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The End of 365yoyotricks.com

December 31, 2013 By Steve Brown

365yoyotricks.com

In 2010, I had the idea that I wanted to push myself to be a more active yoyo player. Back when I first started playing, and all through my days working for Duncan Toys and then briefly as a tour demonstrator for YoYoFactory, I threw constantly. It was not at all uncommon for me to put in at least 5 – 6 hours a day, and if I was on tour or handling a trade show then it easily became 8 – 10 hours a day. But having kids and starting a business take a lot out of you, and in 2010 I was coming off several years of barely touching a yoyo at all. I needed something to kickstart my creativity, and nothing does that like a public declaration so I announced that I was going to start 365yoyotricks.com, a website where I created, filmed, and uploaded one yoyo trick every single day for a year.

It turned out to be a lot harder than I thought, but in 2011 I did it. One original trick, every day. I dipped into a well of older tricks for days when whatever I was working on wasn’t ready yet, but I published video of 364 original yoyo tricks in 2011. (Halloween was a treat instead of a trick, with a coupon code for YoYoExpert.) In 2012 I decided to bring in some people who I personally wanted to see more play from, and put together a roster of players that are some of my personal favorites: David Ung, Nate Sutter, Ed Haponik, Drew Tetz, and Guy Wright. They contributed about a trick a week each, and I filled in the gaps. For 2013 I did the same thing with a new roster of players: Jacob Jensen, Spencer Berry, Darnell Hairston, Jake Bullock, and Rafael Matsunaga. As always, there were plenty of guest spots, but the formula remained; one new, original yoyo trick every day.

I even started a spin-off site, 365cooltricks.com, that is run by my friend Mark Hayward, featuring all kinds of tricks…juggling, kendama, magic, sleight of hand, bar tricks, and other object manipulation. It’s awesome, by the way, and Mark Hayward now has a much stronger understand of what I’ve done for the past 3 years in keeping 365yoyotricks.com going. Ha. Hi, Mark!

Today is the last trick of 365yoyotricks.com, “Denouement” by Hank Freeman.

My time is filled with fatherhood and husbandhood and running this site and organizing contests and generally doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work to better the yoyo industry and community. So in the interest of making sure that I put all my energy in the best places possible, I’m closing the doors on 365yoyotricks.com. The site will remain up indefinitely, and thanks to the tireless work of Greg Pettit it’s a LOT more searchable than it was before so it’s now a much more functional archive of amazing tricks from a lot of fantastic yoyo players. (And me. Ha.)

A huge thanks to André Boulay and YoYoExpert.com for his help in keeping 365 going, helping me move the site from Tumblr to WordPress, and sponsoring the project with kickbacks for the players. Much love to everyone who ever contributed a trick, to everyone who ever watched a trick, and to everyone who slapped one of our stickers somewhere inappropriate. A huge thank you to Tressley Cahill for designing the logos for both 365yoyotricks.com and 365cooltricks.com.

It’s been a great three year run! The theoretical successor to 365 is the #trickcircle series that Drew Tetz has been curating from Instagram clips…so follow that hashtag on Instagram, and keep an eye on YoYoNews.com for weekly roundups and discussion.

Happy New Year, and thanks so much for supporting this project! It really did wonders for me as a player, and I hope you got as much inspiration from it as I did.

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Filed Under: Players, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: 365 yoyo tricks, 365yoyotricks.com, featured, hank freeman, steve brown, video

Comments

  1. Greg Angel says

    January 4, 2014 at 12:32 am

    Thank you for the awesome site Steve. You do not know how often I would (and still will) check your site for inspiration for a new trick. You have done well 🙂

    • Steve Brown says

      January 14, 2014 at 8:29 am

      Thanks Greg! Really appreciate it. 🙂

  2. sonny says

    January 3, 2014 at 10:37 am

    man, hasn’t hit me yet, i keep checking for new tricks

    • Steve Brown says

      January 14, 2014 at 8:30 am

      I keep thinking I’ve forgotten to do something.

  3. Igor says

    January 3, 2014 at 7:40 am

    It was cool to watch, and its great job you done! Thanks!

  4. KevinM says

    December 31, 2013 at 8:41 pm

    Thanks to you and all that contributed for three
    amazing years!

  5. Gambit says

    December 31, 2013 at 5:51 pm

    *Applauds*

    Here’s to a job well done!

  6. Adam Brewster says

    December 31, 2013 at 5:36 pm

    thanks for everything!

    definitely a monumental volume of work.

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