YoYo Related News From Around The World
Check out some great footage of Team YoYoRecreation, filmed around the 2014 44Clash event.
Featuring Takahiro Iizuka, Iori Yamaki, Kenji Eto, Hirotaka Akiba, Takumi Yasumoto, Hiroyasu Ishihara, Yuusuke Ootsuka, Kento Muraoka, Mizuki Takimoto, Akitoshi Tokubuchi, Ryota Torigoe, Ahmad Kharisma, Tatsuya Fujisaka, Sojun Miyamura, Hiro Irifune, Ryosuke Iwasawa, Izuru Hasumi, and Kensuke Goto.
YoYoRecreation just released NINE videos to promote the upcoming release of the complete redesign of their plastic yoyo, the Diffusion. That’s got to be a record, right? Even better, the videos feature a who’s who of top-notch Japanese talent.
The new Diffusion is set for its first release this weekend at the 2014 Japan National YoYo Contest, retailing for about $35. Check out all of the videos below, featuring Shinya Azuma, Kento Muraoka, Takumi Yasumoto, Hiro Irifune, Ryota Ogi, Yusuke Otsuka, Mizuki Takimoto, Iori Yamaki, and Hiroyasu Ishihara.
Masanobu Iwata sends us a report from another fantastic edition of 44FESTA in Japan!
The event was held last Sunday, October 20th, in Yamato, and it was once again a successful event for all yo-yo enthusiasts in Japan.
The special guests this edition were the multiple-time World Champion Hiroyuki Suzuki, and Hiroyasu “Pon” Ishihara, of YoyoRecreation.
44FESTA’s traditional surprise mini-contest this time consisted in hitting a target with a yo-yo. The target? Pon himself!
The freestyle contest winner was Shu Takada, followed by the younger generation talent of Yamato Murata and Hajime Miura!
Check out all the freestyles on 44FESTA.com.
Several yo-yo legends showed up as well, including former 4A World Champion Eiji Okuyama, Hiraku Fujii, Satoshi Yamauchi, Kazuki Hayashi, Ryusei Saito, and “Master” Kenichi Nakamura!
The next 44FESTA will be held on November 23rd! If you are in the area, be sure to attend!
Another fantastic Japanese contest clip from Dee of Fist Salud. As we’ve come to expect from Dee’s videos, there’s a good mix of legends (Chris Makita, Kengo Kido, Pon, Rei Iwakura) and new school talent (check out Daiki’s whip thing at :37!)… and also some gleefully uncensored old school hip-hop, so maybe keep those speakers down at work. What we didn’t expect was the enormous red-eyed dragon throwing product into the crowd and playing with devil sticks, but as Maya Nakamura likes to put it, THIS IS JAPAN!
Central Japan was held earlier today in Iwakura City, Japan. 1A was especially tough in the traditionally high-level contest, and Team YoyoJam member Hiroyuki Suzuki took the crown.
The other divisions had few finalists, but were also won by well known contest veterans: Hiraku Fujii won the 2A division; Jun Aramaki and Rei Iwakura, both from YoyoJam as well, won 3A and 4A respectively, and finally Hiroyasu Ishihara was the sole contestant and winner of the 5A division.
Finals results (thanks to Yama@18 for the freestyle videos!):
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The next contest for the 2012 Japan Yo-yo League will be the East Japan Yo-yo Contest block B, which will be held on February 4th in Ichikawa City.