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Archives for March 31, 2016

Recess Announces Danny Severance Edition YWET

March 31, 2016 By Steve Brown

Danny Severance YWET

Recess Intl. just announced a beautiful limited edition release, commemorating the life and general badassery of Danny Severance. These will be available in limited quantities at RecessIntl.com, tomorrow, April 1st, at 8 pm EST. I’ll let his brother Tyler do the talking on this one.

My brother, Danny Severance, was and is one of my biggest inspirations not only in YoYoing but also in life. Anyone who met him would probably say something of a similar effect.

2 years ago he decided to take his own life. As much as it pains me and all of his family/friends and the people he touched, we all know he’s in a better place and wouldn’t want us wallowing in sorrow.

So instead, I’ve made some YoYos in his honor. If you ever got to meet Danny or see some video of him throwing earlier on, you would know how partial he was to a Purple Freehand Zero with plain white caps. A clean look inspired by Seth Peterson and so many of his idols who threw Freehands before him.

This is an original Anti-Yo YWET powder coated in his favorite color way. As you may know these YoYos weren’t sold to the public due to a bearing seat machining error. This is fixed with a simple shim to adjust the gap of you YoYo, and all pieces are hand tested to perfection before shipping. Shims will be glued into place.

They’ll be funding a team who will be walking the “Out of the Darkness” overnight fundraiser, with all proceeds being used in the fight for suicide prevention.

If you’d like to donate regardless of YoYo Purchase you can do that at this link:

http://theovernight.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=17894

YoYos will be released on Friday April 1st (8 PM EST), and be shipped in mid April after powder coating is completed. Price will be $70.

Filed Under: Featured, YoYo Drop Tagged With: Danny Severance, goddammit, miss you danny, out of the darkness, purple, recess, suicide prevention, tyler severance

Throwback Thursday – Team Losi

March 31, 2016 By Steve Brown

Team Losi Cherry Bomb

It all comes back around eventually, huh?

There was a hell of a yoyo craze happening in 1998, and I wanted in on it. I’d gotten to be a pretty decent player at that point, for the time anyway, and was building up a solid catalog of original tricks…something that wasn’t happening much yet, so it set me apart. I called Alan Nagao, the guy who was in charge of HPK Marketing and heading up a massive team of yoyo demonstrators called “Team High Performance” to see about a job.

Alan: “Can you do Two-Handed Shoot The Moon?”

Me: “No, I mainly focus on original single-handed tricks.”

Alan: “Oh, well, sorry I can’t really use you then.”

Not sure if I missed out or dodged a bullet with that one, but either way it left me at loose ends. And then my boss at the time got a sample of a new yoyo from an RC car company called Team Losi, and I thought “Well hell, I’ll call them and see what’s what.” It was a good phone call, they seemed like good folks, and they offered to fly me out to the 1998 World YoYo Contest in Primm, Nevada and meet me there to talk about a sponsorship. I got drunk during the contest and fell asleep at my table waiting to go on stage. Jon Gates kicked me and woke me up, and I jumped up, filled my pockets with the yoyos that were on the table, and ran up to the stage. I ended up competing mainly with a Spintastics Tigershark and a Team Losi Da Bomb, both with wood axles, and taking 4th Place. (Ben McPhee took 5th Place, and both of our trophies starting falling apart on stage. He ended the awards ceremony with a pile of trophy parts in a heap, gathered in his t-shirt.) The Team Losi guys were impressed, and offered me a gig as a demonstrator and consultant on retainer.

They already had the Da Bomb, their standard shaped yoyo, completed. They wanted a butterfly shape, and showed me a render. I made some suggestions, drew some ideas, and after some back-and-forth and a trip for me out to visit their office in Chino, California, the Cherry Bomb was designed. The first version, the red one, was made of ABS and came with weights that you could add to change the way it played. The idea behind Team Losi yoyos was to treat yoyos the same way they produced RC cars…you bought a model, and then you bought parts to customize it to suit your style. Yoyo players weren’t super into the idea, though, so instead I had them experiment with chrome plating and other materials and the results were the A-Line (made of a sort of glittery, denser plastic) and the Silver Series, which were chrome plated. Counterweight yoyoing was created on those yoyos, and I used a prototype Silver Series Cherry Bomb to win the 1999 Bay Area Classic, the first time anyone saw counterweight yoyoing.

Team Losi Da Bomb

Team Losi didn’t last long in the yoyo market, and we parted ways a year later when Duncan offered me more money, benefits, and the chance to freeze my @$$ off in Ohio. The owner of Team Losi, Gil Losi Sr, sold the company in 2001 and the yoyo line ended pretty much right there. It was a brief moment in the history of the industry, but it was my first gig with a manufacturer and I’ll always look back fondly on it.

I’m pretty excited to see that YoYoExpert has scored some old dead stock of the original Team Losi yoyos. I don’t even personally have any left, so I’ll be buying a few of these myself. They definitely don’t play up to today’s standards, but they are a fun throw and an interesting look back at a weird moment in the early history of modern yoyoing.

Click Here To Buy The Team Losi Da Bomb and Team Losi Cherry Bomb

Filed Under: Featured, Manufacturer, Throwback Thursday

44Nollie x Rebirth

March 31, 2016 By Steve Brown

Yoshinori Kawamura gives us a little hey hey from Japan with some smooth tricks and a jaunty hat. Hell yeah!

Yoyo used is the One Drop Rebirth.

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: one drop, rebirth, yoshinori kawamura, yoyo tricks, yoyo video

Cabin Tutorials – Yellow Submarine

March 31, 2016 By Steve Brown

Riccardo Fraolini drops a beautiful twisty slack trick in this new Cabin Tutorial from CLYW. I love tricks like this…unexpected movements, unique transitions, and deliberate pacing that accentuates the actual movements. A master at work!

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: cabin tutorial, clyw, Riccardo Fraolini, yoyo tricks, yoyo tutorial, yoyo video

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