Daiki Tanaka rips through some absolutely beautiful tricks in this new video from mowl. These folks always put out some of the most incredible videos, and it’s great to see Daiki’s talent showcased so perfectly.
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mowl Surveil Ft. Daiki Tanaka (NSFW)
Daiki Tanaka drops banger after banger in this incredible new video from mowl. The music is NSFW so headphone it up and get ready to watch this a half-dozen times.
Yoyo used is the mowl Surveil.
FIST SALUD Presents: Daiki Tanaka
Daiki Tanaka got his hands on the new bi-metal from Mowl and that means we get a beautifully shot new video filled with jaw-droppingly good yoyo tricks. WE ALL WIN.
Yoyo used is the Mowl Surveillance.
Acquaintance – Daiki Tanaka
Daiki Tanaka is going to melt your face off with this new video. Seriously, strap in.
Daiki Tanaka — FIST SALUD 2014
When I went to 44CLASH in 2011, Kohta gave us stickers that read “WHO’S GOING TO BE A NEXT GENERATION?” Upon receiving & reading his sticker, Hank pointed to Daiki practicing tricks in the corner and said “That guy. He’s the next generation.” Two contest seasons later, and he is definitely living up to this promise. Dee’s recent clip featuring Daiki for Fist Salud shows you why he’s the future: clever transitions, sophisticated combo construction, and of course his signature cross-armed horizontal circular eli hop banger—what’s not to love?
Fist Salud DayTrip pt. 1 — Shu Takada & Daiki Tanaka
Two of YoYoFactory’s brightest young superstars, Shu & Daiki, take some time out from their holiday shopping to throw down a quick & fun edit. Daiki’s 1A is on-point as usual, with clean geometry and combo construction, and Shu mixes up the 2A wizardry we’ve come to expect with some equally jaw-dropping 1A. Their two styles complement each other very well, and it’s great to see contest forerunners pushing clean, fun, and innovative tricks even offstage.
This video was brought to us by Dee in the name of that shadowy Japanese superteam we all know & love, FIST SALUD.
Obsession ft. mowl Ambassadors
Few companies know how to hang out and have a good time like our friends at mowl!
From mowl:
During their last trip to Osaka our Ambassadors Kenta Kushiro and Daiki Tanaka had the opportunity to meet up with our dear friends Ryo Tahira and DJ HTOWN and take over the street of Osaka all dressed by the freshest and well-known brand Team Satan, to whom by the way we like to show and express our utmost appreciation for the kind gesture. This video featured one of our greatest product, the mowl “Obsession” which is beautifully presented by these talented gentlemen.
Yoyo used is the mowl Obsession.
mowl M+ ft. ambassadors
Check out this short but sweet promo video for mowl, featuring mowl ambassadors Daiki Tanaka, Kenta Kushiro, and Eiji Okuyama.
Yoyo used is the mowl M+.
44Festa vol.25 – Freestyle Winners
Check out the top winners from the recent 44Festa vol.25 event. Amazing talent, as always.
1st Place – Hajime Miura
2nd Place – Takumi Hakamata
3rd Place – Daiki Tanaka
4th Place – Tomohiko Zanka
5th Place – Akira Kato
YoyoRecreation presents 44FESTIVAL
44FESTIVAL, the freestyle contest brought to you by the good folks at 44FESTA, with support from yo-yo clubs from all over Japan, was held on March 20th and 21st, presented by YoyoRecreation.
The contest is not part of the official Japanese contest calendar, and the objective is bringing all those yo-yo clubs and putting together an event organized by players for the players.
Regional contests (44FESTIVAL East and 44FESTIVAL West) were held in October and December last year, respectively, with winners guaranteeing a seed to this event.
Day 1
Prelims were held on the first day, along with performances from DJs Roan (Hiro Irifune) and Koichiro Ueta.
Judging was in good hands, with very experienced judges taking care of both technical and performance scores.
Tech. judges: Ryosuke Kawamura, Takao Morioka, Naoya Takeuchi, Hiro Irifune
Performance judges: Master Kenichi Nakamura, Ryusei Saito, Jun Mikami, Jun Aramaki
In addition to the preliminary round, a trick showcase and the now obligatory after party were held after the freestyles.
Day 2
Finals day was packed, and all eyes were on the competitors, who did not disappoint! The contest is not divided into the usual 1A-5A divisions, and all players compete together instead, which makes for a very interesting and slightly unpredictable event!
A few years ago, such a contest would be heavily biased towards 1A and 2A players, but with all divisions reaching such a high level and maturity, it’s no surprise that the top places were not from either of those! Check the full results below:
- Hajime Miura
- Hideo Ishida
- Yamato Murata
- Toru Miyazaki
- Takumi Hakamata
- Yuuki Nishisako
- Yamato Fujiwara
- Akira Kato
- Daiki Tanaka
- Tsubasa Onishi
You can check all of the freestyles on this playlist.
The winner and his sweet prize bag!
44FESTIVAL comes to and end, but Masanobu Iwata and the fantastic folks at 44FESTA and the yo-yo clubs from around Japan are already hard at work putting together their next meetings and events. If you’re in Japan, be sure to attend any of those great events and thank the organizers for all the effort and love they put into their local events!
44FESTA vol.16 Report
Masanobu Iwata sent us a reminder that 44FESTA is back to its regular schedule, with vol. 16 of the legendary meeting.
This edition’s mini-contest is one I’ve been wanting to do for years! It’s yo-yo bowling!
Super straightforward, but it actually looks pretty hard.
The Japanese contest season is already in full swing, so contestants are taking every chance they can to practice their freestyles, and 44FESTA is the perfect stage to do it.
Hajime Miura was once again the winner of the freestyle contest, this time keeping it on familiar territory with 3A:
These are the results:
- Hajime Miura
- Daiki Tanaka
- Shungo Awaya
- Yamato Fujiwara
- Akira Kato
All freestyle videos from the contest can be found here. Full results are available here.
44FESTA will be back in April, as the crew will be extra-busy with 44FESTIVAL, which will be held on March 20th and 21st.
44FESTIVAL is 44FESTA’s major freestyle event, so be sure to keep an eye on it!
44FESTA vol. 15 report
Masanobu Iwata sends in another report from 44FESTA!
Vol. 15 was held on November 22nd, and was the last regular FESTA event of the year.
This event’s mini-contest was probably my favorite so far, especially considering a lot of players these days have not experienced the annoying fun of auto-return yo-yos.
So what’s the “catch” here? The goal was to get a sleeper that lasts exactly 10 seconds, and if you’ve thrown these things before, you know there’s not much you can do about the sleeper time other than calibrating your throw.
And yet, World Champion Hajime Miura, and Makio Nakagawa both somehow managed to respectively get 10.07 and 9.93 seconds, with Makio winning the tie-breaker!
Next up was the freestyle contest, with World Champion Hajime Miura coming out on top. You could say having the World Champion compete here is unfair, but what if he freestyles in a different division?
Well, that’s still unfair!
Just kidding, we love having our minds blown by Hajime over and over!
Here are the final standing:
- Hajime Miura
- Yamato Fujiwara
- Daiki Tanaka
- Kenta Kushiro
- Shinnosuke Ishizaka
You can find all of the freestyles here.
And the year is not yet over for the 44FESTA crew and fans! 44FESTA VILLA, FESTA’s year-end party, will be held on December 27th in Fujisawa, Kanagawa. Entry fee is 1,500 yen (about 12 USD), and includes food and beverage!
There will be a non-sponsored player contest at the event as well, a great chance for those players to show off their skills and maybe catch a sponsor’s attention!
Finally, 44FESTIVAL WEST is also just around the corner, and will be held on December 19th in Osaka! Quite a busy month in Japan!
44FESTA 2nd Anniversary Report
The post-contest blues hit hard after the absolutely fantastic World Yo-yo Contest in Japan, but the good folks at 44FESTA are ready to keep the ball rolling!
Our favorite regular yo-yo meeting celebrated its 2nd anniversary on August 29th, with their usual fun for the whole family.
The 44FESTA mini-contest has some serious prizes.
The mini-contest was a 32-player single elimination battle fought with randomly drawn old-school tricks.
Maybe you’d expect 1999 World Champion Takumi Nagase and the legend himself, Master Nakamura, to easily crush their opponents in a contest where the weapons ranged from Walk the Dog to Rocket in the Pocket, but the new generation proved their skill is not limited to freestyles and unresponsive yo-yos.
Pocket tricks, harder than most combos out there
Yamato Murata and Hajime Miura were the finalists in the contest, with Yamato Murata emerging victorious in the last round.
The freestyle contest switched from 2 to 3 minutes this time, but there was no single winner. Instead, each of the 44FESTA crew members and C3yoyodesign (represented by Shinya Kido) elected their own winner based on personal preferences:
- Nody Award: Shota Saga
- Eto Award: Tomoyuki Kaneko
- Bryan Award: Daiki Tanaka
- Jun Award: Yamato Murata
- Hassy Award: Yuki Takakura
- Masa Award: Tomohiko Zanka
- C3yoyodesign Award: Yoshimi Koga
The attendees were also asked to vote for the 44FESTA MVP, and the people’s choice was the two-time World Champion and impossibly talented boy-wonder Hajime Miura!
The people’s choice!
44FESTA will also be especially active during the off-contest season in Japan, expanding the widely successful 44FESTIVAL to three events!
44FESTIVAL East will be held on October 31st, in Yamato, Kanagawa
44FESTIVAL West will be held on December 19th, in Matsubara, Osaka
44FESTIVAL Final will be held on March 20th, and the location is yet to be determined.
The events are open to sponsorship, so if you are interested in supporting 44FESTIVAL, be sure to contact the organizers on the event’s site.
Also be sure to check the next edition of 44FESTA, which will be held next Sunday!
2015 World Yo-yo Contest Day 1 (wildcard) results
Day 1 of the 2015 World Yo-yo Contest comes to an end after a marathon of over 250 players going through the wildcard round for all divisions! Here are the results!
1A
As expected, this was a tough and cruel round for the 169 players competing for a spot in tomorrow’s preliminaries. Only 33 players made it through, with some of the crowd favorites failing to advance. The American players did a great job, with six players (Andrew Bergen, Colin Beckford, Eric Tran-Ton, Clint Armstrong, Kevin Nicholas, and Lucas Gremler) among the qualified, along with two contestants from China (Pisco and Weichuan Wang) and one from Hong Kong (Benson Fok). Among those who failed to make the cut were Vashek Kroutil, Hidemasa Senba, Eric Koloski, and Ryosuke Iwasawa.
These are the qualified players in 1A:
- Toya Kobayashi (Japan)
- Benson Fok (Hong Kong)
- Izuru Hasumi (Japan)
- Andrew Bergen (United States)
- Yuki Nishisako (Japan)
- Yuya Yatani (Japan)
- Colin Beckford (United States)
- Ryota Komatsu (Japan)
- Shinya Kido (Japan)
- Hiroaki Yoshii (Japan)
- Eric Tran-Ton (United States)
- Tatsuaki Okamoto (Japan)
- Koyo Hashimoto (Japan)
- Clint Armstrong (United States)
- Pisco (China)
- Ayumu Harada (Japan)
- Kevin Nicholas (United States)
- Daiki Tanaka (Japan)
- Kazuya Murata (Japan)
- Tsukasa Namba (Japan)
- Yuki Shigematsu (Japan)
- Kento Muraoka (Japan)
- Kaito Tanaka (Japan)
- Amane Okubo (Japan)
- Weichuan Wang (China)
- Ginji Miura (Japan)
- Takumi Sakamoto (Japan)
- Ryosuke Hara (Japan)
- Shinji Toyoda (Japan)
- Kenta Kushiro (Japan)
- Tomoki Toyama (Japan)
- Lucas Gremler (United States)
- Ryo Igarashi (Japan)
Full results for 1A can be found here.
2A
With only one player outside Japan competing in the wildcard round, it’s no surprise that all eleven qualified players are Japanese. We hoped 1999 World Champion Takumi Nagase would make it, but he was unable to match the speed of the current 2A generation.
- Ginji Miura (Japan)
- Koichiro Ueta (Japan)
- Yutaro Kasuya (Japan)
- Reo Takamatsu (Japan)
- Yuki Takami (Japan)
- Shinnosuke Ishizaka (Japan)
- Hajime Sakauchi (Japan)
- Yamato Fujiwara (Japan)
- Masaki Iida (Japan)
- Shuji Kotani (Japan)
- Yuki Yamaguchi (Japan)
3A
3A has been improving at a fast pace, and the times when just being able to throw double-trapeze were enough to be competitive are long gone. Almost all of the competitors in the 3A wildcard round are Japanese, but Ayoun Kuo from Taiwan managed to squeeze into the next round!
- Yuto Yamaguchi (Japan)
- Takumi Yasumoto (Japan)
- Shoto Yamamoto (Japan)
- Sora Tahira (Japan)
- Ayoun Kuo (Taiwan)
- Takayuki Namba (Japan)
4A
There are a lot of people who want Rei Iwakura’s spot as king of offstring! No less than forty-two players competed in this division, including a handful from the world’s 4A elite! Ben Conde, Bryan Figueroa, and Naoto Okada had no trouble making it to the preliminary round, while two-time World Champion Eiji Okuyama, and Atsushi Yamada both failed to make it through in this tough division.
- Yuki Nishisako (Japan)
- Shuji Kinoshita (Japan)
- Ben Conde (United States)
- Bryan Figueroa (United States)
- Sota Maeda (Japan)
- Naoto Okada (Japan)
- Keita Kido (Japan)
- Koyo Hashimoto (Japan)
- Renta Motoyama (Japan)
- Ryo Oishi (Japan)
- Kei Hashimoto (Japan)
- Tomohiko Zanka (Japan)
- Yohei Kagawa (Japan)
5A
Counterweight is the contest’s smallest division, and while the number of contestants was small, we are super excited about the players who are competing, and even though 2004 World Champion Makoto Numagami was unable to make it through, the wildcard ranking is led by two equally legendary names: Hiroyasu “Pon” Ishihara, and 2001 World Champion Shingo Terada!
- Hiroyasu Ishihara (Japan)
- Shingo Terada (Japan)
- Shohei Nishio (Japan)
- Kazuma Miyakawa (Japan)
- Tatsunori Yoshiba (Japan)
The full list for 2A-5A can be found here.
Stay tuned for more updates from the greatest contest ever!