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#trickcircle Roundup 5/17/14

May 17, 2014 By Drew Tetz

Greetings, gentle readers, and welcome to another installment of #trickcircle! We’re scouring Instagram for 15-second bursts of yoyoing and posting our favorites here. Check out the videos, follow the players, get inspired, and go out and throw. (Don’t forget to tag your own clips with #trickcircle and join the fun!)

To many people, JonRob is the @5AGOAT; he is widely remembered for bringing tech 5A to the masses through his battles with Jake Bullock, but wants to remind people that he’s been “going big since day one.” This wrap & tangler combo definitely backs up that statement, and the continuous motion is a great contrast to his more laidback counterweight tech. JonRob & Tyler Severance were some of the very first people to integrate wraps & tanglers into competition 5A, so if you’ve ever wanted to learn some of those, you could definitely start by picking apart this sequence.

Riccardo Fraolini (@blablanchard) has been featured on #trickcircle before, but how could we not run this insane suicide sequence? No wonder CLYW wanted to pick him up. Riccardo could easily be called the king of the instaclip: seems like every week he’s got another one of these jawdropping tricks. Riccardo’s banger elements are definitely what grabs your attention, but there is also a huge amount of care in crafting the way that these moves flow so seamlessly into each other, and he deserves credit for finding the optimal links between simple moves. And that final suicide! What?!

Serezhk Basygin (@serezhkabasygin, via @aeroyorussia) may not be a household name yet, but with tricks like this it seems like it must only be a matter of time. As is coming to be the standard for Russian 1A, this combo is almost entirely dense, technical maneuvers, including a number of clever slack GT setups, but what really caught my attention is the steady sense of pacing. Pauses are often seen as flaws for breaking up the flow, forcing players to become faster & faster, but this trick is a great example of how slowing down can really boost a trick’s impact. He uses pauses to draw attention to the mounts & elements and let them sink in before mutating them again, and the breakdown to GT halfway through the trick is a beautiful example of tension & release.

In the spirit of 5A May, Junpei Shimizu (@junpei_5a) shows three counterweight entrances to a popular variation on the reverse bind. This is a great use of the Instagram format, using the relatively small amount of time to showcase a few different moves that fit together well, and bonus points to him for hitting them all in the same take. These elements might look simple taken on their own, but they are all well-constructed combo finishers and well-worth adding to your repertoire.

Did you learn that bind in the last trick? Here’s Maxim Gruzintsev (@decaika) using a similar bind in the middle of a 1A trick to catch the yo-yo and switch into a horizontal combo. Players have been chasing plane-changing regens for a while now, but with the increased sophistication of horizontal play and the recent trend of using stalls & catches mid-combo the field is starting to get really interesting. This is definitely one of the more seamless entrances yet, and the implications for a contest situation are enormous: why waste time between tricks catching & throwing into a horizontal combo when you can just switch in the middle? He has a stop-n-go entrance that ain’t bad neither... oh, and he got attacked by a cat on camera. You gotta see that. Cat attack!

Bonus tricks:

Kenji Nakatsuka’s beautiful double rejection

Even Malcolm Chiu’s “silly tricks” are brilliant: an engineer’s windup to GT suicide (?!)

Mark Mangarin’s Boy Scout Laceration

Tomiya Maryoji’s very clever pinky catch whip

Joe Black’s “Maider x Yamaki bind”, horizontal madness

Tsukasa Takatsu’s “Octopus Two”, a great tribute to Justin Weber

Filed Under: #trickcircle, Trick Theory Tagged With: #trickcircle, 5a may, jonathan robinson, jonrob, junpei shimizu, maxim gruzintsev, Riccardo Fraolini, serezhk basygin

5A May – Jonathan Robinson – 5A Baller

May 7, 2014 By Steve Brown

Keeping things rolling with 5A May, we’ve got a new video from JonRob! There’s some absolutely stunning counterweight play in here, and plenty of tricks to keep aspiring players busy for a loooong time.

YoYo used is the Superstar by YoYoFactory.

Filed Under: Players, Video Tagged With: 5a may, featured, jonathan robinson, jonrob, SuperStar, video, yoyofactory

2013 Indiana State YoYo Contest Results

June 2, 2013 By Rafael Matsunaga

The 2013 Indiana State YoYo Contest was held in Indianapolis yesterday, and we have the results!

The 1A and 5A divisions at Indy States are held in an incredibly exciting single-elimination battle format. In 1A, veteran genius Ky Zizan beat Brian Long in the final match, while in 5A, the always smooth Jonathan Robinson beat Connor Ebbinghouse.

Videos coming soon to the YoYo News YouTube Channel!

Check the other results below:


2013 Indiana State YoYo Contest
2013 Indiana State YoYo Contest

1A (Battle format)

First Place – Ky Zizan

Second Place – Brian Long

Third Place – Nehemiah Peterson

Fourth Place – Colin Beckford

5A (Battle format)

First Place – Jonathan Robinson

Second Place – Connor Ebbinghouse

Third Place – Ian Johnson
4th Place – Chase Baxter

3A

  1. Colin Beckford
  2. Mike Durdak
  3. John Wolfe
  4. Chase Baxter

4A

  1. Ian Johnson
  2. Alex Lee
  3. John Wolfe
  4. Jumario Simmons
  5. Mike Durdak
  6. Garrett Keeney

Filed Under: Contests Tagged With: 2013, Colin Beckford, ian johnson, indianapolis, indy states, jonathan robinson, jonrob, ky zizan, results

Danny Severance & Jonathan Robinson tomorrow night on YoYoRadio

May 23, 2013 By Joe Mitchell

The elusive Danny Severance joins the YoYoRadio guys in studio tomorrow night as they talk to the one and only Jonathan Robinson about 5A Angel, his new 5A video.

 

Filed Under: YoYoRadio Tagged With: Danny Severance, jonathan robinson, jonrob, YoYoRadio

JonRob – 5A Angel (NSFW)

May 20, 2013 By Steve Brown

Jonathan Robinson (a.k.a. JonRob) drops his first video in years and it was worth the wait. His counterweight play is undeniably the smoothest out there. Many players have tried to bite his style and no one has ever come close…JonRob really is the Greatest Of All Time.

Music is NSFW, so either watch it on mute or get yourself some headphones.

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: 5A, featured, GOAT, greatest of all time, jonathan robinson, jonrob, nsfw

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