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South Central Regional YoYo Contest | July 20th

July 17, 2013 By André Boulay

SCR South Central Regional YoYo

The South Central Regional Yo-Yo Contest takes place this Saturday, July 20th in Denver Colorado! (10:00am – 7:00pm)

Event takes place on the Auraria Campus of Metro State University: http://www.msudenver.edu/

The first part of the contest will be in the Tivoli Commons, outside, and then move inside to the Tivoli Building after lunch.
Parking will be available in the Tivoli Parking Garage and 7th Street Garage for $6.00 (Campus Map here):

SCR Parking

Freestyles:

Freestyles will consist of a 2min final, and a 1 min prelim (if over 9 contestants).

Make Sure You Have Music Tracks For Both Just In Case!

You don’t want to have to use my music!

MAKE SURE YOU PRE-REGISTER BY JULY 19TH!!!

Registration is $20.00 and covers as many divisions as you wish to enter. Spectators don’t pay for admission.

Register here: http://www.jongates.com/yoyocontest/event-registration/

Once you pre-register there will be a special email link sent to you to upload your music.
Please include your name and include your division in the title of the song! (i.e John -Smith-1Afinal)

Any other questions see their Facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Central-Regional-Yo-Yo-Contest/237944836322248

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: Colorado, contest, denver, July, SCR, South Central Regional, Yo-Yo

Tower on a Kendama?!

July 16, 2013 By André Boulay

Reblogged from our friends at the Kengarden. Awesome to see another Kendama player throwing yo-yos. Really can see an influence in their style of tricks. And… Tower on a Kendama is awesome.

Yes he did! Tower on a Kendama. Brain Explode.
Chris is amazing with anything that has a string.
I bet he could knit the F out of a sweater.
Enjoy!

YoYo Dama Chris Rodrigues

Filed Under: Kendama, Video Tagged With: chris rodrigues, kendama, Tower, video, Yo-Yo

YoYoExpert Presents the California State YoYo Championship

March 22, 2013 By André Boulay

YoYoExpert Presents the California State Yo-Yo Championship!!!

YoYoExpert was proud to be a Gold Level Sponsor of the California State Yo-Yo Championship that took place March 2nd, 2013. In addition to sponsoring the event, YoYoExpert worked with Sector Y to produce this great clip video of the event.

Also check out the special ‘Cal States’ Edition YoYoFactory 2.0 yo-yo, available only at YoYoExpert.com.

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2013, caifornia state yoyo championship, Cal State, California State Yo-Yo Contest, contest, sector y, video, Yo-Yo, yoyo, yoyoexpert

Fixed Friday: Dumptrucks

January 4, 2013 By Drew Tetz

First Fixed Friday of the year! Is anybody gonna spend 2013 throwing only fixed axle yo-yos? If you’re anything like me you’ve already screwed it up with sweet, sweet metal, but hey, it’s Friday, so let’s get back to our roots and toss the bearings aside.

Rather than teaching a roots trick, though, I’d like to show you another new school original concept. This week’s trick is called Dumptrucks; it first appeared as trick #300 in the 2012 365yoyotricks lineup, and is a simple yet surprisingly versatile stall dismount. It could be best described as a z-axis half-swing that dismounts the yo-yo while resetting spin direction, but frankly that’s a lot of jargon and it’s a lot easier to just watch the trick. Check it out!

Okay, now that you actually know what it looks like, lets break some of those buzzwords down. First off, this trick moves on the z-axis: most conventional yo-yo tricks happen while the yo-yo is spinning, which means that the spin is keeping the yo-yo stable. This is great, because eli hops would be a whole lot harder with the yo-yo floppin’ around all over the place, but you do start to get used to the idea that yo-yos stay in one plane, and most of us take for granted that we have to build all of our tricks on a single plane. Of course, nobody told Christopher Chia that, but we’ll leave the horizontal tech talk for later. The z-axis is relevant in this context because stalls stop the yo-yo from spinning, effectively “unlocking” the axis, so you can just swing that guy around, do flips, off-axis suicides, whatever.

Next up, “half-swing”. Once you’re in a trapeze stall, it’s possible to just swing the yo-yo around like an off-axis somersault. I don’t think that there’s really a name for this, so I just call them “swings”. This hasn’t led to too many useful tricks (so far), since it just starts you back where you started from, but the half-swing is interesting – basically, when the yo-yo is at the top of the swing, it’s in an upside-down trapeze. If you push out a bit and let gravity dismount the yo-yo, that’s a dumptruck!

The final portion of dumptruck tricks is remounting the yo-yo on the string, usually in a similar stall that you dismounted from. In our past two installments, when we dismounted out of our stalls the yo-yo was spinning the opposite direction, which meant that if we wanted to re-stall it would have to be on the opposite side of the string. Not so with dumptrucks! Swinging the yo-yo and dismounting halfway actually means that the yo-yo flips, which means that the yo-yo will be spinning the same direction it was before you mounted the stall. This can be really useful as a transition move in stall combos, because it lets you break out of that “left side, right side, left side, right side” rhythm or move into other more technical stall tricks. It also just feels really cool, so, you know. Learn it! Once you get the basic trapeze dumptruck down, it’s easy to start applying it to different mounts and from different setups. One thing that I’ve been messing with lately is trying to do them out of gorilla style/inverted trapeze. Learn it, use it, tell everybody about your new moves in the Fixed Friday Facebook group.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS: What implication does z-axis movement hold for string tricks? Is there gonna be a new weird wave of genuine string transition moves based around swings? Could half-swings solve the spin direction “problem” keeping stalls out of competitive 1A play? When Sisqo said “Dumps like a truck, what what” in “The Thong Song”, did he really think that that was a quality compliment? I mean, c’mon dude.

Also, as a little bit of bonus theory, did everybody see that awesome Yoyojam Theory video with Ben, Grant, and Yoshi? While the whole thing is incredible, Ben’s amazing flip trick at 37 seconds is especially applicable to fixie tricks – who’s gonna be the first to work that into a stall combo?

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: 1A, butterfly, drew tetz, dumptrucks, fixed friday, stall, trick theory, Yo-Yo

New Video of the Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships

December 2, 2012 By André Boulay

If you have not heard of it the Asia Pacific Yo-Yo Championships (AP) is the premier annual yo-yo competition in the Asia Pacific region. Since its humble beginnings in 2003, AP has been steadily growing in terms of number of countries and participants, with 13 participating countries. This is a great video showcasing what a high caliber event this is in the world of yo-yoing.

Asia Pacific Championships

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 2012, Asia Pacific, Championships, featured, Yo-Yo

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