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Search Results for: Takeshi Kamisato

Kuma Films – Spin Top Tricks w/ Takeshi Kamisato

June 28, 2018 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato partnered up with the folks at Kuma Films for this new video, and it’s stunning! Spin top tricks generally look pretty magical, but seeing them in exquisite slow motion really highlights how stupidly hard it is to hit the tip of a moving spin top with a ridiculously long and floppy string. It’s ridiculous. Hug a spin top player and let ’em know “Hey, listen, I know it’s hard for you but you are doing GREAT and I think it’s all gonna be ok”.

Spin tops used are modified Duncan Bearing Kings.

Filed Under: Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: Kuma Films, slow motion, spin top, spin top tricks, spin top video, takeshi kamisato

Takeshi Kamisato Joins 44RPM

February 29, 2016 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato 44RPM

44RPM, the start-up toy company from Drew Tetz and Hank Freeman, just announced their first sponsored player: scene legend Takeshi Kamisato! With Takeshi’s history as a yoyo trick innovator and filmmaker, and his recent (and pretty awe-inspiring) jump into the world of absurdly hard kendama tricks, he’s a perfect fit for 44RPM.

In addition to their line of flatpack yoyos, kendamas, and spin top, 44RPM recently released a budget metal yoyo called the Rhythm, and have started showing photos of it’s companion yoyo, the Blues. The Rhythm, designed by National YoYo Master Rafael Matsunaga with art by Rodrigo Yokota is in stores now. There is no release date set for the Blues.

Congratulations, Takeshi and 44RPM!

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: 44rpm, blues, drew tetz, flatpack toys, hank freeman, kendama, rhythm, spin top, takeshi kamisato, yoyo

Takeshi Kamisato – Spin Top Tricks

August 5, 2015 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato hooked up with the folks from Kuma Films for this spin top video, and it’s great! We definitely don’t see enough of spin tops these days, and Takeshi has always been one of the best players out there.

Top used is the Duncan Toys Bearing King spin top.

Filed Under: Players, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: spin top, takeshi kamisato

Takeshi Kamisato – Bangers

December 15, 2013 By Steve Brown

The always amazing Mitchell Thomas Takeshi Red Cloud Kamisato (yup, that’s his full name!) hasn’t put out a video in a while…but let’s just say this one was worth the wait.

Bangers for daaaaaaaaaaaaayyyssssssss…..

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: duncan toys, exit 8, takeshi kamisato, video

Takeshi Vs. Drew Slomo Trick Battle

May 9, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Gather ’round, ladies & gents! What we have here is the first ever Yoyonews trick battle. My good friend Takeshi “The Human Zamboni” Kamisato has agreed to throw down for a single trick slomo video face off with me, Drew “The Party Baby” Tetz. We got a lot of pride on the line here, so we kindly ask you to check out the tricks below, vote for your favorite in the poll, and tell us why in the comments.

Filed Under: Battle, Players, Video Tagged With: 1A, 5A, battle, drew tetz, Duncan, takeshi kamisato, video

Takeshi skating 20 years ago

May 16, 2012 By Rafael Matsunaga

This is GOLD! Duncan Crew’s one and only Takeshi Kamisato is known for being pretty awesome at skateboarding, but other than a couple of tricks on yo-yo clips, we rarely see him ride. Takeshi has, however, dug up this VHS gem! That’s right, Takeshi was already much more awesome than everyone else 20 years ago!

via Takeshi Is My Hero

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: Duncan, kamisato, skate, skateboard, takeshi

44RPM – The Penny Video

June 16, 2015 By Steve Brown

44RPM has come out of the gate as easily one of the strangest and most creative new companies in the yoyo/skill toy market. The brainchild of Drew Tetz and Hank Freeman, all of their products are laser cut from a single flat piece of wood and you assemble them yourself. And they really work. It’s kinda nuts, really.

Their latest kendama release, the Penny, is a flatpack kendama that uses pennies to add extra weight, and the difference in play from their standard model kendama as the result of adding 7¢ is crazy!

Check out this video from Takeshi Kamisato, showing off what the 44RPM Penny can do in the hands of a bunch of kendama players.

Filed Under: Kendama, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: 44rpm, drew tetz, flatpack, hank freeman, kendama, penny, takeshi kamisato

#trickcircle Round Up 5/5/14: 5A May Edition

May 5, 2014 By Drew Tetz

Hey gang! Gather ’round the internet machine and join us for the best yo-yoing you can fit into 15 seconds, #trickcircle. In this series (previous installments here) we scan Instagram for videos tagged with #trickcircle, pick recent favorites, and collect them here along with some thoughts on what makes them great. In the spirit of 5A May, let’s keep this installment to counterweight tricks.

It only seems right to start things off with the man who first decided that yo-yos worked better tied to dice than to fingers, @unklesteve (aka National Yoyo Master Steve Brown.) Steve laid a huge amount of the bedrock for 5A; there’s a pretty good chance that he made up half of the tricks you can do back in ’98 with Neff. The crazy thing is that Steve is still shredding: there ain’t nothing outdated about that combo up there, and few people can manage those kinds of finger switches with the ease that he does. I recognize the launch from one of my favorite tricks in Steve’s 365yoyotricks project, “Circuitous”, great to see two equally gnarly paths branching out from the beginning of the combo.

Let’s take a trip down south to visit @bryanjardin, AKA 2 time Asian Pacific Champ & 4 time Philippine Champ Bryan Jardin. Bryan’s style is fun, exciting, and hard to keep up with—kind of like Bryan himself. Where Steve’s combo was based around clockwork motions within a few mounts between his hands, Bryan’s is all about momentum. He keeps the mount simple, but the confidence behind his tricks comes out in power & speed that make for a very exciting show. Entering red propellor from around the arm at the end of the combo was a particularly nice touch.

Taking us back to technical territory is @scottsm7 (2011 US Champ Samm Scott.) Samm has been exploring this style of combo more frequently in his recent freestyles: dense tricks that rack up by points by mounting, pinwheeling, and redirecting the counterweight & yo-yo around the hands while maintaining control of a central string structure. You can definitely see traces of influence from Jon Rob & Jake Bullock, but more than anything what shines through is top-level string control placing every element exactly where he needs it to be.

Let’s take a break from the long combos and get to something more instantly satisfying: bangers! @danielbudai (AKA Daniel Budai, 2 time Hungarian Champ & 2012 European 5A Champ) brings us this mighty green triangle. The beauty in this trick is that the elements all logically flow together, but the end result is still surprising: the motion of the counterweight out of e-fan naturally unmounts the yo-yo and continues into the crook of his arm, and the momentum of the yo-yo naturally sets up a GT formation to land in. The other best part of this trick is definitely that it lets you flex like a strong man at the end, so if you learn it make sure to pose in the mirror a bit.

@chasebaxter is an American player who has been steadily moving up the ranks in contests and is beginning to make waves with combos like this one. Chase’s style features a good mix of ’07-10 American contest 5A influences and his own “swangle,” perhaps best exemplified with the 1-2-3-4 counterweight mount buildup at the beginning of the combo and the drop suicide at the end. Definitely a name to watch.

At the beginning of the month, Takeshi Kamisato challenged @edhaponik to come up with some Fixed Axle 5A. Ed is certainly no stranger to Fixed Axle, but fixie 5A has gone largely unexamined due to the fact that traditional counterweight tricks are reeeally hard without bearings. Ed sidesteps this technical challenge and uses a responsive setup (a butterfly!) to his advantage with this sidewinder freegen, a visually appealing exercise in quick reflexes & lateral thinking. This trick contains some of the best parts of modern fixed axle play: it may seem like a “dead end” due to its lack of string hits and inability to combo in/out of anything, but it’s not easy to find a single move with a visual effect as strong as this one. Furthermore, even players who understand why a sidewinder flutters can enjoy banging the hell out of their knuckles trying this trick at home—trust me, it’s harder than it looks. And isn’t that the heart of all yo-yo tricks?

Signing out, @drewtetz of @yoyonews

Filed Under: #trickcircle, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: #5AMay, #trickcircle, 5a may, bryan jardin, Chase Baxter, counterweight, daniel budai, ed haponik, featured, freehand, samm scott, steve brown

Duncan Toys Komodo Kendama YoYo Thingy

January 23, 2014 By Steve Brown

When yoyo players started complaining about kendamas infiltrating the scene, the good folks at Duncan Toys really listened, and immediately got their best people on the job! Now, just a scant few years later, Duncan Crew member and modder Takeshi Kamisato has turned one of their kendamas into a yoyo so everyone can go back to only liking yoyos and being fearful of other skill toys.

Enjoy the awesome!

Filed Under: Kendama, Players, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: duncan toys, kendama, komodo, takeshi kamisato, yoyo

365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup

June 24, 2013 By Steve Brown

365yoyotricks.com Weekly Roundup

We’ve got another batch of tricks from the gang, and an addition to the roster…please welcome Jacob Jensen to this years 365yoyotricks.com team!

Jason Lee checks in from Persopolis, Iran with some more of the best flow you’ve ever seen.

 

Spencer Berry revs up his Walter for an especially challenging repeater.

 

Jacob Jensen brings us a deceptively difficult counterweight repeater.

 

Darnell Hairston checks in from our favorite local burrito joint, Chili Peppers.

 

Takeshi Kamisato brings us another “Good luck hitting this, buddy” trick from his repertoire.

 

Elbow mount!

 

And Rafael Matsunaga reminds us that simply and silly are pretty awesome.

 

See you next week!

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: 365 yoyo tricks, darnell hairston, featured, jacob jensen, jason lee, rafael matsunaga, spencer berry, steve brown, takeshi kamisato, video

Fixed Friday: 1.5zzzzz

June 14, 2013 By Drew Tetz

This Friday we’re going to take a deeper look at one of the most versatile mounts in modern responsive play, the 1.5 stall. The 1.5 is one of the foundational string trick mounts, so as you can imagine there’s a metric ton of fun stuff to do with it. Here’s a small sampling of that fun stuff transposed with the bearing taken out:

Before we get goin’ on the fancy stuff, let’s take a quick refresher course on what the 1.5 mount is: named because it’s a logical midpoint between a trapeze (“1”) and a double-or-nothing (“2”), the 1.5 is a sidestyle undermount on the throw hand. Another way to look at it is as a sidestyle split-bottom mount – but now we’re getting carried away. As FF devotees should know by now, the main difference when converting a mount to a stall is considering the spin direction, and doing a traditional 1.5 mount in a stall format can be difficult because of the way that undermounts tend to twist up. I dodge this in the first trick by keeping my hands vertically oriented and getting out as soon as possible, but there are more elegant solutions as well.

My favorite 1.5 stall variation is probably the mount shown at the end of the next combo, where you cross your throw hand over top of your free hand and intersect the string with those fingers instead. As a general rule, stalling trapeze-style is always going to be easier than catching an undermount stall, and this little tough love combo is a good way to practice the hand crossing motion. Once you’re comfortable with the cross, it becomes second nature to enter 1.5 this way right out of a breakaway.

The next entrance that I use is debatably the hardest in the video, but also one of my favorite mounts of all time, so whatever you’re getting it! You’re welcome! Basically, after you learn the cross-armed 1.5, you take that and you do a double-or-nothing first, resulting in what looks like an insanely technical mount… that actually just uncrosses to a normal 1.5. This brilliant mount was initially discovered by Chris Neff (presumably back in ’98), but expanded into a repeater by Justin Weber. You can find an excellent breakdown of the repeater (and Zach’s reverse variation) in this Cabin Tutorial from CLYW. Catching it in a stall takes practice, mostly due to having to budget for extra string on the windup, but when you get it it feels awesome. Trust me. You can exit any way that you want, but one of my recent favorites (shown in the video) is to uncross, push out, and then cross over inside your arm for a quick shoot the moon regen out.

Now that we showed a tutorial Charles did of somebody else’s trick I’d like to teach a trick I made based on one of Charles’ moves. Say wha? Anyways… 27 seconds in, we got a move I’m calling “Chuckwagon”. You get that cross-armed 1.5 I’ve been talking about, then you perform a dump truck type motion, flipping the yo-yo back towards you and dismounting between your arms. From there, you continue into Charles’ “Smooth Double or Nothing Move” and catch it in a 2or0 stall. I like to dismount this by dropping the throwhand string, crossing my arms, and pushing the yo-yo down forcefully, which is something Steve Brown used to do with bearing yo-yos all the time around ’05 or so but gets extra points in fixed axle for giving you some hefty spin on the regeneration.

The next trick is a simple one – just a mount, really – but very useful for segueing between sidestyle and frontstyle. It’s like the cross-armed 1.5 mount we’ve been doing, but you point your throwhand towards your body, making it effectively a reverse split bottom mount. Seth Peterson, Yuuki Spencer, and Nate Sutter have all used this movement to great effect in gorilla style tricks, check them out for inspiration.

I figured we’d round out the cross-armed 1.5 section with some behind the back silliness. Catching a stall behind your back requires you to move fast and be a little flexible, but other than that isn’t too different from the normal one. In this trick, I like to follow the dismount by turning my body and catching the yo-yo in my freehand tough love style. If you leave yourself enough room in the string, you can move it over your shoulder and now the trick is no longer behind your back! Magic, or maybe just a goofy looking rotation, but either way a fun move that can’t be performed in a traditional spinning trick. As always, bonus points for ending in a thumb mount.

BRIEF KENDAMA INTERMISSION: Have you ever tried catching a lighthouse on an imperial yo-yo? My favorite modder Takeshi Kamisato chopped up this gorgeous Duncan Tournament and the shape really inspired me.

Okay, back to the yo-yos. The first lesson I’d like to teach you is that you should play off every mistake with a spin move. Trust me! It’ll confuse your enemies and make you feel better. Moving on to the actual trick, though, we have a cousin to the cross-armed 1.5 we were doing earlier, that’s… actually, it’s also a cross-armed 1.5. Huh. The critical difference is that this time you cross your throw hand underneath the free hand, which lets you do this Kwijibo-esque pop to double-or-nothing. I tend to find the other entrance a little easier, but there are distinct uses for each and I encourage playing around with both.

I ended the video with another weird kendama/yo-yo fusion trick. It’s definitely more yo-yo inspired, but it is fun getting to play around with the spike and clicky-clack the yo-yo a bit at the end. Never fear, yo-yo purists! The first step where you hold the yo-yo and rotate your hand around it before the proper throw does not require you to touch our dreaded rival skilltoy… also, kendamas are pretty fun? So, y’know, whatever.

Thanks to Takeshi for the super cool Tournament & ’80s Butterfly, and to CLYW & Yoyonews for the hat. Also, if you like the music, you can download it on my soundcloud. Tell us what tricks you’re working on this Friday in the comments below!

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Players, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: 1.5, butterfly, drew tetz, Duncan, duncan tournament, featured, fixed axle, fixed friday, kendama

365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup

April 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

365yoyotricks.com Weekly Roundup

 

It’s Monday morning, and that means it’s time for you to witness the furious awesomeosity of the incalculable creativity of the incomprehensible  something something something whatever.

Takeshi Kamisato sets the bar high for the week with a Snap to Green Triangle. Damn.

 

Spencer Berry gets his fixed axle on with an EH from SPYY.

 

More fixed axle goodness as I find a Spintastics Technic axle in my junk drawer, throw it in a YoYoFactory Velocity, and start getting weird.

 

I’ve made up hundreds of tricks, but I still have no idea which ones people are going to get excited about. For some reason, this one got a lot of praise. Still no idea why.

 

Here a stall, there a stall, everywhere a stall stall…

 

An experiment in minimalism…what are the simplest components you can create something new from? I chose Trapeze and a Split Bottom Mount. Turned out nice, I think.

 

And Rafael Matsunaga wraps things up with a benchmark trick in the history of counterweight play, the One-Handed Helicopter. Still beautiful, still really damn hard.

 

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: 1A, 365 yoyo tricks, 5A, duncan toys, featured, rafael matsunaga, spencer berry, spyy, steve brown, takeshi kamisato, weekly roundup, yoyofactory

Fixed Friday: Kickflip Transitions

March 8, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Welcome back to Fixed Friday, where the tricks are made up and the points don’t matter. Because you don’t score any points. Huh? Moving on. This week I’m proud to present some original content that I’ve been working on, a z-axis flip that lets you transition between stall mounts. Let’s take a look:

The first trick is the simplest version of this idea. Throw a trapeze stall, swing and flip the yo-yo as though you were throwing a kickflip suicide, but instead of catching the loop, chop into the string. It takes a little practice to figure out the timing of the chop and the spin, I find it helps to use a two-tone yo-yo so that you can remember which side was facing you when you threw the suicide and chop when you see it come back around. If you don’t have a two-tone yo-yo, I recommend covering the sidecaps in stickers… but then, I pretty much just recommend that anyways. I should also mention that while trapeze is the simplest version of this trick, it may actually be easier to execute from a double or nothing, so if you’re struggling with the trapeze you might want to try 2or0.

The next move is an interpretation of the first pop of the classic trick,  Kwijibo, and it illustrates how the kickflip can be used to move from one mount to another. Learning the chop with the opposite hand usually requires a lot of focus on providing enough slack to cushion the yo-yo’s landing without letting it fall off.  All of you kids catching kendama fever will be thrilled to learn that it’s all in the knees… okay, maybe you don’t have to full-on crouch, but it definitely helps to move your hands along with the yo-yo to soften the landing a bit.

Now, at this point, you’re probably wondering why you wouldn’t just go with the flashier kickflip suicide. The answer? Half-flips! As you may recall from earlier lessons, one of the primary challenges of stall tricks is that you can only catch the yo-yo on one side of the string, which means transitioning from mount to mount occasionally requires elaborate restarts. With a half-flip, the yo-yo flips over halfway (natch), meaning you can transition between stall sides in the middle of mounts or combos.

The next trick is an example of such a combo: first, a half-flip from a double or nothing stall to a trapeze bro stall, something not possible with a simple hop, and then after throwing the bro stall back into double or nothing, a full flip back down to trapeze. It’s definitely not the easiest transition, but it is fun, satisfying, and has lots of possibilities for expansion.

The last trick is the brainchild of my Takeshi Kamisato, who is a gentleman and a cupcake. We start out with the 2or0 half-flip to trapeze bro, but on the catch, you pinch the string in order to keep the slack of the suicide loop from disappearing. After that, toss the yo-yo off to the side with the loop intact and catch the suicide, much in the style of Takeshi’s immortal Hans Rocks! tricks. Bam! Easier said than done, of course, but a great example of how to incorporate modern new school 1A elements in your fixed axle play.

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: butterfly, drew tetz, featured, fixed axle, fixed friday, kickflip, tricks

Duncan YoYo Demonstrations at Downtown Disney (2.15 – 2.17)

February 7, 2013 By Steve Brown

 

Duncan Yo-Yo Professionals Takeshi Kamisato & Drew Tetz are performing once again at the Downtown Disney® Area in Lake Buena Vista, Florida 2/15 through 2/17! Visit Once Upon A Toy in the Downtown Disney® Marketplace to meet the guys and learn a trick or two! They’ll be on site each day from 2-9pm!

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: buena vista, disney world, downtown disney, drew tetz, duncan toys, florida, once upon a toy, orlando, takeshi kamisato

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