C3YoYoDesign just dropped another product video, bringing their total up to 8 videos released in 2013. Being amazed by this is starting to feel redundant, so I’m just going to mentally high-five them and advise you to subscribe to their YouTube channel if you’re tired of hearing me flip out over how awesome they are.
Archives for February 4, 2013
History Lesson – 1934 World YoYo Champion Harvey Lowe
Harvey Lowe – 1934 World YoYo Champion (photo courtesy The Windsor Star)
Joe Mitchell just posted this up on the YoYoRadio Facebook page, and it’s well worth a listen.
Who was Harvey Lowe? He was the world’s first yo-yo champion, winning the 1934 world title in London, where the Canadian born Lowe was chilling with Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Fats Waller, and Laurel and Hardy. He spent most of World War II in a concentration camp in China, came back to Canada and become a radio broadcaster. He also taught Julie Christie how to smoke opium for a movie role. To find out more about Harvey, listen to this interview we did with him back in 2005.
Click through to listen, or right-click to download!
New Photos: Duncan Hornet YoYo
Duncan Toys has released full photography of all colors of their new looping yoyo, the Hornet. Check ’em out!
365yoyotricks.com – Weekly Roundup
I’ve been slacking on giving you folks the weekly roundup from 365yoyotricks.com. And by “slacking” I mean I did one, and then totally forgot about it when I got busy with other projects. Ha ha whoops!
Here’s the last week worth of tricks from me and the gang…and be sure to follow @365yoyotricks on Twitter and on Facebook for the daily updates!
Jake Bullock reminds us that he’s been doing 3D tricks for a ridiculously long time with FLOUNDER3D.
Spencer Berry gives us the gift that keeps on giving…by jamming a repeater in the middle of White Buddha.
You know how sometimes you just want a trick to move really, really fast and have a very low success rate? Yep, I made another one of those.
Darnell Hairston wants to make sure that everyone remembers how awesome frontstyle tricks can be.
Play responsive. There are still more tricks hiding in there.
Pekka pekka pekka pekka, pekka pekka pekka. Pekka, pekka pekka pekka pekka pekka!
Rafael Matsunaga dusts off an old combo from 2003, and adds even more to it. Come back in 2023 for a 6-minute version of this trick.