDama Doll from Sweets Kendamas. Super fun!
Vilmos Zoltan Kiss – Playground
One Drop team member Vilmos Zoltan Kiss had a little fun with the CLYW x One Drop Summit (and apparently some video filters”, and put together this quick new video.
Between two exams we decided to record a short video featuring a couple of tricks from Vilmos (OneDrop Team Member) as well as try out what our Pentacon 1.8/50 lens can do on a Canon EOS 550D to come up with a nice chill time video!
Slusny Presents – Duncan YoYo Contest
Slusny just posted some freestyle videos from a Duncan YoYo Contest they held on June 1st at Albert Hypermarket Pruhonice. Don’t have any details beyond that, but here are the Top 4!
1ST – ROBERT KUČERA
2ND – KRISZTIAN KALUZSA
3RD – DAVID KREIBICH
4TH – MATOUŠ TOMEŠ
Ilya Agarishev x CLYW
Russian player Ilya Agarishev showcases the CLYW Arctic Circle in this beautifully shot new video. There’s some really nice slack work in here…definitely worth watching!
Contest Calendar Update!
Just added a few new yoyo and kendama events to our Contest Calendar! Be sure to subscribe with your favorite feed reader or iCal, or you can just bookmark our Contest Calendar page!
June 8th – Kendama Summer Battle (Roseville, MN)
June 8 – Pelhrimov YoYo Contest
June 15th – South Moravia YoYo Contest
June 22nd – Slusny Junior Cup
July 27th – The Battle In Seattle Kendama Contest
Graff & Dama
Xopo Vocaloid just dropped an epic video of some dama and painting in an epic location.
Love the vibe of this video. Everyone has gotten a clip in front of a rad graff mural but these guys throw up their own then jam in front of it. LEVEL UP!!!
2013 Belarus Skill Toys Festival (NSFW)
Here’s a great glimpse at the first yoyo / kendama event in Belarus, thanks to a full report from Demmik at the Russian YoYo Association. The level of play is what we’d consider “up-and-coming”, and we’re really looking forward to seeing these players their scene continue to grow.
NOTE: the article below was translated by Google Translate, and then I attempted to edit it a bit to clean up the English…my apologies in advance if any of the information is off!
Music is NSFW.
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The long-awaited Belarus Skill Toys Festival has taken place in Minsk!
For two days, despite bad weather, players from Minsk, Gomel, and other cities met up at the Museum of Modern art, where the festival was held. The main event organizer was SkillToys.by, a group that has been working towards developing yoyos and other skill toys in Minsk since 2011.
The first day of the event was devoted entirely to kendama and yoyos. Competitors performed for a panel of judges from Moscow’s RAYY (Russian Association of YoYo) including Stepan Kosintsev, Mikhail Dementyev, and Moscow Kendama Challenge winner, Andrew Duchesse.
The festival began with the kendama competition. The Challenge was won by Sergey Nikolaenko from Minsk! And Alexander Abramov from Gomel won the Best Trick competition, and received a commemorative kendama, hand-painted in the colors of the Belarus flag.
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- Sergey Nikolaenko from Minsk won the Kendama Challenge.
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- Alexander Abramov wins the Best Trick Contest in the kendama division.
The next competition was a 1A Ladder competition, won by Sergey Nikolaenko, with Ilya Babaev in 2nd Place and Timur Kahanovich in 3rd Place.
1A Ladder Competition Contestants at the 2013 Belarus Skill Toys Festival
Then came the 1A Freestyle competition..results and video below!
1A Freestyle Results
- Nikita Danilov (Minsk, 13) – 96.54
- Stas Priemko (Minsk, 14) – 90.46
- Stas Metelskiy (Minsk, 15) – 61.85
- Maxim Raychenok (Minsk, 16) – 55.86
The second day of the festival was fully occupied by masters Fingerbordinga, and the curtain event a contest for Hvatatoru. (EDITORS NOTE: I can only assume this means fingerboarding and…something else?)
The winners got prizes from sponsors – Gyroscope GROUP , AERO-YO and YOYOFACTORY .
It is noteworthy that despite the small number of participants, the festival was visited quite a few guests and spectators.Many of the participants were heavily supported by parents or friends. BTRC filmed a good report from the event:
For other yoyo-related video presentations, visit the channel of Vadim Golub.
More photos from the 2013 Belarus Skill Toys Festival can be seen at the club museum.
Paul Dang – Rally Run
Paul Dang drops a nice combo here in support of the forthcoming One Drop Rally, their first plastic yoyo.
Jensen Kimmitt – Blue Angel (NSFW)
Jensen Kimmitt seems to have been reading and learning from our Fixed Friday posts, because in his first new video in years he demonstrates an undeniable flair with a wooden yoyo that can only come from careful study of Drew Tetz.
No, seriously.
(Music is NSFW, headphone it!)