Becko celebrates his 2-year anniversary on the UNPRLD team with a video that reminds us all what a total badass he is.
Yoyo used is the UNPRLD ReCognition.
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By Steve Brown
Becko celebrates his 2-year anniversary on the UNPRLD team with a video that reminds us all what a total badass he is.
Yoyo used is the UNPRLD ReCognition.
By Steve Brown
By Steve Brown
A-RT dropped a new video for Michael Kurti and it’s everything you hoped for. Amazing play from Chef Kurti, non-sequiturs, Sunshine Jimmy, the vague sense that the temperature is unbearably low, a stylish garage, heavy sighs, and clogging.
Yoyo used is the Good Life Gully.
By Steve Brown
Colin Beckford gets the A-RT treatment in this new video that makes us wait through almost three minutes of memes before we get to his amazing yoyoing. OR his amazing yoyoing interrupts what could have been seven and a half minutes of continuous memes…depends on your priorities, I guess.
Yoyo used is the A-RT x UNPRLD Sucction. It’s terrible, you won’t like it.
By Steve Brown
The 2018 East Coast Masters was the first modern yoyo contest in Pittsburgh, and the turn-out and skill level were both great! Check out video of the winners below, and huge thanks to Recess for hammering away at school programs in the area to build a player base, S.W. Randall Toyes on keeping up a steady yoyo club for all these kids to attend, and all the organizers for putting together a great event.
Check out video of the winners from the 1A Division!
The guys at Scales Live spent an hour of their Monday nights talking about their predictions for 2018, what exactly is “meta”, different styles, and more!
Featuring Andrew Bergen, Andrew Maider, Colin Beckford, Keiran Cooper, Patrick Canny, and Mark Mangarin.
Audio version can be listened to here.
Hey everyone! Colin here with a short recap with one of the last contests in the US competition circuit of 2017. It’s been a very interesting and competitive year all-around, so it’s always good to reflect on it in a real contest setting.
I think one thing that many people have noticed is that there is clearly a meta that people of all skill levels are attempting to adjust to, with varying success all around. It’s really interesting (and we could/may do a whole episode on this alone) to see how this works out for a select group of people only and why it doesn’t work out for everyone. Anyways, this shift towards an ideal build of tricks/performance was obvious at Illinois States, so it’s just something I wanted to touch up upon before we got to covering the yo-yoing here.
The winner of the 1A division was (in my opinion) the most skilled player in the midwest area currently, Chandler Steele. Chandler has had an amazing improvement rate in 2017 and became a competitive beast, winning Ohio States, Illinois States, MidEast regionals, making Worlds finals, and placing 6th at US Nationals. Chandler’s style is very reflective off of the current meta that I mentioned above, but he puts his own interesting twist on things by incorporating unique emphasis (like that little knee bounce at :41). Chandler being extremely successful this year puts himself in a great position for 2018, and I’m hyped to see what he has in store. Definitely a deserved win here.
Michael Stecz placed 2nd with a pretty awesome freestyle as well. I haven’t seen Michael yo-yo in quite a while, so all of his tricks always surprise me when I get to see them on video or in person. Michael also has a really unique style that focuses on a casual pace in which he doesn’t try to rush anything, with tricks that blend a lot of great old-school and current ideas. Really loved that Michael was able to get 2nd at this contest with a freestyle that primarily focused on tricks, and tricks alone.
Connor Seals placed 3rd with an extremely performance-oriented freestyle. Although it was a nice contrast to the rest of the freestyles from the event, it seems as though the lack of technical execution (scoring) set Connor far behind 1st place, showing the difficulty in creating a freestyle that has a good balance in high levels of tech and performance. It’ll be interesting to see how Connor builds off of this perspective going into 2018.
Outside of the top 3, another freestyle I enjoyed was Blaise Becker’s. Blaise is a new face to the competitive scene on a high level like this but he has very good tricks. At such a young age as well, I know that he has a bright future in yo-yoing if he keeps it up.
Out of all of the routines in the X divisions, I was probably most impressed with Connor’s winning 4A routine. Connor’s 4A style is very similar to his 1A I would argue, in terms of focusing on making everything look good and having great performance value. Also, Connor is one of the few US players who can do soloham, and although he was not able to do much of it in this routine, I’m curious to see if he will implement it more in the future.
So, those were some of my favorites from this year’s Illinois States! Illinois States was one of the largest state competitions of this year, with almost 50 1A competitors! It’s great to see the midwest scene growing again. Watch all of the freestyles on YoYo Contest Central’s Youtube channel here.
Scales members Mark Mangarin and Colin Beckford recap on the year and discuss each of their top 5 favorite routines.
Links to all freestyles mentioned are in the description of the video.
Thanks to our sponsors YoYoExpert, CLYW, and Recess Intl.
Scales members Andrew Bergen, Colin Beckford, Patrick Canny, and Mark Mangarin recently put their minds together and discussed some of their favorites from the 1A finals at US Nationals this year. Check out the video episode below!
Thank you to the sponsors of Scales – YoYoExpert, CLYW, and Recess Intl.
By Steve Brown
Scales members Keiran Cooper, Colin Beckford, and Patrick Canny discuss some of their favorite moments from the 1A finals at this year’s World Yo-Yo Contest. Players featured are: Andrew Bergen, Gentry Stein, Yuki Nishisako, Ethan Cheung, Keiran Cooper, Michael Ferdico, and Nate Dailey.
Credits to yoyovideoarchive for the video. Thank you to Scales Collective sponsors: YoYoExpert, CLYW, Recess Intl.
By Steve Brown
Colin Beckford put in some work at this year’s Bay Area Classic, filming the hits from his latest batch of tricks.
Yoyo used is the Recess Diplomat.
Music is NSFW.
By Steve Brown
Keiran Cooper and Colin Beckford are nigh unstoppable in their latest video, throwing a Recess Intl. prototype of something new for Keiran. Finally. No word on a release date yet but we’ll keep harassing Recess team members and will update when we have something.
By Steve Brown
The Recess crew shows us what’s what with the company’s latest release, the Komodo. Featuring Ky Zizan, John Wolfe, Colin Beckford, Tyler Severance, Joe Wilson, and Andrew Bergen.
Yoyo used is the Recess Komodo.
By Steve Brown
Nehemiah Peterson’s “Tech Creators” project just released its second video featuring Harrison Lee, Colin Beckford, Paul Dang, Keiran Cooper, and plenty more. Good stuff? Good stuff.
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