The prodigal rival and downfall of the Savage Handcrush. Honestly? This yo-yo is everything the Handcrush needed to be. The only thing it’s missing is the clout that the Handcrush has from being the follow-up to the Savage and a Yoyorecreation yo-yo… And some of the Savage X-Factor. Still. It doesn’t feel as heavy or…
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The prodigal rival and downfall of the Savage Handcrush. Honestly? This yo-yo is everything the Handcrush needed to be. The only thing it’s missing is the clout that the Handcrush has from being the follow-up to the Savage and a Yoyorecreation yo-yo… And some of the Savage X-Factor. Still. It doesn’t feel as heavy or…
I first came across the Yo-Spin while updating the Yoyo Archive Instagram page. Intrigued, I reached out to Blue Orange Toys, and they sent me a box with six: an original, a glow-in-the-dark, and four of their metallic colors. The Yo-Spin isn’t really a yo-yo. It’s a plastic disc with a rubber bumper. The center…
Small yoyo that feels rounder than it feels tubular, despite nearly being a 1:1 spec ratio (if the yoyo was a full-sized 56mm dia, it’d have a ~53mm width) Edition tends to make good yoyos. This is one of them. Didn’t expect to like it because undersized yoyos are always “omg it’s so good it…
Aroundsquare is well know for a lot of skill toys: begleri, deadeyes, knucklebones, chetki, and more. They’ve never done a yo-yo, until now. The Not Machine is their first of hopefully many throw offerings. It’s a wooden fixed-axle yoyo made from either maple or purpleheart. Both have a birch axle, and a copper “Aroundsquare” plaquette…
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…
Hideo Ishida Hideo Ishida (石田 英雄), also known as ヒデヲ or “hero”, is a Japanese 5A (counterweight) competitor. Local reporting places his hometown in Sanyo-Onoda, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and the JYYF results list him under Tokyo. He placed at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 5A from 2010, finishing fifth in 2010, fourth in 2012, 2013 and…
Takuma Yamamoto Takuma Yamamoto is a Japanese 2A (looping) competitor. He won the 2A division at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2008, 2013, 2014 and 2019, making him a four-time World Champion. He placed fourth in 2011, second in 2012 and 2018, and third in 2015, 2016 and 2017. Retailer copy credits him as a…
Shu Takada Shu Takada (高田 柊) is a Japanese 2A (looping) competitor and performer, born on 7 October 1996 and from Shizuoka Prefecture according to his own profile. He won the 2A division at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2012, finished second in 2013 and 2015, and then won three straight world titles in 2016,…
Takuma Inoue Takuma Inoue is a Japanese 5A (counterweight) competitor. He placed third in 5A at the 2008 World Yo-Yo Contest, won the division in 2009, and was second in 2011 and 2012. He won 5A at the Japan National Yo-Yo Contest in 2014 and 2017. At the 2017 World Yo-Yo Contest he won 5A…
A yo-yo can survive for decades while the details of its life disappear. Photographs, packaging, and a few careful notes help keep those details attached to the object.
Throwing Sideways is a yo-yo brand associated with The Parthenon. An August 2021 fundraiser identifies its organizer as William Shoemaker, while the first-person story identifies its speaker as William Guy and the brand owner. The names are retained as reported; their relationship is unverified. Founding date, headquarters, closure status, official website, and social accounts have…
Old School Throws is an American yo-yo brand introduced in 2017. Its designs revisit rounded organic shapes associated with earlier generations while using modern construction. The catalog includes the Quint, an A-rt collaboration, the slimline Resto, and the miniature Medallion.
PDX-YO is the yo-yo brand associated with designer Toby Roberts. A May 2019 manufacturer post announced the Swamp Monster and described a Batsquatch bi-metal prototype. Public preorders and owner records document Batsquatch. Further company history and profile details are not verified.
Core Concept YoYos, also known as Core Co. or CoreCo, is an American yo-yo brand. Its catalog includes the modular Standard, the Logan Willis-designed Tako, and the responsive Alleycat. Sources: Spingear: CoreCo introduction, March 16, 2017; REWIND: Core Concept YoYos brand history. Founding year and current operating status are undocumented here.
YoYoFREAKS is the yo-yo brand associated with Johnnie Delvalle, also known as JD. Its Hundred Series of limited-production yo-yos began with Your Mom in January 2017. Sources: YoYoBESTBUY: Your Mom product history; REWIND: Johnnie Delvalle. The former brand-store page was available through the search index during research; its live host could not be verified. Founding…
Throw-Yo is a boutique yo-yo string brand run by Berv Throwington. Every string is handmade: blended, wound, and cut by hand. The product scope is narrow on purpose. Strings, counterweights, and stickers. That’s it. The catalog is organized into four families: Comfort, Performance, Responsive, and Specials. Each one named from a taxonomy of chemistry, nature,…
WARNING… I JUST WROTE THIS BOOK. this is the Coverless Edition. Heads up to anybody that either has attention deficit syndrome… Or maybe just hates long stories… Or maybe just doesn’t care for me no matter what I say… And all of that is fine and I’m good with that. If you want to read…
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!
