Congratulations to Gentry Stein, winner of the 1A Division at the 2019 World YoYo Contest!
Full results are below, and watch video of the rest of the division here: 2019 World YoYo Contest 1A Division
2019 US Nationals – 1A Top 3 Video
Check out video of the Top Three winners from the 1A Division of the 2019 US National YoYo Contest!
2019 US 1A Champion – Gentry Stein
2019 US Nationals 1A – 2nd Place – Connor Seals
2019 US Nationals 1A – 3rd Place – Chandler Steele
Gentry Stein Featured on Wired.com
World YoYo Champion Gentry Stein continues to serve as one of our leading ambassadors for the sport/hobby with this great feature on Wired.com. Great work bringing yoyoing to the masses…thanks to Gentry and to producer Patrick Farrell for this great piece!
Ann Connolly – YoYoFactory Shutter Wide Angle Review
Ann Connolly is back on YouTube with another YoYoFactory product review, this one for for the controversial-ish YoYoFactory Wide Angle Shutter that looks like a bi-metal but isn’t! It’s a fun yoyo though, and Ann is always a joy to watch so dig in!
Crew Racing Podcast ft. Gentry Stein
Check out this episode of the Crew Racing podcast, a triathlon training podcast run by Caitlin and Drew Sapp, where they interview Gentry Stein about his yoyo practice and training regimens. Neat to hear about Gentry’s competition prep and mindset from such a different perspective!
Be sure to check out Gentry’s winning routine from the 2014 World Yoyo Contest!
Gentry Stein – How To Do Horizontal YoYo Tricks
If you’re gonna learn, learn from the best! World YoYo Champion Gentry Stein is creating some definitive, in-depth tutorials on how to be the best yoyo player you can, and here we have a great feature on doing horizontal yoyo tricks. Sweet!
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Shutter Wide Angle.
YoYoFactory Adventure – Thatcher, Arizona
YoYoFactory went off on another adventure! This one was a little closer to home that usual, and found Gentry Stein and Hans Van Dan Elzen road tripping to Thatcher, Arizona to meet up with one of the competitors from the recent Arizona State YoYo Contest to offer him a second chance. This video is a really sweet reminder that nearly every company in this industry is still just run by a handful of yoyo players. Hope you had a good time, Hiram!
YoYoFactory London 2018 ft. Gentry Stein & Ann Connolly
It warms my cold, black heart to see Gentry and Ann goofing off in London, Hans breaking a Guinness World Record for Most Loops in One Minute, and Gentry doing an interpretive dance on hoverboard to someone singing Journey at the London Toy Fair. I mean…this is pretty much all of my favorite things, really. Yoyos, classic rock, fog, tea, bridges, and good humans. Awesome!
Yoyos used are the YoYoFactory Shutter and Czech Point Pivot.
YoYo Champions on Steve Harvey Show
World & National Champion Gentry Stein showed up on the Steve Harvey Show yesterday with World Champions Tessa Piccillo and Mark Montgomery, and National Champion Philip White. That’s a fantastic crew of talent there, and they all got to show off a bit for Steve and his audience. Great work everyone, and thanks for representing modern yoyoing to the public so well!
YoYoFactory’s Scariest Adventure
Gentry Stein stands on the steps of Freedom House. Panmungak North Korea behind him. Photo by Ben McPhee.
YoYoFactory is known for a lot of things…great yoyos, a massive selection, and an incredible team of sponsored players. And in recent years they’ve become the ultimate yoyo travel company, bringing their players to the most exotic of locations for tricks, good times, and incredible photos and footage. Their most recent adventure didn’t find anyone throwing yoyos though, since it would increase their chances of getting shot.
You should absolutely stop what you are doing and head over to their site for the full blog post on this trip. Here’s an excerpt, to give you an idea what kind of intense experience this was:
North Korea is now off limits to US citizens. Visitors from other nations can access it via China and we know a number of people who have visited in the last 2 years. None of them recommended going. Since the capture and ultimate death US tourist Otto Warmbier its something we wouldn’t consider doing…. but there is another way to visit.
Its safe they say. Organized tours leave Seoul daily shuttling camera toting tourists to the DMZ (demilitarized zone). This area is 6km back from where the battle line was when a ceasefire on the Korean Peninsula was called in 1953. Roughly following the 38th parallel, the DMZ stretches almost 150-mile-long.
Located within the territory is the “truce village” of P’anmunjom here North Korean and American soldiers stand face to face. This is part of the Joint Security Area (JSA) which is used by the two Koreas for diplomatic engagements and, until March 1991, was also the site of military negotiations between North Korea and the United Nations Command (UNC). Now its is used for posturing. Loud speakers blare propaganda, both directions.
While the military stands face to face, guns ready. So do tourists. From the South and North.
Head over to YoYoFactory.com and check this out. And hats off to Ben and Gentry for bringing us all along for such an amazing journey!
Scales Collective – 2017 World YoYo Contest Recap
Scales members Keiran Cooper, Colin Beckford, and Patrick Canny discuss some of their favorite moments from the 1A finals at this year’s World Yo-Yo Contest. Players featured are: Andrew Bergen, Gentry Stein, Yuki Nishisako, Ethan Cheung, Keiran Cooper, Michael Ferdico, and Nate Dailey.
Credits to yoyovideoarchive for the video. Thank you to Scales Collective sponsors: YoYoExpert, CLYW, Recess Intl.
Baby Raptors – Strings ft. Gentry Stein
Gentry Stein is kicking off his teen heart throb career nice and proper with a starring role in the new video from Baby Raptors for their song “Strings”. He plays an empathetic bartender with a big fat crush on the lead singer, whose boyfriend is a total jerkwad. True love and yoyo tricks ensue. Nice work from Gentry, and a nice looking video to make yoyoing look cool to the general public. Congrats, Gentry!
He’s also been doing some pretty crazy appearances to promote the release…like a shirtless routine with glow body paint.
Wanna buy the yoyos that Gentry uses in the video? Get ’em here:
YoYoFactory Shutter
YoYoFactory Replay
YoYo Trick Theory – Gentry Stein
YoYoExpert gets in-depth with World YoYo Champion Gentry Stein in the latest installment of their Trick Theory series. Gentry breaks down what he looks for in a trick and talks about his approach to building a freestyle performance.
Yoyo used is the YoYoFactory Shutter.
YoYoFactory Shutter Specs:
Diameter: 56 mm
Width: 44.4 mm
Gap Width: 4.75 mm
Weight: 67.8 grams
Bearing: CBC Center Trac Size C
Response: CBC Slim Pad 19mm
Around The World – Paris
OMG BEN CONDE WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN WE MISSED YOU BUDDY! Ben Conde finally pops up again with a new video (and it’s been so long we nearly missed it, totally our fault), and we get the double bonus of him hanging out with World YoYo Champion Gentry Stein and European Offstring Champion Quentin Godet, and we get a sneak peek at his new yoyo from YoYoFactory. Ok, so that was worth the wait, I guess.
Yoyos used are the YoYoFactory Flight and YoYoFactory Shutter.
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