YoYo Related News From Around The World
The website is now live for the 2017 World YoYo Contest!
The 2017 World YoYo Contest will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland from August 10 – 12. Organized by Ben McPhee, this year’s event promise to be one of the most exotic World YoYo Contests yet…a true destination event!
Head over to Iceland2017.com for details about the venue, travel, rules, and more. Be sure to sign up for their mailing list and follow them on Facebook and Instagram for more updates.
The IYYF announced their new Executive Board Members at the 2016 World YoYo Contest in Cleveland, Ohio, during their yearly meeting on August 5, 2016. They also formally announced the location of the 2018 World YoYo Contest!
The new Executive Board and its Audit Committee will serve a two-year term from September 1, 2016 until August 31, 2018.
Executive Board Members:
Ondra Sedivy (Czech Republic)
Hironori Mii (Japan)
Andre Boulay (USA)
Alfredo Mascali (Spain)
Steve Brown (USA)
Moyo Lin (Taiwan)
Grace Welch (UK)
Audit Committee:
Marcus Springer (Germany)
Nathan Crissey (USA)
Roy Teo (Singapore)
We’ve got an all-new #playersweek compilation from Fist Salud, featuring CLYW’s Pall Gudmunsson! Palli always brings amazing tricks to the table (always always), so it’s no surprise that this video is filled with great stuff. Shot and edited by Eiji Okuyama.
Eiji Okuyama from Fist Salud decided to take a peek at the site of the 2017 World YoYo Contest, the glorious frozen wonderland of Iceland! Locals Palli and Oskar were on-hand to show off some tricks and guide the cameras through a sneak peek at their home country for tourist Graeme Stellar. Tons of fun from Fist Salud, as always.
The International Yo-yo Federation has just announced that the 2017 World Yo-yo Contest will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland! The decision closes the 2017 (Europe) candidacy cycle.
Here’s the full announcement:
The International Yo-yo Federation is pleased to announce that Reykjavik, Iceland, has been elected as the host city for the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest!
Featuring some of the most experienced and well-known yo-yo contest organizers from Europe and the USA, the team behind the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest is ready to deliver an event focused on players, where contestants from around the globe will be able focus on competing in the best possible conditions.
The IYYF congratulates the Icelandic team, and is looking forward to a fantastic event! Further details about the event and Reykjavik itself will be available in the coming days.
We would also like to express our gratitude towards team Poland, for stepping up to the challenge and presenting themselves as candidates to run the most important event for the worldwide yo-yo community.
We’ll surely hear more about the contest in the coming days, so keep your eyes open for more information soon!
The 2018 (Asia), and 2019 (Americas) cycles are also ongoing, with candidate application deadlines for the former scheduled for December 1st, 2015 and August 1st, 2016.
YoYoFactory has proven time and time again that they know how to make yoyoing look amazing, and this new video is just above and beyond.
Filmed on location in Iceland, this YoYoFactory Adventure features Czech national treasure Vashek Kroutil doing what he does best…smooth-as-hell tricks that make you want to pick up a yoyo and practice.
Yoyos used are the YoYoFactory Replay Pro, Dream Titanium, and Czech Point.
We don’t get a lot of videos from Palli but holy crap, when he drops one it is really, really good! This is Palli’s official “farewell” to the Puffin 2, which is being retired today with one last batch hitting retailers tonight at 10 pm EST. (Design work has already started on the next version of the Puffin).
Neat fact about this is that during the summer solstice in Iceland there are only a couple hours of “night”. The sun goes down a little after midnight and comes back up just before 3 am. Crazy, right? A lot of this footage was shot around midnight in Iceland. Crazy.
Yoyo used is the Puffin 2 by CLYW.
We’ve just reported the addition of Patrick Borgerding and Ryosuke Iwasawa to Backspin, but it seems the elite team is not done yet!
Iceland’s pizza-making, puffin-toting Palli was announced as the team’s newest member today!
One of CLYW’s most outstanding players, Palli got 4th at this year’s EYYC, and further solidifies Backspin’s position as a bastion of extraordinary people! Palli’s signature yoyo with CLYW, the Puffin, has become an instant classic and his Alternative Freestyle exhibition from Worlds 2013 was one of the crowd’s favorites.
We’ve gathered up some great yoyo news from around the web…check out some great press coverage for PNWR, Palli, and Black!
More press for PNWR from SeattlePI.com!
Some awesome hometown press for Palli from News of Iceland.
And BLACK is getting some great press for this TED talk, including from Boing Boing and PC Mag.