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Kuma Films – Spin Top Tricks w/ Takeshi Kamisato

June 28, 2018 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato partnered up with the folks at Kuma Films for this new video, and it’s stunning! Spin top tricks generally look pretty magical, but seeing them in exquisite slow motion really highlights how stupidly hard it is to hit the tip of a moving spin top with a ridiculously long and floppy string. It’s ridiculous. Hug a spin top player and let ’em know “Hey, listen, I know it’s hard for you but you are doing GREAT and I think it’s all gonna be ok”.

Spin tops used are modified Duncan Bearing Kings.

Filed Under: Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: Kuma Films, slow motion, spin top, spin top tricks, spin top video, takeshi kamisato

Takeshi Kamisato Joins 44RPM

February 29, 2016 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato 44RPM

44RPM, the start-up toy company from Drew Tetz and Hank Freeman, just announced their first sponsored player: scene legend Takeshi Kamisato! With Takeshi’s history as a yoyo trick innovator and filmmaker, and his recent (and pretty awe-inspiring) jump into the world of absurdly hard kendama tricks, he’s a perfect fit for 44RPM.

In addition to their line of flatpack yoyos, kendamas, and spin top, 44RPM recently released a budget metal yoyo called the Rhythm, and have started showing photos of it’s companion yoyo, the Blues. The Rhythm, designed by National YoYo Master Rafael Matsunaga with art by Rodrigo Yokota is in stores now. There is no release date set for the Blues.

Congratulations, Takeshi and 44RPM!

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: 44rpm, blues, drew tetz, flatpack toys, hank freeman, kendama, rhythm, spin top, takeshi kamisato, yoyo

Takeshi Kamisato – Spin Top Tricks

August 5, 2015 By Steve Brown

Takeshi Kamisato hooked up with the folks from Kuma Films for this spin top video, and it’s great! We definitely don’t see enough of spin tops these days, and Takeshi has always been one of the best players out there.

Top used is the Duncan Toys Bearing King spin top.

Filed Under: Players, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: spin top, takeshi kamisato

44RPM – The Penny Video

June 16, 2015 By Steve Brown

44RPM has come out of the gate as easily one of the strangest and most creative new companies in the yoyo/skill toy market. The brainchild of Drew Tetz and Hank Freeman, all of their products are laser cut from a single flat piece of wood and you assemble them yourself. And they really work. It’s kinda nuts, really.

Their latest kendama release, the Penny, is a flatpack kendama that uses pennies to add extra weight, and the difference in play from their standard model kendama as the result of adding 7¢ is crazy!

Check out this video from Takeshi Kamisato, showing off what the 44RPM Penny can do in the hands of a bunch of kendama players.

Filed Under: Kendama, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: 44rpm, drew tetz, flatpack, hank freeman, kendama, penny, takeshi kamisato

This is madness! Yo-yo / kendama mashup galore!

February 10, 2014 By Rafael Matsunaga

Were you hoping the kendama invasion would be just a fad? Or that it would be safely contained? No sir, not when the mod bug bites kendama and yo-yo people alike, leading to some of the funkiest mashups on Instagram!

Apparently, kendama folks over at Kendama Custom Kreations were the first to have a shot at it, with their “Ken-Yo”, featuring a custom ken, holes on both sides of the yo-yo/tama, but with the string tied to the yo-yo, defeating some of the purpose:

Next, ninja modder and all-around awesome dude Takeshi went ahead and cut a string groove on a Duncan Komodo tama for Drew Tetz, the “Groovedama”!

Here’s Drew shredding that beauty:

Inspired by Takeshi’s work, but not quite hip enough for fixed axle, Red printed a tama hubstack, turning a perfectly fine yo-yo into a bizarre-looking contraption:

Turns out Takeshi is a mind-reader, and had turned his own hubstack from a screwdriver handle, transforming his own yo-yo into a ken!

(Obligatory Terrorgade mount tricks above in honor of Paul Escolar’s birthday!)

And finally, Takeshi — deciding he was cooler than everyone else — came up with the Blitz, an all-wooden version of his previous mod.

And kendama folks also seem to enjoy it quite a bit! (Dominic Calimquim feeling right at home below)

This is just the beginning!

Follow us all on Instagram for more awesome (and sometimes questionable) mashups!

Filed Under: Kendama, Skill Toys Tagged With: drew tetz, kendama, mashup, mods, rafael matsunaga, takeshi kamisato, yoyo

Duncan Toys Komodo Kendama YoYo Thingy

January 23, 2014 By Steve Brown

When yoyo players started complaining about kendamas infiltrating the scene, the good folks at Duncan Toys really listened, and immediately got their best people on the job! Now, just a scant few years later, Duncan Crew member and modder Takeshi Kamisato has turned one of their kendamas into a yoyo so everyone can go back to only liking yoyos and being fearful of other skill toys.

Enjoy the awesome!

Filed Under: Kendama, Players, Skill Toys, Video Tagged With: duncan toys, kendama, komodo, takeshi kamisato, yoyo

Takeshi Kamisato – Bangers

December 15, 2013 By Steve Brown

The always amazing Mitchell Thomas Takeshi Red Cloud Kamisato (yup, that’s his full name!) hasn’t put out a video in a while…but let’s just say this one was worth the wait.

Bangers for daaaaaaaaaaaaayyyssssssss…..

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: duncan toys, exit 8, takeshi kamisato, video

Fixed Friday: Duncan Crew USA Chillin’

August 30, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Greetings, Fixed Axle Fanatics! Welcome to another glorious friday, and another clip from your friends at Yoyonews. As an extra special treat, this week those friends are more than just me! We’ve got some of Duncan Crew USA’s finest throwing down fixed axle knowledge—let’s take a peek, shall we?

First up to the plate, we’ve got Isaac Sams bringing his own unique twist to Nate Sutter’s “Pocketwatch” trick (which you can see in both the FACoatW finals and his alternative freestyle). This unique move captured the attention of plenty of top players at Worlds ’13 with its counterintuitive (yet brilliant!) method of stopping the yo-yo halfway down the string. This is normally considered a snag, but when used intentionally (as Isaac does here for a shortened somersault before entering 2or0) it can really mix up your tricks. What makes pocketwatch even better is how simple it is to learn: catch the yo-yo in your non-throwhand as it’s responding, give it a good hard yank, and then let that baby twirl.

I bump the tech level up for the next combo, which utilizes dump trucks to maneuver between more technical mounts. It opens with one of my favorite chopsticks stalls—I don’t know if it really has a name, as it’s just landing between the non-throwhand thumb/finger after a double or nothing, but I call it “ice cream cone”. I call a lot of tricks that, I guess. The trickiest part of this trick is swinging the yo-yo forward into a chopsticks dump truck, which puts a kink in the string. We get rid of the kink with another dump truck through the bucket before entering a reverse bucket with yet another dump truck. So many trucks!!

World Champion Hank Freeman brings us back to reality and shows that you don’t need string hits for tough tricks with his newest signature move, “The Turbo Rotary Hankinator.” (I name most of Hank’s tricks, btw.) If you wanna try this, just start with a shoot the moon down under, but when you get to the punches turn 180 degrees each rep. You’ll never stop punching! Just like Hank.

Takeshi has something very special this week, showing once again why he’s one of the best modders in the world with a fixed axle Exit 8. He powers through one of his signature 1A combos, a decidedly new school twist on the fixie formula, and proves that wood & metal yo-yos can live in harmony.

Isaac shows us more unconventional uses of the pocketwatch with a trick that could be considered even stall-ier than normal stalls, a pocketwatch to thumb mount. This trick is great because it’s simple, immediately understandable… but still challenging and entertaining. Dig the pacing.

The next trick that I show in the video is actually an ingenious technique for kickflip suicides pioneered by five time national offstring champ, Bryan Figueroa. Before you throw the suicide, if you wrap a bind of string around the axle, the loop will hang on through anything—clearly demonstrated by my even-sloppier-than-usual knee bonk suicide catch. You do have to keep an eye out for the yo-yo twisting around after the wrap, but if you’re the kind of player who likes risky tricks with big rewards and you want to take your kickflips to the next level, it’s definitely worth learning.

Hank takes it back to 2A town with possibly one of the first tricks ever to include both a loop wrap and a green triangle. The loop wrap (using your non-throwhand wrist to control loops) is an invaluable regen tool, but Hank kicks it up a notch by using the wrist twist to create a triangle and catch the yo-yo in a stall. Daaang! Bust this one out on all your friends for butterfly horse, they’ll be salty.

My last trick in the video is another dumptruck-heavy tech trick, titled “Peanut Butter Loves Honey.” This one opens with a wristmount stall, turns it upside-down, and after remounting into a fake bucket goes into some hyperspeed knee bounces.

Finally, Isaac closes out the fixed portion of the clip with a burly variation on his wrist magic drop straight into a thumb stall. Gnarly! Stick around after the credits for some bonus bearing booty from the boys, and don’t forget to comment below about your favorite tricks. Oh, and you can download the song here if you’d like. Until next week, Fixed Axle Aficinados!

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Players, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: butterfly, drew tetz, Duncan, duncan crew USA, fist salud, fixed axle, fixed friday, hank freeman, Isaac Sams, lil' ripper, takeshi kamisato

365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup

June 24, 2013 By Steve Brown

365yoyotricks.com Weekly Roundup

We’ve got another batch of tricks from the gang, and an addition to the roster…please welcome Jacob Jensen to this years 365yoyotricks.com team!

Jason Lee checks in from Persopolis, Iran with some more of the best flow you’ve ever seen.

 

Spencer Berry revs up his Walter for an especially challenging repeater.

 

Jacob Jensen brings us a deceptively difficult counterweight repeater.

 

Darnell Hairston checks in from our favorite local burrito joint, Chili Peppers.

 

Takeshi Kamisato brings us another “Good luck hitting this, buddy” trick from his repertoire.

 

Elbow mount!

 

And Rafael Matsunaga reminds us that simply and silly are pretty awesome.

 

See you next week!

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: 365 yoyo tricks, darnell hairston, featured, jacob jensen, jason lee, rafael matsunaga, spencer berry, steve brown, takeshi kamisato, video

Takeshi Vs. Drew Slomo Trick Battle

May 9, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Gather ’round, ladies & gents! What we have here is the first ever Yoyonews trick battle. My good friend Takeshi “The Human Zamboni” Kamisato has agreed to throw down for a single trick slomo video face off with me, Drew “The Party Baby” Tetz. We got a lot of pride on the line here, so we kindly ask you to check out the tricks below, vote for your favorite in the poll, and tell us why in the comments.

Filed Under: Battle, Players, Video Tagged With: 1A, 5A, battle, drew tetz, Duncan, takeshi kamisato, video

365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup

April 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

365yoyotricks.com Weekly Roundup

 

It’s Monday morning, and that means it’s time for you to witness the furious awesomeosity of the incalculable creativity of the incomprehensible  something something something whatever.

Takeshi Kamisato sets the bar high for the week with a Snap to Green Triangle. Damn.

 

Spencer Berry gets his fixed axle on with an EH from SPYY.

 

More fixed axle goodness as I find a Spintastics Technic axle in my junk drawer, throw it in a YoYoFactory Velocity, and start getting weird.

 

I’ve made up hundreds of tricks, but I still have no idea which ones people are going to get excited about. For some reason, this one got a lot of praise. Still no idea why.

 

Here a stall, there a stall, everywhere a stall stall…

 

An experiment in minimalism…what are the simplest components you can create something new from? I chose Trapeze and a Split Bottom Mount. Turned out nice, I think.

 

And Rafael Matsunaga wraps things up with a benchmark trick in the history of counterweight play, the One-Handed Helicopter. Still beautiful, still really damn hard.

 

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: 1A, 365 yoyo tricks, 5A, duncan toys, featured, rafael matsunaga, spencer berry, spyy, steve brown, takeshi kamisato, weekly roundup, yoyofactory

Duncan YoYo Demonstrations at Downtown Disney (2.15 – 2.17)

February 7, 2013 By Steve Brown

 

Duncan Yo-Yo Professionals Takeshi Kamisato & Drew Tetz are performing once again at the Downtown Disney® Area in Lake Buena Vista, Florida 2/15 through 2/17! Visit Once Upon A Toy in the Downtown Disney® Marketplace to meet the guys and learn a trick or two! They’ll be on site each day from 2-9pm!

Filed Under: Manufacturer Tagged With: buena vista, disney world, downtown disney, drew tetz, duncan toys, florida, once upon a toy, orlando, takeshi kamisato

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