Kendama USA pro Jake Wiens always makes kendama look great. And damn…the sequence starting at 2:29 is beautiful! Everything in this video looks like a great reason to pick up your kendamas again.
Kendama USA – San Diego Cliff Session
Kendama USA dropped a crazy good new edit, packed with a ton of tricks that make you jump up and yell OOOOOOHHHHHH! Featuring TJ Kolesnik, Dave Mateo, Jake Wiens, Harald Boyesen, and David Mock.
Jake Wiens in Tokyo
Jake Wiens shook off the jet lag during a recent trip to Tokyo, Japan to get in some filming. He’s pretty good at kendama, that guy.
Kendama USA – Tea Garden Session
Turner Thorne, TJ Kolesnik, and Jake Wiens chill out with some tea and fresh Ozora kendamas in the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden.
Kengarden Presents: Tuesday 62414
The Kengarden hosts a weekly meetup at their pop-up shop in San Franpsycho every Tuesday…and when you have a bunch of top level kendama and yoyo players hanging out, things are bound to get silly.
On a related note; I want a new Guy Wright video, dammit.
San Franpsycho
505 Divisadero
San Francisco, CA 94117
(415) 829-7874 f: 415-896-4979
Mon-Thur 11-8 Fri 11-9 Sat. 10-9 Sun 10-7
Jake Wiens, KAMEYO, and the Ozora Sakura Kendama
Jake Wiens and KAMEYO spend a Sunday hanging in the Kengarden with the Ozora Specialty Sakura Edition. So damn good!
Kendama USA – Hawaii Adventures Vol. 1
What happens when Dave Mateo, Jake Wiens, Haley Bishoff, and TJ Kolesnik head to Hawaii in the middle of a full-blown kendama craze?
Good stuff. That’s what happens. Watch as the Kendama USA pros tear up one side of the island and down the other, and then officiate a kendama competition with 1800 competitors and 5000 spectators.
Kendama USA Japan 2013 – The Gloken Musou Tour
It’s amazing how much one place can influence a person. All of us here at Kendama USA are influenced by the birthplace of kendama… Japan. A portion of our team was honored to be invited to visit the birthplace of kendama for sessions, meetings, product-releases, and plotting the future course of our sport.
It was destined to be an amazing time, and who better than Colin Sander to showcase it to you. Let’s be real… we were there because Kazuma Iwata, the maker of MUGEN, was coming back.
Enjoy next-level tricks, a star-studded juggler list, and all of the unpredictable beauty that the far east bestows upon us with each visit. This is Kendama USA’s Gloken Musou Tour edit. Japan 2013.This trip and all the events around it would not have been possible without an endless list of helpers, performers, shops, hosts, and so on. Watch the video, and you’ll catch them all in there.
Special Thanks to:
Yuki Nakamura
Tamotsu Kubota
Colin Sander
Turner Thorne
Dave Mateo
Jake Wiens
Matt Sweets Jorgenson
Thorkild May
Yuka Hyuga
Satoru Akimoto
With Support From
Kazuma Iwata
Gloken
Kendama USA
KROM
Sweets
SpinGear
Decade
Hajime Ishibashi
Nobuaki Komoto
Jeremy StephensonShot by:
Jake Wiens
Colin SanderCut by:
Colin
The Kengarden – Gon’ Fishin’
Best kendama video of the year, hands down.
Featuring Jake Wiens, Kristin Olinyk, Ky Zizan, Matt Rice, Alex Smith, and Brendan Craig.
Grain Theory Kendamas
Jake Wiens and Matthew Rice have recruited a brain trust of engineers to help them produce small-batch kendamas with interesting new design features, and the result is Grain Theory. No word on pricing or release details for the first batch, but watching this video I think it’s safe to say that the kendama world is going to lose their damn minds when these drop, so keep an eye on GrainTheory.com for a chance to snag one from what will no doubt end up being an historic first batch.
UPDATE: Grain Theory kendamas are available here: http://www.graintheory.bigcartel.com/. Looks like the complete kendamas are sold out, but you can still pick up the Beach Ken (ken only, no tama) for $35.
Musous On A Plane
Kendama USA and Gloken partnered up to send some of our favorite kendama players to Japan…and with that much time in transit, of course the guys filmed and edited a video during their flights! Featuring Dave Mateo, Turner Thorne, Colin Sander, and Jake Wiens.
Jake Wiens Turns Pro For Kendama USA
HUGE congratulations to our friend Jake Wiens on his new sponsorship by Kendama USA! Jake is one of the leading forces in the development and promotion of the modern kendama scene, and is a tremendous human being. It’s great to see someone get the recognition they deserve, and Jake deserves all the accolades he can possibly handle.
This video is a fantastic profile on Jake, with help from Jeremy Stephenson, Matt Rice, Harald Boyesen, Sourmash, Andy Olive, Guy Wright, and Tori Riley. Jake’s signature model kendama will be released in 2014.
Jake Wiens Talks Kendama
Jake Wiens of The Kengarden ruminates on this toy he loves. Substitute the word “yoyo” for “kendama” and everything Jake is saying here still applies.
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Matt Fernandez just dropped a solid video, filmed at the 2013 Bay Area Classic in San Francisco, California. A great combination of contest and hanging-out footage, this clip really gives you a feel for this amazing event.
Featuring David Ung, Anthony Rojas, Harold Owens III, Elliot Jackson, Charles Haycock, Zach Gormley, Doc Pop, Paul Escolar, Palli, Jake Wiens, and Ky Zizan.