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Mark Mangarin – Neon

September 28, 2017 By Steve Brown

Mark Mangarin, Alec Campbell, and Aaron Davis just teamed up for one of the coolest looking yoyo videos we’ve seen in a while. Check out “Neon” from a few heavyweights in the yoyo community. Amazing work, you guys.

Yoyo used is the Basecamp Navigator.

Filed Under: Featured, Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: Aaron Davis, alec campbell, basecamp, clyw, mark mangarin, navigator, neon, yoyo tricks, yoyo video, yoyofactory

Throwback Thursday: Yo-Yo World Magazine

January 31, 2013 By Steve Brown

YoYo World Magazine

Yo-Yo World Magazine: Terrifically ugly, even for the 90’s.

 

1999 was probably the high point of the last global yoyo boom, that event horizon right before everything crashed and burned HARD. In retrospect, 1999 really was the year that it died and it was an ugly, ugly death.

And one of the ugliest parts was the arrival of Yo-Yo World Magazine, brought to us by H&S Media. Other fine publications from H&S Media included Mary Beth’s Beanie World Magazine, and WOW (World of Wrestling) Magazine. They were a publisher who just rushed in on a fad, threw together something hasty and ill-produced, and milked as much money out of it as they could before the fad crashed and burned.

 

Eat The Pizza YoYo Trick with AC Slater?

Eat The Pizza YoYo Trick with A.C. Slater?

 

The magazine had exactly the sort of content you expect from something like this…it was written badly, quadruple spaced when possible, and got pretty much everything wrong. But when they published this interview with Olympic sharpshooter and yoyo enthusiast Koby Holland, they gave us this incredible image…and for that we should be ever thankful.

 

Yoyos and guns

“Put down my yoyo case and back away slowly.”

 

But a personal favorite is always going back and seeing the companies that are now long gone. Like this vaguely racist-sounding company that was run by a perky trust-fund kid named Maria Carilao who managed to find a way to add the word “yo” to at least 4 words per sentence, regularly insulted other yoyo manufacturers at trade shows while standing right next to them, and used to drive around in a Volvo covered in glued-on yoyo halves. (I wish I was making this up.)

 

Yo-Bonic

Yo-Bonic, the worst name for a yoyo company ever.

 

There was a recent conversation on the YoYoExpert forums about someone wanting to start a new yoyo magazine. Gaze upon these pictures and despair, young man, and be careful of the path you tread.

Yo-Yo World Magazine lasted 4 issues before going the way of Yo-Bonic, Playmaxx, BC, Custom, Black Mamba, and nearly all of the other companies that bought ads in the magazine. RIP, Yo-Yo World.

And now, for your final moment of Zen:

 

In Yo-gue with Yomega

If you add “Yo-” to the beginning of anything, you are awful.

 

 

Filed Under: Throwback Thursday Tagged With: 90s, black mamba, featured, magazine, neon, nostalgia, playmaxx, throwback thursday, yobonic, yomega, yoyo world

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