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Archives for May 2013

Shinya Kido joins C3YoYoDesign, debuts a new signature yo-yo!

May 31, 2013 By Rafael Matsunaga

The contest has barely started and the news from Japan are already coming in hot! 2009 World Champion Shinya Kido has just announced his admittance into the ever-growing Hong Kong powerhouse team!

Shinya, who had just recently left Japan’s top YoyoRecreation team, is also debuting a new yo-yo from C3, the Krown:

The Krown is a full-sized yo-yo, weighting in at 65.5 grams, 56mm diameter, and 45mm width, and built in 7075 aluminum. The shape and specs leave no doubt about what should be obvious from such a partnership: a 100% competition-focused yo-yo.

The Krown is being released at Japan Nationals this weekend!

Filed Under: Contests, Manufacturer, Players, YoYo Drop Tagged With: c3yoyodesign, japan nationals, krown, shinya kido

2013 Japan National YoYo Contest Starts Today!

May 31, 2013 By Rafael Matsunaga

The 2013 Japan National Yo-yo Contest is just about to start in Nagoya! The 1A to 5A semifinals, team division, and mod contest will be held on Saturday, and the grand champions will be crowned on Sunday. A substantial number of foreign guests are also in the city, including players from South Korea, Hong Kong, and Australia, as expected for the world’s greatest national contest.

The contest is being streamed live at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jn2013

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We’ll be providing coverage of the contest as it happens. Check back later for preliminary results and the contestant order for the finals!

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2013, japan, japan national yoyo contest, jn, nagoya

Fixed Friday: Crisis

May 31, 2013 By Drew Tetz

Cast down your bearings, ye fixed axle faithful, and join us for another glorious friday! This week we’ll be taking a closer look at my trick Crisis. This is a bit of an advanced trick, but there are some foundational steps that are handy for intermediate players, too.

You may recognize Crisis from the recent “Mind Melee” battle with Spencer Berry. Spencer is one of my favorite yoyoers of all time, and when he agreed to a battle I wanted to use a trick that paid tribute to the golden era of Spindox, the legendary California crew that he, Gabe, Jason, Escolar, Gary and company immortalized. While I used a Freehand1 for the battle to get a little more oomph, I actually did compose the trick on a Butterfly – but enough about me, let’s get learnin’!

The first move in the video is a thumb mount stall, or more specifically a chopstick double-or-nothing. The spinning version is one of the most fundamental thumb mount tricks, but can be a little challenging if you aren’t familiar with it – you might want to grab a bearing yo-yo and check out this video to get acquainted with it. The basic idea, though, is that you throw a breakaway and let the yo-yo travel around both your pointer and your thumb so you get sort of a miniature 2or0 formation. Landing a stall instead of a string hit is a bit of a wrinkle, but if you can hit the bearing version the stall should come with a bit of practice. My best advice is to use a light, responsive yo-yo and give yourself a little bit of extra room on the string to accommodate the yo-yo winding up. (If you’re interested in more thumb mount stalls, I suggest revisiting our Play Like A Wild Man article.)

The next fundamental move for Crisis is a wrist mount stall. Wrist mounts are fairly standard fare for modern 1A (and a staple of the Spindox!) but less frequently seen in stall-based play due to the possibility of knots. Having said this, if you can land a wrist mount with a spinning yo-yo, you’ll probably be able to hit the stall pretty quick. The tricky part is actually finding a good way to dismount since the traditional Spirit Bomb dismount is difficult when the yo-yo’s not spinning. In this example, I use a “bounce house” dismount, something introduced in the “Huh? Wha?” FF segment: pop the yo-yo up onto the top string and use the momentum to redirect it behind the lower string, thus dissolving the kink and setting the yo-yo spinning again. Crisis has a more advanced dismount, but more on that later.

Alright! Now that we’ve got those foundational mounts down, let’s get into the tough stuff. The next step is getting into the meat of Crisis with its centerpiece move, the crisis flip. The idea behind this is that you twist your throwhand to wrap the string around your thumb and forefinger, so you’re set up for a throwhand thumb mount, and then catch the yo-yo in a 2or0 chopstick stall on your free hand. Once your hands are sufficiently bound up, you’re going to swing the yo-yo forward so it breaks plane and catch it upside-down in the right hand thumb mount. THIS IS REALLY HARD. Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it right away, it’s pretty counterintuitive and took me a lot of practice. It’s an exciting concept, though, because it allows you to do tech-y thumb tricks within a stall, changes the stall direction, and all kinds of other cool weird stuff like that. I initially just dismount out of it by throwing it out the side, but the full trick gets a little fancier. (Sidenote: If the 2or0 chopsticks stall feels too awkward with the throw hand windup, you can see an alternate entrance at 1:00 where I use a normal double or nothing and drop the throw hand strings.)

The next step in Crisis is in line with the grand tradition of tech tricks, which is to say: adding a kink! This is why you needed that wrist mount stall. After you do the crisis flip and you’re in the inverted thumb hold, you move your throwhand forward and let the yo-yo go backward through the thumb mount, thus creating a kink – this is difficult to explain, but hopefully the slomo clarifies it a little bit. Players like Yuuki Spencer & Jesse Garcia do this move quite frequently. Because it’s a stall, though, that yo-yo is kind of just falling, and you wanna try your best to give it a swing to the left side so that it starts spinning again. It won’t spin for long, however, because you’re going to catch it in a trapeze stall in front while sustaining the kink mount on your thumbs. Those familiar with wrist mounts or kinks will know that if we dropped the strings now we’d get a knot, so let’s focus on getting out of that: my solution is to invert the entire structure by swinging the yo-yo forward and tilting your hands backwards, dismounting the yo-yo through the strings with a dumptruck motion. If you get through in the right spot, you’re home free!

Another thing that you can do out of a crisis flip is a move I like to call A Mountain Climber Who Plays An Electric Guitar. The idea behind this is that you flip up into the strings, but try to sustain the free hand loop, and then pop it up in the air so that you can catch it like a drop suicide. Wu-tang!

Yet another thing you can do, though I haven’t explored it much yet, is to flip the yo-yo through the thumb mount rather than landing it upside-down. As you can see, I don’t really have anything practical with this yet, so I sort of just do a wacky little untwisting motion, but surely one of you will find use for that extra twist in the string.

Finally, a bit of goofy fun with… uh… a Butterfly tied to a kendama? I haven’t caught the kendama bug as badly as some in the community have (mostly because I’m really bad at them!), but I do think it’s fun to try and crossbreed ideas between the two disciplines. For all of the yoyoers upset because people are playing with (gasp) a different toy… lighten up! Seriously. Toys. What are you doing?

Learn the trick? Want to see more kendama/yoyo fusion? Want me to stop using stupid light yo-yos? Let us know in the comments!

Filed Under: Fixed Friday, Trick Theory, Video Tagged With: drew tetz, fixed axle, fixed friday, video, YoYoNews

This Is Called String Tricking

May 30, 2013 By Steve Brown

This one totally slipped by us…our favorite comment troll, Ben Gates, filmed a short documentary on modern yoyoing…on 16mm, no less! Looks like it was shot at last year’s MA State YoYo Contest. From the video description:

An exploration of modern yo-yoing as a form of visual communication. Produced for Documenting Visual Culture IN 374. Filmed on a 16mm Bolex camera at MA States 2012 and Z-Games 2013.

Featuring the tricks of Alex Lozyniak, Michael Ferdico, James Lowell, Tyler McCallumore, Grant Johnson, Eric Koloski, Mark Mangarin, Elliot Jackson, Nick DeValpine, Matt Burkhead, Andrew Maider, Andrew Bergen, and CJ Atkinson.

Special Thanks to Kathryn Ramey, Rob Todd, Cass Marks, and Steve Baldwin at National Boston. No thanks to CineLab, because they suck.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: Alex Lozyniak, andrew bergen, Andrew Maider, ben gates, cj atkinson, documentary, Elliot Jackson, eric koloski, Grant Johnson, James Lowell, ma states, mark mangarin, mass state, Matt Burkhead, Michael Ferdico, Nick DeValpine, this is called string tricking, tyler mccallumore

Sweets Kendama – Three Trick Thursday – Oase

May 30, 2013 By Steve Brown

All new Three Trick Thursday from Sweets Kendama Pro Team member Oase. So good!

Filed Under: Kendama, Video Tagged With: oase, sweets kendama, three trick thursday

YoYoDrop – C3YoYoDesign Gaia

May 30, 2013 By Steve Brown

C3YoYoDesign Gaia

Introducing GAIA,  the signature offstring design for 3X Korea Champion Jeon Ji Kwan!

When we first asked Jeon Ji Kwan about his dream 4A design, he mentioned “speed, power spin, floating time, quick regen, and finger spin”.  After number of prototypes to fit his requirements, he proved GAIA is his dream design by capturing his 3rd Korea Championship!

There will be a limited pre-production release of the C3YoYoDesign Gaia at Japan Nationals and Malaysia Nationals this weekend.

GAIA specs:

Weight: 72.4 grams
Width: 53.25 mm
Diameter: 75.27 mm
Gap width: 2.1 mm(thin spacer), 2.15 mm(thick spacer)
Bearing Size (Inside x Outside x Width): 5mm x 10mm x 4mm (Size A)
Gap Type: Fixed
Response: Silicon sticker / flowable silicon

Filed Under: Manufacturer, YoYo Drop Tagged With: 4a, c3yoyodesign, gaia, jeon ji kwan, offstring

YoYoDrop – Werrd 2K13 Hour

May 30, 2013 By Steve Brown

Werrd 2K13 Hour

 

Werrd dropped pics of the updated Hour yoyo on their way to Japan Nationals, but I was able to catch Stu Brown in transit for some more details!

Werrd 2K13 Hour Specs:

  • 60mm diameter
  • 41.5mm wide
  • 4.7mm gap
  • 65.5 grams
  • K-pad response
  • Center Trac Bearing
  • BluePrint String
  • Splash Anodised (multiple colors)
  • Gold Anodized (for the pimp look)
  • Silver Anodized (for stage bling)

According to Stu:

I revised the weight distribution to see if we could speed up the Hour on the string a little. This is tricky for such a large diameter yoyo but I was able to do this by adding percentage weight to the rim and increasing spin time while actually making the 2K13 Hour lighter and more maneuverable. Success.
Werrd 2K13 Hour YoYo
The Werrd Bounty is still up for grabs and the Hour and 2K13 Hour are the current weapons of choice. Before Worlds we will add another yoyo (or maybe 2) to the eligible Bounty yoyo arsenal.
Limited pieces of the 2K13 Hour will be pre-released at Japan Nationals this weekend. For Japan Nationals Werrd is attending in force; flying in, fresh off his BAC 3A Win is Eric Tran-ton. Australian National Champion Vu Ho and Yu Tsumura will also be in attendance as well as the heart beat of Werrd – Stu Brown and Andrew Savage.

Sounds like huge things are in store for Werrd…we’ll update with more info as we’re able to get it. In the meantime, check out the team and new throws at Japan Nationals this weekend! Stu hinted to me that there might be some more new releases at Japan Nationals if they make it in time…we’ll find out soon!

Filed Under: Manufacturer, YoYo Drop Tagged With: 2k13, andrew savage, bounty, eric tran-ton, hour, japan nationals, stu brown, vu ho, Werrd, yu tsumura

Tsukasa Takatsu – Blue Blue Grass Yelets

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Tsukasa Takatsu gets crazy in his bathroom with a One Drop Yelets in this new video.

Wow, did I really just type that?

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: bathroom, one drop, tsukasa takatsu, video, yelets

2013 Bay Area Classic – Year of Summer

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Josh Yee put together a really nice clip video with footage from the 2013 Bay Area Classic. Looks like it was a great, well-run event with the top talent in the country…just as we expect from BAC!

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: bay, bay area classic, video

9.8 Presents: ASYYC (Parts 1 & 2) (NSFW)

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Here’s a crazy two-part clip video from the recent Amateur Spring YoYo Contest in Moscow. It’s a lot to digest, so make sure you’ve got some time. Music lyrics are NSFW, so headphone it up!

Filed Under: Contests, Video Tagged With: 9.8, amateur spring yoyo contest, asyyc, moscow, Russia

Vortex ft. Masakazu Yamasaki

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Here’s some great 2A play from Masakazu Yamasaki, promoting the recent release of the Vortex looping yoyos by YoYo Joker. The tangler that he rolls down his back at 1:46…gotta be honest, that scares the crap out of me but it’s SO GOOD! It’s actually really similar to an old hoop juggling move from the vaudeville days.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 2A, Looping, Masakazu Yamasaki, vortex, yoyo joker

Slusny Presents: Nimbus

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Slusny.net just dropped a really fun video to promote the YoYo Empire Nimbus offstring yoyo, featuring Petr Kavka and Zdenek Hybl.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 4a, nimbus, offstring, Petr Kavka, slusny, yoyo empire, zdenek hybl

Cabin Tutorial – Rancid Milk by Spencer Berry

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Charles Haycock and CLYW bring us another Cabin Tutorial, this one laying out the loveliness of Spencer Berry’s milemarker of a trick, Rancid Milk.

And as a bonus…here’s Spencer doing it too!

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 365 yoyo tricks, cabin tutorial, charles haycock, clyw, rancid milk, spencer berry, video

Robbie Graham – (Tre)es

May 29, 2013 By Steve Brown

Robbie Graham spent a little time filming at his grandmother’s house and turned out this video.

No joke, he shot it at his grandma’s house. Bet she watched him filming, said “That’s nice, dear”, and gave him a cookie. Grandmas are awesome like that. Hug your grandmas, kids.

Yoyo used is the TRE by Werrd.

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: robbie graham, tre, video, Werrd

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