YoYo Related News From Around The World
ILoveYoYo (ILYY) has been pretty quiet lately, but just when you stop paying attention BOOM! Two new bi-metal yoyos. Just like that, no warning, just “Hey, have two new bi-metal yoyos and we only make 10 of each.”
Awesome.
Check out pics and specs below. Since there are only 10 of each, these will only be available by emailing ILYY directly.
YoYoNews has your first look at the next titanium yoyo to hit the market, the iYoYo TiGER! Designed as a collaboration between ILYY and iYoYo, the TiGER is a fully titanium body with a polished gold finish, and will retail for €250 (about $278 USD). You can pre-order the TiGER now direct from iYoYo and get a massive €50 discount, which is a pretty good deal! The TiGER will begin shipping to players and retailers in October 2015. Check out the specs and full statement below from iYoYo.
When I started iYoYo, I knew I wanted to run a collab-yoyo of some sort with ILYY (formerly iloveyoyo). I have been friends with Dominik and Frank for a long time and know what they are capable of doing.
During our annual Easter Meeting, Frank and I go struck by the idea of making a Titanium throw. Titanium from GERmany…TiGER! Cliché name? Maybe, but we love it 🙂
Shape-wise, the yo-yo is a mixture of the iYoYo 2 and my favorite ILYY, the Torino. When thinking about colors for titanium yoyos, we remembered raw, silver and blue/purple versions. We wanted to do it different. We wanted to have something more subtle….nah, we wanted to make it BLING! 🙂
The TiGER will come in shiny Gold polished, which looks sooooo good during play and will make you shine on any contest or yoyo demo you ever do!
It comes stock with a high-performance Ceramic Konkave Bearing, kindly licensed by Dif-e-Yo, as well as regular slim silicone pads for easy maintenance.
How many we’re going to make? That’s up to you! As you can imagine, being a small brand means we will not be able to finance a huge run. Therefore, we’ll make as many as are pre-ordered through the store and of course from our retailers!
The TiGER is available today for Pre-Order on my store Yo-Shop.de. Pre-Ordering gets you a whopping 50 EUR off. Shipping will be in October 15!
If anybody wants to try it, go and grab Carlos Braun at Worlds in Tokyo, he’ll have it with him!
Russian player and ILYY team member Kate L’gotina dropped a new video using the ILYY x OneDrop Sakura SE, and it’s great! She’s got a quick and quirky style that makes everything look just a little more fun than we usually get from player videos, and she’s got some really solid tricks. Enjoy!
ILOVEYOYO just posted a sneak peak of their new yo-yo the NILE with a great explanation of their design process. Always interesting to see why a design comes out a certain way and what the focus was in planning the yo-yo out.
Nile:
We decided to take a dive into the centerweight-trend and Frank began designing a new yoyo he called Nile. Here are his notes on the design along with a first CAD render image.
As many people suggested, I’ve designed a yoyo in the modern vein. More centerweight and thus higher RPM that is. Its all about getting the right balance between spintime and RPM. So we needed to shift some weight to the center to get higher RMP value.
So, here is our first dip into high RPM yoyos.
The Nile
Diameter: 56.00mm
Width: 44.00mm
Weight: 66.20g
Gap: 4.20mm
Response: Hot Red SILYYcone
Bearing: ILYY KMK metricAs you can tell, we have this typical yoyo in a yoyo design here. The inner rim area has a diameter 36.44mm the outer diameter of the inner yoyo is about 45mm. The whole rim stretches over 9.78mm. I’m not quite sure if this is enough to make a huge difference playwise. But we’ll see.
The rims have linear elements (parallel and collinear) that reduce visual tension. I was going for round lipped rims first but that way it got way too heavy. In order to maintain a small (diameter) inner yoyo, I had to cut away a part of the rim, thus it is flat now. I had difficulties getting the outer rim thin enough to shift enough weight to the center while still maintaining a good haptic. We had this issue with the fist Lynx prototype as well: it had too thin rims at the outermost point. Therefore it felt quite unpleasant and gave a cheap impression. Both rims might be useable for thumb grinds. However, this is just a design study, we have yet to try it out once it is machined.
A high wall (flat area around the response area) is more or less absent this time. That should prevent the yoyo from tilting too much if the strings are not perfectly parallel. I’m not into sidestyle, as a matter of fact, I can’t do a single trick sidestyle. But this feature should make it easier to play sidestyle. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The profile turned out to be quite traditional, what is good for a competition yoyo, I guess. But basically it follows the inner shape (horn to rim). That’s quite a difference for me. Usually, I focus on the profile first. The inner area just arises from working out the desired weight. But this time, it’s different. The top area of the profile meets the rim in a Lio-ish kind of way. I really like that, it should result in a quite comfortable hold.
Overall, the design incorporates flat and curved surfaces, I tried to keep it as consistant as possible and threw in some linear parts here and there as you can see in the profile and from the horn to the rim.
I took some inspiration for the name from one of my favorite metal bands – Nile. I was listening to their music while designing the yoyo. The name also serves as great basis for an awesome engraving that has yet to be created. The Egyptian mythological theme will be realized by a certain coating or color way.
Prototype will be made in the next weeks. I hope to get it before the holidays.
So far…
FrankMore information will posted soon. Stay excited!
(Via ILOVEYOYO.de)
