YoYo Related News From Around The World
Check out full results, scoring breakdowns, and video of the winners from the 2017 Pacific Northwest Regional YoYo Championship!
Daniel Predka and Daniel Klima send us some love from the Czech Republic, the land of a bajillion excellent yoyo players.
Yoyos used are the Turning Point Shake and the YoYoFactory Shutter.
European YoYo Champion Tal Mordoch is finally getting a signature edition yoyo from his sponsor, Duncan Toys! The Orbital is a 7075 aluminum yoyo with stainless steel weight rings…designed to Tal’s exact specs, the Orbital should hit shelves soon. Enjoy the video and check out full specs below.
Only Keiran Cooper could make a living room trick dump look this good, right?
Yoyo used is the Recess Vacation.
West Coast yoyo players will immediately recognize Chris Garcia, a CA-based juggler who is a fixture at local yoyo events with his diabolo performances. Chris was attacked earlier this week, and is quite a few surgeries away from truly being back on his feet. Chris’ sister has set up a fundraising page to raise money for his medical expenses. If you can donate, please do…if you can’t, then please share!
On the morning of February 20th, my brother Chris was viciously attacked by 3 people during a strong arm robbery. He was able to escape and ran a mile where a Good Samaritan notified emergency services on his behalf. Upon our arrival to ICU we found him unrecognizable due to the extent of his injuries. We are thanking God he is alive and healing, but are deeply saddened and broken inside at the thought that someone could do this to such a beautiful, caring and compassionate person.
As many of you know, Chris is a computer gaming engineer as well as a professional juggler. Due to his injuries, he is currently unable to do what he loves to do the most.
As a juggler, he has brought joy to thousands of people. He has won countless juggling contests and often travels to participate in events (he was scheduled to leave this weekend for one in Texas). He’s performed at events as small as backyard birthday parties up to large scale festivities such as California Great America’s Halloween Haunt. If you’re lucky, you can catch him practicing at a local park or school. One can’t pass by him without being awe struck or hearing “man, that is so awesome!”. Needless to say, juggling is a big part of who Chris is.
When he’s not doing events, he’s teaching others the art of diabolo spinning, working on his own line of products or engineering… something!
Out of all the people in this world, our Chris is the least deserving of this type of heinous act.
As you can imagine, medical expenses are quickly adding up. He had surgery to his shoulder, and will require facial reconstructive surgery in a few weeks. I am trying to ease the financial burden this situation is weighing on my brother. He was in the middle of moving, and now has to worry about extensive medical bills on top of it. He was uninsured at the time of the incident.
Any help you can give is greatly appreciated. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
-Priscilla and family
if you’d like to check out some of his filmed performances, you can follow him:
youtube.com/chrisgarciajuggles
instagram: @dracothejuggler
twitter: @dracothejuggler
James Gilroy dropped a solid video with some clean tricks. Keep an eye on this guy.
Yoyo used is the CLYW Arctic Circle 2.
The CLYW Dune is the new monometal signature yoyo for team member Anthony Rojas.
The CLYW Dune is CLYW’s first signature yoyo for team member Anthony Rojas, and it’s a noticeable departure from CLYW’s usual releases. Weighing in at 68 grams, it’s a full 2 grams heavier than most CLYW monometals and the difference in play is noticeable. The added weight makes the Dune considerably more stable, something that’s required for Anthony’s long combos, huge body moves, and big counterweight tricks. The Dune throws heavy but plays light and incredibly fast. For many people, they’ll find the Dune to be possibly the fastest playing monometal in CLYW’s line-up, and the extra weight lets it muscle through tricks that would slow down plenty of other yoyos. The Dune is definitely one of CLYW’s most powerful yoyo releases to date, and a great competition yoyo.
The CLYW Dune takes a visual clue from the Pool Party Banana Hammock, and for good reason…the B-Ham was originally designed by CLYW owner Chris Mikulin as a test to see if he could design a yoyo totally blind that would work for Anthony’s play style. The final version of the Dune and B-Ham are vastly different, but the visual similarities in the profile are noticeable. The inner cup of the Dune features loads of curves and bulges, giving it a unique look. The combination of a slightly domed center with the shortened hub and the curved out details lets the Dune take heavy visual cues from actual sand dunes, which is a nice touch. Available in 6 colors to start, including Sand (shown), the first Dune release should have something for everyone.
The CLYW Dune retails for $85 – $95 (depending on colorway), the same as all of CLYW’s current line-up of monometal yoyos. Not quite cheap enough to be an impulse buy, but it’s a nice splurge for a casual player and still plenty affordable for any serious competitor looking for a new contest yoyo and a few backups. For the performance the Dune seems to be worth the price, and the quality of the machining and anodizing are great.
CLYW Dune is available now at YoYoExpert.com.
C3yoyodesign brings us that rare thing: a new offstring video! Check out some top-notch offstring play from Shotaro Masuda, and get ready to wanna play offstring again!
Yoyo used is the C3yoyodesign Neo Solar.
It’s not often we get a video from Alexis JV but when we do…well, let’s just say it’s an event. We’ve got three and a half minutes of are you friggin’ kidding me? going on in here, and there is a ton of inspiration to be found here. Amazing work, Alexis!
Yoyo used is the Paradox by Unspoken YoYos.
Holy crap, we got a new video from Konstantin Tudjarov! We haven’t heard from him since December 2015 and apparently he’s been practicing. A lot. Check out the new hotness from your favorite Bulgarian!
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Edge.
Julian Chee and Polo Garbkamol drop a hot pile of tricks you can’t do in this new Team Horizon video. There is some truly unbelievable stuff in here…the whole combo starting at 0:17 makes me feel hella old.
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Horizon.
GSquared Jake has announced an online freestyle contest called “The People’s Showdown”, featuring a pre-selected group of players battling for a $500 cash prize!
The tournament starts with all the players divided into two pools. Each player gets 1 throw and 30 seconds. Viewers vote on their favorite, and the top 3 vote receivers from each pool advance to the bracket.
In the bracket, each player will submit new tricks to face off against one opponent at a time in single elimination match-ups. (The top vote receiver from each pool will have a first round by in the bracket play.)
Winner of the tournement takes home $500 cash!
The player list is a pretty fantastic all-star lineup of current contest champs. Competing in the tournament are: Loris Rosa, Tylor McCallumore, Jesse Christe, Ethan Cheung, Alex Gallimore, Andrew Maider, Mike Marshall, Andrew Bergen, Colin Beckford, Patrick Canny, Michael Montgomery, and Michael Ferdico.
Check out the videos below for Pool A and Pool B, and then click through the voting links to vote for your favorite players from each!
The People’s Showdown is sponsored by YoYoExpert, GSquared, The Monthly Throw, and YoYoBrothers.
Filipino badass Joebert Flores has officially been throwing for 10 years! He dropped a new video to celebrate, and you should watch it, enjoy it, and then head over to YouTube and wish him a happy anniversary in the comments. Congrats on 10 years, Joebert!
Yoyo used is the General Yo Legato.