The 2014 Hungarian National YoYo Contest has come and gone, and former World Champion Janos Karancz has taken the title again!
Check out video below of the winners…we’ll post full results when we get them.
YoYo Related News From Around The World
By Steve Brown
The 2014 Hungarian National YoYo Contest has come and gone, and former World Champion Janos Karancz has taken the title again!
Check out video below of the winners…we’ll post full results when we get them.
By Steve Brown
YoYoFactory Europe dropped a new video showcasing the European Team (everyone but Mateusz Ganc and Michal Zakrzewski made it in the video), and it’s a crazy amount of talent!
Featuring Borys Radziszewski, Matous Tomes, Yuji Kelly, Francesco Gioia, Malte Voss, Veronika Dleskova, Konstantin Tudjarov, Aristidis Voultsios, Tony Sec, Daniel Budai, Vashek Kroutil, Alexander Schmidt, Gabor Boldog, Filip Pietraszewski, Francesco Salvi, and Dave Geigle.
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 The crazy thing is that Steve is still shredding: there ain’t nothing outdated about that combo up there, and few people can manage those kinds of finger switches with the ease that he does.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?
By Steve Brown
Our friends at Perfect Elements have finally released their 45-minute film, “Perfect Elements: The Movie”. Instead of making this a commercial release, they’ve decided to just release it for free on Vimeo! Featuring Palli, Igor Galiev, Daniel Budai, Bryan Figueroa, Jason Lee, Kota Watanabe, Marcus Koh, Kentaro Kimura, Vashek Kroutil, and many more! Check out the filmmakers description below.
Welcome to the world of yoyo.
Yoyo is not just a game. It’s something bigger. You can see all this huge world with a place for everyone, here in this movie. It’s not only an hours of practice and learning tricks, but travels, adventures, parties… Tricks that was just a fantasy yesterday, today became a reality. It’s not an easy way, because without work and patience you can’t make even a first step, but that’s what makes it precious. Every new trick brings the joy of creation. It’s when sensation is what important, not the result, when you come on stage not attending to win, but to show your skills. It’s when you come back home all full of impressions and inspiration. It’s the awaiting of that very moment, when it appears in your head, perfect element!
By Steve Brown
Vashek Kroutil shows off his signature YoYoFactory model the CZM8 with a little help from team member Daniel Budai in this quick promo filmed during EYYC 2014.
By Steve Brown
We’ve got full results for the 2013 East Hungarian YoYo Contest, and video of the top winners courtesy of YoYoRaven.
By Steve Brown
JoJoBolt.hu, a Hungarian web store, put together a great promo video for the YoYoFactory Whip featuring Daniel Budai and Gabor Boldog. It’s easy to forget, in the miles of conversation on yoyo forums about $100+ yoyos, that yoyo tech has now advanced to the point where you can hit pretty much all your tricks on a $10 and $20 plastic yoyos. Some great work in this video from Daniel and Gabor, thanks to JoJoBolt.hu for putting it together.
YoyoFactory released a new team video recorded during this year’s EYYC, featuring the team’s newest members: 5A European Champion Daniel Budai from Hungary, and Gacek’s former protegé Marcin Dzewiecki, now promoted to full Contest Team member after an excellent 4th place at the European Championship. Also featured is YoyoFactory Poland’s Protegé Borys Radziszewski.
The clip features a lot of the good old faces as well, be sure to check it out!
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