sOMEThiNG just dropped this great all-star reel of their team players showing off the product line at the 2013 Japan National YoYo Championships. Featuring Kazuya Murata, Touya Kobayashi , Yamato Murata, Takahiro Kato, AMP (Amapu), Hajime Miura, Lee Min Woo, MoonSoo Cho, and Cha Dam Dae.
sOMEThING ft. Cha Dam Dae
Korean player Cha Dam Dae tears it up in this new video for sOMETHING. His style still seems really young and underdeveloped, but he’s already got a tremendous amount of skill. Plus, he leads off with a frontstyle combo…which hardly anyone does anymore.
Look out for great things from Cha Dam Dae!
Hiroyuki Suzuki wins BIYO… again!
The 2012 Bali International Yo-yo Open is over! It’s hard to think of a more beautiful place to host a contest, and the best in Southeast Asia attended the third edition of the event!
And Hiroyuki Suzuki added yet another title to his 2012 collection, winning BIYO for the third time in a row! Check the results!
1A
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Darrell Mitchell
- Ahmad Kharisma
2A/3A
- Thahwir Yao
- Kenichi Iida
- Darrell Mitchell
4A
- Kwan Jun Jie
- Fajar Siddiq
- Ewin Ee
5A
- Iskandar Shah
- Chong Yichen
- Malcolm Chiu
Best of Best (B.O.B.)
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Ewin Ee
- Christopher Chia
Hiroyuki Suzuki wins Japan Nationals!
It was a day for World Champions in Chiba, as they were crowned champions in all five divisions of the 2012 Japan National Yo-yo Contest!
Long-time favorite Hiroyuki Suzuki won the spectacular 1A division, followed by Akitoshi Tokubuchi and Kazuki Okada. In 2A, 2008 World Champion Takuma Yamamoto took the title, followed by two of the strongest names in the division, Shu Takada and Ryo Yamashita.
3A saw 2010 World Champion Minato Furuta beat Mizuki Takimoto and Ken Takabayashi to take the title. In 4A, another battle of giants, with World Champions Naoto Okada and Rei Iwakura taking the top spots, followed by the always amazing Kazuaki Sugimura.
Finally in 5A, Takuma Inoue, 2009 World Champion, took first place, ahead of Takayuki Kuriyama and Hideo Ishida.
1A
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Akitoshi Tokubuchi
- Kazuki Okada
- Takeshi Matsuura
- Tatsuya Fujisaka
- Hidemasa Semba
- Shinya Kido
- Yusuke Otsuka
- Iori Yamaki
- Izuru Hasumi
- Ryosuke Iwasawa
- Shinya Azuma
- Amane Okubo
- Kentaro Mannen
- Ryota Ogi
- Shinnosuke Miyamoto
2A
- Takuma Yamamoto
- Shu Takada
- Ryo Yamashita
- Hiraku Fujii
- Tomoyuki Kaneno
- Michio Kono
- Shuhei Kanai
- Toshiaki Onuma
- Yuzo Okada
3A
- Minato Furuta
- Mizuki Takimoto
- Ken Takabayashi
- Yasuki Tachibana
- Takumi Yasumoto
- Jun Aramaki
- Yuki Kurumisawa
- Hajime Miura
- Ryosuke Ito
4A
- Naoto Okada
- Rei Iwakura
- Kazuaki Sugimura
- Atsushi Takeuchi
- Yohei Kagawa
- Takuma Inoue
- Shotaro Masuda
- Yuichi Tominaga
- Tomohiko Zanka
5A
- Takuma Inoue
- Takayuki Kuriyama
- Hideo Ishida
- Sojun Miyamura
- Sora Ishikawa
- Naoya Takeuchi
- Hiroyasu Ishihara
- Takafumi Endo
- Kazuma Miyakawa
Hiroyuki Suzuki leaves YoyoJam
In a post on his Facebook page, Hiroyuki Suzuki informed he’s parting with YoyoJam on friendly terms after 10 years and numerous titles and signature models.
Some were already expecting his departure following the release of his own brand, sOMEThING by YoyoAddict.
Here’s the official statement:
Since 2002 , Hiroyuki had been with YoYoJam for around 10 years.
YoYoJam worked with Hiroyuki for a lot of his signature yo-yos and all of them succeed very well.After a long discussion ,Hiroyuki decided to leave the Team.
Still Loving them , respecting them. But to reach the own goal, he decided to leave from YoYoJam and be independent.In the Email , YoYoJam says “As I said, we understand your desire to be independent and to pursue your own brand. We wish you well and hope that you will have much success. Of course, we will always consider you to be a friend of ours and of YoYoJam. If you change your mind and decide that you would like to participate in Team YoYoJam again in the future, please let me know. There will always be a place for you on the team.”
As you can all see, Hiroyuki and YoYoJam will keep good relationship and both will have bright future.
Hiroyuki Suzuki wins Central Japan Yo-yo Contest
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!):
1A:
- Hiroyuki Suzuki
- Shinya Kido
- Yuusuke Ootsuka
- Shinji Toyoda
- Izuru Hasumi
- Hiro Irifune
- Yoshitaka Torita
- Takahiro Katou
2A:
- Hiraku Fujii
- Satoshi Yamauchi
- Shuuhei Hosokawa
- Yoshihiro Matsubara
3A:
- Jun Aramaki
- Yuuki Fujisawa
- Yoshiharu Kojima
4A:
- Rei Iwakura
- Shinya Muraki
5A:
- Hiroyasu Ishihara
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.