Yep - that's the dude! I watch him every saturday - he sits like 10' away at the market info booth and invariably busts out his yoyo. I guess it's his own design? He's a cool dude.
Thanks for the vid - Interesting style. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around all the string action. Amazing.
Yeah, the yo-yo he uses is one that he designed with his sponsor, SPYY Manufacturing. I think he has two versions now too, the Punchline and the Punchline Repeater...And I'm jealous you get to hang out with him every week. He is one of those players I would love to kick it with regularly, just so I could soak up as much trick knowledge as I possibly can. The Bay Area, in general, is one of the hot spots for yo-yoing in this country, actually. The wife and I really need to plan to take a vacation out there at some point, just for that reason.
Guy showed me some stuff & talked yo-yo philosophy today. Real cool cat.
The only time I got to hang out with him was at least year's Nationals in Chico. But he was pretty damn cool in the short time we got to kick it.
I would have two black eyes and a broken toe just taking it out of the box.
That sheeit is fantastic. I got to see Jarret his buddy, Jason? and his GF doing that stuff at the NWCF.
Mesmerizing to watch.
Black eyes do happen. LOL. I actually gave myself a really good shiner several years back. The yo-yo string knotted up on me, and when I went to throw it again, the yo-yo swung around and busted me right in the eye. It hit me harder than any fist ever did, and within 2 hours my eye was completely swollen shut.
Nothing like having to tell your friends that you got into a fight with a yo-yo and lost. =P
That kid is insane. You think he would do the super hot yo-yo challenge?
One day, maybe. There was some interest in it at Nationals this year. But because I injured my ankle the last day we were in town, I wasn't really in the condition to do much filming. Next year though, we will be going there with the intention of filming people trying the challenge. It should be comedy gold.
I'm with Scovie, in my yoyo days the string had a new knot every few inches down every time I picked it up. I was lucky to have it come back up....
Nowadays, the new tricks people are coming up with involve tying knots and untying them. I have a few slipknot tricks of my own, actually. They look like they are a big knotted mess, and then I pull a string segment, and everything falls apart.
BTW, here is one of my original tricks that I came up with:
It's awesome how these days everything that was so nerdy and uncool, is all of the sudden hip and the thing to do. Yoyoing to Dubstep....lol, awesome but kills me at the same time. He does have ridiculous skills.
Dubstep is everywhere these days, unfortunately. I hate to admit it, but I was one of the very first people to do a yo-yo freestyle to Dubstep. Too bad the genre became overrun by hypetrain producers trying to cash in, and the quality of the music has fallen way off as a result. Dubstep was so much better before it became popular. But I digress...
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the last yoyo trick i mastered was the brain scrambler and bhudda's revenge... but i got tired of buying strings, then having to modify my yoyo's for different tricks... bah... it got me no tail and just kept getting more expensive...
last month i found my two turbo bumble bee gt's and my yomega metal missle... started showing my kids how big of a nerd their dad was in middle school... LOL... they know since they have to stare at 10+ boxes of comic books in the living room...
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