YoYo Related News From Around The World
By Steve Brown
YoYoFactory Russia has released the final video in their “POV” series, and it’s every bit as fantastic as the rest. Featuring some truly excellent and inspiring tricks from Mikhail Baklanov, this last installment should give you a nice push into the weekend with plenty of new ideas and concepts to try out.
Yoyos used are the YoYoFactory DOGMA, Grind Maсhine 2, and SHU-TA.
By Steve Brown
Check out the latest video in the POV series from Russia, this one featuring Igor Galiev. Igor is such a tremendously talented and creative yoyo player. He’s your favorite, and if he isn’t then he should be!
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Dogma.
By Steve Brown
Dwight Daly Jr. brings us another solid POV video. This guy is coming up quick…great trick construction and flow!
Yoyo used is the YoYo Workshop Halyard.
By Steve Brown
Are you ready for more crazy good first-person yoyo play from Russia? Good deal, we were too!
Check out the latest episode of YoYoFactory Russia’s “POV” series, this one featuring some incredible yoyo play from team member Ilya Matros.
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Dogma.
By Steve Brown
Dwight Daly Jr. brings us his first POV cut; lots of promising play here, a good chuckle, and a generally nice feel for the tricks and their timing makes this a video worth watching.
Yoyo used is the Halyard by YoYo Workshop.
By Steve Brown
Russian awesome guy Nikita Apon has a bonus episode of the POV series, a first-person video series showcasing members of the YoYoFactory Russia team. Predictably, this video is awesome.
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Too HOT.
By Steve Brown
The Point of View project brings us their next installment, this one showcasing some hella clean technical 1A from Russian YoYoFactory team member Dima Akinshin!
Yoyos used are the Space Cowboy, Shu-Ta, and Supernova by YoYoFactory.
By Steve Brown
By Steve Brown
Videos are finally up from the 2017 Russian Yoyoing Competition, and looks like they were worth the wait. The scene in Russia has gone through a pretty dramatic downturn, with them losing nearly all of their “casual” player base in a very short time period. It was a pretty typical boom-to-crash scenario, but without a large retained player base afterwards to keep it sustainable. Luckily the players who have remained are all pretty amazing, and there is still a TON of talent there to inspire the next generation of Russian players. Check out the winners from this December 2017 contest!
By Steve Brown
Sergey Bukanov’s new video is the best news about Russia I’ve heard all week.
Music is NSFW.
By Steve Brown
The “Throw” documentary that we blogged about previously is now available for public viewing! The full 10-minute film is now available to watch online, and it’s a beautiful look at the power of our ridiculous passion and some strong insight into Coffin Nachtmahr, one of our own.
Throw tells the story of an outsider from East Baltimore, an area challenged by gang violence and poverty. Often misunderstood, Coffin Nachtmahr found acceptance among a subculture of “throwers” and it turns out, he’s a virtuoso. He now helps others find a creative and social outlet by sharing the very toy that inspired him.
David Larson, the co-director of the film, was walking through Patterson Park when he discovered Coffin playing with a yo-yo. Coffin is hard not to notice with his gothic appearance, eye makeup, and prodigy-like throwing moves. After a brief conversation we decided to learn more and now we’re proud to finally debut the film later this month. Please stay tuned to watch the full version that will soon be available on our website and social media channels.
This was an exciting and humbling project for us to undertake. Thank you Coffin for letting a couple of awkward dudes with cameras tag along with you for a little while, and of course thank you for having the courage to share your inspirational story.
By Steve Brown
Production company Early Light Media is kicking off their Invisible Thread short film series with “Throw”, a documentary about OhYesYo owner Coffin Nachtmahr. The film will debut at Mountainfilm in Telluride, CO later this month. Looks like a great piece on one of the more interesting personalities in the yoyo community…maybe we’ll have to organize a screening at the World YoYo Contest, too?
Throw tells the story of an outsider from East Baltimore, an area challenged by gang violence and poverty. Often misunderstood, Coffin Nachtmahr found acceptance among a subculture of “throwers” and it turns out, he’s a virtuoso. He now helps others find a creative and social outlet by sharing the very toy that inspired him.
David Larson, the co-director of the film, was walking through Patterson Park when he discovered Coffin playing with a yo-yo. Coffin is hard not to notice with his gothic appearance, eye makeup, and prodigy-like throwing moves. After a brief conversation we decided to learn more and now we’re proud to finally debut the film later this month. Please stay tuned to watch the full version that will soon be available on our website and social media channels.
This was an exciting and humbling project for us to undertake. Thank you Coffin for letting a couple of awkward dudes with cameras tag along with you for a little while, and of course thank you for having the courage to share your inspirational story.
By Steve Brown
YoYoFactory Russia brings some more of the good stuff from the land of snow and bears and rad folk art. Check out the latest from Andrey Glukhov!
(And get ready, the final POV video from YoYoFactory Russia is coming soon. Check out past episodes here.)
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Dogma.
By Steve Brown
Monkeyfinger’s Will Hahn shows off their newest yoyo in this first-person video. Good stuff!
Yoyo used is the Monkeyfinger 2Evil.