YoYo Related News From Around The World
The gang’s all here for this new video from SF YoYos to celebrate the release of their first plastic yoyo, called appropriately “PLSTC”.
The SF YoYos PLSTC hits YoYoExpert soon. In the meantime, check out the specs below and watch this video like 17 or 18 more times.
Check out video of the Top Three winners from the 1A Division of the 2019 US National YoYo Contest!
Congratulations to 2019 National Champions Gentry Stein, Tyler Hsieh, Alex Hattori, Ryan Connolly, John Wolfe, and Coco Sun! And congrats to all competitors of the 2019 US National YoYo Contest! Check out full results and scoring breakdowns below.
Tyler Severance from Recess Intl. delivers a great tutorial on some classic pro player binds. This is a terrific resource for beginner to intermediate players looking to deepen their freestyles a bit, or for advanced players who just never got around to learning them!
Yoyo used is the Recess First Base.
Check out full results and video of the winners from the 2019 Singapore National YoYo Contest! Congrats to all who competed!
It’s a truly massive leap forward when a boutique yoyo company begins making injection molded plastic yoyos. That’s the big “jumping off” point where you know they are definitely all-in on what they are doing. So we’re pretty excited by the announcement that SF YoYos is releasing the PLSTC this weekend at US Nats at the YoYoExpert table.
From their site:
I’m not sure if this is super obvious to anyone, but since the very beginning, we’ve been a company that values offering a good value. Expensive price tags have never really been something all that appealing. Marketing a toy primarily to teenagers and young adults and then selling it for a super premium price always just felt… icky. Trying to hit good price points felt a lot nicer.
Because of this, an injection molded plastic yoyo was always the dream. Before our first yoyo even existed we’d talk about how amazing it would be to make a plastic yoyo. However, for basically our entire existence… it felt like a completely unattainable dream; a far out fantasy. An abstract vision of some kid finding a yoyo video online and starting their journey with a cheap yoyo from a silly company like us. Learning all their foundational tricks with something we produced. Learning to love the whirr whirr of their plastic toy even after they’ve got a case full of nice metals and know every trick they never even imagined they could.
Plastic yoyos are just special, right?
They’re also extremely challenging and expensive to make for an indie operation. Diving in too early and failing could leave your company dead in the water. Attempting to make a mold too early could halt all other operations and tie up all your money forever. It just didn’t seem like it could ever be feasible… we started small.
Because of that, holding these just barely feels real.
I’m so happy to announce that this yoyo… our DREAM COME TRUE… is ready. It’s a little later than expected and we’re sorry about that. To everyone who’s ever purchased an SF, shared a picture of their SF on social media, cheered for one of our players at a contest, or even asked “so whats that company that sponsored Keiran?”… thank you. Genuinely. Every little bit helps and it all helped some yoyo nerds achieve a dream they didn’t really believe they could. Making this yoyo.
They’ll be available all sorts of places soon. It’s $20. It comes with two bearings, one is a lubed slim bearing for responsive play and the other is the CT that comes in all of our yoyos. It’s full sized. 564764. It spins and does tricks. Doing a flyaway with it feels like tossing around a baseball with your father figure of choice.
Maybe check out the YoyoExpert booth at Nats if you want one.
Available this weekend at the YoYoExpert table at the US National YoYo Contest and then online soon! Full specs below.
C3yoyodesign has announced a new signature yoyo for World Champion Sora Ishikawa, the Innovation Extreme (IX for short). Designed with a swappable spacer system, the IX is a versatile “all around” player, and works great for 1A, 3A, 4A, and 5A! Available soon as part of C3’s big 10th Anniversary celebration…more release info as soon as we have it. In the meantime, check out video of Sora and other C3 team members using the new IX below, as well as full specs.
3 Types of Spacers
1A/3A: 4.36mm (Black)
5A: 4.26mm (Purple)
4A: 2.12mm (Silver)
For anyone who thinks that modern 1A yoyo play has gotten stale, I present Exhibit A for the defense. Kyle Nations and Doc Pop teamed up for a pretty incredible video of modern responsive 1A play and honestly after watching this I’m running for my wood yoyos to see how many of these tricks I can figure out. So good!!
Congrats to SF on picking up Matyáš Držmíšek, and congrats to Matyáš on the new sponsorship!
Matyáš is one of the best up and coming players in the Czech Republic/probably the world and Tony is his biggest fan. He was probably more excited to offer him a team spot in person than Matyáš was to get on the team. They made this ridiculously adorable video with the moment, the hug, and the Christmas Day unboxing vibes. Excited to see him continue to create dense and visually appealing tricks for 1000 more years.
Yoyo used is the SF Statement.
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2019 Korea National YoYo Contest! Check out full results, scoring breakdowns, and video of the winners below.
5x Philippine National Champion and 2x Asia-Pacific Champion Bryan Jardin has teamed up with Kuma Films for a gorgeous look at counterweight yoyoing. What a great way to wind down 5A May, huh?
Yoyo used is the Duncan Toys Origami.
Check some solid play from this up-and-coming player from Viet Nam…looking good, man!
World YoYo Champion Marcus Koh gives us a great one-throw video…these never get old! It’s always fantastic to see what a top-level player can do on a single throw.
Yoyo used is the Throw Revolution Trident.
Modern responsive 5A is the greatest and hardest stuff ever, don’t @ me.
Yoyos used are the Core Co. Parser and Alleycat 650b.