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2013 East Hungarian YoYo Contest Results & Video

August 27, 2013 By Steve Brown

2013 EHYYC

We’ve got full results for the 2013 East Hungarian YoYo Contest, and video of the top winners courtesy of YoYoRaven.

2013 East Hungarian YoYo Contest Results

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Semi-Pro – 1st Place – Adam Kolpak

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Semi-Pro – 2nd Place – Gergő Priately

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Semi-Pro – 3rd Place – Márk Ocsenás

 

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Pro – 1st Place – David Molnar

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Pro – 2nd Place – Daniel Budai

EHYYC 2013 – 1A Pro – 3rd Place – Gabor Boldog

EHYYC 2013 – X Division – 1st Place – Daniel Budai

EHYYC 2013 – X Division – 2nd Place – Norbert Jenei

EHYYC 2013 – X Division – 3rd Place – Roland Kovacs

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2013 ehyyc, adam kolpak, daniel budai, david molnar, east hungarian yoyo contest, freestyle, gabor boldog, gergo priately, mark ocsenas, norbert jenei, results, roland kovacs, video

2013 Taiwan YoYo Contest Freestyles

August 27, 2013 By Steve Brown

Thanks to the good folks at Adegle YoYos for posting freestyles from the 2013 Taiwan YoYo Contest! Here are the top 3 in each division…visit Adegle’s YouTube channel for more freestyles from the contest.

2013 TYYC 1A – 1st Place -曾弘傑

2013 TYYC 1A – 2nd Place – 郭子瑋

2013 TYYC 1A – 3rd Place – 盧彥霖

 

2013 TYYC 2A – 1st Place – 后御群

2013 TYYC 2A – 2nd Place – 吳尚仁

2013 TYYC 2A – 3rd Place – 廖世鼎

2013 TYYC 3A – 1st Place – 余宗倫

2013 TYYC 3A – 2nd Place – 高中宸

2013 TYYC 3A – 3rd Place – 謝天戰

 

2013 TYYC 4A – 1st Place – 郭博翰

2013 TYYC 4A – 2nd Place – 張子威

2013 TYYC 4A – 3rd Place – 林家禾

 

2013 TYYC 5A – 1st Place – 崔正瑜

2013 TYYC 5A – 2nd Place – 朱聲詠

2013 TYYC 5A – 3rd Place – 韓毅

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2013, adegle yoyo, freestyle, results, taiwan yoyo contest, tyyc, video, winner

Noel Kunz Gets Engaged During AP Finals Routine

August 12, 2013 By Steve Brown

At 1:13 in this video, Noel Kunz surprises the hell out of his girlfriend by proposing to her in the middle of their Artistic Performance division routine…that he put together with her entirely to get her on stage so he could propose. It was a beautiful moment in the contest, and we wish Noel and Denice all the best for a long and happy life together!

Filed Under: Contests, General News Tagged With: 2013 world yoyo contest, ap, denice almuete, engaged, freestyle, noel kunz, video, yoyo

2013 World YoYo Contest Winning Freestyles (VIDEO)

August 12, 2013 By Steve Brown

2013 World YoYo Contest – 1A Division – 1st Place  – Janos Karancz

2013 World YoYo Contest – 2A Division – 1st Place – Takuma Yamamoto

2013 World YoYo Contest – 3A Division  – 1st Place – Hank Freeman

2013 World YoYo Contest – 4A Division – 1st Place – Michael Nakamura

2013 World YoYo Contest – 5A Division – 1st Place – Takeshi Matsuura

2013 World YoYo Contest – AP Division – 1st Place – Spination

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2013 world yoyo contest, featured, freestyle, hank freeman, janos karancz, michael nakamura, spination, takeshi matsuura, takuma yamamoto, video, winners, winning

Fixed Friday: Freestyles

August 2, 2013 By Ed Haponik

Happy Friday, fixed folk. As I’m sure you’re aware, we are just a few days away from that merriest time of year (no, not Arbor Day): Worlds!!! Say what you will about Orlando, Prague, dance parties, etc. All drama, geography, and pageantry aside, Worlds is the time of year when the best and friendliest in the world meet up to throw down. It’s the best.

I have never been much of a contest player. I mean, I’ve competed in contests, and I did alright once or twice, but I’ve never really understood it. As such, I completely agree that I’m unqualified to talk about what a good (much less a “winning”) freestyle should be composed of. My lack of competitive-savvy is probably directly tied to what I love about the annual Fixed Axle Championship of All the World (as Drew discussed last week). It’s judged by your fellow “competitors”, all of whom are as stoked to watch their friends nail a trick as they are to pull off a banger themselves. It’s based on randomly-selected criteria. And, as a 3-try best trick-off, it’s generally much easier to quantify than your average freestyle.

However, for the first time ever this year, the final round of the contest will consist of a freestyle. This allows whoever has made it to the end to really show a chunk of their style in a performance context.

If you’re any kind of yo-yo player, you have to be able to show off your tricks. You have to be able to perform. Otherwise, your experience will be limited to exploring the mysteries of string geometry in your room. And sure, that’s valuable, but the other side of that coin, expressing your joy for the art to an audience, is equally valuable and can serve to inform your more inward “progressive” playing, too. Not all performance is competitive – it just seems that way in yo-yoing sometimes. Fixed axle freestyles are becoming more and more of a “thing” these days. At least 5 large contests (besides Worlds) of which I am aware have had a Fixed Axle division in the last year, and most of those were based on freestyles. Although the word “freestyle” is an amusing misnomer (usually being composed of carefully selected tricks), it’s still worthwhile to develop a sense for how you might put tricks together in 1-, 2-, or even 3-minute chunks. We’ve all seen dozens (if not hundreds) of modern freestyles, but fixed axle represents some interesting obstacles.

For one, most of the fixed tricks we delight in are pretty hard and decidedly low-percentage. I’m certainly not suggesting that Mickey, Marcus, and Chris have easy tricks, but I find it much easier to throw together a sequence of my own “unresponsive string-tricks” which I am likely to hit than my own “fixed axle tricks”. I bet the world champ would say the same thing. You might hit that cross-armed kickflip suicide just one in ten tries, but MAN it feels amazing when you do. That said, no one wants to see you miss 9 times on stage. The difficulty is just inherent to the medium (it’s probably why you love it enough to read this drivel).

The rhythm of fixed axle yo-yoing is also totally different from mainstream contest play. Today’s modern metals have the angular momentum-to-drag coefficient ratio to blast through minute-long combos, even without a regen. By contrast, a “long” fixed axle trick takes about 10 seconds. But, since stalls are so utterly endemic to progressive fixed axle, it’s much easier for me to see tricks linked into organic wholes. Also, take a look back at some of the past 30-odd episodes. What percent of the tricks have been repeaters? 50? The natural tendency toward stall-regen repeaters also makes it easier to plan and link combos.

I approach the idea of a fixed axle freestyle the same way I approach any other performance. It should consist of tricks which I can hit consistently. The tricks should be organized so that they flow together relatively seamlessly. The material should be original. And it should be fun to watch.

… That’s a pretty tall order, and I certainly fail to live up to it in a few parts of my vid this week. First of all, it’s worth noting that this freestyle leaves out a few tricks which I would probably throw in near the end. 1.) I want to reserve some interesting stuff for Worlds and 2.) Most of that stuff is hit-or-miss. The vast majority of the tricks I put together this week are elements which, independently, I can hit very consistently (say 4 out of 5 times). Even so, having a 2-minute freestyle composed of tricks you’re 80% likely to hit is still VERY dicey, and as you’ll note, I have some misses (notably on Dali Winshield Wipers and that last Under-Moon Tough Love Lunar).

I tend to front-load my freestyles a bit. That is to say, the first minute is generally tougher than the second (or third). As I said before though, none of this video is really very hard at all. It’s when you put it into a fluid context and take away stops that it becomes challenging. This hypothetical FS starts with a snap-to-cross-1.5. I like that initial move because I have it down pat and it’s kind of unique. Most freestyles don’t begin with the yo-yo unwound. After that is a little Zipper-Stall/Milk-the-Truck combo ending in a stall GT. Next I get into some Lunar/Crash Landing stuff. This can be pretty inconsistent, even if you do them all the time. It doesn’t take much to send a Shoot-the-Moon off a centimeter, which is the difference between a catch and a miss.

It’s a good time to talk about yo-yo’s. You’ll note that I’m using a Duncan Profly this time. Fixed axle yo-yo’s are SO varied in terms of what they can do, and you really have to think about the character of the freestyle you’re attempting before selecting one. TMBR’s are some of my favorite fixed axles out there, but I know I would have a harder time connecting a lot of these tricks together with one. They spin way longer and stall fine, but I tend to lose a little juice on my regens with the thin axles and wider gaps. If I was going for a freestyle full of longer, 1a-style fixed axle tricks, you can bet my EH, Lovejoy, or Irving Pro would be the call. It might also be reasonable to switch yo-yo’s mid-stream, planning your long-spin tricks near the end (and suffering the deduction associated with a switch-out).

Anyway, fter that Moon combo, I start to get into the meat of the FS, which is basically a series of sidestyle elements. In order, I go from some Stop-N-Go/Stop-N-Pops into some Dumptrucks (yes, these are Drew’s and yes, they go against what I said about originality – whatever, I like going to that 2.0), then Salvador Dali Windshield Wipers, a little 1-hand repeater I call Yin-Yang, some Radial Nerve Bonks, and finally some Instabucket stalls. That’s functionally the end of my plan. As I said earlier, I’m definitely withholding a few tricks, which will hopefully account for the extra 20 seconds. I generally have a tough time planning an ending to my freestyles, to their detriment. If I hit what I have planned in the first 1:40, the last :20 will typically consist of a few harder tricks which, if I make them, will leave an impression. Unfortunately, they also make an impression when I don’t.

Competition at the FACoAtW this year will not be “fierce”, but it will be tight. Getting into that final freestyle round would be awesome, but there are a lot of guys on equal ground right now. The inherent inconsistency of the fixed axle medium makes the whole event a wonderful toss-up, and I can’t wait.

Note that since Drew and I will both be at Worlds, there will probably not be any kind of organized FF column next week. However, you should definitely tune into the live feed on Saturday at 3:00pm, as that when the FACoAtW takes place on the main stage. The up-side to no column next week is that we will probably collect enough footage for several weeks of FF dissection/discussion! If you’re going to be in attendance and want desperately to shred your stuff on stage, talk to me or Drew at Worlds and we’ll see if we can get you in there. Actually, talk to me anyway because I’d love to meet you.

Hook us up with any nuggets of wisdom you’ve accrued in planning fixed axle freestyles in the comments!

 

Filed Under: Fixed Friday Tagged With: ed haponik, fixed axle, fixed friday, freestyle

YoYoRecreation Freestyle Competition

June 8, 2013 By Steve Brown

This YoYoRecreation freestyle competition was held in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture on May 4th & 5th, 2013.

We don’t have much detail on this event but the video is GREAT! Top notch talent in Japan, kicking out the jams at a special freestyle contest run by YoYoRecreation.

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: competition, contest, freestyle, yoyorecreation

2013 Minnesota State YoYo Contest Results

April 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Full results are in for the 2013 Minnesota State YoYo Contest…congratulations to Harold Owens III for taking the 1A division! We’ve listed the Top Three places for the two freestyle divisions (with video) below…visit MNYoYo.com for full results of all divisions.

Also notable from the event was the announcement that World YoYo Champion John Narum has officially resigned from offstring yoyo competition…and that he will be taking over running the Minnesota State YoYo Contest. Big news…congratulations, John!

1A

1st Place – Harold Owens III

2nd Place – Shane Lubecker

3rd Place – Nehemiah Peterson

 

Open Division

1st Place – Ian Johnson

2nd Place – Robbie Graham

3rd Place – Shane Lubecker

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: contest, freestyle, harold owens III, ian johnson, minnesota state yoyo contest, nehemiah peterson, robbie graham, shane lubecker, video, yoyofactory, YoYoJam

2013 EYYC – Honorable Mention – Ethan Wong Wing Hang

February 25, 2013 By Steve Brown

Every contest has winners, losers, upsets, underdogs, surprises, victories, and defeats. But my favorite part of a yoyo contest doesn’t actually happen that often…it’s when someone gets on stage and does something that is so far off the norm that their placement becomes irrelevant. I’ve always personally been drawn to the more esoteric aspects of yoyo play. And while I love a good competition-crushing freestyle as much as the next guy, it’s the people who push boundaries that get me up out of my seat and reaching for a yoyo.

The 2013 European YoYo Championships was a mind-blowing event. I watched as much of the live stream as I could and there were so many fantastic performances….the winners very much deserved their titles and it’s almost a shame there weren’t more awards to give out. But one freestyle in particular had me jumping up and flipping out completely, and it was from a player I’ve only recently even heard about.

So, I’m officially giving my own personal Honorable Mention to Ethan Wong Wing Hang of C3YoYoDesign for his mind-blowing freestyle that was about 90% horizontal finger-spin tricks. It was absurdly bold and risky, and he nailed a lot of it. I have no idea if he really thought it would score high enough to get him the win, but he had to have known just how badly it could have gone…and he went for it anyway.

Absolutely amazing. Congrats to Ethan on becoming part of C3YoYoDesign, and on his new signature model, the MO-vitation. Check out his freestyle below!

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: c3yoyodesign, ethan wong wing hang, european yoyo championship, eyyc, featured, finger spin, freestyle, mo-vitation, movitation, video

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results – Zach Gormley Wins!

February 24, 2013 By Steve Brown

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest
1st Place – Zach Gormley / 2nd Place – Eric Koloski / 3rd Place – Kevin Nicholas

Congratulations to CLYW‘s Zach Gormley on his solid win in the 1A Division at the 2013 PNWR YoYo Contest! We just got word that Zach was throwing the new CLYW Bear Vs. Man: Round Two yoyo, first released at the contest. Full winners are listed below, as well as all video we could find. We’ll update with more video as it’s uploaded.

1A (Single YoYo) Division

1st Place – Zach Gormley

2nd Place – Eric Koloski

3rd Place – Kevin Nicholas

2A (Double YoYo Looping) Division

1st Place – Mark “Yoshi” Mikamoto

2nd Place – Ryan Lai

3rd Place – Ian Lawson

3A (Double YoYo Spinning) Division

1st Place – Donald Hodgkinson

2nd Place – Patrick Borgerding

3rd Place – Mark “Yoshi” Mikamoto

4A (Offstring) Division

1st Place –  Bryan Figueroa

2nd Place – Zach Rubino

3rd Place – Kevin Tandean

5A (Counterweight) Division

1st Place – Sterling Quinn

2nd Place – Michael Kurti

3rd Place -Kyle Hedges

 

**UPDATED**

Here are full results for all divisions!

1A Prelims - 2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest - 1A Prelims Results

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results - 1A

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results - 2A

 

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results - 3A
2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results - 4A

 

2013 PNWR YoYo Contest Results - 5A

 

 

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: clyw, contest, eric koloski, featured, freestyle, kevin nichols, pnwr, results, seattle, video, YoYoJam, Zach Gormley

2013 YoYoFactory Cup Winner Videos

February 18, 2013 By Steve Brown

Congrats to the winners of the Amateur and Pro Divisions at the 2013 YoYoFactory Cup! Check the videos below for freestyles of 1st – 3rd place.

1st Place – 1A Pro – Igor Galiev

 

2nd Place – 1A Pro – Vlad Zamahaev

 

3rd Place – 1A Pro – Petr Aminev

 

1st Place – 1A Amateur – Oleg Kazanstev

 

2nd Place – 1A Amateur – Vladimir Lartsev

 

3rd Place – 1A Amateur – Stepan Koftaenko

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: contest, featured, freestyle, igor galiev, Oleg Kazanstev, Petr Aminev, Russia, Stepan Koftaenko, Vlad Zamahaev, Vladimir Lartsev, yoyofactory cup

Team SHAQLER YoYo Demo at World Hobby Fair (UPDATED)

January 20, 2013 By Steve Brown

(Video courtesy of YoYoRewind Store)

EDIT: Huge thanks to Hironori Mii from YoYoRewind Store for sending me some corrections, and providing the video! Check their Twitter account @rewindworldwide for more updates!)

World YoYo Champions Team Shaqler did an amazing demo at the 2013 World Hobby Fair in Japan as part of Bandai’s Hyper YoYo promotion.

Using the “Keep Yo Soul” theme song for the current Hyper YoYo Campaign, it looks like Team Shaqler did an amazing job of getting a ton of kids interested in becoming yoyo players.

Having performed at the World Hobby Fair in Japan I can say that it’s pretty intense….it’s a consumer-based trade show (similar to Comic Con) with upwards of 10,000 50,000 kids barreling through to see the latest and greatest in Japanese toys, games, and hobbies. Companies like Bandai, Sanrio, Capcom, Takaratomy, Konami, Nintendo, and more show up with their absolute best to capture the hearts (and yen) of Japan’s massive kid market.

Many vendors offer special limited editions, available only at the show and this year it looks like Bandai offered a very special edition of their popular Hyper Cluster yoyo (pic below). Retailing for only 2,310 yen (about $25 USD), this white, gold, and black limited edition Hyper Cluster is sure to be popular with kids and collectors.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Video Tagged With: bandai, freestyle, hyper cluster, hyper yoyo, japan, shaqler, team, video, world champion, world hobby fair, yoyo

CYYC 2012 – Freestyle Winners

January 3, 2013 By Steve Brown

Information about the Chinese YoYo Championship is a little thin since I can’t read Chinese, but here’s what Google Translate had to say:

In 2012, the Chinese yo work ACG again organized by the Chinese professional yo contest, professional exchange platform for Chinese yo enthusiasts, the game continues to promote Chinese yo movement for the purpose to improve the level of the Chinese yo movement, hope that the Chinese yo players in the internationalstage goal achieved outstanding results, and make China a lengthy motion to continue moving forward.

Match time: the preliminaries Dec. 30 final Dec. 31 and Jan. 1
Preliminaries Location: Guangzhou fashion Tianhe Square
Final Location: Guangzhou Pazhou Poly World Trade Expo

Huge thanks to the folks at Hong Kong YoYo Fan Club for posting videos of all the freestyles! More video is still going up, so check out their YouTube channel for the rest of the finalists. Champions freestyles are posted below!

As I understand, there are multiple “National Championships” in China due to large rival manufacturers each holding their own major contests and only recognizing their own as the championship. From the backdrop on this one it’s hard to tell who is responsible, but hopefully we’ll see one single event supported by all Chinese manufacturers in the future. Although, considering the general struggles in the worldwide contest scene and the slow, miserable death of the current World YoYo Contest over the last 6 years or so, I guess we here in the US don’t have much of a leg to stand on when asking another country to “get it together”, contest-wise.

Benson Fok – 1st Place – 1A (Single YoYo)

Yiu Siu Ho – 1st Place – 2A (Double YoYo Looping)

Wong Chak Wing – 1st Place – 3A (Double YoYo String)

Yam Lan Ting Justin – 1st Place – 4A (Offstring)

Ng Chun Kit – 1st Place – 5A (Counterweight)

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: benson fok, china, chinese, cyyc, featured, freestyle, national contest, ng chun kit, video, wong chak wing, yam lan ting justin, yiu siu ho, yoyo championship, yoyo contest

2012 Vietnam National YoYo Contest Freestyles

December 9, 2012 By Steve Brown

 

Videos are up for the 2012 Vietnam National YoYo Contest, and the skill level is great! Always exciting to see another country coming up fast in the competition scene…and judging by these freestyles, they’re well on their way to kicking butt on the international level. Wonder if we’ll see any of these guys in Orlando or Prague this year? Here are the winners from each division…more videos are up on their YouTube channel.

Van Dinh Sang – 1st Place – 1A (Single YoYo)

 

Nguyen Hoang Tuan – 1st Place – 2A (Double YoYo Looping)

 

Ho Minh Nhat Duy – 1st Place – 3A – (Double YoYo String)

 

Than Trong Son – 1st Place – 4A (Offstring)

 

Nguyen Minh Chien – 1st Place – 5A (Counterweight)

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2012, freestyle, national yoyo contest, video, vietnam

2012 Italian Nationals – X Division Videos

December 5, 2012 By Steve Brown

1st Place – Lorenzo Sabatini (offstring)

 

2nd Place – Danny Martucci (counterweight)

 

3rd Place – Andres Pegam (counterweight)

 

4th Place – Armando La Rocca (offstring)

 

5th Place – Riccardo Fraolini (3A)

 

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2012 italian national yoyo contest, andres pegam, armando la rocca, danny martucci, freestyle, lorenzo sabatini, Riccardo Fraolini, video

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