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…
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…
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,…
Hiroyuki Suzuki Hiroyuki Suzuki, nicknamed “Mickey” for performing to the Mickey Mouse March, is a Japanese 1A competitor from Aichi. He won four World Yo-Yo Contest 1A titles — 2004, 2005, and 2006 on his YoYoJam signature Speeder, and a fourth in 2012 on sOMEThING’s Anglam — a share of the most 1A world titles…
Naoto Okada Naoto Okada is a Japanese 4A specialist competing for Team YoyoRecreation, and a two-time World Yo-Yo Contest 4A World Champion (2009, 2011). YoyoRecreation’s first offstring model, the Maestro, is his signature throw, built around his long boingy-boingy and recapture combo style. In 2016 he swept both the 2A and 4A divisions at the…
Jensen Kimmitt Jensen Kimmitt is a Canadian 1A competitor from Edmonton, Alberta, best known for winning the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest on his own signature YoYoFactory Northstar — a plastic yo-yo that outperformed a field dominated by full-metal models. His sponsorship history moved between Caribou Lodge Yo-Yo Works and YoYoFactory, with CLYW as his affiliation…
Dale Oliver Dale Oliver is the 1992 World Yo-Yo Champion, one of only four American Yo-Yo Association National Grand Masters, and founder of Spintastics — widely credited as a father of freestyle yo-yoing. He entered his first contest in his hometown of Kansas City at age 12, turned pro for Duncan at 17 in 1957,…
Born from a late-2024 experiment by Australian maker Nic Conrick, Hydr0A transformed an obscure two-yo-yo concept into a teachable, evolving style built around fixed axles, responsive play, and controlled chaos. At first glance, Hydr0A looks like a problem someone forgot to solve. There are two yo-yos, one string, and no fixed point. Every throw sends…
Unity yoyos is a small independent yo-yo brand whose debut release, the Affinity, launched with art by Carter Tanney and a Zipline x Sochi Alphaline string. The Affinity is a 7075 aluminum mono-metal available in multiple colorways and a 5A edition with a titanium chainmail counterweight by Dustin Gunter.
Shinwoo is a South Korean yo-yo manufacturer founded in 1987, known for offering ball-bearing yo-yos at aggressive price points. Its catalog spans budget plastic string-trick throws (Techno, Phantom, Loop series), off-string/multi-style models (ZanNavi, Griffin Wing, ProWing), and the Zen line of low-cost full-metal yo-yos. The Griffin Wing was used by Naoto Okada to win the…
Watieoboo is a budget yo-yo brand sold primarily through Amazon and eBay, offering entry-level and intermediate metal yo-yos with dual-mode (responsive/unresponsive) bearings. No dedicated brand website or founding history has been published; it operates as a marketplace-first manufacturer.
Royal Tops Manufacturing Company was founded in 1937 in Long Island City, NY, by Joe “Chico” Radovan, a former Duncan yo-yo demonstrator. Its wooden yo-yos carried a crown-and-chevron logo and the Chico nickname (Chico Super Deluxe). In 1965, Royal Tops won a landmark trademark case against Donald F. Duncan, Inc., successfully arguing that “yo-yo” was…
Quocrea is a Vietnam-based 5A yo-yo gear brand founded by Quoc Anh, a competitive 5A player who placed 9th in the 5A division at the 2026 World Yo-Yo Contest (Quoc Anh’s own bio also states three Vietnam National Championship titles, unverified independently). The brand’s Shopify store went live in mid-2026 with the Stand Apart Series,…
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…
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…
