YoYo Related News From Around The World
By Steve Brown
For everyone who’s been begging for a new video from André Boulay….here you go!
André throws down with the new Ghost Edition Dark Magic II yoyo from YoYoJam, and shows off the Shinwoo Light Kit, an after-market part that turns a lot of yoyos into light-ups.
By Steve Brown
Dmitry Dyuzhev dropped a gorgeous new video featuring Vitaliy Karachin and you should stop what you’re doing and watch it right. now. Beautifully done!
By Steve Brown
YoYoRecreation put together a solid video of their team at the 2013 World YoYo Contest…beautifully shot and edited, and top-notch play from one of the best contest teams in the world! Featuring Yusuke Otsuka, Izuru Hasumi, Ryota Ogi, Iori Yamaki, Yasuki Tachibana, Minato Furuta, Naoto Okada, Tatsuya Fujisaka, Akitoshi Tokubuchi, Samm Scott, Ahmad Kharisma, and Ryosuke Iwasawa, with a special appearance by the Rosen Plaza carpet.
By Steve Brown
We don’t get nearly enough 2A videos these days, but here’s some great footage from Tomoyuki Kaneko. What do we have to do to get more 2A player making videos? Grant Johnson, where you at?
By Steve Brown
2013 National 3A Champion Alex Hattori got a great write-up in the Los Angeles Times…that’s a HUGE bit of press for a really deserving player. Excerpt below!
He doesn’t have to put a spin on what he does. Alex Hattori’s hobby does that automatically.
At the age of 15, the Torrance youth has become the yo-yo king.
He has his own sponsor, his own trading cards and his own line of yo-yos — the “C-Force” and the “Collid3r” — which the YoYoJam Co. sells for $57 and $107.
And now, after stiff competition at the yo-yo nationals in the Northern California town of Chico, he has been crowned the top double yo-yo player in the nation.
“I yo-yo everywhere I go. At the supermarket. In the classroom. When my mom is talking to me,” he said.
Alex picked up his first yo-yo four years ago when a group of his middle school friends sneaked some on campus and were playing with them at lunchtime.
Since then, his own yo-yo career has had its ups and downs — although for the most part it’s been on a steady ascent.
By the time he was 12, his skills earned him the title of America’s junior national yo-yo champion. In 2011 he won several regional yo-yo contests and had his name inscribed on a permanent trophy that honors this country’s “most inspirational player” in the sport.
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