I heard this thing was coming and was very excited. I liked the OG Adrenaline and sorta always wished I hadn’t skipped on it. Same goes for the NorAdrenaline. It just sorta always worked out that I didn’t have one in my hands. I saw the white-on-white protos and instantly wanted one. Then the colorways…
I heard this thing was coming and was very excited. I liked the OG Adrenaline and sorta always wished I hadn’t skipped on it. Same goes for the NorAdrenaline. It just sorta always worked out that I didn’t have one in my hands. I saw the white-on-white protos and instantly wanted one. Then the colorways…
This is a review of the PC version of the obscura, not the Pom version. Dude, this yoyo rips. Genuinely. I watched Dis pretty distantly through their first two releases; didn’t love the Sibyl or the Anima, neither were my thing. I liked how both felt, but I felt like they made compromises for that playfeel. Other…
I wrote an entire video for this yoyo. The script is fully done; I could’ve just posted it to the YYE forums as a review and gone next. The only reason I didn’t is that editing and recording are a miserable process for me right now and will probably only get more stressful going into…
This yoyo should be everything the Savage was but even more. And in some ways, it is. In the good ways and the bad ways. It’s still a thrasher, but it’s still fatiguing to use. But ironically… It’s slightly nerfed. This yoyo leaves performance to be desired in a couple of weirdly particular ways. Obviously,…
Love the Shy, great yoyo. So I copped monometal, got it on accident from a mystery box. It’s a monometal version of the Shy, so it’s good! Moves good, feels good, generally good. Oldheads will be averse to it, I think. I actually really love how this thing feels and moves. It’s great. Good generalist.…
The Omertà is the first throw I’ve ever played that has any brass in its construction. While not my heaviest throw, it certainly plays the heaviest. Well, besides my fully kitted out Asora. My first True Arc yo-yo, the Omertà, definitely piqued my interest in the company, and I look forward to seeing what they…
Oliver Browner Oliver Browner is a young 1A yoyo competitor from Fresno, California. He first appears in official contest records in early 2026, placing 3rd in the Sport 1A (Age 12 & Under) division at the Central California Classic in February, then 3rd in the Futures (12 & Under) division at the California State Yo-Yo…
Kateřina Halíková Kateřina Halíková is a competitive 1A yoyo player from Prague, Czech Republic, and the Czech representative for W1LD, a China-based yoyo brand that has released signature colorway editions of its Wilder and Wildless models in her name. She first appeared in official results at the 2021 Czech Yoyo Nationals, winning the 1A Junior…
Evan Nagao* Evan Nagao is a competitive yo-yo player and musician from Honolulu, Hawaii, introduced to the sport by his father Alan Nagao. He rose through the U.S. competitive ranks through the 2010s, taking 1st at PNWR 2016, EYYC Open 1A 2017, and back-to-back U.S. National 1A titles from 2017–2018 before winning the 2018 World…
Shion Araya Shion Araya (新谷組恩, b. February 23, 2001, Sapporo, Hokkaido) picked up a yo-yo in 2010 during Japan’s “Hyper Yo-Yo” boom and climbed the domestic ranks through Hokkaido and North Japan regional contests before joining Hong Kong’s C3yoyodesign team in October 2013. After a runner-up finish at the 2015 World Yo-Yo Contest in Tokyo,…
One of modern yo-yoing’s most influential boutique brands built its identity on creativity, irreverence, and provocation. Eventually, the controversy surrounding A-RT became as difficult to ignore as the yo-yos themselves. A-RT occupies an unusual place in modern yo-yo history. Founded in Canada by World Yo-Yo Champion Jensen Kimmitt and influential player and designer Charles Haycock,…
Heaven Sent was a short-lived streetwear-inflected yo-yo label launched in 2016 as a sub-brand of Canadian return-top maker CLYW (Caribou Lodge Yo-Yo Works). Created and directed by Alec Campbell — CLYW’s in-house photographer/videographer — with CLYW manufacturing and distributing, the label drew visual inspiration from streetwear and lookbook-style photography rather than typical yo-yo marketing. Its…
Founded in 2012 by Ziliang Hong, YOYOFFICER is a Chinese yo-yo manufacturer that built its early reputation on affordable, high-performance competition throws, naming its first roughly two dozen models alphabetically (Aura through Zealot) over its first five years before starting a second naming cycle. The brand introduced its first bimetal model (Rave) in 2015 and…
Spintastics Skill Toys, Inc. grew out of Dale Oliver’s “Science of Spin” school demonstration program. The Technic yo-yo he designed (first sold summer 1995) became the basis of the company; in 1996 Oliver partnered with fellow demonstrator Valerie Krantz to formally found Spintastics, incorporating in Euless, Texas by 1997. It became a top-5 U.S. yo-yo…
Playmaxx, Inc. was a Tucson, Arizona yo-yo manufacturer founded in 1976 as Duncraft (soon renamed Duracraft, then Playmaxx in 1988) by Donald F. Duncan, Jr., son of Duncan Toys founder Donald F. Duncan Sr. Later run by Tom Van Dan Elzen and his son Hans “YoHans” Van Dan Elzen, Playmaxx’s ProYo line became one of…
YoyoFactory is one of the largest and most prolific yo-yo manufacturers in the world, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 2004 by Ben McPhee and Hans Van Dan Elzen, the company was built on a simple philosophy: make the best performing yo-yos possible and put them in the hands of players at every skill level.…
SENSE YOYO is a China-based yo-yo brand founded by Yiwen Li and Jiale Tong, originally launched in November 2019 as YoYoPalace (YYP) with the competition-oriented “Code” model. The brand rebranded to SENSE around 2021–2022, with the Mimic model marking the transition (“YYP’s last farewell, SENSE’s first greeting”). SENSE sponsors a roster of competitive throwers across…
This is a project that I’ve been working on for a few years now, but with protos now in the wild and getting shared around at a few clubs, I figured it was time to actually talk about it. The Cerasus started as a simple vision, simply wanting a large diameter yoyo that actually had…
As memtioned above, I purchased the ‘Merica Edition. I also opted for the “Delivery In Person”. “The author will take a paperback copy of the book to the gun range, shoot a hole in, then take it to a burger joint where he will eat the largest burger on the menu with fries and get…
Later in the thread he references this article, which is an excellent read, followed up by this amazing video. Overall, some amazing yo-yo history here!
Popular online yo-yo reviewer, Gingie, has released a video documentary about the CLYW Chief. “Super proud to finally be able to say this The Chief Documentary is done, at long last! After nearly two years of work, it’s my magnum opus and the single longest video on my channel. This video explores the lead up…
