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Archives for October 9, 2013

Tommy Gun – Lit

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

Kyle Nguyen, a.k.a. Tommy Gun, is one of the shining stars of the early 2000s yoyo scene. A co-founder of the now defunct online store Extreme Spin, Kyle was a skilled and idiosyncratic player and one of the early “video stars” of yoyoing. This video, which took him almost ten years to finally complete and release, shows just how ahead of his time he really was.

This is the video I started in 2004 that was teased at the end of my “Circle Grind” video as “coming soon.” Well, in 2013 I finally finished it! It has some new footage, but I purposely did old tricks to match the tone and era of the video.

All the stuff where you can see my face, and when I was wearing the THROW and ExtremeSpin shirts, is footage from 2004. The stuff in the Dark Knight shirt is the new footage.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: extreme spin, kyle nguyen, lit, tommy gun, video

Hasselback Presents: Adam Schultz

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

John Hasselback III (with a name like that he should probably be the Duke of a small European country on the brink of war, yeah?) dropped a new video today featuring Adam Schultz making a TenYoYo Bebop look pretty damn good. Nice work, guys!

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: adam schultz, bebop, john hasselback iii, tenyoyo, video

YoYoDrop – New Hildy Bros. Releases

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

The Hildy Bros are at it again with three new releases dropping online at their web store tonight at 11 PM EST.

Hildy Bros Emmett Delrin YoYo

First up is the Emmett, a fixed steel axle delrin yoyo. WTF, you say? WTF indeed. We had no idea there was a demand for this, but gotta admit…it looks neat. Available for $35 each.

Hildy Bros Currier Wood YoYo

Next we have a new multi-tone version of The Currier, this one made up of Walnut, Purpleheart, and Yellow Heart. Pretty amazing looking stuff, and this one will retail for $45 each. The last multi-tone Curriers went pretty fast, we’re guessing these will too.

Hildy Bros Currier Wood YoYo

And finally, a new engraved edition of the Currier with new artwork by the Hildy Bros themselves. Available in either Purpleheart or Paduak, each comes with the Hildy Bros logo on one side and the skull logo on the other. Available for $30 each.

Filed Under: YoYo Drop Tagged With: delrin, exotic, fixed axle, hildy bros, paduak, purpleheart, walnut, wood, yoyo

Tomáš Bubák – Ghost 2013 (NSFW)

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

Tomáš Bubák shows off the Duncan Strix in this new promo video from Czech yoyo retailer, SLUSNY. We’re expecting Tomáš to be a serious competitor at the 2014 World YoYo Contest in Prague, so get a good look at the competition now. Music is NSFW, so headphone it up.

Filed Under: Manufacturer, Players, Video Tagged With: Czech Republic, duncan toys, prague, slusny, strix, tomas bubak, video

Happy 5th Anniversary, YoYoExpert!

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

YoYoExpert-5th-Anniversary

Five years ago, André Boulay went to the National YoYo Contest and came home with three things: a sunburn, the title of National YoYo Master, and an email confirming the very first order placed at YoYoExpert.com.

Probably the most influential of all the National Masters, André’s tutorials have millions of views from aspiring yoyo players, and the number of people he’s helped learn to yoyo is incalculable. His work as a retailer has redefined the industry, and his tireless sponsoring and support of yoyo contests has been a game changer for many organizers.

So please join us in congratulating André and the rest of the YoYoExpert.com staff on five years of serving the yoyo community and industry as the largest specialty yoyo retailer in the world! And keep an eye on their website, as they gear up to announce some special deals to celebrate the anniversary.

Filed Under: General News Tagged With: Andre Boulay, anniversary, yoyoexpert

2013 US National YoYo Contest – 3A Analysis

October 9, 2013 By Steve Brown

2013 US National YoYo Contest – 3A Analysis

The 2013 US National YoYo Contest wrapped up this past weekend, and YoYoNews is looking back at each division and bringing you post-contest analysis.

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The 3A division at this years National YoYo Contest had plenty of talent, and many of the competitors seemed to be fairly evenly matched, at least for the day. But with the exception of Alex Hattori, every single player in the field had some kind of mistake in the first 0:30 of their routine and plenty more after. The result of this is that it becomes impossible to build up the kind of tension that we saw in the 1A Division, where nearly every player had a flawless routine. There was tension, but of a different kind…we all expected to give a trophy not to the best player of the day, but just to the one with the least blunders.

Fan favorite Eric Tranton came in off a solid showing at Worlds with one of the best routine ending bangers in the divisions history, but had so many tangles and missed string hits in the first minute of his routine that there was no way he could come back from it. That he still took 4th is a testament to just how good he really is, as well as how much everyone else in the division was missing. Defending champion Patrick Borgerding had some major problems almost immediately into his routine, rendering the first full minute of his routine mostly an exercise in watching a seasoned player try to recover their nerve once they realize they’ve lost the event but still have two minutes to go. The structure of Patrick’s routine is mostly banger-banger-banger, without much in the way of filler and not as many transitions as other players. If you looked away for a moment, it was easy to miss the flubs and look up just in time to catch him doing something amazing. That he stayed in the Top Three is partially a testament to the point value of his audacious tricks, and partially a reminder that the judges often score defending champions more favorably based on expectation.

Elliot Ogawa, former protégé to Patrick Borgerding, scooped up 2nd Place and bested his own mentor in spite of a tangle that resulted in a double restart and ate up a full 0:20 of his routine. That Elliot took 2nd Place with a routine so plagued with errors is indicative of how rough the entire division went…the best players had tons of problems, and the lesser players didn’t have the tricks to muscle through even a weak routine from the top contenders.

Alex Hattori was the shining star of the division though, and while it would be easy and cynical to say he was simply the “best of the worst” on a bad day for the division, the truth is that even if Ogawa, Borgerding, and Tranton were at the top of their game, Alex would have taken them. His routine was not only 95% flawless, but Alex comes from the Hank Freeman school of 3A…mount right in to your tricks, and waste no time getting to the next ones. The result was an entertaining freestyle with strong pacing and a ton of technical difficulty, resulting in a well-deserved win for Alex Hattori.

2013 US National YoYo Contest – 3A Division

1st Place – Alex Hattori

2nd Place – Elliot Ogawa

3rd Place – Patrick Borgerding

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 3A, alex hattori, elliot ogawa, Eric TranTon, featured, Patrick Borgerding, us national yoyo contest

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