YoYo Related News From Around The World
YoYoRecreation has posted a couple of great teasers of what we can expect from their team at the 2013 World YoYo Contest…and it looks like we can expect a lot! Check out some great tricks from Tatsuya Fujisaka and Minato Furuta below.
Lots of #yoyodrops happening soon with so many huge contests coming up…here are a few that caught our eye.
YoYoRecreation has beautiful new colors of their offstring yoyo, the Aeronaut, coming out at the Asia Pacific Challenge.
Monkeyfinger has announced a new signature model for Mike Montgomery, the Forte. No price or specs yet.
YoYoFactory has new colorways of the ONEstar, Loop 1080, and new super limited splash versions of the H.O.T., Proton, and Genesis+. Each of these splash colorways are limited to less than 50 pieces each, and will hit stores soon.
The fine folks at the Saint Petersburg YoYo School have released a new video called “YoYo Almanac 1”, featuring guest spots from an international all-star list of yoyo players!
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This YoYoRecreation freestyle competition was held in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture on May 4th & 5th, 2013.
We don’t have much detail on this event but the video is GREAT! Top notch talent in Japan, kicking out the jams at a special freestyle contest run by YoYoRecreation.
The Nagoya-based CBC TV has a niece piece on Japan Nationals, held in the city last week.
There’s some of the usual “the yo-yo is not what it used to be”, but there are some quite interesting bits on Tatsuya Fujisaka and Izuru Hasumi’s lives outside of yo-yoing.
A rare glimpse into the production and development of YoYoRecreation products is also provided, with a brief visit to the machine shop, and a close look at YoYoRecreation’s titanium yo-yo prototype, complete with Tatsuya Fujisaka testing a freshly-turned piece wearing his everyday suit.
And as a bonus, courtesy of YouTube’s translated subtitles, here’s your bad yoyo translation of the week:
YoYoRecreation posted a solid video of Kensuke Goto putting their Aeronaut offstring yoyo through its paces…really solid work!
YoYoRecreation’s Hiro Ifune gives us a taste of spring with this new video. Smooth flow, tons of style, and daaaaaamn that floral print t-shirt!
YoYoRecreation dropped this great video of their team showing off at the North Japan YoYo Contest…there is some top-notch play in here! Featuring Izuru Hasumi, Sojun Miyamura, Tatsuya Fujisaka, Kentaro Mannen, and Takahiro Iizuka.
Vladimir Glazkov rocks out a Dreadnought with IrPads and Kitty String in his newest video. Some really nice stuff here, very technically dense tricks. Not really my style to play, but definitely interesting to watch.
Maxim Gruzintsev shows off some solid tricks with this beautifully shot new video, featuring the PerfectStar from yoyorecreation. Make sure you watch this at 720p!
Taro Komari gives us some great new material in his new video, “Against Method”. I’m personally a huge fan of videos that focus on variations on a theme, and wish more players would take the time to explore single concepts to their full conclusion. A great minute-and-a-half here, and worth watching a few times to get inspired.
IrParlor.jp just dropped this fantastic video featuring Ryosuke Iwasawa. Fantastic style and trick construction from a modern master.
Ahmad Kharisma is an up-and-coming young player from Indonesia, sponsored by YoYoRecreation, and Ray Tambunan is a member of Indonesia’s SpinMe YoYo Club. Together they do not come together and form a giant robot, but they do make for a pretty good battle video.
YoYoRecreation put together this video to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of 44 Clash and it turned out pretty solid. Yet another glimpse at why 44 Clash really is one of the most important yoyo contests in the world.